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EP319 - Amazon Q1 2024 Recap 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 Summary: In this episode, Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg and Scot Wingo dive deep into Amazon's first quarter results for 2024, analyzing the company's performance in various segments such as retail, offline and online sales, marketplace, AWS, and advertising. They also explore the impact of AI on Amazon's business and provide insights into the company's future guidance for Q2 2024. Amazon Q1 2024 Earnings Release Amazon Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript In our latest episode, Jason and Scott cover a range of topics, starting with their reflections on recent events such as May the 4th and Cinco de Mayo. Jason shares intriguing stories from his extensive travels and interactions with listeners worldwide. Scott delves into the intersection of e-commerce and the auto industry, honing in on Carvana. The duo also delves into the U.S. Department of Commerce retail indicators data, shedding light on trends in retail sales and e-commerce growth. The conversation pivots towards Amazon's recent earnings report, contextualizing it within the realm of AI investments by tech giants like Meta and Alphabet, offering valuable industry insights and analysis. The discussion continues with a focus on Amazon's earnings report, zooming in on concerns around AWS amid heightened competition from Alphabet and Azure. The rising trend of AI investments, particularly in data training applications, is explored, alongside the growing popularity of open source AI models due to cost and privacy considerations. Despite a conservative Q2 guidance, Amazon impresses with robust revenue that surpasses Wall Street expectations, particularly in operating income. The retail segment shows exceptional growth, exceeding operating income estimates for both domestic and international divisions. Notably, Amazon's performance in brick-and-mortar stores, spearheaded by Whole Foods, demonstrates resilience with a 6.3% growth rate. AWS stands out with a 17% growth, dispelling market share concerns and showcasing accelerated revenue growth, illustrating Amazon's continuous growth potential and innovation prowess. Scott delves deeper into Amazon's positive quarterly earnings report, emphasizing the remarkable revenue performance, especially in operating income. Insights are shared on Amazon's successful agnostic approach to LLM models and the potential advancements in generative AI. The conversation shifts towards the burgeoning ads business at Amazon, underlining its profitability and future growth prospects. Scot also outlines Amazon's Q2 guidance and the potential impacts of consumer spending patterns on the retail sector, including concerns about changing consumer behaviors and economic pressures shaping market dynamics. Jason complements the discussion with additional perspectives on consumer behavior and economic influences reshaping the market landscape. Furthermore, we embark on a detailed exploration of supply chain logistics, with a spotlight on Amazon's expansion into third-party logistics services, revolutionizing traditional retail strategies by sharing proprietary capabilities for wider adoption. Insights from Andy Jassy shed light on Amazon's logistics business approach. The conversation expands to include how companies like Spiffy are embracing a similar model of sharing proprietary products to drive innovation and revenue growth, showcasing an evolving landscape of retail innovation. The podcast unpacks the complex world of grocery retail, highlighting Amazon's experimental forays like Just Walk Out technology and the Amazon Dash cart, while examining the challenges in delineating Amazon's grocery sector strategy. A comparison is drawn between Amazon's strategies and those of rivals like Walmart and Target, who are adapting their product offerings to match evolving consumer preferences, offering a comprehensive view of the dynamic retail and supply chain management sphere. Dive into our engaging discussion, explore retail dynamics, and keep a lookout for more insightful content. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 319 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Sunday, May 5th, 2024. Chapters 0:23 The Jason and Scott Show Begins 2:56 World Travel Adventures 5:53 Commerce Tools Elevate Show 6:53 Jason's World Tour Plans 7:22 Where in the World is Retail Geek? 20:43 Amazon's First Quarter Earnings 23:23 Sandbagging Strategy 26:45 Amazon's Dominance in E-commerce 27:44 Online Segment Growth Analysis 28:53 Offline Store Segment Analysis 31:35 Spotlight on AWS Performance 34:32 Data at AWS 42:02 Gen AI Revenue Growth 46:24 Consumer Pressure 49:56 Supply Chain Evolution 53:46 Leveraging Technology 58:08 Disruption in E-commerce 1:01:54 Amazon's Grocery Strategy 1:05:01 Retail Industry News Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scott Show. This is episode 319 being recorded on Sunday, May 5th, 2024. I'm your host, Jason Retail Guy Goldberg, and as usual, I'm here with your co-host, Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:37] Hey, Jason, and welcome back, Jason and Scott Show listeners. It's been a while, but first, happy Cinco de Mayo, and also a belated May the 4th, Jason. Did you have a good Star Wars day? Jason: [0:49] I did. I did. I feel like Star Wars Day always makes me think of the podcast because I feel like we have spent many of them in my latter life together. Scot: [1:01] Yeah, absolutely. Any exciting new Star Wars experiences or merch? Jason: [1:08] No, I understand you got some vintage merch. merch. Scot: [1:13] It's not, but they, back when I was a kid, you would go and if you went every week to, I think it was Burger King, you would for the, I think it was Empire. I have the Empire right here. So definitely Empire, but you would get a glass. Now it turns out these were full of lead paint, which would kill you, but that was the downside. Jason: [1:32] Not recommended for drinking. Scot: [1:33] You got a very, yes, I never, being a collector, I never drank out of them. So that's good. Jason: [1:37] Saved your life right there. Scot: [1:38] Yes, but I did drink out of the Tweety Bird. So that me, me. I'm sure I got some yellow lead paint from a twitty bird glass. Anyway, so they came out with a Mandalorian kind of homage to those glasses and they were at the Hallmark store of all places, not where I usually hang out, but I got to go to a Hallmark store and the little ladies that worked there were, I wish them all an awesome May the 4th. And they looked at me like I was from another planet and it was hilarious. My wife's like, stop, they don't know what you're doing. Jason: [2:07] Wait, they didn't have a big May 4th section in the Hallmark store? Scot: [2:11] They did. The little ladies didn't know. Jason: [2:13] The overlap of people that still buy Papyrus cards and celebrate May 4th is probably not great. Scot: [2:21] It was very humbling. It was a humble May the 4th, but I got my glasses and I was happy. I'm happy for you. And then tonight we had tacos for dinner, so I'm hitting all the holidays. Jason: [2:30] I feel like we should have tacos for dinner every night, whether it's Cinco de Mayo or not, but I'm i am happy for that. Scot: [2:35] We do have a lot of tacos but this was a special single denial edition. Jason: [2:42] Well, very well done, my friend. Scot: [2:44] Thanks. Well, listeners of the pod have been all over me. They're like, why aren't you recording? And I said, it's not me. It's Jason. It's Jason. Because you have been traveling Scot: [2:55] the earth, spreading retail geek goodness. Tell us, we are way far behind on trip updates and all the different countries. It's like you're playing, do you have like a little travel bingo where you're just like punching, what is it, 93 countries? Jason: [3:09] I do. They call it a passport. Oh, nice. Yes. Scot: [3:13] That, uh, little book that you get to carry. Yeah. Jason: [3:15] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have been on a lot of trips and it sounds like you and I may be telling complimentary lies because I also, I've had an opportunity to meet a lot of listeners in the last, we'll call it seven weeks and which they're always super nice. And it's always super fun to talk to people. And obviously they're, you know, strangers recognize my voice in line at Starbucks at all these e-commerce shows. And then we strike up a conversation. And then the next question is always, where the heck is Scott? Because they're always disappointed to meet me and not you. And now the new thing is, and why aren't you producing more frequent shows? And my answer is always that you're dominating the world at Get Spiffy and that you're too busy. Scot: [4:00] Uh-huh. I see. Okay. Jason: [4:02] Well, we're both very busy. Scot: [4:05] You're traveling more than I am. I'm busy washing cars. Jason: [4:08] Yes. I think both are fairly true, but I did finish a grueling seven-week stint where I got to come home a couple of times on the weekends, but I basically had seven weeks of travel back to back. In my old life, that would not have been that atypical, but post-pandemic, The travel has been a little more moderate. And I have noticed that I have my travel muscles have atrophied and I don't really want to redevelop. Jason: [4:35] So the seven weeks was a lot. Please don't ask me for trip reports for all the commerce events because I kind of can't remember some of them. They're all a little bit of a blur. But I was at Shop Talks, I think, since the last time we talked, which is, of course, probably the biggest show in our industry. And that was a very good show. I did get to see a lot of our mutual friends and a lot of fans of the show there. So that was certainly fun. And maybe in another podcast, we can do a little recap of some of the interesting things that came out of Shop Talk. I did produce a couple of recaps in other formats for work clients, so we could certainly pull something together. I also went to a vendor show. One of the e-commerce platforms out there is called Commerce Tools, and they had their annual customer show, which is called Elevate in Miami. So I got a chance to go visit there. They're one of the commerce platforms that I would say is winning at the moment in the kind of pivot away from the old school monoliths to these new sort of SaaS-based solutions. And commerce tools in particular are kind of pioneers in pushing this actual certification around a more modern earned stack that they they coined mock. And I think I think we've had Kelly from from commerce tools on the on the podcast Jason: [5:51] in the past to talk about that. But that was a good show. I got to meet a lot of listeners there. And a funny one, several listeners were like. Jason: [5:59] I would apologize for the, the, our publishing schedule lately. And they're like, I'm cool with it. I like that. Like you don't do a show if there's not something worthwhile. And then, you know, when I do get a show, it's like a treat. So I don't know if they're being honest or not, but that made me feel a little better about some of our, our, our Tardis shows lately. So those, those were good events. I also spent a week in India with some clients and that super interesting, a lot of commerce activity going on there, a lot of different market dynamics than here. So that's kind of intellectually pretty fun to learn about and see what's working there that might be working here or what, you know, why things tend to play out differently there. So that's interesting. And then I have a lot more international trips booked right now. Jason: [6:48] So coming up, I'm going to Barcelona, London, Paris, and Sao Paulo. So if anyone either has any favorite retail experiences in any of of those cities, please send them my way. I'll be doing store visits in all those cities. And if you're based in any of those cities, also drop me a line. Hopefully we can do some meetups while I'm out there. Scot: [7:07] Cool. It's Jason's world tour. You can do a little pod while you're there. Jason: [7:12] We have done a bunch of international pods in the distant past. I remember hotel rooms in South Korea and all over the place, Jason: [7:19] Japan that we've, we've cut shows from. So, so totally could. Scot: [7:23] Yeah. We'll have to do it. Where in the world is retail geek? That could be the theme song. I just sampled that. Jason: [7:30] Yeah. So besides cleaning the world's cars, what have you been up to, Scott? Scot: [7:35] Well, it's kind of funny. My worlds are colliding. So a lot of the analysts that you and I know from the e-commerce world are creeping into the auto world and their gateway drug is Carvana. So in the world of retail, we have Amazon, obviously. Well, Carvana is kind of Amazonifying used cars. They had a bit of a drama kind of situation. They were the golden child of online cars. And then they totally pooped the bed. They did this acquisition. They loaded up with debt. And then after, I think it was 21. So they had a good COVID. They surged. And then the debt got in front of them. Used car prices bop around and they kind of like got in an open door situation where they had bought a lot of cars for more than they were worth suddenly. And then they plummeted and everyone thought they were going out of business, but they have had a resurgence. So it's causing a lot of the internet analysts to now pick up auto tech or mobility or whatever you want to call it. So it was fun. I got to do a live chat with Nick Jones. He's been a friend of the show. I don't think we've had him on due to some compliance stuff that his company has rules around, but he's at this firm JMP and it was kind of wild to talk about, with someone about both Amazon and what we're doing at Spiffy, which is basically a lot of Amazon principles applied to car care. So it was interesting to have someone reach out and say, hey, I think this is a thing. And everyone tells me I should talk to you about it. And I was like, oh, yeah, I would love to. So it's kind of fun. Jason: [9:01] That's very cool. And isn't it also a thing, I think half the vehicles on the road are now owned by Amazon. So I assume that's an overlap too. too? Scot: [9:09] Yeah, not half, but a lot are. The number of last mile delivery vehicles are very, very large. And we work with a lot of them, so it's kind of fun. I started spiffy somewhat to get away from Amazon and still all I can talk about. Nope. So embrace it. I love Amazon. Love me some Amazon, Jason. Jason: [9:29] I'm glad you do. I love them too, but I feel like I spend most of my career You're unsuccessfully helping people compete with them. Scot: [9:38] Hey, got to play one side of the coin. It's a gig. You're going to be more like them or how to fight them. Jason: [9:43] It's a gig. It is indeed. Yeah. Scot: [9:46] Cool. I thought we are going to talk about some Amazon news. But before we jump in, you have done your magic with your data analysis interns. And I'm sure there's an LLM and an AI thrown in there. Let's start with some of the things you're seeing in commerce trends from the data that's out there. Jason: [10:07] Yeah. So as everyone knows, I have a little bit too much of an infatuation with the U.S. Department of Commerce retail indicators data. And these guys, you know, publish monthly estimates of retail sales in a bunch of categories. And, you know, we've talked about this many times on the show, but broadly over the last several years have been really interesting in retail. 2020, 2021, and 2022 were the greatest three years in the history of retail. Like we mailed like $6 trillion in economic stimulus. People didn't travel or go to restaurants as much. And so we sold way more goods than ever before. And so those three years, retail grew respectively at like 8%, 14%, and 9%. The 20 years prior, retail averaged about 4% a year in growth. So normally pre-pandemic, you'd expect 4% growth. We had these three, you know, wildly pandemic influence years where we grew really fast. And then last year we finished a little below 4%. So, so we were around, I want to say it was like 3.6%. So it was growth. It would, it would have been in line with pre-pandemic growth, but it certainly felt like a significant deceleration from those heady pandemic years. And so, you know, people are super interested to see how does 2024 play out? Does it? Jason: [11:32] Kind of return to pre-pandemic levels, like what is the new normal? Jason: [11:37] And we now have the first quarter's data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, and I would call it kind of a mixed bag. If you just look at the raw retail data that the U.S. Department of Commerce publishes, they're going to tell you that retail grew in the first quarter 2.8%. So that's a little anemic, right? Compared to historical averages, that's not a great growth rate. Most of the practitioners that follow this podcast care about a particular subset of retail that the National Retail Federation has dubbed core retail. And so the National Retail Federation pulls gas and automobiles sales out of that number. And gas is a decent size number and it's very volatile based on the commodity prices of gas. And auto is a huge number that has, as you're well familiar, its own idiosyncrasies. And so that's how they justify taking those two out. And if you take those two out and you get this core retail number, retail in the first quarter grew 3.9%. So kind of to align with how the NRF talks about retail, we'll say Q1 overall was 3.9%, which is very in line with the pre-pandemic historic average. So disappointing by pandemic standards, but kind of traditionally what we would expect. Jason: [13:05] What is unique in that number is. Jason: [13:09] That it's very bifurcated. There are clear winners and losers, both by categories and specific practitioners. So if you break down the categories, e-commerce is the fastest growing chunk of retail. I'm sure we'll talk more about that. Restaurants were the next fastest growing categories. And categories like mass merchants and healthcare providers outperform that industry average, every other segment of retail underperformed the industry average. So things like furniture stores did the worst, building materials did really poorly, gas stations did very poorly, electronics did poorly, and side note, electronics have been the worst performer since the pandemic, which is kind of interesting and challenging. So you've had this weird couple categories doing really well, a bunch of categories doing really poorly. And then within the categories even, if you look at the public company's individual earnings calls, what you tend to see is a couple of big players performing really well in overall retail, that's Amazon and Walmart. And then a lot of other retailers really struggling. So that even that's like in general merchandise, it's Amazon and Walmart that are lifting the boats. And it's folks like Target traditionally that have performed really well are actually struggling at the moment. So the average is kind of hard to follow at the moment. Jason: [14:37] But that is kind of how things play out. And then we have some preliminary e-commerce data, but the actual Q1 e-commerce number that the U.S. Department of Commerce publishes will publish on May 17th. So that's 12 days from now. Jason: [14:53] And crunching the numbers that we have available at the moment, that growth is likely to come in at somewhere between 8% and 10%. I'm guessing more like 8% or 9% growth. And so that also is twice as good as overall retail, and it's more than twice as good as brick-and-mortar retail. But that is noticeably slower than the historic e-commerce growth rates pre-pandemic. So kind of file those two numbers away. The overall retail industry is growing at 3.9%. The overall e-commerce industry is growing at about 9%. And then we have our friends at Amazon that dropped their earnings announcement just before May 4th so that they could celebrate May 4th, I think. Scot: [15:39] Yeah, yes, that's a good setup. And without further ado, let's talk about Amazon's fourth quarter. It wouldn't be a Jason Scott show without a little bit of... Scot: [16:01] That's right. On April 30th, Amazon announced their first quarter results. And the setup coming into these, so you had the data you talked about, but like to drill in a little bit. We had Meta, the artist formerly known as Facebook, and Alphabet, the artist previously known as Google. They announced and they both basically told Wall Street, AI is the cat's pajamas and we're going to spend anywhere between $10 and $40 billion of capital expenditures on it, meaning NVIDIA chips. So it turns out the way to play all this is basically buying NVIDIA. So hopefully you bought some NVIDIA stock. Maybe this is not a stock recommendation or when it's too late, so... And also don't take stock recommendations from podcasters. Anyway, so there was all this angst and people were a little freaked out coming into the Amazon results because Meta was down like pretty substantially, 20 to 30 percent. And Alphabet was also up substantially. You also had Microsoft come in there and they really crushed it. Their Azure is really lighting it up with AI. And they announced that they were going to invest a lot. And there's this rumor that a $100 billion project, it's got a name like Starship or something, but it's not Starship. Spaceship? Stardust? I don't know what it is. But it's going to be this mega data center, and they literally can't find a place to put it because it's going to consume so much power. So they're going to have to maybe build a nuclear plant next to it or some wacky thing. Scot: [17:31] Anyway, that was the setup. up. So coming in, Wall Street was very, very concerned about Amazon's AWS division, which is their cloud computing. Because if Alphabet is building out their infrastructure, and so is Azure, that's the two biggest competitors for AWS. And is AWS getting its fair share? And is it going to announce that it's going to have to go build some $40 billion kind of a thing? Also, another Another thing, and I'm kind of curious on if you're seeing this with your clients, but in the, I follow this, you know, the AI, you can't do much without seeing AI everywhere. But the part I'm most interested in is what are big enterprises spending money on? This is like your Fortune 500s. They're all experimenting and really getting into it. And where they're finding a lot of good use cases is training on their data. So they'll say, you know, hey, I'm Publisys. How many documents do you think are inside of Publisys? I don't know, 8 trillion documents. Documents and you know wouldn't it be helpful just the ones I created and who is this retail geek and he's he's created uh you know 90 of those and you know so you know imagine you're starting new at publicists you're gonna be like where do I start going through some of these documents for us and if you had a chat bot that was like hey I've read all that you know I can navigate you through everything that's been published or you know whatever I'm certainly you. Scot: [18:50] Providing a very big metaphor, certainly be more divisional and all this kind of stuff. But that's where big companies are spending the bulk is they're taking their data in whatever format it's in, be it a relational database, a PDF, whatever it is, they're trying to train it. They don't want it to go up into the, they don't want to train the LLM so that other people get the benefit of that and can see any confidential data. So that's really important. So it needs to be gated in these types of things. Because of that use case, open AI is not great because people are very worried. A, it's very expensive and it's only an API. So OpenAI hosts itself and you call it through an API. Scot: [19:25] Those API calls are very expensive. They're getting, as OpenAI has gotten more popular, there's more latency. It's taking forever to get answers out of this thing. And a lot of people are very concerned that even though there's ways to call the API such that it's in a window and not being trained, that maybe it leaks in there. So because of all these elements, the open source models are becoming very popular. And right around the time Meta announced, they announced their Llama, which has become quite popular. And what's nice is you can host it wherever you want. And it's kind of like WordPress, where if you are a serious WordPresser, you can host it somewhere yourself, and you can kind of understand that. Otherwise, there's other people that will host it for you. But it has the nice feature of you're just getting the weights and whatnot, and it's it's pretty clear, it's pretty obvious, it's not training itself on your data. So a lot of people like it because it's quote unquote free. It's not an API usage based. It's a pay once to set it up, pay for some resources type thing and you're done. And it's also not going to train on the data. That's one of many. There's probably 10 or 20 pretty commercial grade open AIs out there. Scot: [20:38] Okay. So that's kind of the setup to get to the earnings. things. So from a big picture, this was a really good quarter. Asterix, the guide made Wall Street a little bit nervous. So- Scot: [20:53] And one of our research analysts just said it's Stargate, which is also a sci-fi series. They must have that on Prime Video or something. There's probably some callback there. Scot: [21:01] So they beat for the quarter Q1, but then they also kind of tell you what's going on the next quarter. Amazon doesn't provide fully your guidance. They just kind of give you a snippet. So when they report one quarter, a quarter, they then tell you what they think the next quarter is going to do. So Wall Street got a little bit ahead of its skis, and the guide for Q2 was below what Wall Street wants. So it wasn't what we'd call a beat and a raise, which is the current quarter was a beat and the next one they increased. It was a beat and a guide down. So that probably tampered Wall Street. But ever since Jassy came in, Andy Jassy, this has been his MO is to be pretty conservative because Wall Street's very much an expectation engine. And the more, if you can beat and tamp down expectations, it makes it, it's a little bit rougher in the short term from a stock price, but it makes next quarter better and then so on and so forth. So it's a smart way to manage the long-term vibe of the stock, the mindset, the expectations around your stock. Okay. So revenue came in at $143 billion versus Wall Street at $142. So pretty much in line. But most importantly, where Amazon really threw people off was on operating income. Yes, Amazon is profitable. This is the proxy for operating income. True Amazonians would tell you, no, it's cashflow. We can go into that, but this is kind of the way they report to Wall Street. So this is kind of the standard operating system, if you will. So this is what we're going to use, but it's a proxy for cashflow. Scot: [22:28] That was 15 billion for the quarter and Wall Street expected 11. Well, you know, 4 billion on a world of 143 doesn't sound like much, but between 11 and 15, that's a very material beat. What is that? Like 38%, something like that. Scot: [22:44] So that was a really nice surprise. And, you know, Amazon goes through these invest and harvest periods and everyone's been feeling like they're going to be back in investing which would mean they're going to start lowering operating income as they invest but it's actually kind of beating expectations, also this is the fifth quarter amazon has come in at the high end of its guidance or above its guidance since basically you know on operating income and that corresponds with when jassy came in so this is his mo right now is to kind of like beat and lower beat and lower you know exceed expectations tamp them down not get not get ahead of his skis and it's working really well. Jason: [23:24] Sandbagging for the win. I like it. Scot: [23:26] Yes, it is. Having run a public company, this is a lesson I learned painfully. So that's something we can talk about over beer sometime. Jason: [23:33] I will book that date. Yeah. And the retail business sort of followed in line with that. They had like some nice growth, but like the real standout number was the improvement in margins and the significant positive operating income from the retail segment. So I think the actual operating income from U.S. Retail was like $5 billion and the Wall Street expectations were 4.3. So again, that was another strong beat. Total revenue, which revenue is not the same thing as retail sales, as we've talked about on the show many times, that we would use GMV as a proxy for that. But revenue was $86.3 billion for the quarter, which I think was in line with the analyst expectations. Jason: [24:27] And I think this was the largest operating income that Amazon has ever reported for the retail business. So that was super interesting on the domestic side. Traditionally, domestic has done pretty well and international has been a money loser because, you know, they've been less mature. they've been investing a lot in growing international and they haven't had the same kind of margins. This was the first quarter that they reported positive operating income for the international division. So that's another super encouraging sign for investors that maybe they've kind of passed that inflection point on a lot of their international investments that they've made in the EU and Japan and the UK, which reminds me is not part of the EU anymore. Jason: [25:13] So so they kind of beat beat international expectations across the board on income. Revenues were lower. So revenues were like thirty one billion dollars, which was below expectation. Jason: [25:25] But they they earned like nine hundred million in operating income. And I want to say the the the Wall Street expectation was like six hundred million. So so again, like a 30 percent beat, which is pretty, pretty darn good. Good. They also, a bunch of analysts have, you know, taken these revenue numbers and they try to back into a GMV number. And I would say the bummer at the moment is there's a fair amount of variance in the estimates, like different analysts have different models. So I have kind of been putting to a model of the models together and trying to kind of find a midpoint. And like Like based on that, the Amazon's GMV globally probably went up 11.5% for the quarter. So if you're comparing this to other retailers or the U.S. Department of Commerce number, overall GMV went up 11.5%. The U.S. was stronger. So the U.S. probably went up at 12.2%. So again, we talked about core retail was up 3.9%. Well, Amazon U.S. GMV was up 12.2%. So, you know, three times faster growth than the retail industry overall. Jason: [26:39] And again, Amazon is mostly e-commerce, very little brick and mortar, Jason: [26:44] which we'll talk about in just a minute. But even if you're comparing Amazon to that e-commerce number, if e-commerce comes in at 8% or 9% and Amazon's at 12%, they're by far the largest e-commerce player out there and they're still substantially outgrowing the average, which, you know, is very impressive and should be very scary to every other competitor out there. Jason: [27:08] One analyst kind of put together an estimate of what they thought the earned income contribution from Amazon was for retail and ads together, pulling AWS out. And they had it at $27 billion in earned income if Amazon was just a retail with no AWS. And that puts them right in the ballpark of Walmart that spent off about $29 billion in earned income or operating income. I keep saying earned, but I mean operating income. So, so that is all pretty impressive and simultaneously super scary. Jason: [27:45] Scott, did you drill down into the online segment at all? Scot: [27:49] Yeah. And, you know, what I would tell listeners is picture a block diagram where you have this big, big rectangle, that's the whole Amazon entity. And, you know, so what we're going to do is talk about the segments. And the first segment is the biggest one, which is the retail business. And that, that's what you just. Jason: [28:04] Biggest and best. Wouldn't you say? Scot: [28:06] Coolest. Jason: [28:07] Coolest. All right. Scot: [28:08] Cool. