Luke Rauch is the Sr. Director of Insights at Walgeens.  We caught up with Luke at the PathtoPurchase Summit, where he gave a key-note about how to success in the Age of Amazon..  We covered a variety of topics including: Unique assortments and customer expereince Loyalty Programs Omni-Channel Future of E-Commerce Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 123 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, March 12, 2018. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. New beta feature, Google Transcription: Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this episode is being recorded on Monday March 12th 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek. Scot: [0:37] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners we are Live From the Past purchase Summit here so apologies are going to a lot more background noise and listen to it used to because we were literally in the spacious exhibit hall where they're setting up and talking and everything. [0:52] So think of it as super high-energy. [0:54] We're really excited we we're here to pre-conference all about Amazon and different strategies there and one of the Keynotes was Luke broke he is the senior director of it us insights for Walgreens Andrew excited to have him on the show. Luke: [1:09] Thanks for having me. Scot: [1:10] Absolutely what would like to kind of using to this list start with kind of career paths and where how do you end up in this exciting world of insights. Luke: [1:20] Yeah so after. A brief Tour of Duty out in the west coast where I surfed and did some other things fun in my life I went to business school and post business school got serious and joined Consulting, I work for Deloitte Consulting in their strategy practice for about four and a half years where I focused on everything that I would consider Revenue accretion, so I always tell people if you ask me to help you fix your supply chain I'm not the right guy but if you need, growth I was the person that you could come and talk to did that again for about four and a half years and for a Litany of reasons both personal professional decide to make the jump over into, Harvey industry side where I joined Walgreens. I'm at Walgreens I am currently responsible for pricing for all eight thousand plus of our stores as well as format inside so all of the work that we do it around different you two formats does the insights work related to that, and then more broadly R-value insights value strategy. Scot: [2:18] Brickell enjoy your talk you mentioned you had a brief stint at Amazon tell us more about that. Luke: [2:23] Yeah when I was in getting my MBA at Michigan I did my internship at Amazon so I spent a summer working and the Fulfillment side. Helping them to build models to better predict utilization within their distribution centers as well as to look at product throughput and be able to make, active analytics to pick what was going to flow in and out the fastest and ensure that we were moving that as close as we could to the Fulfillment centers. Scot: [2:51] Sounds like a pretty meaty 3-month engagement. Luke: [2:54] Yeah it was it was it was a fun project and you get to see how Amazon operated from the inside which some of the things I learned back then for example how they run meetings I've taken with me in my career center. Scot: [3:06] 6 pages of typed Pros no PowerPoint one pizza. Jason: [3:11] Going over very well at the Y. The no power point rule. Luke: [3:14] No no I didn't there many days where I wish that there was a no power point rule the funny thing though about about Amazon has a lot of folks still use PowerPoint to create Graphics in one night and then pasted them into their Word do