Podcasts about automotive

Today on Daily News You Can Use, Ray & Zach discuss a bill that has been proposed in the state of Florida. The bill would no longer require car dealers to have the title of a vehicle to sell it. If this bill becomes law it would solve Carvana's title and registration issues. Fascinating. Be sure to tune in.

REE Automotive doesn't make complete electric vehicles, but it does want to change the way people use EVs, so it's rethinking how to build them with a suite of partners around the world.Follow Transmission on Apple PodcastsFollow Transmission on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts

This week's episode is a little different. The automotive world has lost a legend. https://www.gofundme.com/f/3f6zj-lesters-funeral-expenses?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp%20share-sheet&fbclid=IwAR34WdhZHIpL6kSo3RrNBhqrLpH33dFZQG3a0qT1TufUsXLUGkLPhTJISJI https://www.revivalmotoring.com/

This week on the Millionaire Car Salesman Podcast,  Sean V. Bradley, CSP discusses the success of women working in the automotive industry. Specifically, methods to achieve customer satisfaction and retention, with a focus on accessibility. Additionally, he discusses humanizing the dealership with marketing.  Joining Sean this week is Beth Grant, dealer principal of Thomson Auto Group: Thomson Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Thomson, GA and Waynesboro CDJR in Waynesboro, GA.    About Beth Grant  Beth is one of the few female dealer principals in the country. Her family has been in the automotive industry since 1993 and is known to provide low-price, high-volume, and customer-centered dealerships. Beth was a keynote speaker at Digital Dealer this past October in Las Vegas.  The National Automobile Dealers Association is coming to Las Vegas this upcoming March 10, 2022 to March 13, 2022. Located at the Las Vegas Convention Center, NADA is the place to be. Experience the Future with a multitude of automotive professionals gathered for this can't miss event.  Want to meet the Dealer Synergy Team? For those who plan to attend NADA this March, stop by booth 4730W to meet Sean V. Bradley, L.A. Williams, Tianna Mick, and the Dealer Synergy team IN REAL LIFE!    Resources Dealer Synergy & Bradley On Demand: The automotive industry's #1 training, tracking, testing, and certification platform and consulting & accountability firm. The Millionaire Car Salesman Podcast: is the #1 resource for automotive sales professionals, managers, and owners.  Also, join The Millionaire Car Salesman Facebook Group today! The Against All Odds Radio Show: Hosting guests that have started from the bottom and rose to the top.  Also, join The Against All Odds Radio Show Guests & Listeners Facebook Group for the podcasted episodes. For more interactivity, join The Millionaire Car Salesman Club on Clubhouse. Win the Game of Googleopoly: Unlocking the secret strategy of search engines.   The Millionaire Car Salesman Podcast is Proudly Sponsored By:  CallRevu: The industry leader for call tracking, lead management, and business analytic solutions. For more information on how to maximize your marketing dollars, visit  www.callrevu.com. AutoWeb: Visit AutoWeb.com/dealers for help in revolutionizing your business to help you sell more cars.

In a longish episode I discuss a conversation I had with a reporter and how you can help.  The United Federation of Commercial Drivers is off the ground and rolling.  We are in the news in Business Insider and there is more news coming!  There is an anti-rollover fifth wheel but I am nervous about … Continue reading Trucking Answers | Trucking News | Automotive | A Reason we are not on Mars | #60 →

Today's guest is a true pioneer in her field, being both the first woman to hold the Teaching Lab Technician position at Sinclair Community College and the youngest member of the department! Welcome to Hanna Weaver, an ASE certified master tech, full-time lecturer, and now a Master's candidate. We talk to Hanna today about how she first got into the male-populated field of mechanics, and why she has transitioned into the world of lecturing. We discuss the differences in attitude needed across the different worlds, and her experience of being a young woman in an aggressive, competitive work environment. Hanna gives some great advice on how to improve young women's confidence and desire to enter the world of mechanics, and what she feels automotive companies can do to increase female representation. Tune in to find out why Hanna is so appreciative of the Hazard Girls community, and so much more, on another glass-ceiling shattering episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The one-year anniversary episode of The Circle Jerks Podcast! This week the jerks recap the news and the Nascar hall of fame induction ceremony as well as make some wildly early cup series playoff predictions.  https://revivalmotoring.com/  

We kick off the new series of 9WERKS Radio with details of an icy expedition in a Porsche 356! Renee Brinkerhoff and her navigator, the world-record-holding polar explorer, Jason de Carteret, join Lee and Andy to discuss how they conquered 356 miles over challenging terrain in sub-zero temperatures in what must surely be one of the most outrageous yet awe-inspiring expeditions ever undertaken in a Porsche.The boys also talk to industry expert Mark Sumpter of Paragon Porsche to find out why Carrera GT values have unexpectedly sky-rocketed to nearly $2 million in the first few weeks of the year. We also release details of the competition to have your livery design on the Shorade Boxster that will be raced by Steve Shore in the Porsche Classic Boxster Cup this year, get ya pencils sharpened!‘9WERKS Radio' @9werks.radio is your dedicated Porsche and car podcast, taking you closer than ever to the world's finest sports cars and the culture and history behind them. Brought to you by 9werks.co.uk, the innovative online platform for Porsche enthusiasts,  9WERKS Radio is presented by Porsche Journalist Lee Sibley @lee_sibs and 993 owner and engineer Andy Brookes @993andy, with special input from friends and experts around the industry, as well as you, our valued listeners.You can find out more about Renée's mission to combat child trafficking by visiting Valkyrie Gives.org. You can find Renée on instagram at  @valkyrie_racingFollow @paragonporsche for updates on their superb selection of prime Porsche stock. If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support us you can do so at www.patreon.com/9werksradio your support would be greatly appreciated.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/9WERKSRadio)

The semiconductor shortages are still causing havoc with global supply chains so I'm running another episode dedicated to the topic.In today's episode, I talk to Richard Barnett, CMO at SupplyFrame about the shortage.We had a great conversation discussing SupplyFrame's recent acquisition by Siemens, some causes and consequences of the chip shortage, and how organisations can respond.If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get played (unless you specifically ask me not to).If you want to learn more about supply chain semiconductor shortages, don't forget to check out SAP's recently published Point of View paper on the topic, as well as my podcast with the author of the paper Jeff Howell.And don't forget to check out the 2021 MPI research on Industry 4.0 to find out how to increase productivity, revenues, and profitability for your operations. This global study examines the extent to which manufacturers deploy Industry 4.0 in their business and the benefits it brings.And if you liked this show, please don't forget to rate and/or review it. It makes a big difference to help new people discover it. Thanks.And remember, stay healthy, stay safe, stay sane! 

Von Jürgen Vagt 19.01.22 Heute begrüßte ich die lang gediente Automobiljournalistin Margret Hucko und wir spra-chen über die Zukunftsthemen der Automobilindustrie. Margret Hucko fing an für die Autobild zuschreiben und war lange beim Spiegel auch als Teamleiterin und jetzt begleitet Margret Hucko die Autoindustrie beim Manager Magazin. In den 2000er Jahren taucht das Thema Elektromobilität auf und die deutschen Automobilvorstände waren der Meinung, dass die batterie-elektrische keine Zukunft hat und hier hat sich die deutsche Automobilwelt geirrt. Margret Hucko erinnert sich noch gut an den Tesla Roadster aus dem Jahr 2008 und war von diesem Fahrzeug begeistert. Jetzt, knapp 14 Jahre später, ist das Geschichte und die konventionelle Autoindustrie und eben auch die deutsche Autoindustrie ist im Wandel hin zur elektromobilen Zukunft. Margret Hucko will sich nicht genau festlegen, aber so in ungefähr in der Mitte der 2010er Jahre kam die deutsche Autoindustrie die Wende. Auch wenn man sich die Entwicklungszyklen von ca. 6 – 7 Jahren bedenkt, dann erklären sich die vielen neuen elektrischen Modelle auf eigenständigen Plattformen der Modelljahrgänge 2018/2019/2020 aus diesem Schwenk. Dauerbrennerthema: Das Elektroauto laden Das Wort Reichweitenangst wird eigentlich nur der deutschen Sprache verwendet und die Psychologie spielt auch beim elektrischen Fahren eine große Rolle. Real ist die immer noch die fehlende Ladeinfrastruktur und stellt für Elektroautobesitzer auch im Jahr 2022 ein echtes Hemmnis dar. Zwar hat auch Margret Hucko schon eine Urlaubsreise mit einem Elektroauto gemacht, aber das Laden ist auch in deutschen Großstädten ist immer noch schwierig. Laut Margret Hucko haben die deutschen Autohersteller das Ökosystem um das elektrische Fahren zu wenig mitgedacht, aber die Qualität ist bei den deutschen Elektroautos besser als bei Tesla. Wenn es um das Thema autonomen Autofahrens geht, erinnert sich Margret Hucko noch an die vollmundigen Versprechungen auf diversen Managementkonferenzen in den 2010er Jahren und die versprochenen Zielmarken sind gerissen worden. Eine Prognose über das hochgradig automatisierte oder autonome Fahren möchte Margret Hucko nicht aufstellen, bei Prognosen über dieses Technologiefeld haben sich schon ganz andere Branchenkenner verrannt.