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'll, you know, I don't know. Jason: [28:11] It is for you. Scot: [28:14] Um, I think the whole enchilada, I like the, the way they do this and I'm trying to replicate it. It's 50. We'll talk about that in a second. The, so then the, you know, so then another segment is AWS, another segment, I think marketplace should be in some segment, but they don't break it out. So it's just kind of in kind of hidden inside of the blob that is retail. So we tease some of that out here on the show. They purposely hide it in there. So no one knows how awesome it is, I think. And then they've got AWS ads and a couple other things, but we'll talk about this. So as you dig into the retail business, there's a couple of ways to look at it. You can look at it by domestic and international, which Jason just did, Scot: [28:50] or you can look at it by online and physical store. So the online biz grew 7% year over year, which if I remember your stats, well, you don't have it until may 17th so on may 17th we'll be able to know how that compared but probably the one you can compare is the offline biz which is the the store comp that they have, And Jason, you saw on that one, what'd you see? Jason: [29:16] Yeah, so physical stores grew 6.3%. So again, like, you know, when we say all of retail grew 3.9%, a big chunk of that's e-commerce. Brick and mortar probably grew at like two to 3%. So Amazon's brick and mortar growing at 6.3% is actually super impressive. And it's kind of interesting, you know, for several years, Amazon has had experiments in a bunch of retail formats. So they've had these Amazon Go stores, stores. They had Amazon five-star stores. They had bookstores. They had a fashion store. They're trying all these things. And of course, the biggest chunk of their stores is they own Whole Foods. And so offline stores for Amazon was kind of a mix of all these different concepts. In the last couple of years, they've kind of cleaned house and gotten rid of all those concepts. And so, you know, nominally there's a few of their own grocery stores called Amazon Amazon fresh open, but the vast majority of online offline retail for Amazon is, is Whole Foods. And for it to be growing at 6.3% in the current climate is, is a really good sign for Amazon. And, and I would say somewhat impressive, you know, on the earnings call, they, they announced that they're working up a new format for Whole Foods, which is a smaller format store that's It's going to open in Manhattan. So I have that on my ticker file to go visit when that's open. Jason: [30:38] You know, the whole grocery space for Amazon is super interesting, but maybe we'll talk about that a little bit more later. But I will call out, they did launch a service that there's been some controversy over. They launched a $9.99 a month grocery delivery service, which essentially lets you have all you can eat free grocery delivery to your home for an incremental fee of $9.99. And they're spinning that as, you know, a cool new grocery service and enable more people to shop for groceries online. And there are a lot of articles about it, like. Jason: [31:13] They used to have free grocery delivery included in your Prime membership, right? And so they've kind of like, I look at the big arc of all this and say, there used to be a lot more free services in Prime that they've kind of peeled out. Then they started charging for, and now they'll let you get it free again for another $120 a year. Jason: [31:32] So interesting things happening with grocery that we could probably talk more about later. But I'm kind of eager to dive into some of these other businesses like AWS. Scot: [31:42] Yeah. So that's the one that everyone was really waiting on the call to hear how it went. And good news, AWS exceeded expectations. Everyone thought it was going to grow 14% and it came in at 17%. And if Wall Street likes, they like a lot of things, they like beating expectations, that's important to them. But their favorite thing is ARG. And that is not a pirate day thing, ARG. It is Accelerating Revenue Growth. Wall Street loves that more than anything. And that's what they delivered for both the ads and the AWS part of the business. And what that means is that as the law of numbers kicks in, so back on the retail business, the only time we see that accelerate is in the fourth quarter and that seasonal acceleration, right? We've gotten used to that for decades now. It always happens in the fourth quarter and whatnot. So it's what you would expect. But this is quite unusual for a relatively mature business. This thing's $25 billion a quarter. So this is a $100 billion business that accelerated. And so that tells us that there is a lot more wood to chop here. It has not gotten near its addressable market. And it really allayed fears that they were losing massive market share because they're, quote unquote, behind on AI to Azure, which is Microsoft offering, and then the Google hosting solution as well. Scot: [33:05] That does not seem to be the case. So they did very well. So they came in at $25 billion and Wall Street was expecting $24.6. So that was really, that accelerating is what really made everyone very happy. And then the operating income came in at $9.5, way ahead of Wall Street at $7.5. So another pretty material 20% beat on this component at the bottom line. And this is really interesting. There was some really good language around this. And this has been Jassy's statement all along, and it's coming true. His early Amazon's early play was we're going to be agnostic on models and it's kind of like bring your own model we'll work with anything now with open AI they're not going to ever host open AI but they'll they're not going to stop you from working with it and then they for these open source ones they've made it very easy for you to spin up an AWS instance throw a little llama in there and I would make a llama noise if I I knew what they said I guess they make like a sheep sound. So you throw a little alarm in there and it does its thing. And, you know, the benefit of them being agnostic on these LLMs is most likely they have some or all of your data, right? Because they've been at this so long that if you're doing cloud computing versus on-prem, most likely a lot of, if not all of your data is in AWS. Extracting that data, you know, imagine you had terabytes or or what's the biggest, Scot: [34:31] bigger than terabytes? I always forget this one. Jason: [34:33] Petabytes. Scot: [34:34] Petabytes of data at AWS. They literally have a product that they can send a truckload of hard drives around and get your data. That's how much data there is that you could never push it across the internet, that there's so much data. So if they have that data and that's what you want to train on, you don't want to have the latency of the internet between your data and the training. So you'd really need the LLM to operate near your data. And this is what they predicted two or three years ago, kind of around the, the, the launch of chat gpt when all this stuff really started to accelerate and it's coming true so everyone feels a lot better about that then their body language this time a lot of times they were kind of like this is what we're doing and we're pretty sure it's going to work now they're like it's working and people really felt relief around this because everyone there was a set of people that believed it but then you know open ai's pitches nope our lm is going to be we're spending, billions of dollars we're going to be so far ahead none of these open source things are going to keep up. If you don't have us, you're going to be so far behind, you'll be like playing with crayons and everyone's going to be playing with quill pens. Scot: [35:42] So it was really good to see that this is not what's happening, that people are embracing, enterprises are embracing these open source models. They are in the same zip code performance-wise from results and much cheaper than OpenAI's offerings. And what Amazon said specifically was very positive around what is It's kind of abbreviated Gen AI for generative AI. And it's kind of a way to encapsulate this. And they said that it already is a multi-billion dollar run rate business. And you always have to parse what they say. So multi-billion can be anywhere between 1 and 9.9, right? And you'll see why I drew 9.9 there. Scot: [36:25] And inside, as part of that big AWS number, and they believe it can be rapidly tens of billions. Billions so they're basically saying it's not double digit billions so it's a single digit million which is where i get one to nine point nine but they basically hinted that that it is growing so rapidly inside of there that it's gonna be tens of billions and this is why they saw accelerating revenue growth which made everyone happy it wasn't just people you know moving some more you know loads on or something boring loads around relational databases or something it was the juicy ai stuff so this got everyone so lathered up that three analysts did price increases and they cited that this was one of the reasons the biggest price increase was from sig susquehanna and they put the price up to 220. At the time all this happened the stock was at 175 and today it's around 185 so it's been up nicely but 220 is a pretty big big you know even. Scot: [37:20] From where they expect that's where they're thinking i think most these guys look at a year to two years as a time horizon on these prices so and that's the the high i have you know again there's a wide range some people think it's going to go down some people think it's over price so go do your research this is not a stock recommendation but i just thought it was interesting that people get really really excited by by this whole gen ai largely the body language that, and it's, Amazon doesn't pound their chest much. So the fact they were, was kind of a new, new way of managing Amazon and Jassy's pretty conservative. So he must've felt pretty good about it, but also that they needed to ally, allay, allay, allay, whatever the right word is, get rid of these competitive concerns everyone's been talking about. Jason: [38:05] Yeah. It feels like a pretty big prize out there. Jassy and the whole team always talk, Just AWS, even before you get to Gen AI, they always remind everyone, hey, 85% of the workloads are still on-prem. So like this, as big as AWS looks, if the long-term future is 85% of the workloads are on the cloud and only 15% are on-prem, there's a lot of headroom still in AWS. And then, you know, you add this new huge demand for AI on top of all that. And like this, it's almost a limitless opportunity. And I want to tie the AI back to retail, though, for just a second, because there's another bit of news that I haven't seen covered very much, but is super interesting to me. Jason: [38:51] There's a particular flavor of AI out there, a subset of generative AI that's now being called agentic AI. And that's sort of a clever amalgamation of agent-based AI. And there's a very famous AI researcher, this guy, Andrew Ng. He's the founder of Coursera. He's done a bunch of things. He was the head of Google Big Think, which was one of the first significant AI efforts. And I want to say he was like on People Magazine's 100 most interesting people list in like 2013 as an AI researcher. So the dude's been around for a long time. He is one of the biggest advocates for this agentic AI. And the premise is that if you just ask an LLM, you take the best LLM in the world, and you ask it to do something for you, that's called zero shot. You give it an assignment, and you take the first result you get. It's a zero shot. You get pretty good results. But if you... Jason: [39:53] Turn that, that LLM into multiple agents and break the task up amongst those agents and potentially agents even running on different LLMs, you get wildly better results. Jason: [40:05] And so his, his research kind of showed that, Hey, if, if Jason goes write a PowerPoint presentation for his client, explaining what's going on in commerce. And I just give that to the turbo version of ChatGBT 4, I'll get a pretty good deck. But if I say, hey, I want to create four agents. I want to create a consultant to write the deck and a copywriter to edit the deck and an editor to improve the deck and three people to pretend to be mock customers to poke holes in the deck and have all those agents work on this assignment. I could give that assignment to chat gbt 3.5 and it would actually output a better work product than the the newer more advanced model was by by breaking the job into these chunks and so in retail you think about like this is the idea of assigning higher level jobs to shopping right so instead of saying like going to amazon and saying oh now it's a ai-based search engine and i'm going to type a long form query into search and get a better result. Jason: [41:09] The agentic AI approach is I'm just going to say to Amazon, never let me run out of ingredients for my kids' school lunches. And the agent's going to figure out what is in my school lunches and what my use rate is for those things and what weeks I have off from school and don't need a school lunch. And it's just going to do all those things and magically have the food show up. And this is a long diatribe, but the reason it's relevant is is this dude, Andrew Ng, was named the newest board member at Amazon three weeks ago. Scot: [41:40] Very cool. Jason: [41:40] I did not see that myself. Yeah. And so if you're wondering where Amazon thinks this is going, like this, in my mind, ties all this tremendous opportunity in generative AI and the financial opportunity in AWS directly to the huge and growing retail business that Amazon runs. Scot: [42:02] Very cool. Oh yeah. I had not seen that. So maybe Wall Street picked up on that. I'm sure. And maybe that was another part of the excitement. Jason: [42:09] Yeah. But all of that is just peanuts compared to the real good business in Amazon, which is the ads business. So again, you know, Amazon used to, to obfuscate their ads business. They've for a number of quarters now had to report it as earnings because it's in their earnings separately, because it's so material. And it was another good quarter for the ads business. It's hard to say whether it's actually accelerating growth or not, because the ads business is very seasonal. So the ad business grew 24.3% for the quarter versus Q1 of 2023. Q4 grew faster. So Q4 grew at 27%, but the 24% growth is much faster growth than other... Q1 year-over-year growth rate. So however you slice it, it's a good, robust growth rate. If you add the last four quarters together, you get $29 billion worth of ad sales. There's lots of estimates for how profitable ad sales are, but there's no cost of goods for an ad, right? Jason: [43:13] And so it's very high margin. So if you just assume, I think 60% gross margins is a very conservative estimate. But if you assume 60% gross margins, that means the ad business spun off $29.5 billion of operating income over the last 12 months. And to put that in comparison, AWS is big and profitable as it is, twice as much revenue at over $100 billion now, but it spun off like $23 billion in operating income. So the ad business is a much more meaningful contributor to Amazon's profits than even AWS. Jason: [43:51] And another way I've been starting to think about this is what percentage of the total GMV on the Amazon platform are the ads? And they are now 6.5%. So that's a very significant new tax. You know, as Amazon has hundreds of millions of SKUs available for sale, no one's ever going to find your SKU or buy it if you don't do some marketing on the platform for that SKU. And that's this 6.5% tax that Amazon's charging. And in the same way we said, hey, AWS is a really robust business. And then there's this thing called generative AI that can make it even huger. All of this ad revenue we're talking about is really coming from their sponsored product listings, which is like basic search advertising on the retail platform. Last quarter, Amazon said, by the way, we have this huge viewership streaming video service called Amazon Prime. And we're going to start putting ads in the lowest tier version of Amazon Prime. So unless you want to pay more, you're going to start seeing ads on Amazon Prime. And that's another huge advertising opportunity that hasn't been very heavily tapped yet. So the analysts are pretty excited about the upside of Amazon potentially tacking on another $6.5 billion in Prime video ads onto the $50 billion of search ads that they already have. Jason: [45:11] And so ads are a pretty good business to be in, which is why every other retailer is trying to follow suit with their own sort of version of a retail media network. Scot: [45:22] Cool. I imagine you get a lot of calls to talk about that. Jason: [45:25] Oh, yeah. I actually, I'm sick of talking about it. So one nice thing about working at an ad agency is there are now thousands of other experts. You know, I was one of the early guys in retail media networks. Now there are thousands of other experts that are way more credible than me. So I don't have to talk about it quite as much, but it still, still comes up in every conversation. Scot: [45:43] Very cool. All right. So then that was the basic gist of the corridor from a high level. And then it came to the what's going on in Q2. So that did come in lighter than folks expected, as I said, and they guided the top line to 144 versus 149. Let's call it 146 and change at the midpoint. They always do this range kind of thing when they're doing their guide. And Wall Street was at 150 consensus. So, you know, a tidge below two or three percent below where they wanted. But the operating income guide was above Wall Street. So they're kind of, we'll take it. Como si, como sa. Scot: [46:21] So that was, you know, I think Amazon tapping things down. Yeah. Now they did talk a lot about consumers being under pressure. So they said in the, it wasn't in a Q and a, it was in the prepared remarks and Jassy said it, which is kind of like the more important stuff. And I will say it's really nice to have the CEO of Amazon back on these calls because Bezos basically ditched them after, I don't know if, I think he came the first two quarters back in 97 but i honestly can't remember but he has not gone to the calls and jassy's been to them all so it's really nice to hear from the ceo and he answers very candidly i feel you know he doesn't feel as kind of like robotic as many ceos when they get on here because it is a stressful thing that you're going to say something wrong, but there was this exchange well first of all he he in his prepared remarks he talked about. Scot: [47:12] I forgot to put the exact language, but he said, we're seeing a lot of consumers trade down. So they're seeing, you know, we're seeing this in the auto industry. Tires is this huge thing where it's under a lot of pressure right now because people are just waiting. So there's a lot of this, you know, it's not showing up in the data that I've seen, but there's, you know, maybe the inflation data, but not the GDP and some of the other unemployment data. But it feels like the consumer is under a bit of pressure here, and they talk about that a lot in the prepared remarks. So I thought our listeners would find that interesting. Jason, before I go into this longish little thing that I wanted to just cover, what do you, did you pick up on any of that consumer stuff? Are you hearing that? Jason: [47:55] Oh, yeah, that's very common. And remember, in the beginning, I mentioned that there's this weird bifurcation that some retailers, even in categories, are doing well and others aren't. And some categories are doing well and others aren't. That's super complicated to get to the why. But the most obvious why is that consumers feel like they're under a lot of economic pressure and are trading down and are deferring certain types of purchases. The easiest way to see this is own brands and private label sales going up and, you know, national brand sales stagnating, see things like chicken protein going up and beef protein going down. You know, there's lots of examples out there, but the retailers that are best able to follow the consumer as she trades down are tending to do well. And the retailers that only cater to the luxury consumer, the super luxury is still doing fine. They're somewhat insulated. But the folks that haven't been as able to cater to the value consumer as much have struggled more. And the non-mandatory categories have struggled more. So Andy's comments exactly mirror what we're seeing going on in market dynamics and what other retailers are saying in their earnings. It is slightly weird because if you just look at the macros. Jason: [49:18] It's objectively, the consumer is doing pretty well. There's actually a lot of favorable things, but there's a ton of evidence that the consumer sentiment is that they're really worried about their household budget and are making, you know, hard, hard financial decisions. Scot: [49:36] Yeah. Yeah. It's tough out there. Well, hopefully it'll get better. So one of the questions I want to just kind of pull out some tidbits, because this has been a theme on our pod for a long time and I thought it was really, really interesting. And this is going to get into the weeds of supply chain and this kind of thing. So sorry if that's not your jam. We like to talk about logistics. Scot: [49:56] Side note to you, Jason, I saw that deep dive we did on Amazon logistics is still like our number one show and all the stats and stuff, which is kind of fun. So someone cares about it. Anyway, one of the friends of the podcast, Yusuf Squally asked a question. He's one of the analysts and he said, as it relates to logistics, so he's talking to andy on the call back in september you launched amazon supply chain can you help us understand the opportunity you see there where are you in the journey to build logistics as a service on a global basis and does that require a huge increase in capex a function increase in capex which means huge so jesse said this was a very long answer so i'm going to pull out two snippets you can go read the transcripts can you put a link to that in the show notes absolutely yep yeah so so i'm just gonna give you the the snippet the whole thing is worth reading but it would be like another 20 minutes to do that. But so Jassy starts out and says, I think that it's interesting what's happening with the business we're building in third party logistics. And it's really kind of in some ways mirror some of the other businesses we've gotten involved in AWS being an example. And even though they're very different businesses, and that we realized that we had our own internal need to build and launch these capabilities. Scot: [51:01] We figured that there were probably others out there who had the same needs we did and decided to build the services out of them so this is this model that really blows the minds of traditional retailers where you know so walmart has this huge data you know capability there's this this urban legend that they know when people are pregnant before they do they can see changes in their habits or they know who all is on weight loss drugs they they see your buying habits so intricately that they can do that that's a neat capability but they view it as proprietary and And that's old school thinking. Scot: [51:32] What Amazon does is says, well, that's a cool capability. Let's certainly someone else needs it. Let's open it up. This is one of my favorite things at Amazon. And it's so counterintuitive that in my current car world, I talk about this and everyone's like, why are you, we're doing it a lot at Spiffy. And they're like, well, why are you doing that? That's like your proprietary thing. And we're like, well, that's just how it should be. And like, this is a better way to do it. And it's really interesting that still today, Amazon's built what I say, $100 billion business out of AWS, which has used this and people are, are befuzzled by the whole thing. So I, I thought that was an interesting use case. And then he, he goes into some details there that are pretty obvious for our listeners, like how this is gonna work. But then he basically kind of brings it back around and then he says he wraps up and says, I would say that supply chain with Amazon is really an abstraction on top of each individual block services. And in those services, he talked about all the things that, that, you know, FBA and last mile delivery and buy with a prime. He talks about each of those kind of and how awesome they are. So he's basically saying Amazon supply chain wraps a bow around all that. And it gives this collective set of business services is growing significantly. Scot: [52:43] It's already what I would consider a reasonable size business. I think it's early days. It's not something we anticipate being a giant capital expense driver. So it's because they've already invested in all this that doesn't require additional capex. And then he finishes and says, we have to build a lot of the capabilities anyway to handle our own business. And we think it will be a modest increase on top of that to accommodate third-party sellers. Scot: [53:05] But our, there's a typo in the thing. Our third-party sellers find very high value in us being able to manage these components for them versus having to do it themselves. And they save money in the process. So I thought that was a really interesting, interesting. So they're really leaning into this supply chain. I think that ultimately they'll open this up to more consumers where you can send Aunt Gertrude in Detroit something from Chicago for three bucks a package and just throw it in an Amazon box, maybe a return box, and it kind of makes it way cheaper than you can FedEx it. I think that's coming, but it's really interesting to see. The way they think about things and his articulation of it was very crisp, Scot: [53:45] and I really enjoyed that. I was geeking out on that when I was listening to the call. Jason: [53:50] Yeah, for sure. That actually came up in some of the conferences I was at that he, you know, Jeff Bezos famously wrote this memo a long time ago about kind of being an object oriented, company and having all these building blocks that people could easily access and use internally and externally. And, and that this was kind of Andy Jassy doubling down on that. Yeah. It's Biffy is an example of that. Like you inventing some cool products that make it your jobs easier. And then you're selling those products to, to your potential competitors. Scot: [54:20] Yeah. So two examples, we have some devices we've developed for ourselves. One is a tire tread scanner. So it does 2D and 3D tires, tire tread scans. It's called Easy Tread. And we developed it for ourselves because we touch 3,000 cars a day right now and we wanted to measure the tire treads. And the state of the art is a Bluetooth needle. And it's, you know, you have to lay on your back. The cars are on the ground for us most of the time. So you have to like get underneath there, measure three things, and then it Bluetooths to a phone. Then you have to take it, the data entry, it doesn't have an API. Then you have to like take what it measured and then now cut and paste it into something else. It's kind of, kind of redonkulous in our world. So we developed a solution for that and we're selling it externally. And then the big, the big one is from day one, this has been the plan is we've built a ton of software for Spiffy. So we're, you know, we've got 400 technicians, 250 vans doing all kinds of services across the US and there's no operating system for that. So we, there's no like Salesforce for that or Shopify. So we had to go build our own. And so we've built, you know, route optimization specific to this parts integration, fitment integration, VIN lookup, all these things that are required integration with tire suppliers, oil filter suppliers, oil suppliers, parts suppliers, all these things. So we have like 150 things we've integrated with and pulled in from all over the place. Scot: [55:44] And then labor management, all the reporting that comes along with it, all that stuff. And we're starting to license that out as its own platform to anyone that wants to do auto services. And so these dealerships and large auto service companies are coming to us and finally saying, this seems kind of obvious now that we need to provide the ability to go to our customers. They call it at their curb. They use a different language than we do. But basically what you and I would call mobile, you know, last mile delivery of the service. And we're starting to license that out. And it's a lot like AWS, right? So we had to build this for our retail business, which is doing the services and now we're licensing it out a lot AWS and we have this device business. So it's been, I would not have, it comes intuitively to me now. Cause I've been, you know, basically living this lifestyle for 20 years and watching Amazon do it, But it's been fun to kind of build a company with this mindset of we're going to take these things we build and give them to other, not give them, but sell them to other people. And then that makes them better. And they help us pay for all the R&D that we've done on it. Jason: [56:48] Yeah, that's very cool. And that gives listeners a very tangible example of why we haven't been able to podcast quite as frequently as we'd like. Scot: [56:56] Yes. Jason: [56:56] I do, at the risk of making this the world's longest episode of our show, I do have a geeky add-on to the supply chain conversation. Yeah. So a lot of these services that they're adding to specifically what they call supply chain with Amazon are around importing services, because an increasingly high percentage of all the stuff Amazon sells is. Jason: [57:20] Amazon is taking care of importing it, right? And most often from China, but from all over the world and taking care of all that logistics and getting it ready to sell and deliver via the world's most impressive last mile to consumers in America. And there's tons of complicated, high friction touch points and processes to flow all those goods. Well, the big competitors out there to Amazon at the moment that we've talked about ad nauseum on the show, like Shein and Timu, had this kind of direct from China model where they're putting all the goods on 747s, flying them over, and they're taking advantage of this loophole in the postal treaty called the de minimis provision to not pay taxes or duties or have all these goods inspected that they ship into the U.S. and U.S. Jason: [58:07] Businesses have been complaining it's unfair. There's like all kinds of talk about it. We've done shows on this and I'm sure we'll do others. So here's the new thing in supply chain. Jason: [58:15] All the people that have been complaining about this are now doing it because guess what's happened? A bunch of these companies have been born that now help every other brand in the world take advantage of the de minimis provisions to near shore their goods. So you're a footwear manufacturer, you make your shoes in Vietnam, Instead of shipping them to the U.S. On a pallet and paying taxes and duties, you ship them on a pallet to Mexico, and then you send them individual parcels across the border from Mexico into the U.S. and never have to pay taxes or duties on the stuff. So I don't know if that will last in the long run, but that's a very disruptive, significant change happening in the whole world of e-commerce supply chains as we speak. That's pretty interesting. Interesting. Had you gotten wind of that yet? Scot: [59:07] No, no. That's all new to me. Thanks for sharing. Jason: [59:09] Yeah. That's probably how you're going to have to start getting your spiffy stuff into the country now too. I won't, I won't, we won't go there. But the one other piece that did not come up in the earnings call, but a controversy around Amazon since our last show is news articles came out that Amazon was de-installing its Just Walk Out technology from its grocery stores. So Amazon had built Just Walk Out into several of these Amazon Fresh stores and they built it into Whole Foods. And if you know the history of Just Walk Out, this was the original intention of Just Walk Out was was to do it for grocery stor

