EP221 - E-Commerce Logistics Crunch Episode 221 covers recent news including logistics moves from UPS, FedEx, and Amazon. Past Events Jason NRF Interview Leaders of Change Interview Upcoming Events NRF Global Trends from the Reopening of Stores June 8th, 11am ET. Hear from retail industry leaders Jason Goldberg, chief commerce officer of Publicis, and Sucharita Kodali, VP and principal analyst at Forrester, on what retailers are seeing as their global stores reopen post-COVID-19 Amazon News Amazon adds 12 new planes (now has 80 on it’s way to 200). Prime day moved to September, Summer Sales June 22nd. Amazon Grocery Store coming to Chicago Lowes- Same store sales up 11.2%, e-commerce up 80% Other News Gucci – Personalized Video Shopper UPS/FedEx – Surcharges Kylie Jenner – Inflated revenue ($177 million last year) Instacart Media Network Target Instagram Checkout Shopify Marketcap $90B, IBM $114B Lickable Screen – Norimaki Synthesizer Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 221 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Wednesday, June 3rd, 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 221 being recorded on Wednesday June 3rd 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 Scott show listeners well given the tragic events this week we totally understand if Talking Shop isn’t really a top priority for you but we thought that some of our listeners may be in the mood for a little bit of a mental distraction we sure are, and there is some interesting news happening in the world of Commerce so we thought we would bring you what’s been going on the last couple weeks with that Focus before we jump into the e-commerce retail payments news Jason what have you been up to. Jason: [1:11] Yeah I have been just talking covid non-stop with clients which is exhausting and mostly depressing to be totally honest with you Scott. But I get some point we should will probably do a deep dive on the show about all that but that is not tonight. I did do a couple between all these talks I have done a couple of interviews recently so in the highly unlikely event, you want even more Jason opinion there’s a couple new written things out there so I’ll put some links in the show notes but I got a chance to do an interview with the national retail Federation that they published last week, and then a past guests on the show Chris Perry does these interviews on LinkedIn that he calls leaders of change and since he couldn’t find any leaders this week he interviewed me instead. Scot: [2:04] I missed it in RF thing what was the overall topic on that. Jason: [2:09] Well you know talking a lot a brief interview about the. Adoption and transition to digital and commerce so stuff that, maybe not very shocking to listeners on our show but to a lot of the more traditional brick-and-mortar retail side of in RF they still needs an evangelizing so. So they wheeled me out to talk digital transformation. Scot: [2:36] What’s digital how do payments work stuff like that what are these smartphones that people speak of. [2:51] Well let’s tease the covid think so what are your clients thinking about are they thinking about kind of I keep hearing this new normal, which is kind of maybe overdone but maybe that’s your favorite it’s actually faster Forsyth. But you know so I think we all agree there’s going to be a lot of consumer Behavior changes is that kind of like what people want to know about her. Jason: [3:11] That is part of, Rashad tobacco Allah who was on our show a month or two ag