Host Tom Appel and co-host Damon Bell kick off the show by discussing how Cadillac is paring down its nationwide dealership count as it prepares to become a pure-EV brand. (Co-host Jill is out on vacation this week.) Paul Strauss, publisher of the popular websites The Awesomer, Technabob, and the auto-themed 95octane, joins us to talk about the forthcoming wave of pure-electric pickup trucks--including the Ford F-150 Lightning, Chevrolet Silverado EV, and the Tesla Cybertruck. Tom has a "which sold better?" quiz for Damon and Paul, and Damon runs down the latest articles on the Consumer Guide Daily Drive blog–including a test-drive review of the 2021 Ford Bronco Black Diamond. 

EP285 - 22021 Full Year and Holiday Data Deep Dive The US Dept of Commerce December Advanced Retail Sales Data is out, which gives us a full look at 2021 and the 2021 holiday season. So Episode 285 is a data deepdive into 2021. If you want to follow along, we've made a deck with all the data available at https://retailgeek.com/2021-commerce-recap Data Sources US Retail & E-Com Sales Data: US Dept of Commerce E-Commerce Estimates: eMarketer Retail Foot Traffic Data: Placer.ai Web Traffic Data: Similar Web Holiday Estimates: Adobe, Salesforce, Mastercard Episode 285 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday Jan 20th, 2022. 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: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 285 being recorded on Thursday January 20th 2022 that's a heck of a lot of 2012's. I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your Cohoes Sky Wingo. Scot: [0:41] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott chaussures Jason is kind of a shame we neither of us were able to make it in our F but, one of the things I don't miss is every year that I've gone to in our f for the last three times I've went I've had trouble getting there or been stuck there so I think then our F should use this opportunity to move that show out of January and maybe look at something like March or something if they're going to be in New York. Jason: [1:09] Or to the like Bahamas or something. Scot: [1:12] Yeah even better yeah let's make it a destination of it. Jason: [1:17] You know you have my vote I'm not sure you have a majority of votes see you if you have mine that would be awesome. Scot: [1:24] Yeah just watching and it seemed like some folks went and then they had a lot of cancellations so seemed like it was in kind of one of those weird. Hybrid states were if you went and then, person you are going to go see present canceled you sat there in a room with people watching a zoom so that's number Super satisfying but I do think it seemed like some folks you and I know got together and had some dinners and had fund so hopefully that was that was good for everyone. Jason: [1:50] Yeah I had a little bit of foam oh I think you know some people I would have liked to see you know I saw you know social media of them getting together and whatnot and. It's just super bad luck I have a feeling if this show was a month later it would be a lot less controversial that traveled to. Scot: [2:09] Yeah and what did you want to talk about this week. Jason: [2:14] Well you know if we had gone to NRF one of the things that I always like to do it in our f is kind of check in with a lot of our co-workers in the industry and kind of you know get a consensus, about how the year ended up for everyone and what they thought the big issues were going to be for 20 21. So since we didn't get to do that at shop at NRF I thought maybe we could do it on this podcast for our listeners. Scot: [2:42] Yeah that sounds good and then I know you always put together a little for your clients kind of the summary deck and I know that's hard for our podcast listeners so do you have a way to solve that. Jason: [2:55] Yeah so what I thought I would do I put together like a 36 slide deck completely full of numbers and what I thought I would do is describe all of the graphs on the podcast. Scot: [3:09] Sounds good that sounds good and it's going to be a we'll go through it and intricate detail data point by day. Jason: [3:14] Yeah because the one complaint I get about the show is that it's not hard enough to listen to. Scot: [3:18] That's that's from your mom. Jason: [3:22] So that probably isn't going to work but here so here's what I did think I do like instead of, just charging the fortune that we charge clients to go through this presentation I thought I would make a version of the whole deck available to all our listeners so in the event you do want to follow along with the visuals and see the actual data, we will put a link in the show notes you can hit pause for a second, you can open up the deck and I will tell you what slides were talking about in case you want to follow along but but Scott keep me honest here we'll try to make sure we're talking about in a way that you can kind of just, just listen along on the podcast and then look at the deck later if that's the way you prefer to do it. Scot: [4:03] Yeah this is a good time if you like receiving awesome decks for your subscription here which is essentially free this is a good time to hit the five star review we always appreciate that and yeah because we because this is a audio medium we are going to paint pictures with our words and you will see the slides form before your very eyes almost like augmented virtual reality we're going to take you to the metaverse on this thing. Jason: [4:31] Exactly it's a meta verse deep dive into a retail in 2021 and let's jump right into it so. [4:42] Super quick recap last week the US Department of Commerce publishes published their December Advanced Data so that gives us the last month of data we need to see the whole year so it's super exciting for all of us get data Geeks because we now have a complete set of data the one thing to remember is. It's an advanced look and so it doesn't have the granularity of categories that we would like and one of the categories it doesn't have is e-commerce which is highly unfortunate so, the the Deep dive for the whole year with e-commerce broken out will actually be available in mid-February and that's also when they published their quarterly. They're q4u Commerce data which is a separate report so so we have most of the interesting facts there maybe a couple things that filter in last, next month but the top line if we add up all retail sales for 2021 we sold just over six point six trillion dollars of stuff last year which is eighteen percent growth over 20. [5:53] And it's 22 percent growth over 2019 and so, if you do have the deck and you were looking at slide for I show you the last 30 years of growth and the thing that will stand out at you is that this year's growth. Is is almost double the average growth we've had in any of the last 30 years so unprecedentedly good year. Scot: [6:20] This is all retail or not talking e-commerce has. Jason: [6:22] Yeah this is this is pure retail will we will double click into e-commerce a little bit later and you know reminder there's a lot of controversy about what the definition of retail is and so you'll see millions of different numbers out there and it's because. 11 data set has automobiles in it and one has doesn't one has gas in it and one doesn't you know they're all these different things I'm using. The unadulterated numbers from the US Department of Commerce so it does include automobiles it does include gas it does not include restaurants it's what we call, in a ICS code 44,000. Scot: [7:03] Cool good old code it 44,000. Jason: [7:07] If anyone wants to catch me offline and ask for like a different spin I'm happy to talk about how the numbers change when you change your definition but I think that's too complicated for for the podcast but so before I go any further. Like is that does that surprise you at all it has is that has that been your perception that these are Monster year that 2020 and 2021 more Monster years for retail because I feel like that's not necessarily the narrative we've been getting in some of the Commerce media. Scot: [7:37] Yeah no it feels that is a surprise it makes sense and I'm looking at the slide but it makes sense that we were effectively spring-loaded right because you had the shutdown people really, you know couldn't or didn't buy things from March 20 through and so there's put up demand but what's interesting is you really don't see, unlike the Great Recession about it no nine you don't see a retraction before this the splurge and this is way way bigger than that period of time so it is it is surprising. Jason: [8:08] Yeah so so, in aggregate retail did awesome and then on slide 5 I give you this fun way of looking at the data that you and I helped help kind of evolved together but the idea is that we give you a separate line chart for 2019 2020 and 2021 and so you can kind of see. You know how the year stack up against each other and you know. [8:35] 20:19 was the unaffected by the pandemic than 20/20 happen and of course there was this huge dip in April when the pandemic first got real for everyone because the NBA cancelled games and it recovered super quick and then you know the rest of 20/20 was actually above 2019 so retail grew. From 2019 and 2020 even though we were like right in the thick of the pandemic and then in 2021 retail really shot up and the. The hypothesis here is there are two things that really caused this number one there was a bunch of. Economic stimulus that was poured into the economy right like there's a lot of extra money available and consumers were in, like generally really good Financial shape so there was a lot of potential to spend and then a lot of the things that might have gotten some of that money experiences like travel in restaurants and vacations, we're not available in the most consumers so instead of paying money for a gym you bought a Peloton instead of going to a restaurant you bought groceries and instead of going on vacation you you got new patio furniture right and so you know the combination of, more money and less things to spend and on ended up being super favorable to retail overall. Scot: [9:59] Yeah that makes it so that it's really a factor of the stimulus is what you're saying. Jason: [10:06] Yeah and we'll talk about the downside of that if they end of this podcast but so that's the industry average and I would remind everyone to be cautious. In thinking about averages because, very few retailers experience the average right like in general there were big winners and losers based on categories and I'm for the purposes of the podcast we're not going to talk about category growth or foot traffic. From 2022 2021 because 2020 was such a weird year because of the pandemic I actually am going to jump ahead in the deck to slide 9 which is where we start talking about, comparing. Last year to 2019 so like what the cumulative changes were over the from before the pandemic to you know at the end of the second year of the pandemic so. Over that two-year growth we grew 22% as I mentioned earlier and so I actually. [11:09] Put together look at what the average to your growth was every year for the last 30 years and in general the average two-year growth is around 10 to 12 percent so 22% is, unprecedentedly High. Two year growth and remember like you know there was in 2008 there was this recession and there was negative growth so you'd think the the year-over-year from that recession would be super high but but this. 2020 and 2021 year is basically the the best years of retail in our lifetime. And so then I go to slide 10 where I show you how fast each category grew and remember if the industry grew 22%. You really want to be growing faster than that 22% so the categories that one the grew faster than 22% we're your new favorite category automobiles. So they grew at 24 percent which was mildly surprising to me because you, you know early on you would assume Car Sales slowed down significantly and then of course there have been all these chip shortages that's made it slightly hard to buy cars, and yet cars were still one of the bright spots does that surprise you at all or were you totally dialed into that. Scot: [12:30] Yeah the counter is the used markets on fire and they're marking the cars up so there's kind of like an inflation of car prices in there that I think. One of the reasons so if there is a car dealers are taking these pretty exorbitant markups on those, which is kind of short-sighted but that's what they're doing and yeah so so it doesn't surprise me too much when you know what surprises me is where did it all go so we had this like tsunami you know anything about retail it's you know it hasn't been over. You know like what, 10% for a long time and then you've got in the two year ago comparison you get up to maybe like 15% so it's like a surge year where did it show up like I can't think. You know amongst the public companies the Walmarts the targets and that kind of stuff I don't really see it I don't see them just like, blowing up expectations and saying oh my God so much money flooded into our coffers. I kind of wonder where it went or maybe it's going to show up and you know in when you when you chart it out it looks like a lot of it came at the end of 21 so maybe we haven't seen it come out and the public markets but it's going to be you know I kind of wonder where it went. Jason: [13:42] Yeah so I would argue that we are seeing it like in the big companies in the Amazon Walmart Target Kroger and certainly Home Depot and dicks we are seeing it. And so I think the car one is a harder one to see because the car you know the actual car dealers are so