Welcome to the Balanced FI Podcast, episode 34 - Amazon Hacks for Making the Most of Your Account - even if you're not a Prime member. Amazon has taken over so many areas of life, but some of those features are super helpful. Although some of the things we discuss require a Prime membership, some are still available to non-members. Taking advantage of all the features of your Amazon account just makes good sense.  FIND US:Balancedfi.com -- Podcast -- Facebook -- Instagram -- Pinterest -- Hello@balancedfi.com RESOURCES:Read: Amazon Hacks for Making the Most of Your AccountResource: CamelCamelCamelRead: 5 Tips for a Frugal ChristmasRead: 4 Unexpected Ways to Save Money SOURCES:Source: AmazonSource: ‘I'm not a robot': Amazon workers condemn unsafe, grueling conditions at warehouse

About this time every year, Amazon announces a slew of new products. Some of them are fairly normal: new Echo devices, smart screens, video doorbells. But sometimes the company will roll out something truly bonkers, like a flying home security drone or a Roomba-like robot with an extending periscope camera that wheels around your house. Outlandish or otherwise, the company's output offers a look at where it's headed. And this year, Amazon seems increasingly intent on becoming a home security company. This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior associate reviews editor Adrienne So joins us to talk about Amazon's deluge of new products, including that absurd Astro robot. Show Notes:  Read Lauren's story about Amazon's Astro robot. Check out everything Amazon announced at its September event. If for some reason you want to buy Amazon's Ring home drone, you'll have to get on the invite list. Here's Adrienne's story about the Amazon Halo fitness tracker that listens to your tone of speech. And here's Lauren's review of the Amazon Dash shelf. Also read Engadget's story about how Amazon is turning into a security company. Recommendations:  Adrienne recommends the Back Bay Tempo 30 earbuds. Mike recommends the “Folk Fabrique” playlist on Spotify. Lauren recommends Anne Helen Petersen's column “The Counterintuitive Mechanics of Peloton Addiction” from her Substack newsletter, Culture Study. Adrienne So can be found on Twitter @adriennemso. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys. If you have feedback about the show, or just want to enter to win a $50 gift card, take our brief listener survey here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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EP235 - Amazon Grocery, Walmart+, Holiday Preview This episode covers the latest Amazon Grocery news, the launch of Walmart+, and our first look at holiday 2020. Upcoming Events CommerceLive – Jason September 15, Noon ET.        Panel: Retailer Search Strategies — What’s Working and What’s Worth It? Publicis Livestream – Jason & Scot –     Thursday, September 17 11:00AM ET Covid, Holiday 2020, and 2021 Digital Day North America Jason & Scot Keynote September 23 8:40-9:25am CT Channel Advisor Connect – Jason & Scot October 7th Texas A&M Retail Summit Jason October 9th  9:50am CT ShopTalk Meetup – Jason October 20-22 Measuring Ecommerce Success Against Fast-Changing Benchmarks.      Topics Amazon Grocery Amazon Fresh – 40K “Non-Whole Foods” grocery concept. Dash Carts (Scan & Go). Microfullfilment? Woodland Hills open, two more free-standing coming to LA, one freestanding coming to Chicago, and a shop in shop with Kohls in LA. Amazon Go Grocery – 10K store with just-walk-out technology. A second location opens in Redmond. One coming to Washington DC. Wholefoods Digital Only – Darkstore opens in Brooklyn. JCP acquired from bankruptcy by Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG) and Brookfield Property Partners. Walmart+ launch (and drone test) Holiday Preview Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 235 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday, September 10th, 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 235 being recorded on Thursday September 10th 2020 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott sure listeners Jason you and I have been at this retail thing long enough to know that once Labor Day it, it’s it means we focus all our attention and energy into holiday so because of that we have we’re going to talk about that a little bit on this show but we also have a bunch of news to cover but before we dig into that let’s talk about some events we have coming up. Jason: [1:05] Yeah Scott I feel like you and I are wildly Overexposed over the next two months. Scot: [1:10] Well the Kardashians show was canceled so I think this is our opportunity to really push and fill that slot. Jason: [1:16] Yeah if you like there’s a dearth of content out there and you and I are rising to the occasion. Scot: [1:22] Absolutely we’re here for you America. Jason: [1:24] So with that in mind I am doing six public events in the next two months so the first one is coming up next week is on Tuesday September 15th. It’s Commerce alive which is a virtual conference that profiteering launched right after we all started getting. Locked in for covid so this is the third installment and they’ve been super popular so I’m looking forward to. To doing this one next week I’ll be moderating a panel on retail our search strategies and we’ll be talking about like what what things have worked and what things have changed as a result of the pandemic so that should be interesting and that’s free too, anyone that wants to attend I’ll put a link in the show notes but then Thursday of next week September 17. You and I are doing a show together that’s going to be a free LiveStream on LinkedIn that’s hosted by my employer publicist. Scot: [2:22] Yeah do I have to know French for this one. Jason: [2:24] You do not have to know French but you do have to know that you’ll likely have the potential to get me fired. Scot: [2:30] Who. Jason: [2:31] Yeah I don’t know if that’s a plus or a minus for you but you know if you haven’t thought it through I’m probably living with you if I do get fired. Scot: [2:40] If I wear a beret and talk about French fries is that is that enough to get you fired. Jason: [2:45] Freedom fries yeah that would be really. Scot: [2:47] I just see all bonjour a lot all right I’ll try not to do those things I’ll try not to be fired and I can’t have that pressure on me and I you’re a great, podcast podcast co-host but not sure having you live here as a long-term solution. Jason: [3:06] Yeah I agree with that and I also feel like wow a lot of things could go wrong exposing you to all my colleagues my work colleagues and customers the one thing that I’m pretty confident isn’t going to happen is when they fire me they’re not going to come looking for you to replace me. So that that’s next Thursday that’s will put a link in there to you guys are all welcome to jump in on that and that’s going to be live streamed on LinkedIn, and then the following week Wednesday September 23rd you and I are getting the band back together again we are, doing a keynote together at digital day North America which is a the North American event that retail Global puts on. And for folks that follow the event Market carefully you basically single-handedly started this event as I understand. Scot: [4:00] No there’s a guy in Australia that started this and I’ve been actually went to Australia and spoke out at once and it’s a lot of fun so it’s going to be. It’s always good to get outside of the US and see what’s going on in your Commerce and this has got a global feel to it as in the name so it’s gonna be interesting and a lot of the other speakers are near and dear to my heart in the marketplace world so we’ll be talking a little bit more about marketplaces than we normally do if that’s at all possible. Jason: [4:30] Nice nice I’ll be relying on you for that content I just meant Phil the founder of the show I didn’t mean to imply you were the founder but I feel like he has told the story that you were one of the first. Excellent pieces of content in that show that really helped him build the audience. Scot: [4:46] Yeah happy to help. Jason: [4:49] And so then I will be reciprocating I should have mentioned this when I when I mention that you could get me fired at publicist, because on Wednesday October 7th so a month from now, you and I will be doing a joint keynote at the channel advisor connects show so if you embarrass me badly in front of my co-workers I’ll be able to reciprocate. Scot: [5:14] Yeah yeah so we have mutually assured destruction which I think is the best path forward. Jason: [5:21] But I’m looking forward to that I’ve been going to that event for a number of years and that has always been awesome so sad that we won’t see each other in person and get to eat some barbecue or anything but. I’m sure it’s going to be a good event and then. It would be hard to do as good a job without you but then I have a couple more events in October on my own so Texas A&M has a retail degree program and they’re hosting a retail Summit. On October 8th and 9th so this will be right after the channel advisor event and I’m doing the keynote on the second morning on October 9th. Scot: [5:59] Pro tip what they love there is when you start out and you’ll hook them and you do your horns they love it there. Jason: [6:04] Yeah I have I have several clients that would love that but I don’t think that’s the right mascot for Texas A&M. Scot: [6:13] Give it a shot unless you have ins report back. Jason: [6:15] Next you are you are always looking out for my best interest I super appreciate that, and then our friends at shoptalk are trying a new format event one of the best parts of shop talk has always been the sort of networking and the the peer interactions, and so on October 20th through the 22nd shoptalk is going to be hosting this interesting new Meetup format where they sort of match. Subject matter experts together with practitioners and like have a bunch of conversations in, on specific topic so I’ll be one of the experts that you can match with so. Please don’t make me feel like the last girl at the dance like sign up for that free shop talk Meetup thing and pick me. Scot: [7:01] Awesome wow Clayton Clayton request. Jason: [7:06] Yeah I’m begging and so that’s that’s a lot of events that’s a lot of chances to hear you and I and just in the interest of getting full sympathy from her audience like everyone should know that for every one of these public events we do. Um you and I have a lot of private corporate events as well so so a lot of a lot of content a lot of stuff to talk about in the next two months. Scot: [7:26] Yes we’ll have six you’ll between two of us I guess we’ll have six public events then we’ll have some podcasts in there in the next two months so there’s probably literally, 20 hours of Jason and 15 of meat that you can enjoy over the next two months. Jason: [7:43] Which is about the right ratio. Scot: [7:45] Yes absolutely the any other events. Jason: [7:52] No no that feels like quite quite enough in fact I was going to ask is that the end of the podcast did we just do an event podcast. Scot: [8:00] Well another one I’ll throw on there because it wouldn’t be a Jason Scott show if we didn’t talk a little Star Wars is Mandalorian season 2 is coming out October 30th. So I think I propose we do a binge podcast sigh milosh with every with all three people that would be into that. Including your son so that. Jason: [8:24] I was going to say I feel like I’m the second most excited person in my house about this I feel like my 5 year old toddler is like completely signed up for it. Scot: [8:34] Okay well I’ll put it out there and we’ll we’ll see who waves a flag on them. Jason: [8:39] Awesome one follow-up question there it’s not going to be bendable right like they’re they’re Disney’s not going to release them all at once that’s going to be a weekly thing right. Scot: [8:48] I don’t know I think they did that the first time to milk sign ups but they’ve done a bunch of other stuff, they’ve done I think as come out simultaneously so I don’t know that’s a good question I actually have not seen anyone comment on that. Well maybe we’ll just binge the first ship is it a binge watch one should probably not well do a talk commentary on the first show. So some of the big news this week I wanted to get your hot take on is there’s been a lot going on around Amazon and groceries, one of the more interesting ones was there was this larger format store called Fresh and yeah if listeners already call one of the cool differential differentiators is the – cart so there is actually one of these is opened with limited availability and a reporter got in there and had a really interesting report nervous we’re talking about it on Twitter but I wanted your you’re taking here and then also what else you’re hearing around Amazon grocery. Jason: [9:48] Yeah yeah so I mean covid has been a big Boon to digital grocery in general like that, depending on how you count there was a three percent of grocery was via e-commerce pretty covid and at the moment it’s tracking at about twelve percent and even Amazon which was obviously the most digital of the Grocer’s. Pre covid has said that they’re their digital grocery business has tripled since covid so not surprising that there are a lot of, new Concepts emerging in the in the omni-channel and digital grocery space most of these were in progress already at Amazon but it it’s no coincidence that they’re all getting. Brought to fruition now so as you mentioned. The biggest news is a new grocery concept so this is Amazon Fresh So it’s a completely separate concept from Whole Foods the it’s a 35,000 square foot store in. A suburb of Los Angeles. [10:50] 35,000 square feet is considerably larger than any of the Amazon branded stores that have opened in the past I go or or four star. And the price point of the food items is going to be lower than whole food so Whole Foods tends to only carry. Premium and healthy products that so this Amazon grocery store will carry all the main consumer product so Campbell’s craft Coca-Cola. Carry stuff at lower prices it will still have the the formerly Whole Foods private label brand 365 so first thing is it’s a. More affordable grocery concept from Amazon so that alone would be interesting. It does not have the Go technology so you can’t just load up your cart and walk out but what it has is scanning go so, the cards have scanners built into them you can scan each item as you put it into the cart and then you don’t have to go to a checkout at the end you can just walk walk right out of the store with all the items that you have scanned, that’s a more traditional flavor of self-checkout than the fancy go stores. [12:01] But in Amazon’s case it’s built into the cart which is kind of cool so you don’t have to use your phone there’s there’s a fancier camera built built right into the Amazon Dash car, as you pointed out to me on Twitter there’s no paper price tags in the store they’re all digital fact tags, for pricing and product information and live ratings and reviews part of the reason that they’re using digital there’s Amazon changes prices so much and they want to have the same price online that they have in store so they had to use the digital tags. And so in the aggregate it’s all kind of interesting there’s been some controversy over you know how popular the – cards will be there not huge, so you you know you they’re not as big as a traditional Kroger car that could carry five or six bags worth of groceries they can only carry like two bags of groceries so. Some people were sort of surprised at that and the thing that no one has talked about and again we haven’t got a chance to go visit the store ourselves yet. In looking at the floor plans for this store it looked like the back of the store was reserved for an automated picking system for deliveries so what we would call a micro fulfillment center I’m pretty bullish on these things I think they’re important part of making digital grocery profitable. [13:14] And so I was curious to see how Amazon would integrate one of these in their first store and nobody is talked about the experience of that yet so I don’t I don’t know if they actually have it or don’t have it, you certainly can see that products are inventoried on traditional shelves in the store so if they have a micro fulfillment center it means they have cans of soup. In the Fulfillment center and on the Shelf so they have them into inventory locations which be a little bit surprising so I’ll look forward to. To getting more first-hand reports from that store. Scot: [13:47] Yeah I think the dinner the Amazons response on the cart was that this whole store is designed for kind of an urban setting kind of a bodega kind of a thing where you go shopping more frequently and thus you need less bags was kind of their response which was which is interesting. Jason: [14:05] Yeah and I believe they probably did do some research in January that said for this store in this demographic that that you know the average shop is this big, um it’s interesting the store is not super adapted to covid right so, in covid people are shopping less and buying a lot more and buying a lot bigger sizes so that January research that they use to design the store may not be. The most current so that will be a little interesting, they have a lot of like Self Service amenities that retailers are mostly moving away from at the moment like salad bars so they went live with a salad bar section and and it’s closed because covid. You know people were freaking out about the size of the card and oh it’s going to fail because the cards too small you know I think the current might end up being too small but I think that’s an easy thing to fix. And you know that standard deviation of shop sizes is very large like there will be people that are walking there and buy four items and there will be people that try to buy a hundred and twenty items and will push two carts around. Scot: [15:06] Yeah as a software guy like the cart because it’s got this cool you know it’s good, either a barcode scanner an image processor or both and then it’s got a scale, so you know as you’re adding things to the cart in one of these two bags it’s got a little LCD display on there that’s calculating what’s in your literal cart and then you you can just essentially pay their it looks like in walk out so that’s kind of a clever idea and so I’m intrigued to see what technologies the cart has what it’s loaded with and you know the pictures we’ve seen show that it has this really big under cart area that’s boxed off so I’m kind of curious what’s inside of there, that’s a battery it has like a massive battery kind of component to it that seems like overkill for what we can see is in there so so I’m excited to one day get hands on it and kind of understand more about what’s going on inside there. Jason: [16:00] Yeah and just I mean I don’t we maybe he’s been our too much time on it but scan and goes not a new idea at grocery lots of retailers offer it you can you can go scan and go at Sam’s Club right now but if. Traditionally use your phone and, problematic it like the camera isn’t totally optimized for taking pictures of barcodes but also your only likely to look at that phone screen every time you put something in your cart and try to scan it right so, the cool thing about having the scanning go built into the dash cart is there’s a screen that’s in front of you the whole time and what that lets Amazon do is say, you’re in the ice cream I’ll I see that you have chocolate fudge and sprinkles in your cart already I can offer you a special promotion for the ice cream I want to sell you or whatever not that anyone needs to promote ice cream but, but you get the idea they can use that screen to do suggestive selling and make offers and things and and it likely will be much more. Compelling then it would be to make those same offers on your phone that you’re only going to glance at occasionally so, the fact that it probably scans better the fact that it can weigh in the fact that it has this marketing screen on it is interesting and then you and I both know. They haven’t promoted this but it’s collect I guarantee you it’s collecting a heck of a lot of data about how people are shopping and what what they looked at and didn’t buy and all those sorts of things that Amazon will. Will will monetize at some. Scot: [17:29] The cart path. Jason: [17:30] Exactly so just to kind of close the loop on this Amazon Fresh concept which is super interesting, this is the first store that opened in La Woodland Hills two more stores in La coming Irvine and North Hollywood so there’s going to be three of these 35,000 square-foot stores in LA. They also are opening one right now in Chicago in a suburb near me called Schaumburg and that’s going to be a little bigger store that’s a 43k store so that’s, a good-sized grocery store, there are get to visit in person you know even though I can’t get on a plane interestingly the original plans for this store called for a dining restaurant inside of the store so. Restaurants are somewhat problematic in covid it’ll be interesting like if it opens in the next month or two maybe it opens without the restaurant will have to wait and see. [18:20] So then so the so we’ve got three stores freestanding stores in La one freestanding store in Chicago V store is maybe the most interesting, another store in La in Laverne Hills California is going to be co-located with a cold store, so this is a 88,000 square foot cold store and 38,000 of those square feet will be dedicated to an Amazon fresh grocery store. That basically will be like sharing a wall and a door with Cole’s so this is Cole’s downsizing from an 80,000 square foot store just for coals to a 50,000 square feet for coals, and having a new Amazon grocery store inside of the coals which. You know potentially drives a lot more traffic because you you know you might shop at Kohl’s. You know three to eight times a year but you go grocery shopping 52 times a. Scot: [19:16] Yeah you get some carrots and blue jeans. Jason: [19:18] Exactly so so that will certainly be interesting and then there’s some other grocery stuff going on, Amazon has had these go stores which are convenience stores or I would even say they’re kind of grab and go restaurants for a number of years now those stores tend to be really small like. The smallest one I think is like 500 square feet but they’re normally like 1,300 square feet two thousand square feet or 2,300 square feet, so they they’ve opened a grocery store that does use go so this is a Amazon grocery go, and it’s in Capitol Hill which is near Amazon’s corporate headquarters it’s a 13,000 square foot store or 10,000 square foot store so it’s the biggest go implementation out there and it’s been open for a while. They just this week opened a second go grocery store in Redmond which funnily enough is Microsoft’s backyard, so potentially a bunch of Microsoft employees will now be shopping at this just walk out technology, 13,000 square foot grocery store so these stores are creeping up there still way smaller than the, Amazon Fresh concept that that doesn’t have go but you know we’re starting to see go in bigger use cases with more skews which is interesting and they have announced. That they’re going to open a go grocery store in Washington DC as well. [20:43] So that a second new grocery store concept from from Amazon and then a third concept open last week. Under the Whole Foods brand they opened a Whole Foods online only store in Brooklyn. So there’s a whole food store that you can’t go in and Shop you can only order for curbside pickup or home delivery of your Whole Foods if you live in Brooklyn. [21:09] So this was funny when they made this announcement I saw someone on Twitter that’s like wait a grocery store you can’t go into so Amazon’s opening a website. Which I thought was pretty funny but at the rest of the world would call this a dark store and so it’ll be interesting to see if that’s a, a trend that that Whole Foods does more of his well that’s so that’s a lot of grocery stuff happening in Amazon, and you know their competitors aren’t sitting still either so this is a hot space to watch it’s a hot space to get in if you’re if you’re thinking about your next career in digital Commerce. Scot: [21:44] Yeah I forget who said it but they kind of characterize this all this is Amazon thrashing around Grocery and not really getting traction, and my point was this is how I am as on invent stuff right you and I both have a Amazon fire phone and you know they they will, keep trying at something until they get it right I guess the phone they stopped it at V1 they realized that that was that wasn’t going to work but then that’s what became if they hadn’t done that they would have had echo which was essentially the two of the whole idea so. I feel like Dave, they’ve put a really big Target on this and there or a bull’s-eye I guess I should say and they’re really focused on figuring out grocery and it’s it must be super strategic because they’re investing a ton here. Jason: [22:30] No I hundred percent agree like wagons interesting that they haven’t won and and super succeeded are ready, but they’re you know they’re certainly in the fight their competitors are well armed as well so that’s part of why it’s fun like some of these other fights you know when you’ve got. You know a billion square feet of fulfillment space more than everyone else it’s almost not that interesting of a competition. You know this groceries kind of a Level Playing Field and so it’s fun to see what like Kroger Walmart and Amazon are all doing to figure it out. Scot: [23:01] Yeah and we’re definitely going to talk a little bit about Walmart but before we go a saw today that JC P JC Penny finally found a home and the I was watching the stock market perspective Wall Street was not happy because I guess whatever price they sold out did not result in any shareholders getting anything at all went to debt so what’s your take on that. Jason: [23:26] Yeah so the the eventual buyer there were a lot of rumors there are a lot of silly rumors I thought were stupid that Amazon would buy them for the property. The buyer ended up being to mall operator Simon Property Group and Brookfield property partners. So you know the mall operators Bob JCPenney there’s a play we’ve seen several times lately. You know one of the the vested interest them all operators have is that if these guys liquidate then the malls lose. A ping tenant, which would be a bummer but even worse if it’s an anchor tenant like a JC Penney typically is that triggers a lot of code tenancy Clauses and so suddenly there’d be a lot of other retailers in those malls that would be entitled to, renegotiate or even get out of their leases and the mall operators really don’t want that so they had a, I’m sure they’d like the economics of buying JCPenney and hope to make it profitable but on top of all that they had this these. Additional incentives to. To not let JC Penney fall into liquidation and and so I like what’s been interesting to me is I feel like the internet is lost its mind over this like they’re all talking about how like. Wait is this you know if the mall operator owns all the retailers is that fair competition in the mall and what is this you know what you know what is this mean for for monopolies and malls and all the you know and it’s it’s a. [24:53] I’d I mean I don’t think it’s that big a deal. I don’t you know again we’ve seen this with a bunch of apparel retailers this is the biggest retailer that these guys are. Are biting off but I it doesn’t feel like a game changer to me I’m grateful that all those employees at JCPenney you know their jobs are safe for at least for a little while. [25:24] No no it I mean it’s over a billion dollar deal the thing that makes this appeal like. These are real value Acquisitions for Simon right like so I don’t know if JCPenney pencil that exactly like this but all the other acquisitions. Simon and and their Partners In this case Brookfield sometimes it’s been authentic brand sometimes it’s been all three of them in the fake case of Forever 21 the price they paid for this retailer was less than the value of the inventory that they acquired. Right so in a way it’s a no-lose I give you if you know you can liquidate the inventory for the value you paid. Then everything on top of that gravy the rent you save if you know if you are able to save the retailer and get them back to profitability like those are all gravies but the downside is pretty low if you know you could liquidate the inventory and get your money back. Scot: [26:15] Yeah and then pivoting back to grocery Walmart announced walmart+ what was your take on that. Jason: [26:23] The jury’s out you know people have been talking about this forever Jason Del Rey like broke a story that this was coming along time ago and then every month he had to write how it got delayed, and so I’m sure he was grateful that it finally went live so there’s a membership program from Walmart Janey White. Janie said who is our guest on episode 200 who’s the chief customer officer there this is in horror portfolio so she’s done a bunch of interviews about this and she starts out every interview saying like this is not prime like you don’t need to compare it to a prime we’re not trying to compete with. But of course anyone that looks at this is instantly going to. [27:04] Compare it to Prime right and that’s the way all the journalists are talking about it so it’s basically a hundred dollars a year membership 98 dollars a year or 13 bucks a month, and you get unlimited free deliveries, you get a couple other benefits you get fuel discounts a bunch of Walmart stores have gas stations in depending on the configuration you get up to five percent off on your gas, and then they’re activating some unique in-store tools for you that aren’t available to the general shopping public and so the first tool, that they’re enabling is scan and go in Walmart so what this means is if you’re walmart+ customer, you can walk in with Walmart fire up the Walmart app on your phone you can scan a couple items and walk out of the store without having to get in line or go through checkout so very similar to what we just talked about with the – cart only you do it on your phone. [27:56] Interesting fact here, Walmart piloted this before in Walmart for the general Shopper and then they turned it off and so we don’t know why they turned it off now they’re just making it available to walmart+ users. This amenity is already mentioned is available in all the Sam’s Club stores to any Sam’s Club member so so three benefits but it’s not, at the moment the benefits aren’t a heck of a lot different from an earlier sort of shipping program that Walmart had so it feels very incremental and I’m saying the jury is out, like in the long term. [28:35] What are the exact delivery benefits you get how many products are available for delivery how fast are they available for delivery like that’s the great unknown with Walmart’s delivery service, how meaning for the fuel discounts and what you know tools do you get in the Walmart store and have and how valuable are are those to you. To me it’s neither a game changer at the moment or or Dead on Arrival it is. The future of retail is you know creating this this sticky recurring revenue and kind of transitioning from being a retailer to a platform so it certainly makes sense to me that Walmart’s trying it, you know we’ll see how much adoption they get but to me this is mostly about. Keeping the Walmart customer in protecting the wallet share of the best customers more so than it is Conquest in new customers to. Scot: [29:27] Yeah I’ll through a shout out to the fuel discount we. So I have an electric cars to this doesn’t apply to me but to my wife and the rest of the family the Wii shop it Harris Teeter which is a Kroger brand and they have a fuel point system there and you know you can save 32 cents 50 cents a gallon and can either go to their branded gas or their partner with some BP’s and other stations and there’s there’s this it actually works really well I mean it’s built you know loyalty kind of a thing there that I was a little surprised about the people love to save money on gas. Jason: [30:04] For sure I would say they disproportionately seek seek deals on gas and it’s not going to surprise anyone Walmart’s a super competitive gas retailer anyway and so this discount like is pretty meaningful to people that want that deal, as we’re recording the show it’s the first NFL game of the year and Walmart’s running a big ad during the game promoting walmart+ so that’s kind of interesting. Scot: [30:27] I’m keeping you from your your Walmart at. Jason: [30:29] I’m okay I’ve seen it and then the you know small but exciting news is that Walmart is now delivering e-commerce orders via drones and I feel like, your backyard is their first test Market do I have that right Scott. Scot: [30:46] Yeah they’re in a little city here called Fayetteville I don’t know why they would have chosen that one but yeah and they’re using an Israeli drone format which is called the fly tracks and it goes six miles and can carry six point six pounds unfortunately that is outside of my range that’s it he’s about 45 minute drive so maybe you miles away from here. So unfortunately I’m not gonna be able to test that for listeners right now but I’ll have to dream up a trip to Fayetteville to an address where I can receive a drone delivery and see how it works. Jason: [31:21] Yeah well I just remind you a lot of Walmart’s have a McDonald’s in them and 6.6 pounds would be about eight Big Macs so just. Scot: [31:32] Bring my son he likes looks couple big mix. Jason: [31:35] There you go. Scot: [31:37] Cool one of the news items that I was excited to see and I’ll kind of bucket this into a, eBay CEO starting to have a new impact and just as backstory first of all I’ve been a huge fan of eBay for a long time I’m a big collector and love The Collector origins of eBay, it’s been a little sad to see the stewardship of eBay and it’s gone sideways you know over the last. Certainly in the last leadership and then at the end of the last leaders tenure there was a lot of controversy and, we’ve talked about a little bit on the show some really weird stuff went on there but you know so Jamie is the new CEOs name I would say his last name but I’m going to butcher it so I’ll just call him Jamie, he was an eBay for eight years kind of early in his career and then left and then went Barnes and Noble and then had a long career at Walmart where he started out in Sam’s worked his way up bleeding Sam’s so you’ve probably met him in that context I would imagine you know. Jason: [32:36] Jamie in a way. Scot: [32:37] Okay there you go I knew you’d know better than I would I always want to say one at the end in that message me. Then he got promoted from the Sam’s Focus to be CEO for all of e-commerce and then he joined got recruited by eBay to be the new CEO in April of this year, so we’re just starting to. You know he’s kind of got his sea legs and starting to make some changes first of all they’ve been running a Content campaign that’s been really good kind of back to the roots kind of thing. And then one of the things that’s been a little sad to see is some of these niche market places picking off areas of eBay that was there they’re kind of bread and butter one of those was collectible luxury goods like, Louis Vuitton bags not my personal category but definitely there’s a lot of collectors that love that stuff. And the real real came out and really kind of among some other players but I think real real is by far the biggest one there now public. [33:36] Took that category away from eBay and and kind of wrapped it in authenticity and more guarantees and a more high-touch guaranteed model which obviously resonated with the luxury space. So this week eBay announced an authenticity guarantee program not a lot of details out yet but essentially I kind of took it as a net positive that they’re you know they’re kind of waking up and saying hey, this was ours to lose we lost it now how are we going to kind of either stop the bleeding and or get back some of this. Product that has leaked to a competitor at this point so. So I’m watching eBay closely I think it’s going to take a while but I really like what I’m seeing from from Janie’s Jamie’s tenure so far. Jason: [34:18] Nice nice yeah that’s going to be interesting to watch I feel like the the transition to digital because of covid is God you know some renewed attention on eBay as well so they you know are probably in a good Scituate good position to launch some new services. Scot: [34:36] And then we wanted to use the last little bit of the show talk a little bit about holiday and what we’re kind of. What we’re feeling and hearing out there we don’t have any of the formal forecast out yet so those tend to come more towards the Halloween side of things, usually correct me if I’m wrong in RF kicks it off and then you have like a comscore Forester and a bunch of others kind of coming out it’s gonna this is gonna be the hardest year to call so part of it ties into this discussion that we won’t get back into is the shape of the covid recovery right so that’s obviously the overlying kind of factor but what have you what are your either personal thoughts or what are you hearing about holiday externally. Jason: [35:21] So very frequent conversation amongst my retail clients everyone is on, I would characterize it as everyone is on pins and needles like there’s there’s a lot of hypothesis has that it could be. E decent holiday. There you know there’s some some reasons for optimism’s but there’s also some reasons for concern and it’s less predictable holiday season than, we’ve ever had in my lifetime so so folks her are really nervous, and the sort of unofficial beginning of the holiday season is this back to school season that we’re in right now and I can tell you that the early indications from back-to-school are not super encouraging so a lot of the retailers that, traditionally have a big back-to-school, have said that things have been a little slow so far I’m not sure that that’s indicative of how people are going to spend for True holiday because there’s a variety of reasons back to school is different than say Christmas, obviously a lot of schools didn’t open this year apparel is a big chunk of back to school sales and apparel is, particularly impacted by covid so the back-to-school feedback is a bummer but I don’t think it’s conclusive. [36:38] What is going to be interesting to me is the normal Cadence of Hollywood of Hollywood of holiday is likely to be disrupted like normally we have this big in person Day on on Black Friday which is. [36:52] If you don’t care about channels and you just look at total sales we sell the most stuff on Friday and then we sell the most stuff online that following Monday, and you know we sell twenty percent of the stuff we sell for the whole year over these two months, but those you know there’s two days or I think you were one of the first people that kind of coin the Cyber five talking about that Thursday through Monday period, you know that that used to be a huge spike in sales, and this year I don’t think it’s going to be quite as prominent because a few things have changed number one a bunch of retards have decided to close on Thanksgiving so, in my you know opinion sort of bravely announced that they would close on Thanksgiving let all their employees stay home with their families and then a bunch of other big retailers immediately followed suit so Target Best Buy, Dick’s calls all announced they had closed before this year there was kind of an arms race the other way like everyone would announce their opening an hour earlier and they kept you know, they crept from Friday to Thursday and there they were opening more stores earlier making more employees work over over Thanksgiving, so this is a nice Trend ordinarily that would mean that Friday sales would be even bigger because you’d be shifting all these Thursday sales to Friday. [38:15] The traditional sales we have on Friday I don’t think are going to happen this year like normally you have all these doorbusters in your what you’re trying to do is get a bunch of people to stand in line and st. Stampede their way into the store, as soon as it opens Friday morning this year those stores are only allowed 25% of the occupancy, that they’ve had in past years and so there’s very little incentive to have crazy deals to get people queued up to have to wait to get in the store all day some of my clients have said like probably don’t need to water the grass if it’s raining, and so I don’t think we’re going to see these big doorbuster deals I think that’s going to slow down Friday sales, Home Depot is actually making an ad campaign around it and so they’ve announced black Friday’s canceled and what they mean by that is they’re not having a bunch of sales on that specific day and they’re going to spread their holiday promotions out over two months, starting in October Target is also starting its promotions in October, Prime day which is normally a summer holiday is pushed to sometime in October and so that’s probably going to start the holiday promotion season for Amazon, and so I just feel like the combination of all these things there, there’s good Arguments for and against how much total spending will have over a holiday but I have a feeling it’s going to be spread out a lot more evenly around this whole two-month period than it is those five days what do you. Scot: [39:36] Yes so I’m on record that we’re having this v-shaped recovery I think it’s going to line up to be, in the holiday I do think stores will have limited capacity everyone’s already pre announced they’ll close Black Friday. I think it’s going to push it all online and the retailer is going to try to spread it out but it’s probably not going to work because Human Nature. And then I think it’s going to coalesce around Cyber Monday because so I think I think. Yeah the store days of Thanksgiving and Black Friday which have had increased online sales but but pale in comparison to Cyber Monday I think. I think they’re going to go online and be way way up online but then Cyber Monday is just going to be, yes huge day because it’s going to effectively replace the Black Friday excitement that we have I think they’re going to hold their promotions for that day they’re really juicy ones and consumers there’s going to be this game of chicken between consumers and retailers, and the consumers are going to win and and they’re going to try to start early, you know we’ve even seen I think it was Costco that’s famously already got Christmas out right after Labor Day, that’s not going to work but I think you know the that Cyber Monday is going to be really really big. Jason: [40:55] So Scot: [40:56] And I think I think we’ll see a lot of sites go down because I don’t think they’re going to be ready for all that to we always do but I think it’s going to be like orders you know I think we’re gonna see like a really big problem there. Jason: [41:06] Yeah I mean one of the things people are legitimately concerned about is the traffic we’re seeing every day right now is very similar to what we normally would see on Cyber Monday so the magic question is if Cyber Monday is. Incrementally as much larger from the Baseline this year as typical then nobody site has ever prepared for that before and the holiday Readiness prep that people did last February, to get ready for this is not going to be adequate and so you for sure a bunch of sites would fold. I don’t know what’s going to happen I think there’s enough uncertainty that you know it would be dangerous to assume that anyone knows but the. I would argue it was already a trend that a lot of cyber monday sales was shifting earlier in that week why you know as mobile became a thing, people were shopping online on Thanksgiving their shopping over the weekend and this year when weigh less people are going to get on a plane and be spending Thanksgiving with their extended family, I think a lot of online shopping is going to start even earlier and with stores not open and people not going for doorbusters, I just think a lot of the traditional Monday spike is going to get pulled back and prove your point the only thing that would really change that is if. Retailers are way more promotional on Monday than they are on Friday for example so that’s going to be interesting I mean it is like. The. [42:33] There are new products coming out so you know as you well know that the video game platforms have a new format where this year so you’ve got this Sony PS5 and the Microsoft Xbox series X, um so you know in some ways like that could Goose holiday that iPhone you know is going to get released late and there’s some you know it’s the 5G version so. You could see way more of a super cycle of those sales which could be interesting, I will tell you retailers are nervous a lot of the sort of covid subsidy dollars are wearing off you know the doesn’t look like there’s going to be a second stimulus check, the a lot of unemployment benefits could actually expire for a lot of people in a lot of states and so there’s there’s some, anxiety over what the consumers status and you know will be for Holiday Inn at the moment while spending is high consumer confidence is not high so, it’s anybody’s guess what happens in terms of you know how that that confidence impacts holiday spending so it’s, it’s a very uncertain it’s we’re gonna have to watch it closely and I’m going to be way more interested in the, the sort of interim data sources we get like when Adobe starts reporting actual sales that they see on websites more so than the than the surveys that like in RF and comscore are going to put out. Scot: [44:03] Yeah and then an upgrade cycle I don’t think you mentioned that that we’re excited about is the iPhone 12 so I’ve been reading on our reports about this, and I know you’re less excited about the functionality but I’m super excited about it and, the analyst reports have been reading they’ll do this really interesting analysis of existing installed base and you can look at different traffic and see what who has, I don’t know what’s the oldest living iPhone I think it’s a for I think there’s still some fours out there. [44:36] So their analysis is there’s more old iPhones than ever before and use and then we have covid so you know a lot of people are spending more time on their phone, and then the other one is there’s these carrier Cycles where, you know if you aren’t on the fancy iPhone upgrade program like you are where you get a new one every year, you’re on more of a two-year cycle with your your carrier and then they look at that and there’s a big alignment that happens here where you’ve got covid somewhere usage more people probably interested in upgrading their phone, largest old. The oldest iPhone base ever and then some alignment of the carrier upgrade cycle and they’re calling it an iPhone 12 supercycle so, September 15th is the day they’re going to allegedly roll out the phones and then they’ve also announced that or it’s leaked that, unlike previous years where you could kind of order and get them very quickly due to covid the supply chain did delay when they’re gonna be available so that’s going to push them into the October time frame so a lot of stuff going to be going on around holiday this year. Jason: [45:44] Yeah yeah it’s totally going to be interesting I’ve also heard interesting things about you mentioned the supply chain for Apple all the supply chain issues are going to be interesting to write so there’s one school of thought, oh man there’s a bunch of inventory that we didn’t get to sell all year there’s a bunch of unsold apparel it’s going to be the mother of all clearance sales TJ Max is gonna have to you know open tents for all the cheap clothes that’s going to be heavily discounted, but I’ve also heard from a lot of retailers that know the supply chain guys, reacted super quick and cut off their supply chains to try to protect themselves and so there’s going to be constrained inventory in there there might not you know be enough product to meet demand and a lot of categories and so I like. Hard to say how all that Nets out. Scot: [46:29] Yeah yeah so then what’s your bottom line is it going to be. Overall retail down compared to last year flat do you agree e-commerce will be a pretty big surge it’ll be think we’ll that 45% kind of trend that that we’ve been seeing. Jason: [46:47] I do I so I think when you look at the will call it q 4 or the holiday quarter, the I think that the top line numbers are going to be pretty good like I think overall spending on holiday will be pretty good I’d it’ll shift heavily to digital, so you’re you know I think you it’s totally reasonable to expect another 45% e-commerce year-over-year growth, for the whole industry but I think that Top Line number is going to mask the fact that there are just going to be a clear bifurcation of winners and losers and and, you know I think games and electronics and home is going to do really well I think apparel and department stores, are really gonna gonna struggle so well you know I I think. Net net good holiday but that man you know I think they’re going to be some categories where it’s going to be really tough what about you. Scot: [47:48] I’m going to say. E-commerce accelerates from the 45% so I think we get up to the 60s because a lot of that brick and mortars just got to come online if the stores are going to be closed during the ski days. Don’t think they’re going to get people in the stores to get excited if they don’t have some promotional stuff and it’s going to back it up to you Cyber Monday so yeah. Jason: [48:17] Totally reasonable guess you are putting a lot of faith in the it guys to keep their systems running to get get 65 percent year-over-year growth but I hope it happens. Scot: [48:25] Yeah thinking this for the cloud. Jason: [48:27] Exactly and Scott that’s going to be a good place to leave it because we’ve used up a lot of time as always we’d sure appreciate it if you’d finally jump over to iTunes and give us that five star review we’ve been begging for. We’re looking forward to seeing the bunch of you live on all these events coming up this month until next time happy commercing.

