EP246 - Q3 Results  The US Census Bureau published its retail monthly data and quarterly e-commerce data this week. We also saw earnings reports from Target, Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, Walgreens, and Kohls. We also discuss Amazon’s entry into pharmacy.  Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Episode 246 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday, November 20th 2020. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 246 being recorded on Thursday November 19th 2020, I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason and Scot show listeners. Jason it’s getting to be holiday and I don’t know about you but I am constantly being pummeled with. Carrier pigeons direct messages tweets linkedin’s friend stirs just messages from every possible venue and guess what they’re asking. Jason: [1:05] They are asking you to buy early from their store. Scot: [1:10] I know that yes I am getting this but what I’m getting from our listeners are people saying Scott what can I get you guys have given us so much pleasure over the year through this podcast what can we do in return. And my answer is all Jason I want for the holidays this year is your 5 star review. So if you can hit pause real quick and this is best in your app that you’re using if you’re on the iPhone it’s pretty simple kind of need to do it in the podcast app, believe that five-star review that would that would be really great and that would make our your for us here at the Jason’s got show we’d really appreciate that so whatever app you’re in go in there leave us that five star review that really helps us a lot. Keeps us at the very tippy top of the e-commerce podcast realm so we would really appreciate that. [2:04] So alright welcome back hopefully you did pause and leave us that five star review we appreciate it. Jason we are T minus seven days until turkey day and this is the time of the year where we really start to feel it you know kind of that nervous energy. Here in the Commerce retail e-commerce world, everyone holds their breaths and they been working all year planning for this they’ve got all the server’s lined up all the clouds clouding, and just hoping that the next 20 days are super awesome but they’re also scary for everybody so. And then this year with covid everything is going to be cranked up to an 11 we’ve talked a lot about ship again we’re going to do an update on that so we thought the days show we would. Kind of stay on news because there is a lot going on and first of all I thought we could hit some of the really interesting Amazon news. Jason: [3:05] Amazon news new your margin is their opportunity. Scot: [3:17] Jason you have I think you’ve been I can’t remember where it’s been all cheer now I can’t remember if you predicted this but you’ve been really kind of keeping an eye on Amazon’s aspirations to get into the pharmacy world and if I remember they bought that pihl company was at pillpack and then there was some news this week update us on what happened and what you’re thinking what’s your what’s your point of view is it time to stop going to Walgreens and CVS. Jason: [3:46] Yeah so side note I was actually revisiting that prediction Show recently because I was trying to cheat and edit in that I predicted a global pandemic. Scot: [3:57] No that’s not fair no cheating. Jason: [3:58] No I would never cheat but if you happen to notice that there I must have in fact predicted it. But yeah so we’ve talked a lot about this we’ve talked a lot about Amazon and Walmart’s General aspirations aroun