fragmented because they're all franchisees. Scot: [14:05] Carvanha has seen it carvanha. Jason: [14:06] The Used Car Guys for sure saw it so let's come back to that in one second let's talk about the other two categories that were above the industry average building materials and garden supplies right so that's Home Depot and Lowe's and you know they're there to your growth Stacks were like significantly up from previous years and again. Part of the reason they would be up as people spend a lot more money on their homes when they were traveling last and then and so that category group thirty percent over two years and then Sporting Goods grew 38 percent over two years so that's you know dicks and sporting goods and and those folks and they were seeing like like I want to say the two year growth stack on dicks would be is like 94% or something so. Scot: [14:56] Yeah. Jason: [14:59] So and then the categories that still like had, by historic standards great growth but did not grow as fast as the industry average grocery stores so only grew 16 percent I have to say that surprised me a little bit because I would have. Expected you know with the hit that restaurants took that the grocery would have outperformed the industry average but you know it doesn't seem like it. It did and then, furnishings and furniture and Home Furnishings grew at 21 percent so about the industry average and again because of all the money people spend on their homes I kind of would have expected that to be higher so those two things. Surprise me a little bit. And then the the categories that were you know more significantly hurt by the pandemic like gas and clothing, you know clothing was still up 13% gas was up 15%. And that's what hurt looks like right like so you know up 13 percent against the industry average of 22 percent like that's. You know kind of the the low end and you know I think if you talk to apparel people during the pandemic they would have said like oh we're you know we're experiencing Armageddon if you compare this 13% growth too you know any of the last five or six years for apparel this would have been a great year. [16:23] And then the most inexplicable to me of all and I think it just has to do with the mix in this category is Electronics and appliances are only up 6%. And I I'm totally open if you have a hypothesis cop but like I think everybody bought a lot of extra Home Tech. So especially the beginning of the pandemic everyone's buying extra computers for their kids for homeschooling and everybody's updating their work from home stuff, and you know over the two-year course of the pandemic you know everybody remodeled their kitchen about new appliances so I'm a little befuddled. Why that you know that category is literally the bottom of the Barrel in this the US Department of Commerce data and it's only six percent of growth. Scot: [17:13] Yeah let me look at the year. Jason: [17:18] I have a so while you're looking I'll just I'll tell you I my. My unfortunate hypothesis so there's an enormous flaw in the US Department of Commerce data and that flaw is that they call e-commerce or non stores. A category. So you're either a Peril sale if you sell the clothes through a store or your Anon store sale if you sell the clothes online, and so if you sell a TV out of Best Buy you're in electronic sale but if you sell the TV online for curbside pickup. You're a. Non-store sale and so I didn't mention this earlier but the category that actually grew the most by far during the pandemic is non store sales which are 38% and we, have any good way to know how that breaks down by category so my hypothesis is the electronics category actually probably did better but the it over index to sales going online and therefore it gets office gated in this US Department of Commerce data. Scot: [18:32] Yeah and then accentuating this is the supply chain problems hashtag Supply pain where you know a lot of that stuff you would go into the store for especially big appliances where you kind of want to see it and touch it and feel it before you order it, I know on the order of 10 people that cannot get washers and dryers. So you know that that was all like this big appliances are in and they've been waiting since you know, Q3 last year to get these things it's insane so that could have you know so you have this kind of double edged double whammy of a lot of stuff moving online or non-store from the store in the store or struggling because they can't get inventory for the shelves and you know every electronics item has a chip. Jason: [19:20] Yeah so I do like that I will say it from the data it looks like more of the group The Slowdown was in, 20/20 than 2021 which like kind of argues it like. Scot: [19:35] Yeah attribution. Jason: [19:37] Yeah so but I don't I don't know and so then so that so far everything we've talked about is US Department of Commerce data so I'm also super interested in how many people walked into a store so I asked our friends at Placer AI which is a, a company that has access to a huge panel of consumers that have software on their phones and it tracks where they go anonymously and they use that data to forecast. Retail foot traffic across the country and so I put together a data set so on Slide. [20:21] 11 of the deck you can see how the 20 21 foot traffic every month compared to 2019 and so for the first half of 2021, um foot traffic in retail was still down between 10% and 0%, versus 2019 so fewer people are going to stores in 2021 then we're going to stores before the pandemic. And then by July we had our first kind of Positive Growth since the pandemic so July and August we're kind of up for and six percent over 20 19 respectively, then we had another slight dip in September and then we had a pretty prominent dip in December of 2021 which was probably the Omicron variant kicking in. [21:12] But so in aggregate. There are still fewer people walking in a brick-and-mortar stores in the United States of America in 2021 than walked in a brick-and-mortar stores in 2019. Scot: [21:24] There are some it almost like it seems to be correlated an inverse correlation with case count right so in the summer cases were kind of low everything was feeling pretty good and then we had kind of the surge the Omicron surged kind of come back and here at the very tail end of 21 we saw a really plummet. Jason: [21:42] Yeah no for sure and there are lots of people that I have been correlating these statistics to case counts or hospitalizations or. Or mortality or any of those things in there are strong correlations so you're certainly right. [21:56] Um so then I I said all right well let's double-click on some of the categories that might be interesting and one category that I mainly double clicked on for you was Automotive so for folks that don't know Automotive is the biggest. Category of retail spending and which kind of makes sense because it's the. The highest ticket item so 1.5 trillion dollars in in car sales in 2021 which is 23 percent of all retail spending so we said 6.6%. Six point six trillion in retail 1.5 trillion of it was cars and that's up as we said earlier 24% from 2019 and then I give you kind of the, the shape of that Demand right and and you know so again, the best month in the history of car sales was April of 2021 and then it's been, tapering off a little bit since then but still up significantly from 2020 and 2021 is up nominally from from 2019 so a very vibrant year even though per your point you know it's actually hard to get vehicles right so a lot of this this. Increase in sales is an increase in price points and inflation versus unit sold but I think it is a little bit of both. Scot: [23:20] Yeah the other changes there's a pull forward because what dealers have started doing is pre sailing Vehicles so it's almost like an auction where they'll say Jason I know you want this IMA Mustang and we got three coming in and August but if you want one of those I'm going to need you to, pay me to there now I don't know how that correlates to these numbers but we're seeing this big pull forward of the consumer dollars into the auto category because of this pre-sale thing where, historically it was you would go test-drive negotiate and then buy the car and it was sitting on the lot the inventory model is kind of flipped right now which is interesting. Jason: [23:59] Yeah yeah and I know not not related to sales velocity necessarily but another interesting thing is. The amount of test drives per sale is way down like it used to be like three test drives per sale and now it might be less than one test drive per sale. Scot: [24:17] Yeah it's kind of it's fun being in the auto category because some in some ways I feel like I've seen the movie before right so for example remember when Zappos came out and they disrupted the shoe category by saying free 365 returns, well then everyone would just buy would say well sometimes I'm an 11 sometimes in 11 half and 10 half I'll just order all three in return to. So then everyone had to adapt that new model because consumers flocked to it and the car industry carvanha has had a seven day return for a vehicle and that's how they got around the test drive and everyone laughed at him and was like why would you do that that's ridiculous and then the pandemic it and everyone had to kind of adopt that model so that's that's gotten rid of the test drive most dealers now have had to adapt to that that more customer friendly model and effectively have like a seven day return window. Jason: [25:06] Yeah and you know you've heard me say this before but I've been following the ottoman of category relatively closely and the grocery category for two big reasons they're they're the two biggest pieces of consumer spending but also before the Pandemic those were the two categories that were released digitally disrupted like a small percentage of cars were sold online a small percentage of groceries sold online and so those two categories were the most disrupted by digital they they got the most digital fastest as a result of the pandemic so I've been super interesting because per your point a lot of the learnings that we've had over the last 20 years in the apparel industry in the consumer electronics Industry and the home industry like are now you know playing out in an accelerated basis in the automobile industry and in the grocery industry. Scot: [25:57] Yeah 11 cool example and I know you know these guys so yeah I tell folks a lot about how Walmart budget and it was kind of like this this analog kind of old-school company building bringing deep digital DNA and we would see a lot of that not emotive category and sure enough Discount Tire which is a brick-and-mortar tire shop family-owned what are they like 100 years old or something like that and they just bought Tire Rec which is kind of the you know the online incumbent and they're merging those two companies together so it's funny because everyone thinks I'm kind of a Nostradamus of this stuff because but it's really just, the exact same thing we saw happen in e-commerce with other categories as happening in the automotive category. Jason: [26:42] Groundhog Day yeah sometimes when I'm impatient I really have to avoid telling clients so I know you need to figure this out for yourself but I know how it is. Scot: [26:52] Yeah. Jason: [26:54] But so I mentioned the grocery category that's the next category that I want to talk about briefly so now we're on slide 14 of the deck, and groceries the second biggest category of consumer spending it's fourteen percent of all retail spending so it's, 901 billion dollars in 2021 and and I mentioned grocery was up pretty significantly up 16 percent but but that you know that is a little less than the industry average and I give folks that that same kind of three-year year-over-year graph if they want to see it but then a bonus data breakdown I always like to do for the grocery industry is on slide 16 and this is a, a line graph with two data points grocery store sales and restaurant sales, and what's interesting about that is for like a pretty significant period of time about a 10-year period. Sales were split almost 50/50 between restaurants and grocery stores so all the the American calories were kind of divided 50/50 between McDonald's on Applebee's and Walmart and Kroger and in the pandemic exactly what you would expect to happen grocery sales shot up and restaurant sales you know took a nosedive. [28:13] Over the course of the pandemic they've moved back closer and kind of come summer of 2021 they actually came back to where they used to be so they were kind of level again and we were like I wonder if that, if if that Gap is over but then Omicron appears to have open that Gap backup so at the moment there is still about a ten billion dollar a month discrepancy between spending on on groceries and spending on restaurant so potentially bad news for the restaurants. Scot: [28:48] Yeah well you wouldn't know it at my restaurants or so they're they're they're super busy. Jason: [28:53] Nice. Scot: [28:55] Could be you know we you know it's interesting traveling around the country a little bit now it's like living in 50 different. Countries the way they're covid policies are so you go to you go to Florida and Texas and everything's just open and normal and then you go to the north east or the west coast and things are very much shut down, and here in our kind of a kind of in the middle but we're still struggling our restaurants part of it could be that they're just closing all the time so we have several restaurants that just can't keep their doors open due to this kind of constant struggle