EP227 - Amazon Dash Cart and Other News Jason recent events: Publicis LinkedIn Livestream: Trends & Insights Live “The New Reality of Retail” RetailTouchpoints: Retail Strategy 2.0: Separating Urgent From Important Brick and Mortar Reborn Rob Gonzalez, Peter Crosby, and the Digital Shelf Institute/Salsify “Creative Commerce in the time of covid” Jason Upcoming Events NRF NXT Tuesday, July 21 11:45am–12:30pm EDT “Future of Platforms” CommerceNext July 29th 4:10 pm EE “Lesson Learned and Thoughts for the Future” The Great Debate Are we in a long-lasting, deep recession, or is at an artificial recession will quickly bounce back from? What should retailers and brands be planning for. Jason and Scot has it out. Who will be right? Amazon News Amazon Dash Cart Echo Frames are frames are shipping Q4 restrictions on 3pl warehouses Prime day in October Employee Health Clinics Amazon becomes worlds largest advertiser spending $11B a year Earning results next week Other News US Census Bureau Data for June is out. US Real Retail sales were up 5.8% in June, (down from 17.7% in May) but representing a 2nd month of retail recovery. Total retail sales back above Feb levels. (Numbers adj for inflation and including auto). E-commerce up 23% YoY. Nike leaves Google Shopping Google shopping fast shipping tags Nike RISE new store concept in Guangzhou, China Walmart and Amazon healthcare battle Walmart+ coming soon? Is digital grocery profitable? Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 227 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Friday, July 17th, 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 227 being recorded on Thursday July 16th 2020 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners, Jason as you know the last three episodes we’ve had a what I would call a blue-chip roster of guests on the show and we want to take a little breather and catch up listeners on all the retail news going on first of all Jason I think we have to address this super awkward elephant in the room a lot of listeners have pointed out to me and I’ve seen it on Twitter that you have been presentation and pot cheating on me so go ahead and tell listeners all these other things you have going on. Jason: [1:13] I do plead guilty I feel like I’m vast as per usual in vastly Overexposed I’m gonna. Preempt your question with two other quick points I just wanted to throw out number one. I’m thrilled to be here alone with you we’ve we’ve had these like three great shows in a row with great guest that I super enjoyed but the bumper of that is I don’t get to just make fun of your wrong positions and things because it wasn’t just the two of us so. Scot: [1:43] Yeah we’re going to definitely carve out some time for that on the show so it’ll be fun. Jason: [1:46] Yeah so I’m thrilled to have some alone time with you Scott and I it’s come to my attention that there’s a few listeners that don’t listen to every episode, all the way to the end of the episode and so for those of you that don’t and I don’t forgive you for that. At the end of every episode there’s two very important things we make a plea for you to go onto iTunes, and leave us a 5-star review so for those of you that get so much value from the front half that you don’t listen to the back half I’m throwing it in now, after tonight’s episode you need to get yourself onto iTunes and leave us that five star review you owe it to us by this point I feel like we’ve earned it. And number two I have a witty catch phrase that I could include every episode with and I’m not going to tell you what it is so you. You’ll know what you’re missing. Scot: [2:39] I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of either I’m usually you usually put me to sleep by the time I get there it is an hour later I’m sorry. Jason: [2:44] Yeah yeah yeah it’s okay yeah no I’m grateful that you’ve never listened to a show after we published it because you wouldn’t realize how much of you is edit out of the show. Scot: [2:53] That’s totally true I hate listening to myself so then I could actually listen in now. Jason: [3:00] Oh my God yeah that could be a whole another show but I have all these horrible verbal crutches and it’s it’s crushing to hear me saying over and over again on the show and you don’t do that for the record. Scot: [3:12] Well sometimes I miss us going to trade shows together and so I play our podcast at half speed and I get to have drunk Jason it’s like being at a trade show. Jason: [3:19] Nice some. Scot: [3:21] Play Jason if I play Jason after three Starbucks I put you on 3x. Jason: [3:25] I like it I like. But so yes you have correctly busted me I’ve been I’ve done a bunch of stuff including cheating on you on some podcasts. So last week my company publish a pretty cool livestream on LinkedIn they called Trends and insights alive. And there’s sort of a beta tester of of live casting on LinkedIn. So they’ve done Eight Episodes this season that eighth is the final episode in the season and so you know that’s when they wanted to roll out the really big guns so the 8th episode was all about retail so we call the new reality of retail and, two of my colleagues and I got to chat about some of the big. Big evolutions and Retail that we’re seeing so you can watch a video of that on LinkedIn and I’ll put a link in the show notes. Scot: [4:20] Since nobody knows LinkedIn has this I’m sure there is a huge audience. Jason: [4:23] Yeah well it shows up in your activity feed so it’s like you you’ve. It’s a pretty big beta so not just anyone can stream yet although you’ll be glad to know that the Jason and Scot show has been pre-approved. For streaming on LinkedIn so if you want to do a show we could do it yeah we have clout with LinkedIn. Scot: [4:46] Influencers. Jason: [4:47] There’s also a retail publication out there that a lot of our listeners are probably familiar with called retail touchpoints and they do sort of video podcast Series so I sat down with them and did a, interview that they entitle the separating urgent from important because I think that was one of my topics that we talked about in the show so I’ll put a, LinkedIn to put a link to that in the show notes there is a podcast, specifically focused on the evolution of brick and mortar retail which I know you would you would have some strong thoughts about called brick-and-mortar reborn so I got to do an interview on that podcast. Scot: [5:28] Or alternatively the path to chapter 11. Jason: [5:31] Exactly maybe not but okay and then there’s a SAS Pim product out there called salsify in the the content team and the and one of the founders of salsify started a cool. Podcast about the digital shelf that’s in fact called the digital Shelf. And so I sat down with Rob Gonzalez who’s the one of the founders of salsify and Peter Crosby who’s the chief Storyteller there and we had a good. Good conversation for an hour so in the extraordinarily unlikely event that people don’t get enough of me on this podcast there’s like four more hours of me from the last two weeks you can get and. That’s not all if you want the freshest stuff I have like three things coming up next week too so. [6:22] Yeah so on start Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of next week is in RF next which is sort of the, the spiritual successor to to the shop dot-org trade show so normally this would have been a, in-person event in Las Vegas this year it’s going to be a virtual event it’s two days a bunch of great speakers and I’m doing a presentation on Tuesday the 21st, right around lunchtime 11:45 Eastern Time called the future platforms and I’ll be talking about sort of the evolution of e-commerce platforms and. What people should be looking for and what what pitfalls that they might make in choosing choosing a platform so that’s a topic I used to talk about all the time and I haven’t talked about in a while so I had to do a pretty. Pretty significant update of my appeal for that. Scot: [7:12] I would avoid going all in on Elliot just BTW. Jason: [7:15] Yeah yeah I debated whether to bring it up at all. And for westerners that are following closely Elliot’s that eCommerce platform whose one of their Founders was on this show and they imploded this month and I’m not clear whether. They just like weren’t able to ship and bring it over the finish line and kind of folded or whether it was. More significantly vaporware and was never close to the finish line but I don’t know if we’ll ever know. Scot: [7:44] There was an article that I tweeted that made it feel more of a prairie. Jason: [7:49] That seems entirely viable to me unfortunately and so then the week after that another former guest of the show Scott Silverman who was one of the founders of shop dot-org has his own. Event series that is also going virtual this year called Commerce next and so I’ll be giving a the the closing keynote on July 29th at 4:10 p.m. Eastern Time called Lessons Learned and thoughts from the future. So that will be cool and then in the event that you’re interested in my opinions but you can’t stand my voice well which you would not be alone I do have a column in Forbes and I have a new article I just put the finishing touches on and I think I’m gonna, publish that on Forbes over the weekend and that is called that retails great. From traffic to to revenue per customer kind of talking about how all retailers are having to make this big shift from. Trying to get as many people as possible in the store to having fewer people in the store and having to make more money on each one. Scot: [8:55] Nice Thanksgiving us all exclusive preview of that. Jason: [8:59] Exactly so I appreciate it if folks folks to take the time to read that and give me your feedback so that’s all my stuff I’m exhausted already is the show over. Scot: [9:09] So I guess if people listen to this save it for next week you could have a week of Jason essentially if I’m doing the math right you could read the article on that off day yeah got a week of Jason coming up. Jason: [9:20] Yeah yeah or you could just binge all 227 shows of the Jason and Scot show. Scot: [9:29] You do the math in a presentation what is it like 3 weeks or something if you didn’t go back to him. Jason: [9:36] It’s longer than any yeah I think that like if there was a remake of Abu ghraib we might feature prominently. Scot: [9:42] When you do that in audience ever looks at each other like to see really think we’re going to do that it’s hilarious in a office kind of a. [9:52] Cool my kids would say cringy, all right so before we jump into the news another piece of listener feedback that we’ve gotten is folks have really enjoyed hearing kind of our opposite views of the economy so in our covid show you and I had a little friendly Spar I guess I would say about you know what we think is going to go on so we’ve gotten a lot of there’s kind of a team Jason team Scott thing forming they’re obviously the team, Scot crew is huge than team Jason is a couple lonely Souls but in my experience when you have these kind of different opinions one of the best ways to kind of settle it is to make some predictions you and I do that on our annual prediction show which is kind of more about you know e-commerce Trends and things of that nature but I thought at the top of the show would be good for here for us to kind of like update our positions and then make a little bit of a prediction one of the one of the key differentiators where everyone’s disagreeing right now and I think you and I fall into different camps here too so this is probably a good framework is the shape of the recovery so so the options are V which would be you know we’ve kind of come down and we’ll come right back up as quickly as we went down so that V shape you which would be like a delayed recovery so you know call it Q3 kind of middle to late next year we do come back but it’s. [11:14] Takes over a year to get there then there’s the L some people call it a swish that’s kind of a super slow recovery so more like 20 22 before the economy’s kind of cooking and then there’s the dreaded W which is the we have a V and then we get into the fall, the virus surges and then we have to go back into the bottom of the V again which then you know and then you come back out so that forms that w and then you have seen some other shapes out there but those are the main ones so so. A do you agree with that Framing and then be why don’t you go first and give us our view if you agree. Jason: [11:53] Sure yeah so I feel like there’s some room for variance in in some of those descriptions but yeah those like those are certainly all all, versions of a recovery that have been hypothesized and and, my own opinion is that it is going to be a check mark shaped recovery which would be the Swoosh but maybe not quite as slow as you described so I think we are still going to be significantly impacted economically and likely health-wise by covid for all of 20 21 and so. You know I think holiday 2021 will be better than holiday 2020 which I’m not expecting to be very good but I don’t think we’re going to get back to true pre-pandemic well levels until 2022 so, so maybe it doesn’t take all the way till Q4 of 2022 I think January of 2022 might be on parity with January of 2019 so we may lose two years here. That is kind of my stick and I’m I like to call that the realistic position and then I think you we’ve given the the delusional position to so why don’t you tell us what that is. Scot: [13:14] This is why predictions matter so will some one of us will be right and it will at least be able to they’ll they’ll have they’ll be goalposts Elise so I I’m increasingly so I’ve fought for a while and I’m increasingly seeing that we’re in a v-shaped recovery so so first of all unemployment is interesting I think unemployment’s. Misleading because so so you made a point earlier about you know this is the worst economic. Depression since World War II which if you use the correct definition of depressant you’re right. But there’s you know those were not caused by a pandemic so those were caused by other you know. Economic impacts the government essentially cause this one is a reaction to the pandemic so, so it’s very unusual from anything else you can’t use those past things, this is my theory and prediction you can’t use those past like 2008-2009 which did have these very slow recoveries as a comp so I think it’s a v-shaped recovery the data I look at is first of all my favorite data point is consumer confidence. [14:29] And consumer confidence is actually right around a hundred which is pretty good you know I think people would say it’s kind of neutral it’s not super negative not super positive when it goes way over a hundred people are like super positive and then when it goes under a hundred if you look at 2008 at the bottom of the Great Recession it was like 20 I think it touched like 25 or somewhere in there and that was like one of the lowest ones I’ve recorded so so you have this anomaly where, GDP is low unemployment’s High yet people feel pretty good and what’s causing that is the fed and the government just pumping tons of money into the economy the unemployment thing is actually huge problem because in I’m sure you’ve heard this from retailers it’s actually impossible to hire anyone right now because they’re making so much on unemployment so once that once that goes away in July or is diminished we have to kind of see where the government lands on that but I think they’ll be something there I think you’re going to see employment come roaring back because essentially people will have an incentive to go back to work so so that’s going to, that’s going to solve a lot of things there and then the other data that’s really interesting and someone had kind of tweeted This Is Us retail sales is a perfect V we’re like literally already back to the pre covid levels now you could say well. [15:49] Yeah we don’t know if it’s going to be W or not that’s where time will tell that’s another one there’s also these really weird data points coming out where consumer savings are at one of the highest rates they’ve ever been so people are saving a ton of money that’s because they’re not traveling as much their they did they delayed their vacations and these kinds of things you know it’s not all that being said I do think, macro we’re gonna have the V shape but there are going to be some segments to get left behind I think the ones are going to be hit the hardest are Airlines you know so, people are not really traveling by are nearly as much as they used to it’s come back some so if you look at the TSA data we’re at about 750,000 Travelers a day, a year ago it was two, eight million so we’ve lost two million Travelers a day so the airline industry is going to have a huge challenge oddly enough it looks like the cruise industry is going to come back before their line I don’t understand that personally but, there you go. And then you know the other thing is I work with a lot of startups and there’s a fairly large percentage of companies that are not going to go back into office space for a long time and. [16:52] That part is going to be delayed so those Industries will be hurt but I think we’re going to see other parts of the economy pick that up and we’ll still have that V I also am bullish and I know you strongly disagree with us that there’s going to be a vaccine so I think we got two good candidates in moderna and Oxford and I get all my medical news from CNBC so don’t take any advice for me but this is this is my again I’m making predictions to try to, see where we land on this and I do think this project Manhattan thing is interesting and you know there’s all these arguments that say well we’re going to need three billion vaccines I don’t think that’s right I think if you go and vaccinate there’s a clear, there’s a clear set of people that have a much higher impact from this virus so if you start at the 85 and older the people that are immunocompromised and have existing conditions that’s a significantly smaller number you’ve protected a really big part of the population that buys you time to go do the other ones you also have herd immunity kind of meeting in the middle so I think there’s probably, and the US are 20 million thing over three or four months that get you there so so I’m very bullish and all that and so my prediction just kind of summarize all that is it’s going to be a V shape and you know definitely by q1 of 20, one we will be at the kind of back where we were and I think it may be as fast as Q4 so. Jason: [18:18] Wow Q4 of 2020. Scot: [18:19] Yeah. Jason: [18:20] Okay I write so let the record show I hope to God that I’m wildly wrong in your wild rewrite like I’m certainly rooting for you. Like a couple of things that caused me to have some concern like first of all you have a hypothesis which is perfectly reasonable but I don’t agree with that it’s a government caused recession so I for sure, we took actions that that. Substantially contributed to a recession and potentially triggered the recession in the US but there’s but worldwide there’s a bunch of countries that didn’t take any of those actions and they’re still in a recession right so sweet and in shutdown people aren’t spending in Sweden in a bunch of people are unemployed Taiwan didn’t shut down people aren’t spending their right so, there’s some evidence that even if there had been like you could debate whether the government action was helpful or not helpful and, and if there could have been better government action almost certainly there could have been but if there were no action. [19:25] The my hypothesis based on all the international evidence is we would still be in a recession. It could be worse could be better the truth is we’ll never know. I would also say I actually think there’s a very good chance we’ll have a vaccine I mostly agree with you it’s it’s possible we won’t like as much as we all want to be optimistic and we’re we’re. Making the most prompt medical progress in the history of humankind to potentially create this vaccine it was described to me once that like making a vaccine is very hard it’s like. Scoring a goal in hockey from half half ice but the good news is we have more Wayne Gretzky’s on the ice taking shots right now than ever before right so. I think it’s totally possible we make a vaccine most vaccines have. [20:20] Problems with limited efficacy. Aren’t effective in everyone that takes it vulnerable populations often are the ones that are least likely to be able to take it it does, it is difficult to distribute a vaccine there’s a bunch of people in the US that just don’t believe in vaccines and aren’t going to take it, even if we do have one and so for all of those reasons even if the science goes perfectly and we have a decent vaccine in q1. I just don’t think you have enough immunity to turn the economy around and toll Q4 and that means you won’t start seeing the economic results of that turn around and talk q1 2022 which is where my. My estimate sort of comes from and again I desperately want to be wrong I hope you’re right but that’s my my concern. Scot: [21:14] Well we’ve got our stakes in the ground on there’s a good year in there too. Jason: [21:18] Other depressing news on this point from this week just to throw out there is all the banks had their earnings call this this week and the common theme from all of them is they’re all reserving tens of billions of dollars because they. Massive default on all of their. Their loans and mortgage properties right like that the you you hit the hammer the nail on the head it’s the weirdest recession ever because there’s this. Very high unemployment and very high savings rate like because per your point like all this stimulus money and stuff caught and and bolstering unemployment benefits, caused everyone to like the average American had a huge cash influx. At the same time they weren’t working so that’s a weird weird dichotomy but all those benefits are scheduled to end in. Couple of weeks there was a more people than ever that miss their rent payment this month there’s a even higher cohort of people that say they don’t know how they’re going to pay next month’s rent and then all these benefits are going to, expire so there’s a chance for. All sorts of cascading negative Financial events to happen and it feels like all these earnings calls from the banks are kind of a foreshadowing that they think it’s going to happen for whatever it’s worth. Scot: [22:39] Yeah it’s really weird because I heard someone say that it’s like having two different movies playing on one screen because then like car sales are up. Jason: [22:47] Yeah so you know it’s funny about that like you mentioned like oh retail sales are kind of back like the V is there. That’s a hundred percent true if you include Auto Sales like are are, what month did we get the reporting came out for June today so so the June retail numbers with Auto in there, the June total sales number is higher than the February total sales number so complete recovery but if you take Auto out of that like we’re still definitely trending in the right direction but we are still below are like February level. So it’s weird like cars are disproportionately affecting that I’ve heard one hypothesis is because. Air travel is so curtailed a lot more people are taking, are using their cars more I’ve heard Harley-Davidson as having a huge Resurgence people are buying motorcycles and going on on, driving vacations instead of flying vacations, you would know more about this than me but I have heard that as all the rental car companies declare bankruptcy and and sell off their their fleets that that’s going to put a damper on the auto sales as there’s going to be a, full out of inventory. Scot: [24:01] The other kind of treating them internally so we’ll see I don’t know how much of this so-so. I would say real car usage is. Going crazy right now which is odd because it’s usually tied to air travel but they become disconnected because people are saying I don’t want to travel on airplanes therefore I will drive from Chicago to Detroit and I you would normally fly that so and then they kind of say well I don’t want to put those what does that 3,000 miles on my car I’ll bring the car and do it that way, yeah so it It’s tricky to read and that’s what makes the prediction that much more fun we’ll see. Jason: [24:39] And before we jump into other e-commerce news several listeners have asked over the last week there’s been a lot of get spiffy news and I’m wondering if you can just share a quick update on on some of that for our listeners. Scot: [24:52] Yeah yeah I guess the biggest new so we are we’re experiencing this V which is what I think probably influences think so we definitely had a huge dip in demand largely from fleets and then obviously office Parks have been hit that hasn’t come back but the fleet stuffs come back pretty dramatically consumers have come back so it’s actually been pretty tough hiring so we’re hiring technicians at a pretty good pace and then one of the biggest inbound requests we get is for people that want a franchise so we’ve kind of carved out the 50 what I would call Amazon Prime cities as you know and. [25:28] Love Amazon and there in about 50 cities with Prime and those tend to be the cities we want to Target as well I figure Amazon has a pretty good idea where those Prime households are so but then we get tons of requests from smaller cities like Wilmington North Carolina a will see Memphis Tennessee that are will probably not be able to get to you for years because we’re in 17 of these 50 that we’re focused on so we’ve decided to open up those kind of next to your market so three hundred thousand eight hundred thousand people in the Metro areas to franchising so we were able to announce that, feels like last week yeah last week and that has had a really good response so that’s been fun you know at Channel visor one of the things I loved every day was I got to work with thousands of entrepreneurs some of them were intrapreneurs they were like you know early digital people in the side of Nike like we’re leading the charge but then at the same time you would deal with these entrepreneurs like rock-bottom Golf and these crazy brothers that were selling golf stuff and so there’s a lot of fun so I’m looking forward to look at working with a bunch of other entrepreneurs in that capacity. Jason: [26:38] Yeah that’s awesome I just take it as a good sign because I’m thinking about all of the those that cumulative carwash and capacity and I’m doing the math on how much crystal meth you must be selling to need to launder that much money so that. Seems really encouraging. Scot: [26:55] Yeah I get this a lot as a car wash guy the reference it for those who don’t know is the TV Show Breaking Bad the guy by his car washes to essentially you know clean his cash so. Jason: [27:09] Literally and figuratively yeah. Scot: [27:10] Yeah we do not for fully of total transparency we do not do that. Jason: [27:18] Or so you say okay. Scot: [27:19] Cool well it would not be a Jason Scott show with Al. Jason: [27:26] Amazon news new your margin is their opportunity. Scot: [27:39] Yes this was a weird one and I want to check your memory because I feel like I’ve lived seven years in the last four months so I got this notification that said congratulations Scott you are in the day one program for Amazon Echo frames so I ordered those and they’re coming this weekend and, I forget if we knew about this or not and if we talked about it on the show so is this new or has an I just like him. Jason: [28:08] No it’s super it’s super annoying so, it was announced over a year ago when they launched the echo buds they actually announced a variety of new Alexa enabled devices so they, they had, the earbuds they also showed a a ring that you wear on your finger and they announce these frames that you get prescription lenses in, and for the the ring and the. The frames you had to apply and you and I I know for a fact both applied on the first day that you could apply, and so the reason I’m super annoyed is not even that you got in and I didn’t and that you don’t remember, registering the reason I’m annoyed is because after I found out you got in, I went into my Gmail spam and found out I got in in March and my invitation is already expired. Scot: [29:04] Well next time you see me I’ll be having a conversation with my eyeglasses and you’ll be you’ll be. Jason: [29:11] This is another reason why I see Jeff Bezos point that I should whitelist him but I’m still not going to do it. Scot: [29:18] I think Jeff loves me best. Jason: [29:20] He probably does your more lovable to me frankly you’re more of a wide-eyed Optimist the the he has definitely experienced a v-shaped recovery. Scot: [29:28] Yes he he’s well on the he’s on a V with a rocket ship on the tail, which is actually interesting because they are going to announce results next week they haven’t announced the day I’m thinking July 23rd If you kind of look at last year so we’ll do a whole show dedicated that because I do think you know, as Amazon goes it’s really a good indicator of what’s going on in online I’m going to, predict it’s going to be a blowout quarter based on everything I’ve seen but another thing that was really interesting kind of in your world of grocery and there was a very robust discussion on Twitter was this idea of the Amazon – cart and you and I were aligned on this one oddly enough so let you know so this is a cart that. [30:21] It’s really weird because everyone had one image of this thing so you can tell it was like from a press release it’s going to be in the store that is not a ghost or a not a Whole Foods I don’t know what this evening to be called I don’t know if you know the name of it and it’s gonna be this cart that you can put some items in, it’s really hard to tell from the pressure release if it uses image recognition when you look at the card it clearly has some cameras mounted on it and then it has a digital display most of these cards use RFID in my experience so it’s not clear if it’s going to have some kind of belt and suspenders where there’s an image recognition and an RFID or not. [30:55] W my guess but it’s really interesting cart and then online we had this really interesting discussion where someone said and I think it was the target guy so he met, be a it may be you know on a different team here but he was kind of like this is the stupidest thing why would you have Amazon go and do this dumb cart you’re wasting time in Cycles what’s going on this is or you know I think the conclusion he came up with this is this is an admission that Amazon goes not going to work, and then you and I and other people pointed out hey you know, Amazon’s a 1.6 trillion dollar company I don’t think because they’re trying three or four things you can kind of say this is a signal that they have failed at, thing number one in fact Amazon has enough experiments they could run 50 grocery experiments and to me it actually the opposite is essentially saying Amazon is really serious about groceries so they’re running a lot of experiments these are the ones we know about there’s quite another 50 coming that we don’t know about so that was a really interesting discussion what did you think about that car. Jason: [32:01] Yeah so well I was first and foremost excited so I’m excited about this whole deal. Amazon has had home delivery of groceries for a long time in Amazon Fresh and dirty secret Amazon Fresh hasn’t been very successful are caught on very well in fact. Walmart basically is kicking Amazon fresh as but. Um so then Amazon bought Whole Foods and they started delivering and doing curbside pickup from 80 of the Whole Foods and that’s been a pretty successful service and so, pandemic kids people want way more digital grocery in and in typical Amazon fashion they dramatically scaled their delivery of Whole Foods from 80 stores 260 stores and, and all kinds of amazing things to expand their capacity so so Amazon’s main success in grocery is Whole Foods and so what I’ve been excited about for a long time is. Whole Foods is super expensive groceries that only cater to affluent markets in Big City centers. So it doesn’t you know solve the grocery problem for the bulk of Americans so a while ago it became clear that Amazon was going to open a new physical grocery store. The first of which would be in Woodland Hills California which is a suburb of La that is not a Whole Foods brand a grocery store so this is not something they acquired this is a grocery store that Amazon is inventing and. [33:26] You know my experience Amazon does a lots of cool inventions if they’re going to reinvent grocery I want to see what they think is going to work, so we’ve all been excited I visited the construction site before covid where this thing was scheduled to open it was supposed to open this summer. [33:42] It did not open instead the rumor has it that they’ve been using that location as a dark store for deliveries, and the reason they’re probably doing that is one of the things we figured out over time about this grocery store is it has a big micro fulfillment center in the back of it so it has a robot, there holds a bunch of the groceries and automatically fills a bag with a customer’s order so it’s much more efficient at, feeling bags of groceries for curbside pickup or delivery then humans are and that is clearly part of this new grocery concept that Amazon has, um I’m super interested to shop a store see how that all works they have now discovered another one of these grocery stores under construction that’s promise to open sometime in 2020, in a suburb of Chicago so I’ll get to visit one whether we’re flying or not so I’m excited about that so the new news this week is yes that, one of the other things they’re going to have in this grocery store are these smart carts and my guess is a little different than you, I think it’s a little simpler I’ll be shocked at the store has RFID I don’t think they’re going to put RFID tags on all the products for sale and in fact, I think they might have a lot less products that you put in the cart yourself because I won’t be surprised. [34:57] If you use the micro fulfillment center even when you shop in the store so you order your, peanut butter and mayonnaise and cereal and the robot picks them and puts him in the bag won’t surprise me if you’re only pushing the cart around in the Meat and Deli area and picking your own produce and your own meat. [35:14] We’ll see how that works but to me the smart cart looks like it’s primary feature is, scan and go self checkout so lots of retards let you use your phone in the camera on your phone at products and kind of check out as you go Sam’s Club has a store that that’s the only way to check out call them, Sam’s Club now you can do scan and go in all the other Sam’s Club, Apple was one of the very first people to have this experience and they still use it broadly a problem with that is the the, the camera in the phone isn’t perfectly situated not everyone has the right apps on their phone there’s a lot of user are it’s not the fastest experience in the world so my theory is there’s Amazon grocery stores going to let you do skin and grow on your phone of you want but it’s also going to let you push around in one of their carts that has a. Special-purpose camera dedicated to the task of doing scan and go in the cart so I think the. [36:14] That cart is going to be a way to do scan and go but the cart also has a screen in it and I think they’re going to use that for media so I think they’re going to sell ads, two vendors as part of the Walmart Amazon Media Group, and they’re going to pop up ads in that grocery store when you’re in the appropriate section of the store so I think that’s another way to monetize it and I think there’s going to be a bunch of secret cameras and sensors on that cart, that are carefully keeping track of everything you do while you’re in the store and they’re going to use that for analytics and data for for you know future experiments and Improvement so. I think that’s going to be the main use case of the card I don’t think you’re going to have to use a card to shop in there I just I just think it’s going to be an option and I like per your point I totally agreed with Chris that like. It’s just walk out or nothing like I do agree with Chris. Doing just walk out technology in a 50,000 square foot grocery store is actually. [37:13] More than linearly more difficult than doing it in a 2000 square-foot convenience store so I think there are reasons to think. Amazon Go technology might work in a bunch of categories but grocery wouldn’t be the most obvious one where works so it doesn’t surprise me the Amazons trying to invent something else that fits better for these bigger stores and I also think if the smart cart thing. Wear to work well and become popular it would be much easier to retrofit that into all the Whole Food stores they already own whereas. Um you know go would be easiest to deploy if you’re building a store from the ground. Scot: [37:47] I can’t get over the mental image of you in a construction site wearing a hard hat where you’ve taken an Amazon sticker and put it on there and. You’re just like walking through like you know what’s going on in your like using a tape measure to be like oh this is where the robots going to go and. Jason: [38:02] You just described a way smarter cooler version of what I actually did now. Scot: [38:07] You’ve got a laser measuring device. Jason: [38:09] Coach I should have gotten some coaching from you I probably would have gone inside but yeah. Scot: [38:13] And then you do like a mission impossible repel and they like you’re hovering two inches off the ground and you’re like then a bead of sweat drops that how it. Jason: [38:20] That’s basically how I roll that’s that’s what I like to call Tuesday. Scot: [38:24] Oh man that kills me. Jason: [38:30] Yeah so it’s exciting I think Amazon’s inventing new stuff I don’t know whether this like, smart cards have been tried before and didn’t work it’s not going to shock me of Amazon Does It Better Than People have done it before there are some smart cards that are better than this that do cooler stuff in China that apparently people do like so there there are you I think you commented man that smart cart looks like it has a huge bed or if it’s just running the the electronics that’s kind of weird I wonder if it’s self-powered and there are smart cards in China JD.com has a store with smart cards that actually, like follow an RFID tag in your on your wrist around you in the store so you don’t even have to push the cart there the car just follows you around. Scot: [39:10] Yeah almost wondered if there’s a little Kiva robot hiding in there and it looked just like pop out and just start moving products room W fun mmm, so couple of their Amazon items in Q4 they announced they’re going to be restrictions on third party stuff and warehouses this has been kind of an ongoing thing where they’re just kind of totally tightening the screws of the one area of Amazon where they raise prices which is access to the Fulfillment by Amazon side of things and then Prime day didn’t they so they had moved it they were going to have like, Prime Vibes and then nothing really happened there and then they moved Prime day to September and now haven’t they just totally punted on it. Jason: [39:52] Yeah so the latest rumors are that it’s going to be October I somehow got some inside information and for the life of me I don’t know how but I somehow knew it was going to be in October for several months so everyone’s like oh my gosh we just heard it was in October and I’ve been like wait it’s been there for a month so somehow someone did me a favor and I didn’t, I didn’t realize it and I will say super quick on that on the on the 3p Warehouse I agree with you they’re gonna have a good earnings this quarter and there’s lots of reasons to think they are. It does seem like fulfillment capacity is likely to constrain them like if anything slows them down it’s going to be, capacity and the thing that jumped out at me in this announcement was not that they’re constraining, capacity it’s that they’re like by the way we’re bringing 60 fulfillment centers online this year to increase capacity and. We’re still going to have to constrain it and you and like I don’t know if people are falling at home but like the next biggest e-commerce site in the United States of America has 8 fulfillment centers total. Scot: [40:55] Yeah it’s just its fulfillment centers matter and I think they do it is so far game over it’s not even funny there’s no way anyone could you have to spend like. Foreigner billion dollars or something to catch up with where they are where they’ve been you know they just been like knocking in these things out over so long the asset they have built there is massive, it’s a Death Star. Jason: [41:17] Another thing I’m watching kind of closely is Amazon has made some some minor health. News lately they have announced that they’re opening health clinics in a couple cities in these clinics are adjacent to fulfillment centers because these are not health clinics at the moment, that we believe are to treat their public there to provide Health Services for Amazon employees and so it definitely seems like. As we’ve talked about for a while Amazon has some significant Healthcare aspirations and it feels like they’re dogfooding a lot of those aspirations by, using by testing, new health care approaches internally so you know for a while like Amazon’s had some interesting telemed services for employees they bought some some. Digital diagnostic tools companies and they made those available to employers and now they’re going to open some dedicated health clinic so. What’s interesting to me is that it’s probably a precursor to them having some big big consumer offering in healthcare space and so we’re watching that closely. Um Scot: [42:26] Yeah you’ve kind of predicted Walmart would get into this and hasn’t. Jason: [42:29] Yeah and they have yeah I thought we were going to maybe talk about this later but the Walmart has opened. Clinics that are pretty substantial in Atlanta and now they’ve announced a bunch of other states including Chicago where they’re going to open these clinics, and they’re pretty impressive stand-alone clinics that provide a bunch of services at. You know Walmart level prices shockingly low prices even without insurance and that has kind of been Walmart’s ammo like they did a big thing with Pharmacy where they sell almost all generic prescriptions for four dollars so you know a bunch of people. Even with insurance had some deductible they could never achieve and so they like literally couldn’t take the The Chronic prescribed medicines that their physician prescribed. And you know now through Walmart they can afford them and in much the same way lots of families can afford to get an annual physical and have their kids get an eye exam and dental cleanings and things like that even with no insurance through these Walmart clinic so it’s kind of a. Interesting approach to cost reduce Health enough to make it accessible to all the, the Americans that that are pretty vulnerable with regards to Health Care at the moment so, this is another initiative I hope to God Walmart and Amazon beat each other’s brains out with awesome new inventions and healthcare because we we need it. Scot: [43:48] Yes so bad that there’s like so much room for. Jason: [43:50] Yeah it’s a huge industry and it’s you know ripe for disruption and you know Walmart and Amazon are probably the two company like unless maybe Apple also wants to get into that. You know those are two pretty good private companies to be solving it’s a shame that we’re having to depend on private companies to solve our health care problems but, venturing into politics and we don’t want to go there my funnest fact of the week. [44:16] Is add a age and they’re probably mad at me because it’s 50/50 whether I’m thinking a De Jour adweek in there too competitive Publications but one of them published a report that Amazon is now the largest Advertiser in the world. So they’re spending 11 billion dollars a year on ads they have this novelty stat that means they’re spending twenty one thousand dollars a minute on ads but to me what’s cute about that is. We keep talking about their ad Network and how they’re becoming a meaningful seller of ads and they’re kind of the Third. Biggest digital platform behind Google and Facebook and you know the forecast were that they were going to sell like around there on a run rate to sell about 10 billion dollars in ads, in a calendar year which is still a distant third from Google and Facebook but it’s it’s bigger than, Twitter and a lot of other Pinterest in a lot of other digital Network so it’s pretty impressive, but what where their unique is they’re the only company in the world that’s buying 11 billion dollars of ads and then selling ten billion dollars of ads so they’re they’re buying eyeballs and then selling them back to Brands which is kind of funny. Scot: [45:26] Yeah I would not have expected him to be the largest Advertiser because you you know when you think about what you watch on TV you don’t see a ton of Amazon ads on TV. Jason: [45:36] Then they do they have ads in Market all the time they are like a big Super Bowl Advertiser which is a big big chunk but the bulk of their spend is not TV it’s digital it’s like they’re there Google’s biggest customer. Scot: [45:50] Yeah living the dream it’s funny because for the longest time they said we’re going to we’re not going to spend money on Advertising we’re going to put it all into free shipping and stuff like that and I guess they finally got to the point where. They just had so much money they had to spend some one-on-one marketing. Jason: [46:05] Well another thing where they’re a complete anomaly is I guarantee you they are the only top 10 an Advertiser in the world where nobody can name their CMO. [46:20] Yeah I mean I yeah but the like they do not have like a big public-facing. Marketing department right like you think of the mark Pritchards of the world that are like you know constantly out there for PNG which has historically been one of the biggest advertisers and it’s a it just Amazon is a very different approach so it’s going to be interesting. Scot: [46:40] Cool stats that was a lot of Amazon news what other news is on your radar. Jason: [46:45] Well today I alluded to this earlier but the middle of the months it’s been super fun for me because there, the US Census Bureau publishes the retail data for last month about 18 days into the month so, this morning they published the June retail sales data and. I don’t know if we want to get into all the technicalities of it like there’s a bunch of different ways to slice the data so everyone reports the data and the numbers always look different and it’s because it’s this. This Rich data set you can report retail sales without, food or restaurants you can report it with restaurants you can report it without gas and Automobiles or with gas and Automobiles you can report it with adjusted for inflation and you can report it seasonally adjusted so. If you’re reading I say all that to just tell you if you’re reading any of these statutes. [47:42] If the person cited and did a good job they told you all those details but that’s why you’ll see a lot of variance in the data but so in general the. The adjusted for inflation month-over-month retail sales were up. Five point eight percent in June over May which is a, um by historical standards of very large jump it was a smaller jump than last month which was the hugest jump of all times and that obviously followed a couple months that were the hugest, drop of all times but it it per your point on the economy it is trending in the right direction and it’s trending in the right direction pretty fast. Um The so that’s two months in a row of retail sales growing know basically you know forget the number and no matter how you slice it it’s above above average growth. Um and basically as we discussed you we’ve kind of caught back up to our February sales levels which were the kind of pre covid-19, numbers especially if you if you keep car in there, a weird one this data is really bad I hate it for reporting e-commerce sales but they try they have a thing called non-store sales which used to be catalog sales and now it’s, it still has catalogs in it but it’s mostly calm and their number there is weird it’s down 2.4% so you go. [49:10] Since when is e-commerce been down and why would it be calm down now when everyone’s adopting digital as a result of covid and a couple of reasons. Month over month growth like is not a awesome metric you have to really. What you’re thinking of yeah I mean seasonality is a problem but also it just it’s so dependent on what anomaly happened the month before right like it’s much better to compare. June of 2019 with June of 2018 and spoiler alert. June of I’m sorry June of 2020 is 23 percent better than June of 2019 so so the real Trend here is e-commerce as way up. E-commerce was so way up in the beginning of the pandemic that now. As it normalizes a little bit e-commerce books down also the e-commerce number in the Department of Commerce isn’t huge and so the number of days in a month can actually impact it so there was one less day, this month and so that you know if you take that out you know month-over-month it was actually up two percent so. So yeah I wouldn’t I wouldn’t agonize over that number they have slightly better e-commerce data that they report quarterly and the next reporting of that quarterly data is, August 18th so August 18th is going to be a big date because we’ll get the quarterly e-commerce and we’ll get the July retail numbers to see if we can make it three months of recovery in a row. Scot: [50:34] Yeah I think Amazon’s cleaner data than all the stuff. Jason: [50:38] Yeah, most of the people that like even like the adobe’s that you know have a lot of clients and aggregate their data like most of the the comscore panels and stuff they’re all going to tell you e-commerce is up so when the the, Census Bureau reports is down its kind of goofy. Scot: [50:56] A couple quick ones on Google shopping so they rolled out this is kind of the consulate testing thing so it’s hard to know if this is a test or a permanent feature but you know a one of our guests saw that they have this fast shipping tag and then another one of our guests Faisal said hey it’s only been 15 years and they finally realized people that shop online want to know when they’re getting the products boom I want to report a murder and then another astute online person know. Jason: [51:28] It’s a side note on that comment faysal actually works for Google. Scot: [51:33] That’s it no it. Jason: [51:35] Yeah yeah he works like in in the like especially like he’s in the autonomous vehicle division of Google. Scot: [51:43] Okay that’s alphabet it’s different he’s in he’s in a whole nother part. Jason: [51:47] Yeah those those crappy sales. Scot: [51:49] He’s a w and that’s all day. Jason: [51:51] Are still paying his salary I guarantee you. Scot: [51:53] Yeah he’s over in W crap it over on G so it’s alright it’s he’s like in the whole back end of the alphabet all right and then Nike someone noticed pulled all their listings from Google shopping which is interesting because you know I think we just reported. Like a week ago that Nike CEO said they’re going to move to 50% direct cells so they must have thought they weren’t getting the brand, whatever Roi and they wanted from Google shopping. Jason: [52:22] Yeah and Nagy does have this philosophy which is pretty bold that they’re really only going to sell their product through retail experiences that offer a differentiated experience and so mostly you know people took that to me, retail and so what that means is. If you’re a boring store that puts the Nikes right next to the Reeboks and doesn’t give them a Nike a chance to tell their unique Brand Story in any way that they’re going to fire you as a customer and they have fired them bulk of their retailers and even the ones they haven’t fired. Are increasingly not getting the good hot new Nike products and so to me this Google move feels a little bit like that right like the Google shopping still isn’t a very good experience it still has a bunch of flaws as Joe pointed out like it’s a complete cluster with regard to win am I going to get it shipping times and so to me it feels kind of on brand for Nike to say I’m not just going to put my shoes in a catalog tile in a mediocre selling experience. Scot: [53:21] He had this this data points like three to five years old but I just have a hard time believing night not the Google solved it but a lot of Brands not just in the shoe category but we’ll use that as ample they get they get really frustrated with how Google presents their products right so so there’s all these crawlers this algorithm spits out and says but here’s here’s here’s the best Nike running shoe or something like that and then Nikes like well that’s like six years old and you pulled it off eBay and it’s used that that’s that’s not if you’d asked us that’s like not even in the zip code of like one of our top shoes and you know where the heck did you get that as a top shoe. Jason: [53:57] It’s weird because everyone tells me that AI is perfect it’s weird. Scot: [54:00] I don’t yeah it’s maybe Nikes wrong. Jason: [54:03] Yeah the the fun side note on my favorite Google shopping story is someone a couple of Reed here’s got together and they’re like hey I’m seeing something really weird in my analytics the you know we always have a lot of cart abandonment and carbonates Hoover High and we’re always trying to you know figure out what it is and we do cord cohort analysis and stuff to try to figure out you know who’s who’s abandoning carts and we notice there’s one user that has huge cart abandonment, across all of our sites and his name is John Smith like someone’s typing John Smith in in a bunch of cards and abandoning their carts and they’re like. You know who is this what is it and you know they did some some digital Sue thing and found out that it’s a Google bot for Google shopping. Scot: [54:49] Driving a cart abandonment stats everywhere. Jason: [54:54] Yeah speaking of Nike the the the more interesting Nike news to me. Is that Nike has announced yet another new, Nike owned retail concept so in Nike store that they’re calling Nike rise this first one is opening in China in the, ganju District just opened a week ago. And you know I’ve been kind of impressed with Nikes digital in-store efforts so Nike has a store concept called Nike live which is very personalized order that leverages, data from local Shoppers to a sort the store and it has some cool omni-channel amenities then they open this huge flagship store concept called House of Innovations there’s now several of those and they’re to me the best example of letting customers, use their phone in the store to legitimately enrich the shopping experience and now they have this other concept which I actually obviously haven’t been to yet, but that also its primary emphasis is around digital shopping in a physical store and using your mobile phone in the store so, I feel like there the market leader in doing that and I’ll be interested to see how Nike rise is different than the house of innovation. Scot: [56:14] Yeah when it opens I want to have a suture Rita on the show because her tweet was your like oh my God I’m getting about Nike rise I can’t wait to just like can someone explain this to me in English I don’t understand what this is supposed to be this store is supposed to reflect quote the pulse of sports and a member City and quote this is like the retail equivalent of abstract art. So I’m picturing going in and it’s like a Picasso painting where like the shoes are all in cubes and melty and stuff. Jason: [56:43] So my interpretation like so a every retailer when they open a new store concept they issue this like you know fluffy press release with all the cool experiences in it and the reality is. [56:54] One or two of those experiences are super valuable to customers and customers like them and resonate with and other ones are ones that some executive thought was cool but that no customers ever going to care about right so maybe I’m just more cynical than suit Cerrito I’ve never had a press release for a new retail store that didn’t have some silly fluff in it and I suspect she’s right, some of the features that Nikes touting of this door probably will end up being super silly fluff and I think the one she’s pointing to the way I interpreted them is they have some kind of. Um augmented reality experiences where you can use your phone to kind of have a, a virtual Sports tour of the activities in the city where the store is so you’re a tourist and you know maybe you get the experience if you’re if there were a Nike rise in New York you might get the experience of being at the finish line of the New York Marathon or you know being in jet Stadium or something like that so, I don’t know if I’m interpreting that right but I would kind of agree with her like that’s like a kind of tangential shopping experience. Other experiences on that list I’m much more excited about for example there instead of using those Oldham rulers to measure your feet they’re using, image recognition to to measure your feet and prescribed shoe sizes to you and I think. [58:20] It’s shocking that it’s taken this long to improve on that that shoot of ice that’s now a hundred years old. Scot: [58:26] Do you step on it or like it you walk in the store and a camera sees. Jason: [58:27] It’s just a camera that like it when there’s a home in the US there’s a home version that you can use in the Nike app but I’m guessing this is going to be a slightly more optimized version that the so the sales associate uses in the Nike rise store. Scot: [58:42] We’re up against time and we have 60 more topic let me so the one I really want to hear about what we reward folks are making it this long is there’s been a lot of chatter about Walmart’s new kind of quote-unquote prime killer I thought I thought it’s kind of funny because, I think people are missed it it’s really grocery Focus so I was kind of because you’re the grocery Guru I was curious about your take on that. Jason: [59:08] Yeah I’m of two minds so like to summarize it Walmart is launching a subscription program you you get a membership I think the speculation is that it’s like a hundred bucks and you get some shopping benefits for that that. That bent that subscription. Walmart has announced any of this and in fact Jenny Whiteside the chief customer officer who was on our show a few months ago just did an interview on LinkedIn yesterday and they asked her and she said I have nothing to announce right now. But but stay tuned because it’s it is going to be out in like a month so we don’t know what’s really in it, and here’s my two minds if it’s pay $100 to get free one-day shipping for your general merchandise, I think that’s going to be stupid because like it’s going to be trying to compete with Amazon Prime with a way Lamer offering right like. [1:00:09] Amazon has way more assortment than Walmart and and whatever assortment Walmart can ship in one day is a small subset of Walmart’s assortment so– it’s not just a matter of like some products can get there in one day like way more Amazon products are going to get there in one day than Walmart products I’m pretty confident in that so if that’s all it is, it’s not going to be very interesting but I will be surprised and disappointed if that’s all it is I’ll bet you they’re going to bundle some sir some Walmart benefits in there that are different than things Amazon can bundle right so, um therefore there has to be a grocery component in there like you could imagine that there’s free fast home delivery of grocery included in that, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a healthcare offering in that that they’re offering some premium Healthcare stuff so I’m going to reserve judgment until I see whether offering I hope it’s not an Amazon me-too product, if they can come up with a compelling list of values super smart and important. [1:01:15] That they build us a recurring Revenue model for Walmart like you know as retailers are getting more and more strained on margins recurring revenues where it’s at like the the most successful in the retailer in the US by many standards is Costco, and it’s because of that membership fee like you know when you look at Amazon success it’s all around Prime, so I think Walmart smart to figure out what its recurring revenue is going to be eager just like everyone else to see. [1:01:44] If this first offering next month is unique and differentiated and it can attract people or if it’s a silly shadow of Amazon Prime. Scot: [1:01:54] Yeah I think that’s compelling it’s like hey pass $99 will give you two flu shots and a bag of groceries let’s see how that sells. Jason: [1:02:06] Yeah well but I mean you can omit like there’s a bunch of healthcare services that people have to pay for like you could imagine them taking a hundred hours a hundred dollars out of the cost of that and then you getting all these other benefits right and that’s. That sounds wacky but like you know when Amazon first rode up the the memo and said we’re going to give free shipping and free movie rentals, in Prime that sounded wacky to now everyone’s like well of course you get those. Scot: [1:02:32] Two billion dollar behemoths battling each other is good for consumers so I’m all for it. Jason: [1:02:37] I and I think more retailers need to invent this there was I know we’re crushing time there was a bane report that came out that got widely distributed where they sort of did the math on the profitability of grocery and, this is a these numbers unfortunately are painfully familiar to me but like a normal profitable growth Grocer in store makes two to four percent gross. [1:03:01] So it’s a pretty pretty thin margin business and so anytime you then pick the groceries for the customer and drive them to the customer’s house. Um you’re going to lose money right so all of this digital grocery stuff is not profitable there’s been a lot of Articles written about and Walmart. Digital grocery not being profitable the easiest way you’d make it profitable as you charge more fees for that right and in general consumers haven’t been willing to pay those fees and so. The the hypothesis is like that a recurring membership program may be the best way to collect fees to make grocery profitable, and so you can kind of think about Walmart plus being Walmart’s answer to the profitability conundrum of digital grocery. I will tell you we talked about the micro fulfillment centers and doing automated picking for groceries, and that’s actually the real way to make groceries profitable if you use a robot to fill the bag and you have the customer pick it up in the parking lot instead of driving it to them, you can basically make digital grocery higher capex than a regular grocery store but hit the same operating margins so then. You don’t have to charge any fe

