EP229 - NRF NXT, Google Commerce, Big Commerce S1  Jason recent events: NRF NXT Tuesday, July 21 11:45am–12:30pm EDT “Future of Platforms” Forbes Article “Retail’s Great Pivot: How The Pandemic Has Changed Stores’ Criteria For Success From Traffic To Efficiency“ Jason Upcoming Events CommerceNext July 29th 4:10 pm EE “Lesson Learned and Thoughts for the Future” Industry News NRF NXT was this week, a digital commerce show from the National Retail Federation (the successor to the Shop.org tradeshow). You can still register for free, and watch all the sessions on demand. Google has eliminated commissions for it’s “Buy on Google” feature on google shopping, as well as offering PayPal and Shopify payments. Goldman Sachs equity research published: “Global Internet eCommerce’s steepening curve: Raising global forecasts & identifying new winners” July 20,2020. Scot breaks it down. eMarketer publishes “US ECOMMERCE BY CATEGORY 2020” July 22, 2020. Jason breaks it down. Big Commerce files it’s S-1. (Keep an eye on RetailRoadshow for their roadshow video). Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 229 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday, July 24th, 2020. 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. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is Episode 229 being recorded on Thursday July 23rd 2020. That’s a lot of two’s I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners well it starts in this episode we are going to focus on some news because last week we just couldn’t jam it all in and then more news has happened since then so we have a lot to talk about Jason before we jump into that you’ve had a busy week educating the world on some very various topics tell us how that went I think you spoke it in RF next. Jason: [1:05] That’s that’s right so for people that might not be familiar there’s been a longtime digital show about e-commerce arguably the first treat you about e-commerce called Shop dot-org you and I were both board members when it was independent organization it got bought by NRF, and overtime shop dot org has morphed into this digital conference called NRF next which of course was canceled this year because of covid so Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, they hosted the virtual version of NRF next. I got to give a presentation about the future of platforms. Scot: [1:46] The future of platforms we don’t tell us much about it because these are the kind of things we love to turn into deep Dives but give us a teaser so what’s something that’s going to blow people’s minds but without telling us what it is. Jason: [2:00] Monoliths are dead. Scot: [2:04] Mmm the end of the model. Jason: [2:07] Just say no to monoliths and if you either listen to a waiter deep dive will do or you watch the segment the the digital version is free so you can still go register and all this stuff is available on demand so if you’re interested you can still go watch it, and I Unleashed a new web architecture for future e-commerce sites on the world and it’s called Jason secret web architecture hashtag, Jay SWA and it got a lot of play on Twitter after my presentation so just saying, you could you could be on the ground floor of Jess wha if you view either catch our Deep dive or watch the the segment. Scot: [2:46] What do things better just swallow or J-1. Jason: [2:49] Jay Watts way better. Scot: [2:51] Okay got it I saw some Jo Lighting in a when some protesters broke into an Amazon store. Jason: [2:58] Yeah that’s called the woo. Scot: [2:59] Joe what the heck oh okay that’s Mia well they