between in team members employees and supply chain so you'll you'll go and they'll have to close early because they didn't have anyone to work that shift and then you'll go and they'll be like we're out of you know it'll be a salad place in they'll be out of lettuce you're like yeah guess may not have needed open but they'll be in there with nothing to do so so it's really. The economy is having a really hard time it's really kind of sputtering right now across those things which which could fall into restaurants and bars you know this, looking into this year into 22. There's a lot of grocery stores are have bare shelves and I don't I was going to actually because you're the grocery guy I don't know what's broken in the supply chain there because obviously we don't rely on China for you know, a lot of that stuff so it's not the that specific thing but that seems to have really become discombobulated as well. Jason: [30:21] Yeah so yeah for sure there it turns out like there is for a, a fair segment of the grocery products there is an international component right like so there are weird ingredients that we do depend a lot on on Imports for right so you know even if the Mondelez cookies are made in the US the sugar for the Mondelez cookies is not and so it it is possible for the shipping to to have an impact on Oreo availability it just it tends to be delayed because it's it's more the ingredient than the finished goods that that is getting in. Scot: [31:01] Catching you know maybe the package. Jason: [31:03] The cpg guys even more so right so a lot of the chemicals that get used in cpg products and a lot of the the, the packaging like blue ink for a while was one of the the the constraining factors and so you know, Brands did have a hard decision to make do we like change the color of our packaging so we keep stay on the shelf or do we you know try to stay true to our brand and wait for morning. Which are not decisions you imagine ever have having to make. Um and then you know grocery is have its groceries a very fragile ecosystem margins are really thin and so. More so than other categories of retail the wage inflation has a Major Impact in it it actually. There's a low-wage workers all the way along that supply chain and so you know a big thing that takes out. Domestic food is you know there's a round of covid at the meat processing plant. And that that can you know be a big Regional hit I walked into a breakfast place last weekend and they were out of eggs, and I'm like wait a minute I haven't heard about an egg shortage or like are we having an egg shortage and the guys I know are our manager just screwed up the hole. [32:27] Yeah but I was I was with you I guess yeah what it's questionable why you open if you're a breakfast, restaurant and you don't have any eggs or you should at least put a vegan sign up or something I don't know. So I always like to talk about a parallel because for a long time apparel is like one of the crown jewels of the retail category and people are super excited about that and you know there was an ERA when those were the best jobs so up, Peril is much more it's about five percent of retail sales it was 303 billion despite the fact that we all have been living in sweatpants for the last two years apparel sales were still up 13%, that definitely was a mostly due to a 2022 2021 recovery 2020 was a really bad year for apparel and it started to come back so apparel is one of the few categories on Slide, 18 where I give you the three-year graph of the the category it's one of the few categories where the 2020 sales were consistently below the 2019 sales and then 2021 they, they came back up to the top and you know one interesting fact about a parallel that I give you a data breakdown on 19 is. [33:41] Apparel has just been getting cheaper over time that in the 1990s apparel was seven percent of retail spending and now it's about four and a half percent of retail spending and that's a largely because good clothes are just less expensive and and you know the same closet that an American would have had in 1990 Hassel asks in 2022 and so if you're growing in the apparel industry you're you're growing in a shrinking Market which is you know always a challenge to do. Scot: [34:15] The entire Farm it's kind of shocking to see April 2020 you know touching effectively zero sales and monthly apparel that's crazy that I feel for those guys that must have been a scary. Jason: [34:28] For most of these graphs I change edit the scale to make the graph as high resolution as possible so the bottom of the graph isn't zero but in a Peril it absolutely is. Scot: [34:38] Yeah might as well be easier yeah. Jason: [34:40] Um and so, so that's enough of the categories I know a lot of listeners on our show were particularly interested in e-commerce I wanted to talk about e-commerce for a minute I mentioned the official. Breakdown of e-commerce you know we won't get for December until the middle of February we do get a, a kind of proxy for e-commerce which is called non store sales it is a it is a bigger bucket and it has more other stuff in it than just e-commerce but if I look at, the 11 months of internet data and then the the one month of non store sales data. It's pretty clear that we're going to come in around a trillion dollars in e-commerce sales so if the official numbers work out the way I think this will be the first year the e-commerce in the u.s. is over a trillion dollars. Um that would represent 16 percent of retail sales so 16 doesn't sound like a huge number, but again it just depends on what your denominator is that 16 percent is you know overall of retail which includes, cars which are getting more digital but still aren't very digital it includes gas which is you know only digital in a couple neighborhoods in San Francisco, um and so I you know you start pulling out some of those traditionally non-digital categories and you know. [36:02] That one trillion dollars represents about you know between 20 and 25% of all the categories that that you know people are willing to buy online and so it's become a very meaningful mix and obviously. It was the fastest growing because of the pandemic but inside 21 I show you the the. The three-year breakdown and the thing that's unique about e-commerce versus some of these other categories. [36:32] E-commerce head its monster growth in 2020. So the two-year growth numbers are still amazing but the one year growth numbers from 2021 to 2020 are not so great because we're comping against. [36:46] A monster year and it's been interesting because like Shopify stock is down because their comps aren't very good right but really there you know. They're comping against these monster numbers. You know lots of retailers are calling me right now and they're in a panic because they're not they didn't hit their goals and their their you know numbers are wrong and I'm like. I mean they're you know their numbers are soft and I'm like well but let's look at what really happened like you had unprecedented growth over the last two years and you're you know you potentially are. Thinking about it in the right way so on slide 22 I give you my, entire story of the world going digital in one slide and it's a little hard, hard to follow but basically what I show you is I show you the brick-and-mortar sales every year or every quarter and then on top of that I show you the e-commerce sales so you can see the e-commerce growing you can see kind of, as a portion of retail what it is and then I show you the rate of growth for for retail and e-commerce and until the pandemic we had a pretty consistent story, e-commerce was growing at like between 15 and 20% a year and brick-and-mortar was growing at three to four percent a year and that was pretty reliable, so then the pandemic happens and brick-and-mortar shrinks for a quarter and e-commerce explodes by you know over 40%. [38:10] And since that time they've been coming back and so for the first time in my life time in Q2 of 2021. Brick-and-mortar actually grew faster than e-commerce for the first time ever. Largely because of the you know they're comping against these these you know huge huge March of 2020 and you know I will see you when the data comes out next month but I have a feeling we're regressing pretty quickly now back to the kind of the the pre-pandemic rates of growth like we absorbed all this big e-commerce growth for two years and I can you know I kind of think we're gonna see e-commerce level back down at that 10 to 15 percent growth every quarter and and Retail drop back down to the 45 percent growth of quarter. Scot: [39:06] Well I think it's you know I think the silver lining for me is and I'm the e-commerce guy here is we had the Surge and then we actually did kind of even better than the surgeon you know you could have painted a story that said this will kind of flip – for your to as it kind of the subsides and then then we get back to normal so so the rising tide kind of stuck and created a new high and then we have continued to grow from there how does I know this this agitates you which is why I bring it up but you know this does not support you know that Theory out there that we pulled forward like five years of e-commerce. Jason: [39:43] Yeah no we we didn't and most of the evidence now is that. We're we're not even way ahead of where we would have been that like like we we got the sales early but that. The future growth is. Slightly slower as a result so that like five or 10 years from now you know will see this this blip on the graph but we'll kind of you know end up at the same same place we would have end up without the the pandemic is most people's projections that's less to true in some of these, digitally immature categories like grocery or automobiles where we really did probably pull in you know kind of accelerate two to three years into the future. And so I did on slide 23 I give you the our estimates of the 2021 e-commerce sales for a bunch of retailers because I'm often surprised people. Don't necessarily have. [40:52] The the best perception about how the relative size of all these retailers so these estimates come from emarketer there there gmv us estimate for Amazon is on the high side of all the estimates I. I look at but they have 20 21 gmv for Amazon and about three hundred seventy six billion. Walmart's the second largest e-commerce site by a lot at 60 billion so quite a bit smarter than Amazon. Until recently eBay would have been the second biggest site and Walmart's approaching twice as big as eBay now so they have shot past eBay. To get to 60 billion eBay's at 38 billion apple is at 37 billion and then like people people forget how big a player apple is alone I saw a funny stat that like. If the air buds alone the air pods alone were a company like it would be the 10th largest company. Scot: [41:50] Yeah that's crazy. Jason: [41:52] And so then you get like a Home Depot is almost 20 billion targets 8 almost 19 billion Best Buys on you know over 16 billion, Costco who's the bane of my existence Costco like pays the least attention to digital they you know always talk about how unimportant digital is and how they don't like it, and I tell everyone what a horrible mistake that is and then Costco continues to Excel and despite not trying they sell 14 billion dollars a year on line. [42:24] So then you can see the rest of the the top 15 on that slide on slide 23 if you're interested but it's interesting to understand the. The relative size of some of these companies. And so then you know one of the things that people always ask about is what did holiday look like particularly so the next section of this deck is, a double click on on holiday 2021 and so. I'm defining holiday as November and December sales that somewhat controversial because there's a lot of different ways to think about it. If we just look at November and December sales this holiday period was the the largest retail holiday ever. And it drew about 16.1%, which is vastly faster growth than any other holiday like the next biggest holiday was 10% so so kind of the same story for the whole year we get in Holiday it was a monster holiday, um You know again that depends a little bit on how you Define retail in RF likes to pull gas out of their number so they're there they would say holiday was 14 percent growth which is still. A monster number. So then I went back to our friends and place Rai and said hey what is foot traffic look like every week of holiday. [43:49] And that to me was kind of interesting so. You know December foot traffic was down overall I'll remind you because of Omicron but if we kind of look at the the weekly data for Holiday foot traffic was actually up versus 2019. Leading into the Thanksgiving weekend and so then the weekend that was way down was Thanksgiving weekend way less people went to stores on Black Friday, then went to stores in 2019 about six percent less, and then you know the rest of holiday was slightly above so if it weren't for the decline in Black Friday traffic I would say foot traffic and Retail was up about 2%, over 2019 but that Black Friday dip pulled the whole thing down to where we still aren't back to 2019 levels does that kind of make sense. [44:44] And so one of the things that is a common narrative about holiday and I've even contributed to this narrative is, man retailers are really trying to pull sales in and holiday starting earlier in October and you know holidays flattening it's less about these big, spikes on on Black Friday and Cyber Monday and so now that we have real data I'm like oh well let's see how, how that really held up in the first thing to know is. The early sales in October was kind of a myth like there was not an unusual spike in sales in October and so you know. [45:20] There was not a huge success in pulling sales into October and so then what I did is I went to similarweb which similar web has a data set of e-commerce site visits and what I like about that is, we can get much more accurate granular data than we can on like foot traffic or you know foot traffic or lucky to get weekly data but for e-commerce we can get daily number of sessions or unique visitors or things like that so I said hey let's take the hundred biggest e-commerce sites in the US and let's see total visits and let's compare, 2019 with 2021 and the first thing to remember is. You know Thanksgiving doesn't fall on the same day every year and so what I did is I normalize those I said let's not do November 1st through December 31st, let's do the 25 days before Black Friday in the 32 days after Black Friday so that we could kind of. Match up the the flow and what you'll see is there was a lot more traffic on e-commerce sites every day of holiday in 2021 than 20 then 20, except for two days Black Friday and Cyber Monday and Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021 with still above. 