GINORMOUS TWITTER HACK Elon Musk, Obama, BillGates, and other verified Twitter accounts hacked in bitcoin scam All verified Twitter accounts shut down Zoom debuts a $600 all-in-one videoconference deviceAlabama is the only state not investigating Google for antitrustTwitter partner Dataminr sold Black Lives Matter protest surveillance to police Facebook might ban political ads - is this a good idea?Amazon shows off Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that automatically checks you out Google Ngram gets a huge upgrade Why Tik Tok is winning, and why it is dangerous US cyber attacked Russian trolls in 2018 Google's ATAP invents a remote control for your smart homeEric Schmitt's secret summer camp Apple wins $14.5 Billion Irish Tax battle on appeal Roman roads as a subway map The Google Changelog: Gmail integrates Meet, Chat, and Docs | Google Photos adds recent photos filter | Google Lens shortcut | Google Fit adds YouTube Playlists | 15 Years of Google Earth | Zoombombing protection for Google Meet Leo's Tool 1: WindowSwapLeo's Tool 2: Leo's mask fitters arrived! Stacey's Thing: 9 Words Formed by MistakesJeff's Number 1: Quibi lost 90% of free subscribersJeff's Number 2: Disney+ signups increased by 641% due to Hamilton Ant's Stuff: BTS Ant's COVID-19 Regs Karsten's Mask: Bluetooth-connected face mask that can record conversations, amplify the wearer's voice, make phone calls, transcribe speech into texts and translate Japanese speech into 8 different languages. Leo's Mask: UVMask: Real-Time UV-C Filtration & Purification Face Mask Jeff's Mask: Martyn Percy shows off a mask by Cecilie Birk Dehli Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: twit.cachefly.com

