EP264 - Retail Earnings, E-Commerce Quarterly Data  US Dept of Commerce Data April Sales – Flat vs. March 2021, up 41% vs. April 2020 (severely Covid impacted month). Many categories were wildly up, most notably Apparel which was up 727% vs the same month last year. Q1 E-Commerce – Up 7.7% vs Q4 2020, up 39.1% vs Q1 2020. Retail Q1 Earnings Walmart – US E-Commerce up 37% YoY, same-store sales saw up 6%  YoY Target – US E-Commerce up 50% YoY, same-store sales saw up 18%  YoY Macys – US E-Commerce up 34% YoY, same-store sales saw up 62.5%  YoY TJ Max – Same-store sales up 16%  YoY (E-Commerce not disclosed) Lowes – US E-Commerce up 36,5% YoY, same-store sales saw up 11.3%  YoY Home Depot – Same-store sales were up 29.9%  YoY, they did not disclose e-commerce for the first time (which is usually a warning sign). Episode 264 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday May 19, 2021. 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 Scot show this is episode 264 being recorded on Wednesday May 19 20 21 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Thanks Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners. Jason I’m still basking in the Afterglow of that conversation with Brad Stone that was really good and if listeners enjoyed that episode or any of the other ones that we put out any of the other 262 episodes available for there listening pleasure. We would love it if you would take a second right now pause the show will after I explain this pasta show go and review us in your favorite, podcast listening technology so if your on iTunes and using that that would be great or Spotify or. I don’t know the Amiga podcast listener whatever floats your boat if you would go in there and rate US that would be great because. That’s how we get paid here at the Jason Scott show we get paid by per review of so we really appreciate that. [1:31] Jason I wanted to pick your brain before we jump into some numbers that the topic of the show is going to be looking at some of the results from some of the retailers we track and then also there’s some other data, before we jump into that I have seen a lot of people on Twitter talking about it’s either an app or a site that I don’t know anything about so I figured you would. And I think it’s called Chez in or shine or she in or something like that it’s spelled sh Ein they came on my radar because it is a gues a Deca cord so it’s north of a 10 billion dollar valuation and it kind of came out of nowhere with over 10 billion dollars in Revenue last year so what is this giant monster site that that I haven’t heard of that’s on everyone’s radar all of a sudden. Jason: [2:19] Yeah you you nailed it it’s pronounced she in. And I it sent it’s a Chinese company it sounds like a Chinese word but I think that’s actually a trick I think it’s in English name and I. I believe it was originally she’s an Insider and it got shortened to she in. Scot: [2:43] Nice I don’t know if that’s proper English but we’ll go there. Jason: [2:48] Yeah that might have been why they shortened it. Scot: [2:51] Sometimes that gets people attention so it can be a good good strategy. Jason: [2:56] And the URL is much easier to type and when you’re a deck of cards you need a good URL. Scot: [3:01] Yeah maybe she’s an was taken. Jason: [3:05] I have a feeling it was. Yeah so they’re a fashion brand they’re a direct-to-consumer fashion brand I mentioned that they’re based in China. To my knowledge there not selling Direct in China yet which is interesting, so they mostly sell in international markets including they have a significant presence in the US so, so us listeners can go to she and.com it’s glitt