2019 but they were nearly the same and so. The I guess what this would say is this partially Bears out our hypothesis. [46:48] E-commerce visits did level out like the traffic did get spread out to the whole 60 days more than ever before but those those two tent poles are still tent poles and they still are by far the busiest days, so I you know I definitely you know think that the narrative that like those Temple days don't matter anymore is kind of a misnomer and they you know they got nearly twice as many visits as a normal holiday day. Did that surprise you at all. Scot: [47:20] The surgeon the chart 21 is interesting at the end I think that's my procrastinator people. Jason: [47:28] So so yeah so. Scot: [47:29] It's where I shop. Jason: [47:29] It's God's talking about is the gap between 2019 and 2020 is pretty consistent but then opens up the most ever has, um the very end of the holiday and my hypothesis for that is again this is e-commerce it's Omicron again so I. There was pent-up demand to go to stores people were going the store store traffic was going up and then store traffic fell off a cliff the last half of December as people started getting nervous and so I think that you know drove more people to e-commerce again as my least is my hypothesis. [48:03] And so so that I think is a super interesting data set I definitely am grateful to have access to the similarweb stuff and wow I was diving into their data Isles one of the cool things there's we can see traffic on individual website so I said, well let's see who the winners and losers are in terms of traffic and the story here is. The the traffic is disproportionately going to the the big high-performing sites so you know not surprisingly, Amazon gets the most traffic but they also got the biggest chunk of traffic growth so sometimes you'd say hey the biggest most established players should be the hardest to grow. Amazon Druids traffic faster than any other top 10 retailer which is pretty impressive, and then the next biggest grower was Walmart so this is kind of the story of the rich getting richer and you know traffic and sales consolidating on the, those those very big a sites which is kind of the story you see on slide 29 if you're following along on the deck. Scot: [49:12] The thing that fascinates me about this data is you have like Etsy with the fourth most traffic but then they're like one of the smaller e-commerce sites right so does that, yeah it does that mean no well that's apples and oranges I guess that's all of retail in the previous comparison. Jason: [49:30] No that was at Seas. These e-commerce sales are about little less than 8 billion in the u.s. versus like Walmart at 60 billion but then Ed C does have like like nearly as much traffic as Walmart right like. I want to say they did 600 million, visits over the holiday period versus Walmart did like 1.1 billion so, so you know despite Walmart being 10 times as large they only had twice as much traffic and I think part of the reason for that is the the. Kind of thin long tail nature of Ed c means that their overall conversion rate and the amount of you know pay visits you have to do to find what you want is. Is higher than then it is on Walmart where you're more likely to go to Walmart with with high purchase intent for a particular item and these days it's pretty easy to find that item and get out. Um and that kind of is born out Ebay is still the second large just traffic site even though they're they're shrinking and again eBay's almost half the size of Walmart but eBay is traffic is still higher than Walmart's. Scot: [50:52] Yeah it's a huge it's kind of sad in one way but it's a huge opportunity Bay could get their act together and convert that traffic the way Walmart is they. Jason: [51:00] Yeah if I could redo our. Our predictions episode so you know I talked about in a number of times on this that one of the big trends is retail media networks and you know people selling ads what this data set uncovers more than anything else is the untapped opportunities Ed C needs to get a retail media Network up as soon as possible because I, as far as I know they don't have one. So they should be monetizing that traffic because that that that that's a valuable asset they're not they're not leaning into yet for all our Etsy listeners so then I will just say in this is you know the Chrome Legend in me, during holiday we talk a lot about these estimates from companies right so Adobe you know you know we have on the show and they give us their real time estimates based on on all the customers they see we have sales force on the show every year and they give us real time estimates and then you know when we talk about that I don't think we've had on the show is Mastercard has this product called spending pulse which is, kind of an anonymous aggregated view of all the people that buy stuff with MasterCard and. [52:08] Just just for interest Adobe MasterCard in Salesforce all agree, um that the e-commerce grew about 10% in in Holiday 9 or 10% and holiday of 2021 and that passes the smell test again we don't have the e-commerce data for for December yet so I don't really know but that. That feels like the right order magnitude so I think you know these guys all credibly predicted, the shape of holiday e-commerce but the only one of these guys that predicts brick and mortar is Mastercard right Adobe and Salesforce are pure online retailers and every year I always get weird data from MasterCard and I say this because the whole. The whole world and especially the media like publish this MasterCard data far and wide and and treat it as fax MasterCard like on December 26th said that, retail sales were going to be up 8.5% and that meant they were going to be up 10.7% versus 2019. And so we now know from the US Department of Commerce data that that they were off by 50%. So just call out to my friends at MasterCard that I'd be curious to understand what's going on there from my. Scot: [53:31] Your category thing. Jason: [53:32] Yeah from my seat Well they argue it's not but from my seat there consistently off on the brick-and-mortar number so I'm I'm curious and so then. [53:42] Every time I have this conversation with a colleague or a client the especially someone that maybe doesn't live and breathe e-commerce every day is soon as you start talking about this monster growth number, what everyone asks is yeah Jason but how much of that is inflation right because the thing we hear about in the media the most. Is is inflation inflation inflation and so you know it stands to reason if. [54:09] You know if something grew by 10% and people are paying more you know ten percent more for everything then that explains it and this you know this is an inflation story not a growth in consumer demand story and so I like to put in. Just a little kind of inflation picture at the end. The so I give I give folks a graph of the government, inflation numbers for for for these three years and and what you can see is that like for most of the pandemic inflation. Kind of stayed in the normal range and then we started this, this huge climb not until January of 2021 so if you remember like all a lot of this growth were talking about was 2020 growth, inflation doesn't explain that growth at all there is significant inflation in all of 2021 and it's historically High it's you know depending on how you want to count it could be a 40-year high and so it finished in December. [55:14] At seven percent and so if you figure normal inflation, is a about 11 and a half percent inflation was already high before the pandemic at 2.3 percent. You know if you say alright it should have been at 2.3 percent and it's at seven percent then you could. Say that the kind of back half of 2021 sales that you know. That three or four percent of it can be explained by inflation but definitely not this 22% were talking about. [55:48] And I don't know if you been thinking about her talking about the inflation a lot it's kind of. It's it's kind of funny because I always like to remind people the long-term picture we're all paying way less for goods than we ever did before so I kind of pull this. This 20-year inflation number to remind people that like we're paying fifty percent for a pair of what we paid 20 years ago we're paying, 30% last for personal products and beauty products were paying 17 percent last four cars we're paying 12% less for food all the tangible stuff we buy is getting cheaper because we're getting better at making, and where the American family's budget is going is to Services right so you know the American families having to pay way less for hard goods and food and way more for housing education and Healthcare and that's the big macro picture, but then we've had like the we talked about a lot of the growth in retail coming from all this economic stimulus, the the downside of that economic stimulus is. [56:47] It actually is one of the contributing factors to inflation right like the people have more money to spend, um they buy more the supply chain wasn't prepared for that buy more and so we have, supply chain disruption and so now you have Supply going down and demand going up and what do people do in a rational Market when they they have high demand and low Supply they they charge more, um and so then you know people say hey everything I buy is more expensive I need to get paid more and we have this unprecedented leverage that workers have right now because the labor shortage so they're all negotiating better prices and guess what that means they can afford. Pay more again and and manufacturers are you know having more costs of labor for making stuff so they're charging more and what's been super interesting and all this is, you know it's kind of an excuse for manufacturers to charge you more like most of these manufacturers that are raising their prices are also setting record profits so it's not like. True that like. All of this information is manufacturers passing costs on to Consumers it's a little bit of the the you know opportunity of the moment of you. Scot: [58:01] Yep it's complicated to the inflation a lot of its gas and then to your point a lot of it's stuff that doesn't have this inherent deflationary element to it like healthcare and we're paying more and more for healthcare education anything that has a service component is shooting way up. But even even in the short term though like yeah everything at the grocery store is insane right now it's crazy. Jason: [58:27] Yeah and food and gas are historically more volatile so inflation goes up and down more like side note you have to take all these numbers with a grain of salt because the way they measure it is, they measure the cost of a basket of goods that an average American bought but they built the basket of goods in like 1945. And so it's not the right past it's for today there's no iPhone in that basket. Scot: [58:50] Yeah. Jason: [58:52] So yeah so it's interesting fun it's fun for me because I'll actually be on Good Morning America this weekend talking about inflation. Yeah always fun but yeah I. I'm with you if you take what's called core inflation where you pull gas and food out inflation's like 4.5% so for most of these retail categories, it's part of the story but it definitely would be a mistake to Discount all this growth and say oh it's just. And that's my scoop that's your 36 slide deck that you're all welcome to grab and use my thanks to all the the data providers that contributed to all of it so I have a, a bibliography at the end so if you're interested in starting to track any of this data on your own I tried to make that easy for you. Scot: [59:41] Yeah when we do when we post the show will also try to get on our socials because I've had some people say they can't find the show notes and so we'll make sure that we disseminate this wide and so everyone has it. Jason: [59:55] Well Scott not surprisingly we were able to perfectly fill up an hour with this one topic. So hopefully you found value in this is Scott mentioned the top of the show if you did we sure would appreciate that five-star review, but thanks everyone for kind of following Along on this like pretty dry difficult data dump episode I hope I hope it was useful please, give us feedback if you liked it or if it was not the right format. Scot: [1:00:23] People of data in retailgeek delivers and until next time. Jason: [1:00:28] Happy commercing!