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Are you a device maker looking to build voice-controlled products without dealing with the complexity of managing cloud services, writing an Alexa skill, or developing complex networking and security firmware? Introducing Alexa Connect Kit (ACK)-a combination of hardware and software that allows you to quickly develop smart products that customers will love with built-in features like Wi-Fi simple setup, Amazon Dash replenishment, and fleet management with over-the-air (OTA) updates. In this session, we turn a simple fan into an Alexa-controlled smart device in less than an hour.

* "House wraps", which are kind of like car wraps, which would be much cheaper than expensive new siding, and could even look like siding, in which case you could also wear yoga pants that look like jeans and live a total lie * A Shazam-like app to identify bird species by listening to them. It could give you info about the birds, including the species name, interesting trivia, how rare they are, whether it is legal to shoot them, and recipes for eating them * An air freshener for your car, like a pine tree air freshener, where you gradually peel of the plastic to gradually release the fresh smell, but which looks like a stripper instead of a pine tree. It could contain a button, like an Amazon Dash button, which is held down by the stripper's clothes, and gets released and bills you money when the stripper's clothes are removed * An app/service to send social media messages to people on your behalf after you die, so you can get your revenge and/or say constructive things that you don't have the courage to say, and avoid dealing with the consequences. It could make money by charging you if you a) change your mind and don't want to send a message, or b) are on your deathbed and want to see other people's DickAfterlife messages which they targeted to you * Releasing multiple versions of the same movie idea at about the same time, using different visionary directors (Quinten Tarantino, Alfonso Cuarón, Wes Anderson, etc.), and giving them creative control to make their own versions of the movie * A rant about Facebook and a desire to make it easier and more convenient for people to make and view custom personal web pages, instead of using a (possibly evil) corporation as a social middleman * Community events based on a theme (such as clothes, electronics, baby stuff, food, etc.) where people in the community get together to sell, donate, recycle, make, repair, customize, mentor/teach, etc., all based on that particular theme. Kind of like a flea market, recycling center, repair/customization shop, etc. all in one. The goals are to make charity and recycling more convenient and efficient, and to bring people in a community together (including people of different income levels, for example: rich people getting clothing repaired/resized at the same place that poor people receive clothing donations) House Wraps (00:41 @chrisyoungcomic on Twitter, Instagram) Shazam for Birds (06:42 @CamilaBallario on Twitter, Instagram) Stripper Air Freshener (09:10 camilaballario.com) DickAfterlife.com (10:53 Camila on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FB7M9J6lVos) Immediate Movie Remakes (15:39 @DanTComedy on Twitter) Social Media Without A Middleman (18:31 Dan Thomas) Helper Faires (22:26 @thomaswalma on Twitter, @tomwalma on Instagram) Recorded at PodcastDetroit.com

People with tight space problems will be excited to learn that Whirlpool has solved that particular problem in the laundry room. Without compromising on the size of the interior drum, they have created a combination washer/dryer that does the job of two separate machines quickly and efficiently. It is called the Smart Front Load Washer and Dryer.It has a Load-and-Go feature which is an automatic detergent and fabric softener dispenser. It can hold enough soap for up to 40 loads. It has a sensor to measure how much soap to dispense based on the weight of your laundry. When you are running low on soap or fabric softener, the Whirlpool app can automatically reorder through your Amazon Dash account. It also has the feature to be connected to Wi-Fi so you can control it remotely. You can also get notified on your smartphone when the load is complete so if you are away for the machine, you can still know.The control screen is large enough to read easily and is well-lit with bright colors. That makes it user-friendly and the choices for the cycles are directly available. They have a full-size drum, which is 4.5 cubic feet and is 27" in diameter. They have recently come out with a smaller model of 24". Probably one of the most exciting features is the fact that they are ventless and can be used everywhere, especially since they are powered with a 110-volt plug instead of the old bulky 220-volt version. In having the combination of two big machines into one compact one, there is no problem of losing precious space in your laundry area, so having it where it the most convenient place is a true advantage, especially for apartment dwellers who do not have a dedicated washer and dryer hook-up.The price point is at $2199. For more information go to their website.Interview by Scott Ertz of F5 Live: Refreshing Technology.Sponsored by: Get $5 to protect your credit card information online with Privacy. Amazon Prime gives you more than just free shipping. Get free music, TV shows, movies, videogames and more.

Come check out our new short-form podcast pulled directly from the Tailwind Flash Briefing available on your Amazon Echo enabled device. This week we cover the discontinuation of the Amazon Dash buttons, Google's decision to remove the average position metric in Google Ads, and Instagram's new Local Business pages.

The Bitcoin Foundation in trouble? Are hackerspaces government owned? Also, thoughts on recent Silk Road case developments, an incredible Tool of the Week, and much, much more… Special Guest: Dr. Stephanie Murphy (twitter: @S_Murphy_Phd) Stories of the Week:--Random Access: NEW WEBSITE!!, Something the Stallion learned about cable TV this week, Facebook Scrapbook for kids, April Fool’s Week, the Amazon Dash button, Microsoft is 40, TrueCrypt is mostly okay.--“The Bitcoin Foundation” Link: bit.ly/19RPnrG Tech Roulette:--“Hackerspaces, Science, and the Gov That Owns Them” Link: nyti.ms/1j1kTml Important Messages:--”Self-driving cars and insurance companies? New intros?” Tool of the Week:--“minilock.io” Link: minilock.io/ Hacksec:--”Government Silk Road” Link: bit.ly/1awxrUR The Climax:--“The Libertarian Republic” APPENDIX:--”Help get LRN back on in Africa!” Link: bit.ly/1FuObG7--”Telebit” Link: www.telebit.org/--”Libreboot X200” Link: bit.ly/1FI57ew---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Make easy monthly donations through Patreon: www.patreon.com/sovryntechAnd you can tip me at: sovryntech.tip.me---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NXT: NXT-4V3J-VA4W-4EY3-GUWV2NAMECOIN: NHfN1kpj8G9aUCCHuummBKa8mPvppN1UFaLITECOIN: LLUXwfWrKDpuK38ZnPD14K6zc6rUaRgo9WBITCOIN: 1AEiTkWiF8x6yjQbbhoU89vHHMrkzQ7o8d---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Don’t forget you can e-mail the show at: brian@zomiaofflinegames.comAlso at Protonmail.ch at: anarchy@protonmail.chI’m also on Telegram: @SovrynMinilock.io ID: 67JpL89QkmcJHC9KMGjcNy9VrwsNYDpfCQu9gKXGijVVYBitMessage: BM-NBMFb4W42CqTaonxApmUji1KNbkSESki---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You can also visit our IRC channel on Freenode: #SovrynBalnea---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------www.sovryntech.comwww.twitter.com/sovryntechplus.google.com/+BrianSovryn1i/liberty.me/members/briansovryn/www.facebook.com/BrianSovryninstagram.com/Bsovryn/steamcommunity.com/id/ninjaprogram/

Podcastの概要 このPodCastはIT企業に所属する「めんぼう」と「かんてつ」が好きなサービスやガジェット、エンタメといった幅広いテーマでトークを繰り広げます。テーマはリスナーの皆さんとの「知の共有」。 毎週1回更新予定です。パーソナリティの二人がその週にあったニュースについて議論します！是非聞いてください！ 取り上げたリンク 夏野 剛 Takeshi Natsunoさんのツイート: "最近スマホの名義替えしたので請求書を紙で届くようにしたら、こんなの発見。76歳の母になんてひどい押し売りしてるんだろう。いくら本人同意とはいえ総務省はこういうのをやめさせるべきじゃないのか。もちろん母は契約時のショップ店員トークを覚えてない。OBとして情けない。… https://t.co/TNtpYNKgIH" アマゾン、「Dash」ボタンの販売を終了へ ドイツにて｢Amazon Dashボタンが違法｣との判決が下る | ギズモード・ジャパン NetflixやGoogleアカウントまで共有--個人情報を“渡す”10代 - CNET Japan 採用直結のインターン、政府も禁止要請へ　２１年春入社：朝日新聞デジタル SIMフリースマートフォン端末ラインアップ｜格安SIM/格安スマホのIIJmio 「Excel」がカメラで撮った表をデジタルデータとしてインポート可能に - GIGAZINE パーソナリティサイト めんぼう Twitter: @menbou0202 instagram: @menbou_0202 blog: https://men-bou.net/ かんてつ Twitter: @sskt0809 instagram: @sskt0809 めんてつ広場公式Twitter @mentetsu_hiroba リスナーの皆さまへ もしよろしければiTunes Podcastでレビューを書いていただけると励みになりますので、よろしくお願いします！ またハッシュタグは「#めんてつ広場」です。Tweetなどで感想を呟いて拡散していただけるとさらに嬉しいです！ まだまだ駆け出しの「めんてつ広場」ですが、有益な情報を配信していきますので、どうぞよろしくお願いします。 BGM: Rock Angel by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud/rock-angel

The Bitcoin Foundation in trouble? Are hackerspaces government owned? Also, thoughts on recent Silk Road case developments, an incredible Tool of the Week, and much, much more… Special Guest: Dr. Stephanie Murphy (twitter: @S_Murphy_Phd) Stories of the Week:--Random Access: NEW WEBSITE!!, Something the Stallion learned about cable TV this week, Facebook Scrapbook for kids, April Fool’s Week, the Amazon Dash button, Microsoft is 40, TrueCrypt is mostly okay.--“The Bitcoin Foundation” Link: bit.ly/19RPnrG Tech Roulette:--“Hackerspaces, Science, and the Gov That Owns Them” Link: nyti.ms/1j1kTml Important Messages:--”Self-driving cars and insurance companies? New intros?” Tool of the Week:--“minilock.io” Link: minilock.io/ Hacksec:--”Government Silk Road” Link: bit.ly/1awxrUR The Climax:--“The Libertarian Republic” APPENDIX:--”Help get LRN back on in Africa!” Link: bit.ly/1FuObG7--”Telebit” Link: www.telebit.org/--”Libreboot X200” Link: bit.ly/1FI57ew---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Make easy monthly donations through Patreon: www.patreon.com/sovryntechAnd you can tip me at: sovryntech.tip.me---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NXT: NXT-4V3J-VA4W-4EY3-GUWV2NAMECOIN: NHfN1kpj8G9aUCCHuummBKa8mPvppN1UFaLITECOIN: LLUXwfWrKDpuK38ZnPD14K6zc6rUaRgo9WBITCOIN: 1AEiTkWiF8x6yjQbbhoU89vHHMrkzQ7o8d---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Don’t forget you can e-mail the show at: brian@zomiaofflinegames.comAlso at Protonmail.ch at: anarchy@protonmail.chI’m also on Telegram: @SovrynMinilock.io ID: 67JpL89QkmcJHC9KMGjcNy9VrwsNYDpfCQu9gKXGijVVYBitMessage: BM-NBMFb4W42CqTaonxApmUji1KNbkSESki---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You can also visit our IRC channel on Freenode: #SovrynBalnea---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------www.sovryntech.comwww.twitter.com/sovryntechplus.google.com/+BrianSovryn1i/liberty.me/members/briansovryn/www.facebook.com/BrianSovryninstagram.com/Bsovryn/steamcommunity.com/id/ninjaprogram/

Mobile World Congress is the tech industry's premier event for mobile technology. At this year's MWC19 we saw some great products - here's our rundown of the top tech that caught our eye. Plus our Fast Five: - Our latest 5G Research Study; - Microsoft's new Excel photo feature; - Amazon's new low-cost grocery play; - Samsung's issue with China and IP theft; and - The death of Amazon Dash. Our Tech Bites Topic: It's the US DoJ vs Appeals Court - who wins in the battle over AT&T's acquisition of TimeWarner. Our Crystal Ball: Is Apple too late to the game with 5G devices? This episode features: Daniel Newman (@danielnewmanUV), Fred McClimans (@fredmcclimans), and Olivier Blanchard (@oablanchard). If you haven't already, please subscribe to our show on iTunes or SoundCloud. For inquiries or more information on the show you may email the team at info@futurumresearch.com or follow @FuturumResearch on Twitter and feel free to direct inquires through that channel as well. To learn more about Future research please visit www.futurumresearch.com. Futurum Research is a research and analysis provider, not an investment advisor. The Futurum Tech Podcast is a newsletter/podcast intended for informational use only. Futurum Research does not provide personalized investment advice. No investment advice is offered or implied by this podcast.

What the heck is going on at Zillow? The online real estate giant announced the return of co-founder Rich Barton as CEO, along with a major change in its business model. John Cook and Todd Bishop sort out the news, speculate on the cause, and speculate wildly on what could be next. Plus, Amazon is backing out of a high-profile Seattle skyscraper in the latest sign of its troubled relationship with its hometown. And we say farewell to those cute little Amazon Dash buttons!

ようやく映画「七つの会議」を見てきたので、ネタバレなしでの感想を話してます。 その他「Amazon Dash」ボタン販売中止など。 #ひとり語り #映画 #ITニュース

Featuring: 180byTwo's eCHO, Outdoorsy the AirBnB for RVs, Outer, Tide launches 24/7 laundry service, LG builds Amazon Dash into all appliances, Baidu builds AI cat shelters.  New research from Blis.

Featuring: 180byTwo's eCHO, Outdoorsy the AirBnB for RVs, Outer, Tide launches 24/7 laundry service, LG builds Amazon Dash into all appliances, Baidu builds AI cat shelters.  New research from Blis.

Featuring: Coty's AR smart mirror for hair, JDA + InContext for in-store ops, Postmates gets $100M, Safegraph launches IP-to-Place, Germany says no to Amazon Dash, Walgreens partners with Microsoft.

Featuring: Coty's AR smart mirror for hair, JDA + InContext for in-store ops, Postmates gets $100M, Safegraph launches IP-to-Place, Germany says no to Amazon Dash, Walgreens partners with Microsoft.