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von Jürgen Vagt 16.01.22 Heute begrüßte ich Nils Heller vom Digitalverband Bitkom und wir sprachen schwerpunktmäßig über das automatisierte Fahren. Es pfeifen ja schon die Spatzen von den Dächern, aber der Ver-kehr wird immer digitaler und der moderne Neuwagen hat schon viel Automatisierungstechnik. Die Entwicklung zu voll autonomem Auto ist schleichend, denn schon seit Jahren werden viele Fahraktionen mittels automatisierter und digitaler Helfer durchgeführt. Aber in den letzten Jahren geht es immer mehr in Richtung des automati-sierten Fahrens und im Jahr 2022 hat der Gesetzgeber den rechtlichen Rahmen für das automati-sierte Fahren geschaffen. Deutschland hat den rechtlichen Rahmen sehr weit gefasst und weltweit gibt laut Nils Heller keine anderes Land, welches einen so förderlichen Rahmen für das volle und hochgradig automatisierte Fahren hat. Laut Nils Heller könnten schon im Jahr 2022 in Deutschland die viel beschriebenen Roboter-Shuttle im Nahverkehr herumfahren. Modellprojekte für das automatisierte Fahren Seit der Mitte der 2010er Jahre gibt und gab es viele Modellprojekte in Deutschland und Europa, in den USA gibt es durch Waymo als Google Tochter schon seit Herbst 2021 öffentliches Angebot. Bewohner und Touristen können per App einen Shuttle rufen und dann die Fahrt absolvieren. Wahrscheinlich gibt es diesen Level von automatisiertem Fahren in Deutschland schon in diesem Jahr auch in Deutschland. Wenn man weiter denkt, dann stellt sich die Frage, wann es eine oder mehrere Plattformen die Mobilität in Deutschland organisieren. Man kann als Tenor vieler Politi-keraussagen auch in dieser Podcastreihe feststellen, dass man in Deutschland kein digitales Mo-nopol in Deutschland haben will. Die Logik der Digitalisierung macht es möglich und wahrscheinlich, dass sich ein großes Monopol bildet, welches dann die Verkehrsdaten besitzt. Laut Nils Heller ar-beitet Bitkom auch an der Frage, wie die bestehende soziale Ausgestaltung des Verkehrs in den digitalen Raum übertragen kann. In den nächsten Jahren wird es die Frage, wie das Schülerticket oder das Seniorenticket in den digitalen, appbasierten Verkehr übertragen wird.

Gonna be heading down to Eurotripper, sick of the snow, and more...

Marc Lösken verantwortet die Markenlogistik von Porsche. Seine Wurzeln hat er in der Ersatzteillogistik des Sportwagenherstellers. Ein Gespräch über die Chance mit der Logistik zu werben, neue Wettbewerber, seine Anforderungen an die Intralogistiker und über die bereits seit dem Jahr 2000 bestehende Logistik-Partnerschaft mit dem Generalunternehmer WITRON.

This week the boys sit down and talk to Tedward! A YouTuber, a pilot, and a fun guest to chat with! https://revivalmotoring.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/TedwardDrives    

Donna and Steve talk to TGK Automotive!

Man liebt es oder man hasst es – viel dazwischen gibt es nicht. Dennoch boomen Carsharing & Co. immer wieder phasenweise. Das stellt Nutzer:innen vor ein Problem: Für jeden Ort, für jeden Anbieter, benötigt man eine extra App. Wie kann eine Blockchain da Abhilfe schaffen? Das haben wir uns angeschaut. Das Unternehmen bloXmove teilt seine Vision mit uns. Außerdem sprechen wir darüber, welche Nutzer:innen ganz besonders von dieser Vision angesprochen werden. Blockchains sind als Energiefresser verschrien, doch auch darauf hat das junge Unternehmen eine passende Antwort. Es gibt noch viel zu lernen. Du erfährst… • … ob eine Blockchain das Mobility-Chaos lösen kann • … welche Idee hinter der Blockchain-Lösung steckt • … was du als Mobilitätsanbieter von der Vision hast • … welche Nutzer:innen bloXmove bedient

Automotive presenters and petrol heads Helen Stanley and Anthony Partridge revamp their podcast. The new series is about Cars in Popular Culture and it all kicks off with an introduction into the Pod. They talk about everything from Cult Jumpsuits to emotional support dogs and everything in between. Enjoy! (The video to this Ep can be found on Car Cult TV - Youtube).

This episode we discuss the new United Federation of Commercial Drivers and what it will do.  The value of something is determined by the buyer, or is it?  When there is a shortage of something, the value is determined by the seller.  Mid America Truck Show is coming up March 24-26.  I'll be there on … Continue reading Trucking Answers | Trucking News | Automotive | A Reason we are not on Mars | #58 →

Donna and Steve talk to TGK Automotive for myTalk Loves Local

With less than a month left, the jerks are back in the studio with plenty of news and speculation going into the 2022 season! https://revivalmotoring.com/

“To me an exciting industry, the auto industry, so I wondered ‘why aren't more women, particularly young women interested in the automotive industry?'…So this is why I conducted a quantitative-qualitative correlational study looking at relationships between all these things the experts say you should do…. I wanted to know, ‘is that really true?' … And if it IS accurate, then why don't we have more women at least in middle management?” Lisa Brown on Electric Ladies Podcast Electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, hydrogen vehicles. Ride-sharing. The automotive sector is being transformed. Car companies are even calling themselves “mobility” companies now. Yet, they are still largely dominated by men, and white men at that. They say they have diversity programs, and career planning and mentorship programs and other strategies to support women's advancement in the industry. And yet…the numbers don't change. Why? Listen to Lisa Brown, Ph.D. explain her findings in her ground-breaking new quantitative and qualitative research on this issue in this enlightening interview by Electric Ladies host Joan Michelson. (Electric Ladies was formerly known as Green Connections Radio.) You'll hear: What she studied and why she chose it. Whether she found that diversity programs actually work – and why or why not. What she discovered about career planning programs in corporates and where they succeed and fail. What you should ask for to get what you need from these programs Plus, insightful career advice for your own career, no matter what sector you're in. And much more! “Have a plan. I think sometimes, we have ideas, but we don't take the time to plan….Get out of your comfort zone. If you're an introvert, take that step to get to know folks. If you're an extrovert, sometimes take that time to be quiet and to listen, to be that fly on the wall. And I would also say, invest in yourself. A lot of times, self-care is something that we don't do. But invest in yourself, take the time, whether it's just a self-help book, or taking a course to improve certain skill sets…. And last, but not least. Offer yourself some grace. Don't be so hard on yourself.“ Lisa Brown on Electric Ladies podcast Read Joan's Forbes articles here. You'll also want to listen to: Bonnie Gwin, Vice Chair, Heidrick & Struggles, on the new type of CEO companies are hiring. Michele Wucker, thought leaders and author of “You Are What You Risk: The New Art & Science to Navigating an Uncertain World.” Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers, Director of Research, on the status and careers of women in various types of engineering roles. Barbara Whye, Chief Diversity Officer of Apple, and former VP of Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer of Intel. Telle Whitney, Former CEO of Anita Borg Institute for Women and Cofounder of the Grace Hopper Conference Subscribe to our newsletter to receive our podcasts, blog, events and special coaching offers.. Thanks for subscribing on Apple Podcasts or iHeartRadio and leaving us a review! Follow us on Twitter @joanmichelson   and @electricgalspod  

Kevin Oeste and Mike "Q-Ball" Clarke dive into achieving a state of "Flow" while wrenching, or doing anything, really, on the latest episode of the V8 Radio Podcast!  Kevin was wrenching on his 1970 Buick when time whizzed by, listening to inspirational interviews, having the right tools, and the work going smoothly all contributed to the zen-like state.   Have you been there?   Of course, you'll find automotive trivia and a whole lot more, and if you dig it, leave us some kind words or stars!   Thanks, and enjoy the show! Official Site: https://www.v8radio.com We build dream cars: https://www.v8speedshop.com

In what will be considered an episode for the ages I discuss the United Federation of Commercial Drivers and what it can do to change the industry.  I was interviewed by Business Insider and I have a link below to that article.  Spread it around so they will do more articles to help change trucking.  … Continue reading Trucking Answers | Trucking News | Automotive | A Reason we are not on Mars | #57 →

Host Tom Appel and co-hosts Jill Ciminillo and Damon Bell kick off the show by chatting with Chicago Auto Show General Manager Dave Sloan about the 2022 edition of the show, which will be held at Chicago's McCormick Place from February 12-20. Next, we welcome Ed Gliss, Senior Subjective Test Driver with Michelin, for a talk about the importance of winter tires. Tom has a tricky quiz on Mexican-market Chevrolets for Damon and Jill, and Damon runs down the latest articles on the Consumer Guide Daily Drive blog--including a look at the 2022 Subaru Ascent Onyx Edition.   

PANEL: Tim Jackson, Colorado Automobile Dealers Association; Alexa St. John, Insider; Gary Vasilash, on Automotive; John McElroy, Autoline.tv

This is Episode 397 of Altered Geek! Join Steve Megatron, and TFG1Mike as they are talkin' Tech here on AG! That's right the dynamic duo are discussing their favorite Tech concepts and more from CES 2022! All this and more, Only on Altered Geek!

Sath started a business, did great, and then scaled way too quickly and failed miserably in two years by not listening and being stubborn.  Sath then took a year while wholesaling cars to truly find himself and really sit with his insecurities to really find his purpose.  Sath then began wholesaling and sourcing cars for other dealers and in COVID-19 found the need of how much impact he could be making by running a national wholesale lead generation business that gets leads and closes them for a nationwide dealer network that he has. Now, Sath's team ison projection to facilitate these leads into closing over $100,000,000 in cars bought through our lead generation this year. Listen in to his journey… 00:00 Intro 02:21 “Once I figured out what inner peace was and my vision was clear, I knew I would figure it out.” - Sath Lingan 02:54 How Sath went bankrupt 06:51 “If you only set your mind to 100k that will be your cap.” - Sath Lingan 10:47 Car shortage 12:24 “Technology is the quickest way to scale.” - Sath Lingan 16:28 Mindset 20:16 Be useful 20:44 Bomb 1: The impact you have on others 24:00 Law of attraction 24:38 “Don't invest in something you don't align with.” - Sath Lingan 26:22 Top three things to focus on 30:40 Spiritual Mentor 36:00 Recap of top three 42:35 Asking yourself the right questions 46:56 Selling to the Indian culture 52:00 The power of the mind 55:30 “Roll with the punches” 58:03 Get Brad's book The Hard Way on Amazon or Barnes and Noble! 01:00:12 Follow Sath @sathgl  

In this episode we sit down with Chris and talk about his business MK!engineering. aaaaand we answer some questions. Enjoy!