- EU-Copyright-Reform und Kollateralschaden für's Internet https://juliareda.eu/2019/01/article-13-almost-finished/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/how-eus-copyright-filters-will-make-it-trivial-anyone-censor-internet https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190112/00014941381/eu-parliament-puts-out-utter-nonsense-defending-copyright-directive.shtml https://act.eff.org/action/germany-help-save-the-internet-from-the-copyright-directive - Amazon Dash Button verboten https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/11/amazon-dash-buttons-judged-to-breach-consumer-rules-in-germany/ - Apple Pay mit gutem Start in Deutschland https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/apple-pay-deutschland-1.4285581 - Paydirekt ohne Wettbewerbsvorteil vor dem Aus? https://www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kommentare/kommentar-die-banken-sollten-sich-von-paydirekt-verabschieden/23872020.html - Nike mit adaptivem Schuh https://www.fastcompany.com/90291303/nikes-big-bet-on-the-future-of-connected-shoes - Instagram: Geld verdienen mit Spammern? https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/15/dont-buy-instagram-followers/ - WeWork: Personal wealth makes the world a better place? https://www.wsj.com/articles/weworks-ceo-makes-millions-as-landlord-to-wework-11547640000 - Hyundai: Auto mit Beinen https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/9/18173742/hyundai-walking-car-concept-elevate-ces-2019 - Netflix Bandersnatch: Wie Filme und Gaming verschmelzen https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/2/18165182/black-mirror-bandersnatch-netflix-interactive-strategy-marketing - Buchempfehlung: Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine (Hannah Fry) Many thanks for the music by Lee Rosevere http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Music_For_Podcasts_5/Lee_Rosevere_-_Music_For_Podcasts_5_-_05_Start_the_Day

Amazon Dash Buttons wurden in Deutschland verboten und die Gorch Fock ist seit Jahren in der Reparatur. Hier ist das Video zur Folge: https://youtu.be/EKj2b0-tSi4

2 shorter posts from Anthony Ongaro of Break the Twitch on intentional purchases and productivity. Episode 649: Amazon Dash: The Button We Don't Need And How to Increase Productivity and Save Money by Anthony Ongaro (Minimal). After years of impulse spending on Amazon and elsewhere, Anthony Ongaro realized that his one-click purchase habits were more of a physical Twitch than an intentional action. It turned out, this Twitch wasn't just limited to online spending. It applied to social media, impulsive smartphone usage, and more. Break the Twitch is all about minimizing distractions and doing more of what matters. Check out Anthony's new book, Break the Twitch: http://breakthetwitch.com/book The original posts are located here: https://www.breakthetwitch.com/amazon-dash-the-twitch-button-we-dont-need https://www.breakthetwitch.com/how-to-increase-productivity Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Podcasts Facebook Group! and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Thank you to ZipRecruiter for sponsoring! Listeners of O.L.D. can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE! Just go to: ZipRecruiter.com/ofd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 shorter posts from Anthony Ongaro of Break the Twitch on intentional purchases and productivity. Episode 649: Amazon Dash: The Button We Don't Need And How to Increase Productivity and Save Money by Anthony Ongaro (Minimal). After years of impulse spending on Amazon and elsewhere, Anthony Ongaro realized that his one-click purchase habits were more of a physical Twitch than an intentional action. It turned out, this Twitch wasn't just limited to online spending. It applied to social media, impulsive smartphone usage, and more. Break the Twitch is all about minimizing distractions and doing more of what matters. Check out Anthony's new book, Break the Twitch: http://breakthetwitch.com/book The original posts are located here: https://www.breakthetwitch.com/amazon-dash-the-twitch-button-we-dont-need https://www.breakthetwitch.com/how-to-increase-productivity Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Podcasts Facebook Group! and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Thank you to ZipRecruiter for sponsoring! Listeners of O.L.D. can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE! Just go to: ZipRecruiter.com/ofd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 shorter posts from Anthony Ongaro of Break the Twitch on intentional purchases and productivity. Episode 649: Amazon Dash: The Button We Don't Need And How to Increase Productivity and Save Money by Anthony Ongaro (Minimal). After years of impulse spending on Amazon and elsewhere, Anthony Ongaro realized that his one-click purchase habits were more of a physical Twitch than an intentional action. It turned out, this Twitch wasn’t just limited to online spending. It applied to social media, impulsive smartphone usage, and more. Break the Twitch is all about minimizing distractions and doing more of what matters. Check out Anthony's new book, Break the Twitch: http://breakthetwitch.com/book The original posts are located here: https://www.breakthetwitch.com/amazon-dash-the-twitch-button-we-dont-need https://www.breakthetwitch.com/how-to-increase-productivity Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Podcasts Facebook Group! and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Thank you to ZipRecruiter for sponsoring! Listeners of O.L.D. can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE! Just go to: ZipRecruiter.com/ofd --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/optimal-finance-daily/support

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As we hurtle toward a world of digital jobs and automated consumerism (hello, Instacart and Amazon Dash), we urbanites who long for a deeper connection to the natural world, to our food sources and to do something real with our own two hands that doesn’t involve the pushing of a button, often think the lifestyle choice has to be either-or: Either we sock those dreams away in the “one day” file and surrender to the economic leviathan of modern city life, or we leave the city (and our livelihoods) behind to pioneer a homestead somewhere out in the country. But seven years ago, Root Simple founders Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne delivered us an alternate path forward with the release of their bestselling book The Urban Homestead and seminal follow-up, Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World. From their hilltop bungalow set on 1/12 acre in Eastside Los Angeles, the pair sparked a DIY revolution -- bringing permaculture front yards, backyard chickens, wild-fermented beer and home-constructed milk crate dry toilets forever into the (almost) mainstream.I’ve been following Erik and Kelly’s work here in LA for nearly a decade now, and was excited to have the opportunity to check in with Erik to hear how far he and Kelly have progressed on the path toward self-reliance, since the book’s release. But as so often happens in these interviews, what transpired turned out to be a much different conversation than the one I had anticipated. Erik and Kelly have faced some serious life circumstances in the past year, and as a result Erik came to our talk with some new truths to reveal about the realities of running an “urban homestead,” the fool’s errand of self-sufficiency, and the real importance of community.

Total Jetsons Moment INTRO Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world. Gadget week! Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next... FEATURE KS's hacked server Linode is awesome Dash Wand Surprise Sweets Dash Button iPad Pro Apple Pencil AirPods TITLES WE CONSIDERED 10 Frequencies Lower Virus Broadcast Nondenominational Garbage Family Lame Little Brother Total Jetsons Moment CLOSING That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog. Bye! POST-SHOW Would you like to see Kelli and I in your inbox once a week? Get new episodes delivered straight to you with show notes, links to additional content, and more... Plus, you can reply to any message to suggest topics for future episodes. To get the inside track, go to terrifyingrobotdog.com and look for the KEEP ME IN THE LOOP button. That url again is terrifyingrobotdog.com.

Eric has a new magic stick and wants to show it off to us all. In other news....Zeff goes to live music, there's some Star Wars chatter and a look at the TV series Fargo. Discussion and music on James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, and My Morning Jacket.

Peter shares his thoughts so far on his new 12.9 iPad Pro and iMac. We both get free Amazon Dash Wands because they can afford to buy Whole Foods and we discuss what we think of the Dash. We cheer about Uber’s CEO finally resigning and then discuss that it’s only superficial as he is still on the board. Peter goes on and on about his love for the Snap Spectacles and Michael judges him the entire time. Meanwhile we discuss Snapchat’s new map feature that neither of us will ever use or care about. Michael guesses how many cameras Peter travels with and it’s way too many. Peter got a little bit of time with the new Surface Laptop and shockingly enjoyed the quality. We get way too excited about the newest emojis that were just announced and decided that we both dig the T-Rex the most. Nokia officially takes over all of the Withings product line and we dive into what we hope to see come from the acquisition. Links and Show Notes: iPad Pro - https://apple.com/ipad-pro iMac 2017 - https://apple.com/imac Amazon Dash Wand with Alexa - http://amzn.to/2vp9id9 Promo for free Dash Wand - http://amzn.to/2vp9vwX Amazon buys Whole Foods for 13.4 Billion - http://nyti.ms/2uvqq4B Uber CEO Resigns - http://nyti.ms/2uvKuUq Snap Spectacles - http://amzn.to/2uMnbVN Snapchat Map Feature - http://bit.ly/2teOJDo Microsoft Surface Laptop - http://amzn.to/2tW70Ew 56 New Emoji - http://bit.ly/2uqpzkI Nokia (formally Withings) Body Cardio - http://amzn.to/2uqMvjF Social: Twitter: https://twitter.com/futurefeaturefm Facebook: https://facebook.com/futurefeaturefm Instagram: https://instagram.com/futurefeaturefm Patreon: https://patreon.com/futurefeature

After a brief discussion about Amazon Dash buttons and Kenny hanging out with fellow YouTuber Adam the Woo, Kenny and Brandon talk about Christopher Walken's subtle, yet complex performance as a crime boss in the well-made drama "King of New York."

Between mud covered jeans and Amazon Dash for underwear, we are pretty confident that retailers are losing it. Coach is shrinking to grow (this was recorded right before the recent acquisition). Amazon Echo can now judge your fashion. Like what you hear? Subscribe and review on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brickdatacast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brickdatacast/support

Kyle's on vacation, Michael has some exciting news and Cody's iPhone corner. The shift back to analog and physical products controlling digital systems. We demonstrate our lack of Amazon Dash knowledge. Simplify the relationship to our phones including the return of retro mobile phones. Cody creates UberTap; vaporware to solve his busy airport schedule. A debate on efficient experiences through single and passive interactions. Innovating on every day items and daily interactions. And finally, what's happening with conversation design/voice ui.

Today's EpisodeNetflix blunder is nothing new now. This is the same thing every business is doing. Hate a specific group because it is socially acceptable. The best argument is that if you did this to any other group, that would be horrible. However, why is it acceptable to do it to white people? Netflix should be prepared for some loss in subscribers and a hit in their revenue. People will vote with their wallets. Be prepared.Twitter looks to be marching towards censorship. This is looking more like a full control on what people can say on their network. Funny thing, when they were new, they wanted public discourse. Now, they would rather tell you it's not good. Show Timeline:Android Wear 2.0 and new smartwatches are comingOver half internet traffic come from botsMicrosoft to do a slight design refresh for Windows 10Traveling to the US, well, you could be asked for your social media accountsSenator Warren “silenced” took to Facebook LiveNetflix, this is going to hurtPinterest launches new toolsFacebook lite growsAhhh Facebook, this may not go wellFlipboard 4.0 and fake newsThere's a hacked Amazon Dash for the ACLUSnapchat IPOPeriscope head now oversees all live on TwitterAMD Ryzen newsGoogle Pixel audio bug fixedTwitter marches towards censorship5G is coming soonGoogle release data on its Android versionsYouTue live being pushed to more usersThe iPhone could cost over 1,000 dollarsThere could be new Macbooks comingApps/Programs to try this week:Flipboard 4.0Quip 5.0Paws from TrelloFlashHero KeyboardHighlights from the Show:US government you are telling potential terrorist to never use their social media accounts because you watch them.Twitter use to be about expressing your ideas, now it's about being safe.Flipboard, creating echo chambers is why fake news is a big problem. You are the problem.Netflix this going to hurt you.Support:Like these podcasts? Support me on Podbean and Patreon!Community:Join the Slack and Discord community to talk about tech, marketing, and gaming! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

En el anterior podcast os contaba que me había comprado un Amazon Dash, y hoy os vengo a contar como es la experiencia tras haberlo usado. Por otro lado, me tendréis que perdonar el rant del comienzo con respecto a la compra de Pebble por parte de Fitbit, pero es que me toca muy hondo. Aunque no quiero haceros pasar por el castigo de poner valoraciones en iTunes si queréis ponerlas yo no puedo evitarlo, pero en cualquier caso se agradecen comentarios en donde mejor os venga (ivoox,podkas,tiempoescaso.es…) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/disperso/message

Privacy Week zum Nachschauen; Chaos Computer Club Wien; Metalab; Buch Networks of Control von Wolfie Christl und Sarah Spiekermann; AJAX; WebSockets; Elixir; Phoenix Framework; Turbolinks; Vienna BEAMers; Knockout Javascript mit MVVM Pattern; IT-Keller Facebook-Seite; Aua-Uff-Code Podcast Folge 12 "Hardwareprojekte"; Amazon Dash und Raspberry Pi; Amazon Dash Button Fun; Flic Button; Spiegel mit Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror bzw. Smart Mirror; Mica, the Hipster Cat Chat Bot; The MAZE Chatbot; Microsoft Bot Framework; Textadventure "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"; Leisure Suit Larry; A.I. Experiments; Linq VR/AR Brille; Magic Leap; Sticker bei Flyeralarm gedruckt; Jekyll Static Website Generator unterstützt jetzt Themes; Podigee Podcast Player; Nitzer Ebb - Let Your Body Learn; Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg; Miniatur Tirolerland Gäste: Bernhard, Martin (@leyrer), Stefan, Ulrich

Hello les amis, Je m'appelle Stéphane et je suis passionné de high-tech depuis très longtemps... Je réalise des tests, comparatifs et donne mon avis sur cette univers qui change sans arrêt..

Retour cette semaine sur le rappel des Karma de GoPro, la sortie des Amazon Dash Buttons et des Snapchat Spectacles.

Dans cet épisode, nous avons fait venir Julien Lausson, journaliste chez Numerama, afin de nous éclairer sur la mise en place de TES, le fichier qui collecte les données de 60 millions de français. Bonne émission ! 1. Connaissez-vous TES ? Un méga-fichier à la mise en place controversé Le fichage biométrique des français en 7 questions Quel est l’objectif du gouvernement ? Ce que ça change, avant, après la mise en place Pourquoi c’est contestable, comment pourrait-on mieux faire/faire autrement 2. Et voici l’avenir des Mac Qui veut des nouveaux Mac avec leurs nouvelles specs et leurs nouveaux prix ? Ne serait-ce pas la confirmation qu’un ordinateur, c’est finalement réservé aux usages bien spécifiques des pros et que le commun des mortels n’a finalement besoin que d’une tablette ou d’un smartphone ? Ou bien alors les Mac Pro sont aussi "Pro" que … la PS4 Pro ? On baisse le prix des adaptateurs ! 3. Et voici l’avenir des PC Touch bar ? Pffff… Microsoft l’a fait avant. Na. Windows 10 "Creator Update" Les Surface Studios ? Avec un potentiomètre ! C’est malade ! Des casques VR comme s’il en pleuvait : Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus … ! 4. Et aussi... Les boutons Amazon Dash arrivent en France : les précommandes sont ouvertes ! Rien que pour vos yeux : Google rachète Eyefluence. Après le rachat de VIV par Samsung, le S8 proposera l’assistant vocal. Scoumoune : Samsung rappelle 2.8M de … lave linge. Quand ça veut pas… Parviendront-ils à se refaire en Chine ? Nous Veyron bien. Après le Go, plus fun : Starcraft II. L’IA vaincra-t-elle ? (spoiler : oui, probablement) Puberté : Yahoo crée une IA obsédée sexuelle. Netflix hors-ligne arrivera bien… mais probablement pour les marchés émergents Elon Musk a de bonnes raisons pour comprendre ce qui fait exploser Space X Tesla se lance dans les tuiles solaires et il faudra payer les recharges Tesla. Intel s’envoie en l’air : 500 de ses drones volent en formation … lumineuse. YouTube en HDR Le saviez-vous ? Il existe déjà une évolution du SMS/MMS, c’est le RCS ! enfin un déploiement systématique chez Sprint ? (et en France aussi, c’est joyn !) Bonus : Tom : [Mini Metro(https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/mini-metro/id837860959?mt=8) Guillaume Poggiaspalla : Xenorace PC sur itch.io ! Guillaume : [Swift Playgrounds(http://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/), Drivy, Brothers : a tale of two sons (malgré les bugs) Participants : Julien Lausson, sur numerama et sur Twitter : @foxteh Tom Conte (@oxide) Guillaume Poggiaspalla, sur sur itch.io ! Et sur la Nintendo Switch ? Présenté par Guillaume Vendé (@guillaumevende sur Twitter) et sur Facebook avec une nouvelle page dédiée à mes activités en podcast ; dans un podcast (streetcast) plus intimiste : "La voix de Guillaume"

Sommaire Techscope 346 : - Pourquoi l'élection de Trump fait paniquer la Silicon Valley - Le site canadien de l'immigration a crashé (lien avec l'article précédent ?) - Samsung présente ses plates excuses (références aux Galaxy Note 7 et machines à laver) - Cazeneuve maintient le fichage TES mais accepte d'en débattre - GoPro continue sa descente aux enfers avec des rappels des Karma - Snapchat ajoute une fonctionnalité Lens - Discount secret d'iPhone par Apple - Arrivée du bouton Amazon Dash en France Techscope est une émission quotidienne qui parle de technologie. C'est une revue de presse des meilleurs articles que nous retenons pour nos Flipboards. Enregistré en Live à 08h00 (heure de Paris) tous les matins de la semaine sur Periscope et disponible en Replay sur sa propre chaîne YouTube (indépendante de notre chaine principale, nowtechTV). ●♦● ABONNEZ-VOUS à nowtechTV ! : http://bit.ly/19lUGZZ ●♦● Tests video d'applications mobiles et tech ●♦● SOUTENEZ LA CHAINE : https://www.tipeee.com/nowtechtv ●♦● ↓ PLUS D'INFOS ↓ ------------ Nos Flipboards --------------------------------------------------------- ►nowtech.tv : https://flipboard.com/@jkeinborg/nowtechtv-ogcbmgbby ►SHOOT : https://flipboard.com/@jkeinborg/nowtechtv-shoot-p3e5vba1y ------------ Suivez NowTech.tv ---------------------------------------------------- ► Twitter : https://twitter.com/NowTechTV ► Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Nowtechtv ►►► EN LIVE tout les matins ! #techscope : https://periscope.tv/@nowtechTV Nowtech.tv, chaîne indépendante de tests d'applications mobile et de Tech, est présentée par des passionnés qui partagent leurs avis, astuces et conseils. L'idée derrière nowtech.tv c'est de vous offrir des tests soignés et divertissants, pas forcément liés à l'actualité et aux nouveautés, mais avec un vrai ton « homemade ». Nous pensons fondamentalement qu'il est important, en tant que consommateurs, qu'un maximum de personnes s'expriment sur les produits et nous avons voulu apporter notre pierre à l'édifice.

Try as you might, there’s just no escaping this episode! We begin with some breaking (baking?) potato news that proves you can have your cake and not eat it too. Scott is three-sheds to the wind as a powerful sheddiction takes hold of his family. Will Santa’s little helper win the battle of rooftop décor? Who will be forced to live above Mr. C’s garage? I shedder to think of it. We shed just move on. William gets some much needed advice on the art of taking vacations from the irreplaceable Master we’d all love to replace. We rant about the latest harbinger of the End of Days - the Amazon DASH button and find that we have more questions than answers. William shares a story of not escaping an escape room, which prompts Scott to up the ante in a NSFER way before suggesting an idea that hits a bit too close to home. Turns out there’s no escaping the enigma of parenthood. We end with Music in Rearview as we visit with the Sith Lord Roy Clark (Darth Fingers) for 37 minutes of pleasure wrapped up in a 36.73-minute shell. All this for under a buck! Impressive. Most impressive. We delve into the mystery that is Hee-Haw and the mystery that is Roy Clark’s impending non-death before William has some kind of podcasting meltdown and we decide to get out while the getting is good.

In dieser Folge geht es unter anderem um:- O2 und das "Ende" der Drosselung von mobilen Daten- ARD, ZDF und der Beitragsservice - Amazon Dash und Echo und deren Beziehungen zur Verbraucherzentrale- explodierende Samsung Note 7- Rückblick auf die IFA 2016DownloadArchive.orgRSS Podcast-FeediTunesTuneInTwitter

Im pickepackevollen neuen c't uplink im XXL-Format, der diesmal über eine Stunde dauert, widmen wir uns einem der Aufreger der vergangenen Woche: die fehlende Kopfhörerbuchse am neuen iPhone 7. Hannes Czerulla hat es schon getestet und sagt uns, was Apples neues Smartphone taugt – und ob er den fehlenden Anschluss nun als Nachteil oder Fortschritt sieht. Holger Bleich hat acht Web-Hoster getestet und erklärt, wie viel man von den Paketen für rund 10 Euro pro Monat erwarten darf. Spoiler: Verblüffend viel! Aber natürlich haben auch die nicht nur Vorteile. Zum Schluss sprechen Jan-Keno Janssen und Volker Zota über neue Dinger von Amazon: Den Dash Button, mit dem man sich auf Knopfdruck Klopapier liefern lassen kann – auch ins Studio – und die charmante digitale Assistentin "Alexa", die ab Oktober auch deutschen Sprachbefehlen gehorchen soll. Mit dabei: Volker Zota, Holger Bleich, Jan-Keno Janssen und Hannes Czerulla Die c't 20/16 gibt's am Kiosk, im heise Shop und digital in der c't-App für iOS und Android. Alle früheren Episoden unseres Podcasts gibt es unter www.ct.de/uplink

Im pickepackevollen neuen c't uplink im XXL-Format, der diesmal über eine Stunde dauert, widmen wir uns einem der Aufreger der vergangenen Woche: die fehlende Kopfhörerbuchse am neuen iPhone 7. Hannes Czerulla hat es schon getestet und sagt uns, was Apples neues Smartphone taugt – und ob er den fehlenden Anschluss nun als Nachteil oder Fortschritt sieht. Holger Bleich hat acht Web-Hoster getestet und erklärt, wie viel man von den Paketen für rund 10 Euro pro Monat erwarten darf. Spoiler: Verblüffend viel! Aber natürlich haben auch die nicht nur Vorteile. Zum Schluss sprechen Jan-Keno Janssen und Volker Zota über neue Dinger von Amazon: Den Dash Button, mit dem man sich auf Knopfdruck Klopapier liefern lassen kann – auch ins Studio – und die charmante digitale Assistentin "Alexa", die ab Oktober auch deutschen Sprachbefehlen gehorchen soll. Mit dabei: Volker Zota, Holger Bleich, Jan-Keno Janssen und Hannes Czerulla Die c't 20/16 gibt's am Kiosk, im heise Shop und digital in der c't-App für iOS und Android. Alle früheren Episoden unseres Podcasts gibt es unter www.ct.de/uplink

Im pickepackevollen neuen c't uplink im XXL-Format, der diesmal über eine Stunde dauert, widmen wir uns einem der Aufreger der vergangenen Woche: die fehlende Kopfhörerbuchse am neuen iPhone 7. Hannes Czerulla hat es schon getestet und sagt uns, was Apples neues Smartphone taugt – und ob er den fehlenden Anschluss nun als Nachteil oder Fortschritt sieht. Holger Bleich hat acht Web-Hoster getestet und erklärt, wie viel man von den Paketen für rund 10 Euro pro Monat erwarten darf. Spoiler: Verblüffend viel! Aber natürlich haben auch die nicht nur Vorteile. Zum Schluss sprechen Jan-Keno Janssen und Volker Zota über neue Dinger von Amazon: Den Dash Button, mit dem man sich auf Knopfdruck Klopapier liefern lassen kann – auch ins Studio – und die charmante digitale Assistentin "Alexa", die ab Oktober auch deutschen Sprachbefehlen gehorchen soll. Mit dabei: Volker Zota, Holger Bleich, Jan-Keno Janssen und Hannes Czerulla Die c't 20/16 gibt's am Kiosk, im heise Shop und digital in der c't-App für iOS und Android. Alle früheren Episoden unseres Podcasts gibt es unter www.ct.de/uplink

Första avsnittet av podden E-handelstrender med Urban Lindstedt, journalist och e-handelsexpert, Carin Blom, detaljhandelsexpert på Postnord och Christer Pettersson, e-handelschef på Arvato vrider och vänder på. Vi vrider och vänder på nyheterna om att Amazon Dash kommer till Europa, Coops nya smarta matkasse och Daniel Wellingtons popup-butik på Arlanda.

This week Ashleigh Allsopp is simultaneously fascinated and worried by the UK launch of Amazon's Dash buttons, and discusses the many wonderful and not-so-wonderful things they enable you to buy on a drunken whim. Then David Price takes his turn to shine a spotlight on Apple's mysterious tax affairs (12:20) and tries to explain why the Irish government doesn't want to be given 13 billion euros. Finally a surprisingly riled-up Neil Bennett explains why women wearing headphones are not fair game for dimwitted pick-up artists (25:00), and ponders the social conventions surrounding the place of technology in each of our lives. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hola one and all! I'm back from my holidays. I've got peeling shoulders. And I'm ready to waffle. This week's onomatopoeia-themed Freewheelin' Bashmore Show has tales of my Spain misadventures. Including plane armrest battles, ad attempting to wear vests. Plus, ideas for my Amazon Dash button, The Crystal Maze and rude sounding onomatopoeias. Come get some @Bashmore

The Burkini, The Ford Mustang, The BBC and Amazon Dash all feature in this weeks James Whale Radio Show. Plus some of your questions for the Whale. Music by The Good Water Show sort of Produced by Rob Oldfield Download the mp3 Mobile Phones – If the audio isn’t playing ...

*Note this version corrects corrupted file issue of previous version. Sorry about that - Nate* THIS WEEK ON TECH'S MESSAGE Nate and Ian discuss the so-called "PokeRave" that took place for the first time in central London, where obsessive Pokemon Go fans gathered to compete for prizes and glory; and as the BBC switches on subtitling for its live broadcasts online, we look at how these speedy closed captions are produced; plus Amazon is bringing its strange grocery-ordered Dash gadget to Britain while simultaneously getting a partnership with the Government granted to test its delivery drones across the United Kingdom. All that, plus a review of the rebooted BBC Robot Wars. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's show, we talk Pokemon Go and how it has taken Matt prisoner. Then, we’ll discuss the Salesforce Lightning Experience and why you should take a second look. Finally, we'll share the best career advice we’ve ever been given.   LINKS and ENDORSEMENTS Pokemon Go stats- http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0726/Pokemon-Go-hits-75-million-downloads-breaking-all-records   Jenny Lawson’s PokemonGo Experience – http://thebloggess.com/2016/07/25/stop-judging-me-im-already-judging-myself-enough-and-im-fine-except-that-im-surrounded-by-rats-the-usual/    Get to know the Lightning Experience - http://www.salesforce.com/campaigns/lightning   Stranger Things trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxyRG_tckY   Amazon Dash buttons - https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_1_1_hso_sc_smartcategory_1?rh=n%3A12007646011%2Ck%3Adash+buttons&keywords=dash+buttons&ie=UTF8&qid=1469553297&sr=8-1-acs   JetBlue Pump Up snack box - http://www.jetblue.com/flying-on-jetblue/snacks-and-drinks/  

Advances in IoT commerce are still in the developing stage but have significant potential for retailers and shoppers alike. The retailer that has a head start on IoT commerce is Amazon with its Dash and Echo device. Although shoppers have been slow to adopt IoT commerce habits, Amazon and others as well as key tech giants are continuing to invest in their respective programs. IoT commerce is projected to become increasingly integrated into the daily activities of shoppers and is likely where the future of retail is headed.   

We're getting geeky and talking tech, social media, and more with the local nerds that use it on AwesomeCast 300! We're recording the show in 360 video with the Samsung Gear 360! How has Chilla's experience with it been? Katie discusses what she learned today about mobile friendly websites and a handy tool to test them. Chilla loves the concept of Google Duo. But do we need yet another app to talk? We touch on some of Google I/O's bigger announcements including Google Assistant, Allo, Google Home, and more. Twitter's new character system gives you more room. Amazon Dash is now available to do anything with! Pornhub wants to get you fit with bang.fit (NSFW) After the show remember to: Eat at Slice on Broadway if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Follow these awesome people on Twitter: Katie Dudas (@kdudders, Scarehouse.com) John Chichilla (@chilla , chillatech.net) and Mike Sorg (@Sorgatron, SorgatronMedia.com). Thanks to our Awesome Patreons @ThistleSea and @MikeFedorShow! You can support the show too at Patreon.com/awesomecast ! Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.net for more entertainment; and view us livestreaming Tuesdays around 6:30 PM EST!

It's a two week late episode of LAPC about April fool's day pranks! (Whoops). WE also get into Derek's new found love of the Amazon Dash button, Kirsten's olive oil tasting experience and Caitlin's newest emoji app (hint- it has a lot of egg plants in it.) We finally round up the show with coolest guy, what's in the hat, and weekly faves! Don’t forget to rate and subscribe in iTunes! Our twitter: @LandAPopCulture Our facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liveandactivepopculture Our email: liveandactivepopculture@gmail.com

We are the #1 disabled satirical news program  in the world (65,000 and Counting) that provides uncensored news on numerous topics worldwide.   AMCPress & Co is the brainchild of Redhood and Alison.  Johnnie is our resident Tech Wizard. Redhood is our resident international news satirist along with Alison who is the feeder of jokes and frank opinions.  Tonight's episode: We are discussing how Microsoft had to apologizes for a bot that they created that went bad. Our next topic is about an Ohio disability rights group who is suing the state of Ohio. Our next topic relates to how Amazon Dash now is including comdons on their Amazon Dash. Our last  topic of the night relates to Mr. Trumps star on the Hollywood walk a fame. AMCPress & Co is also apart of the Uncensored Radio Network on Blog Talk Radio. You can find out more about Uncensored Radio at https://www.facebook.com/UncensoredTalk/timeline. Check out our new website at amcpressandco.com. ** Some Media  (sound effects, news clips and other sounds. etc) is protected by Fair Use. Beginning theme song is composed by Redhood & Alison and is owned by AMCPress&Co Digital Entertainment. All rights Reserved.©  No copyright infringement intended**

Dave and Chuck talk about a guy who had a bullet lodged in his testicle after his wife shot him, police in Canada on the lookout for the “garlic butter” bandit, the Amazon Dash button that lets you instantly order household items, worst way you messed up your car trying to DIY a repair, a bar that installed a ball pit for adults, a dude busted with 1400 things in his body, and more!

Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Services, Coca-Cola, AlphaGo Computer, Julia Child, Twitch, PBS, Amazon Dash, Saving phone power. Let's learn something about our own businesses through these blogging, social media, and tech news.

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: iPhones, politics, politics with iPhones; glibc, containers, containers with glibc; Azure, Red Hat, Azure with Red Hat. Freeblade rules everything around Gunnar The new Remember The Milk is here! Speaking of bad product management, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline an object lesson in the relationship between marketing and product management Instructable: Control a Cockroach with Arduino for under $30 Raspberry Pi repurposed into automated complaining machine FCC speed test app Local police wrestle with success of license plate camera system D&G This Week in Security Through Obscurity Ashley Madison Offering Profile Photo Masks, Rendering Users Completely Unrecognizable To Their Loved Ones HT Mrs. Egts: Stick shift foils would-be Cleveland carjackers Don’t time travel with iOS devices Apple Encryption “Debate” Apple Admits Mistake for ‘Error 53’ iPhone Bricking, Offers Fix D&G Mailbag: Jim Wildman asks for our opinion on Amazon Dash Hackable: Build your own poop database with Amazon Dash Install your own code: Dash Hacking: Bare-Metal STM32 Programming Internet of Things to be used as spy tool by governments: US intel chief Ghost Fleet Hacked Toy Company VTech’s TOS Now Says It’s Not Liable for Hacks Husband learns wife is pregnant from her Fitbit data HT Kevin Chin and Erich Morisse: The new frontier of voter tracking He Said He Was An Undecided Iowan Until He Received This Controversial Mailer From Ted Cruz. 4USXUS Is Your One-Stop Shop For Keeping Up With Your Congressional Representatives Not cool: Hackers demand $3m bitcoin ransom from hospital to unlock vital files Dave on #OpenOrgChat on February 18 and later this year! glibc will destroy your containers from the inside RHEL on Azure Google and Red Hat announce cloud-based scalable file servers White House publishes 2016 and 2017 budget on Github and Medium (h/t matt.micene) Online No One Knows You’re Dead What’s the Stuff Between the Wafers of a Kit Kat? Cutting Room Floor Build your own Arduino-powered virtual reality cycling experience for $40 These LED Lamps Run on Candle Power Subtitled R2-D2 is Bitterly Sarcastic Run DOS-era viruses in your web browser with the Internet Archive’s Malware Museum Internet Archive Does Windows: Hundreds of Windows 3.1 Programs Join the Collection 24 Things You’ll Find In Every Hipster Restaurant For Sale: Nuclear bunker in Northern Ireland Epic ‘Frinkiac’ Search Engine Matches Any Simpsons Quote With Its Still This Boulder Has a Hidden Wi-Fi Router That Needs Fire to Turn On Snoop Dogg Stars in Burger King Training Video Robotic limb turns drummer into three-armed musical cyborg Watch 540 Robots Perform a Synchronized Dance Routine Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” Played By An Actual Rose Bush Scratch-And-Sniff Posters Help Mask the Smells of NYC Subways How to Spam People via Telegram, According to a 1928 Handbook Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home – could be a scam Space travel posters from JPL The National Archives Has Released a Coloring Book of Retro Patents So, Dutch Cops Are Teaching Majestic Eagles to Hunt Drones Man’s best friend for conference calls Scalia wordplay is fun. (h/t ghelleks) now I’m fascinated by the idea of machine pareidolia (h/t matt.micene) How am I just now learning about the Falkirk Wheel? (h/t ghelleks) To solve my OPM grievances, I’m securing the services of this attorney. (h/t ghelleks) 5 Ways Companies Manufacture Happiness (h/t davidegts) Are these the permissions that you would expect from a emoji keyboard? (h/t uzoma) “We can safely assume that people sharing an Ubuntu docker based container know and trust one another, and their use of Ubuntu is explicitly covered as personal use in our policy.” (h/t matt.micene)   We Give Thanks The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! Jim Wildman, Kevin Chin, Mrs. Egts and  for the mailbag items!

Im zweiten Teil mit Sarik Weber schauen wir in die ferne Zukunft. Wir reden wir über Smart Harbour und den vernetzten Hamburger Hafen. Wie kann eine Stadt oder ein Land die Datenhoheit zurückgewinnen? Wir philosophieren über die Verbreitung der Technik und wie diese unsere Welt besser machen kann, egal ob Artensterben oder Klimawandel. Welche Technologien sind heute schon da und wie werden sie genutzt?  Was ist das Apartimentum und wie werden wir das Zusammenspiel von Leben und Arbeit koordinieren? Was sind Alexa, Amazon Dash oder Amazon Echo? Inwiefern kommen bald Drohnen zum Einsatz? www.brightnewfuture.de #BNF  

This week on AwesomeCast 280, we're talking about awesome things in technology, including: Back from holiday hiatus and getting ready for the first Awesome Cast of the New Year with Chilla and Rob Johnston! Rob is sharing his Awesome Thing Of The Week - HOVERBOARDS! Did you know our Rob is an internet star with his gif! http://gph.is/1Pv6s9f?tc=1 We can't stop watching hover board fails while we're delving into our discussion on this week's show. Chilla's Awesome Thing Of The Week is CES 2016 the Samsung Smart TV. Sorg is sharing his love of the Pebble Time update and functionality for his watch. Sorg is now sharing his Awesome Thing Of The Week the Livestream Movi camera. Return to the hoverboard discussion leads to a shoutout to our friend Lokay and his nice video. We're talking about Adobe Post and the ease of design via an app. Sorg approves. Our App Of The Week is Aipoly. Aimed at the blind it identifies objects in front of them through their phone. Question Of The Episode from Rob - Can Aipoly tell whether the dress is black and blue or white and gold? Discussing Samsung Gear VR in the real world. We're heading into some CES 2016 discussion. Star Wars watch from Sphero lets you control BB-8 with force gestures. (Geeks everywhere rejoice!) LG and Samsung are putting tablets into refrigerators, washing machines, and dryers. Hmm. Amazon Dash built in with Whirlpool appliances? (Yes, please.) Our ease of access delivery service discussion has turned to Pittsburgh with talk about Postmates integration. Talking about how tech has evolved to the point it is now included as standard in our cars. After the show remember to: Eat at Slice on Broadway if you are in the Pittsburgh area! It is Awesome! (sliceonbroadway.com) Follow these awesome people on Twitter: John Chichilla (@chilla), Rob Johnston (@RobOnTheRun) and Mike Sorg (@sorgatron). Thanks to our Awesome Patreons @ThistleSea & @MikeFedorShow! You can support the show too at Patreon.com/awesomecast ! Also, check out sorgatronmedia.com and awesomecast.net for more entertainment; and view us livestreaming Tuesdays around 6:30 PM EST!

This week on the Random Assault Podcast, we cringe at public proposals, get mad at Nintendo games, wonder why the Amazon Dash button exists, go over actors doing weird roles for who they are, and talk about Zubaz pants. Because this is Random Assault, and we talk about Zubaz pants. SEGMENT 1: - Yoshi's Woolly World - Public proposals - Splatoon SEGMENT 2: - Getting reported on Facebook - Guitar Hero Live - Harmonix people found leaving positive Amazon reviews - Amazon Dash Button - Back to the Future happened - There's a character in Sonic Runners named Boob - We literally read the news - Actor role quiz SEGMENT 3: - Our podcast will never matter - Zubaz pants - Fatal Frame V - Martian - Space talk

On continue avec l'hommage à (feu) GameCraft (qui ne parle pas trop de jeu vidéo ni de MineCraft) avec Call Of Gaming qui ne parle pas non plus trop de jeu vidéo ni de Call of Duty... Mais de la technologie... et de la bonne humeur. Notes d'émission : L’initiative de la semaine:le 27/24 qui parodie (utiliser pour expliquer le concept?) Les news gaming de 2015?Dailymotion se lance dans le gaming. : http://press.dailymotion.com/fr/2015/01/14/dailymotion-lance-dailymotion-games-la-nouvelle-plateforme-de-streaming-dediee-aux-gamers/Youtube Gaming ? les news high-tech de 2015?Batterie tesla ?L’arrivée des podcast sur les sites musique en streaming ?L’explosion de l’IoT (internet of things)AMAZON DASH le dossier de l’annéeloi renseignement.

On this weeks LAPC we discuss our favorite "Pop Culture Comfort Food"- TV, Movies and Music that we can always consume that makes us feel good. We also breakdown the Amazon Dash button, Kirsten explains what youtube Red is, and whether we will be seeing a youtuber civil war in the near future. Finally, and most surprisingly, Pete Chaunce brought a story for us to discuss that he didn't get from Yahoo news! Also, we have a new sound system, so enjoy our dulcet tones!   Don’t forget to rate and subscribe in iTunes! Our twitter: @LandAPopCulture Our facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liveandactivepopculture Our email: liveandactivepopculture@gmail.com  

In dieser Folge hat Philipp die Rolle des Host. Mit sehr viel Freude gehen wir dieses mal durch die neuen AGB's von Spotify und erfinden eine App für Amazon Dash. Wir erfreuen uns an Nachthemden für Männer und installieren WhatsApp Web. Erfreut euch mit an dieser Folge. 00:00:00.000 Es geht los 00:07:45.156 Spotify aktualisiert AGB 00:15:52.297 Contigo Trinkflasche 00:26:22.229 Onhub von Google 00:33:36.041 Amazon Dash 00:44:45.588 Update für Fire TV und Fire TV Stick 00:47:53.218 Das Nachthemd!!! 00:53:18.850 Stromstoß 00:56:24.738 Apple vs Samsung: Geschmacksmuster 01:05:15.413 WhatsApp Web mit iPhone 01:16:41.067 Everquest 2: Gefängnisserver Drunder 01:32:02.021 #cccamp15 01:42:01.697 Hacking Drone 01:48:13.691 Der Satz am Ende

In this episode, Mike talks about: -Google becomes Alphabet, what does that mean for Nest? -Ben Kaufman is out at Quirky, what does it mean for Wink? -The Amazon Dash button is available to all -The new Lowe's Iris hub is coming and Mike has a few suggestions... In the second half of the show, Mike talks to smart home designer and consultant Sam Buckby about his new book, Home with a Heartbeat. You can find more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf Check out Mike's conference on the future of the connected kitchen at www.smartkitchensummit.com http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

Dan and Eric talk about McDonald's, Tom Brady, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Cecil the lion, escelator death, elevator, Amazon Dash, Satanic statue, Rosemary's Baby, Casablanca,  Watch,  TV, Big Ass Spider, The Babadook, Sherlock, Horehead, Mythbusters, Breaking Bad, Metallica, Neurosis, Frank Zappa, Steve Miller, Queenryche, Iron Maiden, Dream Theather, Meytal, Dark Was The Night, Jennifer's Body, and Blood Meridian

This week on Supercharged we’re talking about Windows 10, Amazon Dash buttons, and drugs. We had lots of guests this week! In addition to Alan Henry and Darren Herczeg, we also had the pleasure of talking to Michael Brandt and Geoffrey Woo of Nootrobox.

今回のPodcastはマークアップエンジニアの久保さん(こじかさん)をお迎えして マークアップエンジニアはどんなことを考えて実装をしているのかの 話をしました。 [今回の内容] * そろそろPodcastのゲストをslackで募る * マークアップエンジニアになるまでの道のり * CSSおじさん * CSSおじさんは2人いる * JSおじさん * フロントエンドエンジニアの高齢化 * フェスの客も高齢化? * フロントエンドは団塊が引退するとやばい * WebAssemblyがやばい * 新しい技術・家族は大事 * 『普通のやつらの下を行け』 * CSSは、あと10年食っていける。WebAssemblyがくるまでは。 * いまNode.jsやってます * スマホのおかげでIEが切れた * マークアップエンジニア(CSSおじさん)のロードマップ * マークアップエンジニア(CSSおじさん)の必要なスキル 1. 書籍でも端折られるような基本的なことを知っている 2. 仕様書を読む (http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/) 3. ブラウザのユーザーエージェントスタイルシートを一通り覚える * 書籍の寄稿の仕方 * http://schema.org/ * schema.org は英単語が難しすぎる * CSS版のサイ本 http://amzn.to/1e9gfps * google tone(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-tone/nnckehldicaciogcbchegobnafnjkcne?hl=ja)は位置情報を使っていた * CSSは正解がわからない * 『CSSは定義である』 * CSSプリプロセッサ * 正解はブラウザ * Chrom の 0.016pxバグ (http://digiper.com/topics/article/484.shtml) * 情報はtwitterから流れてきた -> CSSおじさんをフォローしよう * Blinkとかのフォーラムを読む * なぜ若者はマークアップを離れているか * 動かすことと、仕様書読むのを繰り返す * ブラウザのユーザーエージェントスタイルシートを覚えればReset CSSを使わずに済む * http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/ * 適材適所 * チームでのCSSのメンテナンスコスト * http://brackets.io/ のようにツールがもっと進化すればCSSはまだいける * お値段以上 * ニコニコ直販 * ファミマ「銀聯カード」拡充 (http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASDZ12HUZ_T10C15A6TJC000/) * Amazon Dash (https://fresh.amazon.com/dash/) * Amazon Dashみたいなのを妄想する

Google's Chromebit, the latest Star Wars trailer, the new Amazon Dash button, Tidal's music service (and our philosophy around music patronage), and the latest Space X Falcon launch. See this webisode on youtube at https://youtu.be/kbwgr4h62LQ

This episode, we dug into our concerns after all the Apple Watch reviews came out with a couple of our favorite iOS developers: Caleb Davenport and Jake Marsh. This episode was completely ridiculous and fun (even moreso if you caught the Periscope livestream featuring the inimitable Marc Hemeon). We discuss the models that each of us pre-ordered as well as Amazon Dash and our most-hoped-for features of the Apple Watch when it finally comes out!

Todd testifies before Congress on Patent Trolls to help small businesses while Oscar buys an Apple Watch to help our economy.  Listen to the tech show that cares.  We also discuss the Tidal Music Store, Amazon Dash, Facebook Payments, and our Favorite Apps.

Venyu: Cars, Amazon Dash, Redditt Button, Happy 40th Microsoft

Intro Music by Ed Meeker: Take Me Out to the Ball Game Act of Service Food bank of the Rockies - http://www.foodbankrockies.org B Labs - http://www.bcorporation.net 5 'n 5 Baseball Season:mlb.com Press one button, refill laundry detergent/diapers. Amazon Dash: http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/15/03/31/amazon-dash-buttons-bring-consumerism-to-internet-of-things Comcast's new broadband service is twice as fast as Google Fiber: http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/02/comcast-gigabit-pro-2gbps-broadband/?ncid=rss_truncated Magic Leap FPS Demo: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Magic-Leap-Augmented-Reality-FPS-Demo-Unbelievable-70816.html Man sends fake bail email and gets out of jail: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-32095189 3D printing Industry revenues: http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/02/global-3d-printing-market-grew-68-percent-last-year-generating-3-3b-in-revenues/ The impact of 3D printing on the "maker" movement: http://www.fargo3dprinting.com/the-emergence-of-the-maker-movement/ Newest technology: http://3dprint.com/51566/carbon3d-clip-3d-printing/ Similar but top down version: http://3dprint.com/53286/gizmo-3d-printers-fastest/ Buildings: http://www.contourcrafting.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbJP8Gxqog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SObzNdyRTBs To help our turtle friends: http://hackaday.com/2015/03/30/take-that-mario-3d-printed-red-tortoise-shell-armor/ Nose cartilage: http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/18/researchers-can-now-3d-print-nose-cartilage-in-16-minutes/ Ears, hands, and surgery prep: http://www.livescience.com/49939-3d-printed-organs-and-prosthetics-reconstruct-healthcare.html Tissue: http://wtkr.com/2015/03/10/3d-printing-organs-may-save-more-lives/ Stormtrooper printed arm: http://3dprint.com/36590/clone-trooper-arm/ Teeth: http://qz.com/367187/3d-printed-teeth/ Illusions: http://3dprint.com/53071/3d-printed-optical-illusion/ Hand guns or lower receivers for guns: http://www.printedfirearm.com/imura-pistol-v2/ http://www.printedfirearm.com/3d-printed-ar-10-lower-receiver/ Printed circuit boards: http://cartesianco.com/ Makerbot: http://www.makerbot.com/ ODD 3D Printing Pancake Printer: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1853707494/pancakebot-the-worlds-first-pancake-printer Burritobot: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670070/burritobot-a-3-d-printer-that-spits-out-burritos King Tut - 3d resurrection: http://www.materialise.com/cases/king-tut-revealed-through-an-accurate-3d-replica Human Faces: http://deweyhagborg.com/strangervisions/portraits.html Print your unborn human fetus: http://www.feto3d.com/projetos_produtos.html

After several weeks of delays, we're back with a discussion of Amazon Dash, the latest on-demand service from your favorite online retailer. Ripe with fresh commentary about the evolution of the shopping cart in the 21st century, this episode is sure to deliver great value and more than a few laughs.

This week A.J. and Mikah talk about Amazon's latest project, the Amazon Dash button; they discuss JAY Z's recently relaunched Tidal streaming music service; and round things off with an explanation of Internet-anonymizer Tor, and the Baltimore Department of Homeland Security's Reddit subpoena.Integrate TopicsA.J.: SafariMikah: Overcast--Produced by Katie HilerThis episode of Integrate is not sponsored by Nospace.Music provided by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com.Follow Integrate on Twitter, and subscribe/rate/review the show on iTunes and Stitcher.Links and Show NotesAmazon Dash ButtonsThe Everything Store by Brad StoneAmazon PrimeHarry's & Dollar Shave ClubAmazon Web Services & Amazon Cloud DriveA.J.'s story about choosing a cloud serviceTIDALA little bit more about TIDAL, via The VergeEmpireMikah loves Beyoncé.RedditFeds demand Reddit identify users of a dark-web drug forum, via WiredHere's the image from Reddit Mikah was laughing about.TorLimeWire & FrostWireTor users must now provide a phone number to open a new Twitter account, via TechCrunchMarco Arment & InstapaperAccidental Tech PodcastThis Week in TechAudibleCarPlayOS X YosemiteCNET tests the speed of Safari 8 in comparison to other browsers.Google ChromeA Wikipedia entry about WebKit

What ever happened to predictability? Well, we're throwing it out the window today, as special guests Liz Lopatto and Kwame Opam join Nilay and Sam, with a very special crossover cameo at the top of the show. It's a rare condition, this day and age, to read any good news on the newspaper page, so it's a mixed bag of topics this week. We've got Furious 7, Microsoft's newest Surface, the ongoing Californian drought, Amazon Dash and Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. Only time will tell if all these dreams fit under one umbrella, but we hope you enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We discuss the leaked part for supposed upcoming 4" iPhone 6c, Force Touch and what it could look like in the future, Mikey reviews 'Becoming Steve Jobs', Tidal streaming music service, Amazon Dash, and Microsoft's Surface 3. Hosts: @thisisneil @mikeycampbell81 @stephenrobles

Following another discussion about songs and ad reads in podcasts, Ryan and Carlos discuss the new ESPN.com, Amazon Dash, Tesla’s “range anxiety” update, Apple Watched pre-orders and try-on appointments, more Apple TV rumors, and the two most recent episodes of “Better Call Saul.”

We talk about the most disappointing Doctor Octopus, Amazon Dash, Jesus Jukes on Facebook and inappropriate April Fools pranks!

We talk about the most disappointing Doctor Octopus, Amazon Dash, Jesus Jukes on Facebook and inappropriate April Fools pranks!

Ryo Nakamuraさん、mizchiさんと、Square, Node.js, CoffeeScript, Amazon Echo などについて話しました。 Show Notes JRuby at Square OkHttp Kochiku: CI for long test suites #8 AltJS | mozaic.fm CoffeeScript Browserify Ring : Shortcut Everything. iOS 8: Hey Siri! Amazon Echo Amazon Dash

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  This week Dave and Gunnar talk about home storage, open source 5th columnists at MSFT, the Amazon unicorn factory, Gunnar’s new job, new workflow, and Georgios Papanikolaou, a monthly visitor of guinea pigs. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes. Image courtesty of @feitclub Redshift in EPEL dynamically adjusts screen brightness and color based upon location and time of day like f.lux OpenSpritz and FBReader OpenSpritz Plugin for speed reading! Dave’s choice is jetzt on Firefox with a workaround Lauren, now in ebook form and as an Opensource.com 2014 People’s Choice Award nominee Bonus link: Ellie the robot is ready to compete Gunnar is thrilled about a revamped and open sourced dgshow.org his other new new project Soren! Gunnar’s Drobo 2.0? — Google Drive prices slashed! Anyone try Insync? Is Space Monkey the device Gunnar thought he heard mentioned on Back to Work? Anyone try the Synology Dropbox-like storage product? Goodyear Zeppelin arrives near Dave’s house Goodyear’s next generation iconic airship takes flight RHEL 6.6’s plans for inclusion of the SCAP Security Guide Heartbleed: oy. See if your favorite web site is vulnerable ← Runs on OpenShift! Sleep well — Red Hat has you covered Open Wifi: don’t listen to this radio in my window. By extension, is it then illegal to strobe someone else’s server? Gunnar’s been complaining about this since 2003 Microsoft releases source code for its OS and Word (MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a specifically) Microsoft Launches .NET Foundation To Foster The .NET Open Source Ecosystem AWS urges developers to scrub GitHub of secret keys ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP Dave and Gunnar need this like we need smart watches: Google and Microsoft are out to stop dual-boot Windows/Android devices Nice open source list of 2 factor authentication sites + ways to pester those who don’t have it yet HT Dave Sirrine: ScratchJr — Coding for Young Kids Cisco cozies up to Red Hat and KVM RHEL on Google Compute Engine with Cloud Access! AWS Achieves DoD Provisional Authorization RIP, the server. It’s time to breathe the air of cloud connection ‘Amazon has destroyed the unicorn factory’ … How clouds are making sysadmins extinct AFSPC CIO thinks we’re doing consolidation, not cloud. Agree? Disagree? Talk amongst yourselves. HT Bob Kozdemba: How to request resources for Non-Profit, Open Source, or Educational Institutions A Customer We Like: NASA and their launch control center firing room featuring Red Hat (Enterprise) Linux (6)! slack.com looks really interesting for collaboration Gunnar plays with capture tools like NewsBlur and Blogtrottr but can’t quit rss2email and processing tools like Pinboard which he still needs to figure out D&G Book Club: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Ken Burns 6 hour documentary coming in 2015 The pap test for cervical cancer screening is due to Georgios Papanikolaou in 1928 where he studied the menstrual cycles of guinea pigs Related: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — start with the Radiolab episode and follow up episode Bonus book: Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well Cutting Room Floor Pretty great interview with Horowitz of Andreesen Horowitz A persuasive case for government-run/subsidized Internet Semantic Versioning — It’s a thing Amazon Dash: genius Make your own GitHub ribbon with CSS alone Twilight Zone action figures (in black and white!) The Expert JakToGo: Great for smuggling hams into movie theaters too We Give Thanks Dave Sirrine for letting us know about ScratchJr Bob Kozdemba for helping spread the word about free OpenShift for non-profit, open source, and educational institutions

Amazon continues to improve the online shopping world by introducing Amazon Dash into the Amazon Fresh environment. Amazon FireTV makes yet another appearance in this week's show again. In closing, we discuss Microsoft's move to incorporate some old design features into Windows 8.1 and toss around the Mozilla CEO resignation for a bit.

This week the guys discuss 3D printing, Amazon Dash, Zombie Shooters, Deathlok comic, Chiwetel Ejiofor in Bond, Dr. Doom casting, Goonies 2, MCU info, Sinister Six, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and much more.

Amazon weitet die Palette der eigenen Geräte weiter aus mit Amazon Dash und Fire TV und ist mit Dash der erste Onlinehändler, der ernst zu machen scheint mit dedizierten Shopping-Geräten. Grund genug für Jochen Krisch und Marcel Weiß, sich in den neuesten Exchanges ausführlich mit diesem spannenden Zukunftsfeld zu beschäftigen. Links zu den Themen: http://www.excitingcommerce.de/2014/04/exchanges-47-amazon-dash.html

This Week, Tobacco is being used to cure cancer, Amazon Dash, Johnny Knoxville and TMNT, Goonies Sequel, Marvel movie through 2028, Drinking Quest, Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier, Agents of Shield, Wes Craven to direct Scream series, The passing of Lorenzo Semple, Jr creator of Batman tv show, Family Guy game app, Young Matthew at Wrestlemania XXXJoining the show is Jason Anarchy of Drinking Questwww.drinkingquest.com or @drinkingquestFind the Frakkin Nerds at Facebook.com/frakkinnerds , Twitter @FrakkinNerds or website www.frakkinnerds.com or call the show at 931-279-6375 or 931-279-NERD

This Week, Tobacco is being used to cure cancer, Amazon Dash, Johnny Knoxville and TMNT, Goonies Sequel, Marvel movie through 2028, Drinking Quest, Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier, Agents of Shield, Wes Craven to direct Scream series, The passing of Lorenzo Semple, Jr creator of Batman tv show, Family Guy game app, Young Matthew at Wrestlemania XXXJoining the show is Jason Anarchy of Drinking Questwww.drinkingquest.com or @drinkingquestFind the Frakkin Nerds at Facebook.com/frakkinnerds , Twitter @FrakkinNerds or website www.frakkinnerds.com or call the show at 931-279-6375 or 931-279-NERD