This week we sit down with our friend Garret to discuss one of the more interesting car brands, Isuzu! Strap yourselves in, it's going to be a wild ride. https://www.revivalmotoring.com/

Today I talk about a recent trip to the ER I took with my wife.  I tell this story with her permission.  Two doctors look at the same scan with different results.  Also, the Supreme Court talks about the vax mandate.  The Chicago Teacher's Union is similar to what truck drivers could do if they … Continue reading Trucking Answers | Trucking News | Automotive | A Reason we are not on Mars | #56 →

We sit down with Cory Scothon, photographer and train enthusiast, in this episode. We learn all about what train lines are in New England and which of them Cory has chased down for the perfect photo op. Besides photographing real trains, Cory has a HO Scale (1:87) model replica of some of the Providence and Worcester railroad in his basement. He explains the different types of model trains, how they work, and what goes into curating or building your layout. He also tells us what you do with it when it's done and how friends and fellow enthusiasts can appreciate them together. He even brought in a small section of track and switches for Ryan to have a go at working some industries themselves.  You can find Cory's Photography and his model train layout here: @pwmodelrr

After Toyota beat out GM for the top-selling automaker in the U.S. market last year, some analysts say American automakers have lost their home turf dominance. At the same time, the Big Three have been making big investments in an electric future, which was clear from their offerings at this week's Consumers Electronic Show in Las Vegas. On today's episode, we checked in with some folks who cover the auto industry closely about what all this says about the future for both the industry and consumers.  GUESTS: Rory Carroll, editor-in-chief at Jalopnik  Michelle Krebs, executive analyst for Cox Automotive Looking for more conversations from Stateside? Right this way. If you like what you hear on the pod, consider supporting our work. Stateside's theme music is by 14KT. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today I read from the Declaration of Independence. I-95 and the shutdown is discussed, who is at fault?  A driver gets in trouble and his pre-trip could be the key.  The safest large carriers are announced.  Toyota is the #1 selling brand in the US.  The top selling used cars are announced.  Pony car wars … Continue reading Trucking Answers | Trucking News | Automotive | A Reason we are not on Mars | #55 →

Host Tom Appel and co-hosts Jill Ciminillo and Damon Bell start the show by discussing  the new-vehicle reveals of the CES 2022 show in Las Vegas--particularly the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV pure-electric full-size pickup and the Chrysler Airflow Concept compact crossover EV. Collectible Automobile magazine Editor-in-Chief John Biel joins us to chat about the great features in the February 2022 issue, and we discuss the enduring popularity of the classic 1957 Chevrolet. Tom has a quiz for Damon and Jill on automaker advertising taglines, and Damon runs down the latest articles on the Consumer Guide Daily Drive blog, including our CES coverage and a test-drive review of the new-for-2022 Jeep Grand Wagoneer premium large SUV.

This week the boys talk EV news. What would you choose?  We also cover the mushroom, Mercedes. https://www.revivalmotoring.com/

In this week's episode of Beyond the Wrench, we are joined by Dan Beakey, Service Manager, Colonial South Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram to discuss how you can use social media to show what makes your shop different. We discuss the importance of identifying what makes you unique and how that can give you a major advantage when hiring technicians. Resources:Download the free WrenchWay app in the App Store or on Google Play:App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1534587616Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wrenchway.insidersAbout Our Host:Jay GoninenCo-Founder & President, WrenchWayjayg@wrenchway.com | 608.512.7330About Our Guest:Dan BeakeyService Manager, Colonial South Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ramdanbeakey@gmail.com

The aerospace industry has driven the high-reliability design in the center focus. Juan Frias, our guest for today, is a very experienced PCB designer who has designed for Aerospace, Military, Industrial, Semiconductor, Communications, Medical, and Automotive; he will be sharing the tips for a successful design for manufacturability. We will also tackle Flex and Rigid-Flex design. This conversation will be fun and insightful, so watch through the end and make sure to check the additional resources below. Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics Watch the video, click here. Show Highlights: High-Reliability Design WITH Manufacturing, how did the Aerospace industry influence this focus? The advantages of working closely with the manufacturing team Focus on improving the design process and eliminating back and forth communication and miscommunications Understanding what will work BEST for your manufacturer Working with flex and rigid-flex designs Space savers Reliability  and stability advantages Choosing between flex versus a rigid-flex board, what are the considerations? Can you use BGA on Flex? How does the manufacturer influence the material selection Board-spin on existing design–the systemized process of ordering materials that are running low The design preparation process for fabrication What do designers need to know about stiffener The importance of creating a prototype to save time and money PCB Validation, test and Inspections, who does what? Typically the customers are the only ones who can do a test with the product because they have the entire system on their end PCB designers perform the electrical tests and control impedance lines Identifying a good designer to do business with–-local vs. overseas See you at the AltiumLive 2022. Register here Links and Resources: AltiumLive 2022 Connect: Now open for registration E-Book: Navigating PCB Manufacturing: Part 1 Three Common PCB Design Mistakes You Can Spot in Your Gerbers How to Successfully Design a BGA Connect with Zach Peterson on LinkedIn Watch Zach's latest Altium Academy courses on Youtube Read Zach's articles on Altium's resource hub   Full OnTrack Podcast Library Altium Website Download your Altium Designer Free Trial Learn More about Altium Nexus Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics

Welcome to the new year!  Today we discuss the passing of Betty White, America's Grandma.  Also, get the shot or don't but don't use here in your political crusade.  I-95 is closed for accidents and people are mad on social.  The Bronco may leak some around its hinges.  Why is no one prepared for anything?  … Continue reading Trucking Answers | Trucking News | Automotive | A Reason we are not on Mars | #54 →

When it comes to muscle cars, we all have our favorites. From Chevelles and Chargers, to Mustangs and AMXs, there are some vehicles that just speak to us in ways we can't explain. For many, one of the most sought after is that of the 1971 Plymouth ‘Cuda, that perfectly designed E-Body that Ma Mopar created just over fifty years ago. With damn near flawless lines, and no shortage of engines, rear-ends and transmission, it's no wonder they're some of the most sought after cars ever created. Therefore, we thought it only fitting that, seeing as we have two of the most desirable versions on our very own Hemmings Auctions (a numbers matching 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda 4-speed Shaker, and a '71 440-6, 4-speed drop-top), that we'd bring on Mopar expert Scott Smith of Harms Automotive on this week's episode of the Hemmings Hot Rod BBQ podcast, to explain why these two Mopars are just so damn special.

The boys kick off the new year with a recap of the recent news, some speculations, and bullshittin with the listeners.  https://www.revivalmotoring.com/

In the final recorded episode of 2021, we sit down with a friend and returning guest Tobias Aldrich.  We discuss goals on some of our project cars for the new year, and Tobias gives us the run-down on what his end-of-season lawn care routine looked like.  We also take some listener submissions and commentary. https://www.revivalmotoring.com/

Thank you for joining us on Breakfast With Champions! Today we hear from Scott Simons! Scott Simons is Moving Lives Forward, Co Host of the Breakfast of Champions Clubhouse Room, President/Managing Partner CMA's Valley Chrysler, Dodge, Honda, Jeep, Nissan, RAM, Subaru, VW Car Dealerships, Deputy Sheriff Reserve, OG Member of the Arete Syndicate, Apex, and Investor in Multiple Businesses across many Industries! 

In today's episode, I'm super excited to be joined by Phil M Jones, the author of the incredible book, Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact. I've studied influence for a long time, and I have to say, Phil's book is one of the best in the category. Not only is it packed with brilliant insights, actionable principles - it's also highly consumable and accessible enough that anyone can pour its teachings into their lives, and according to Phil, this is all by design. He sat down with us and shared what drove him to write the book, how and why he went completely against the grain in the writing, packaging and publishing of the book.    Phil M Jones is a Master of Influence and Persuasion, author of Seven Best Selling Business Books, including Exactly What To Say, and one children's picture book, producer of the most listened to non-fiction audiobook of all time. His precise insights around communication, added to a proven personal pedigree of peak performance and a richness of real-world experience mean that Phil is the kind of thought-leader whose counsel is sought by other thought-leaders. Best known for his international best-selling book, Exactly What to Say – The Magic Words for Influence and Impact and his vast experience as a professional speaker at conferences and events, what is often overlooked is the strategic intellect he provides behind the scenes for some of the world's biggest brands to understand their critical conversations and the success language required to maximize their effectiveness. To date, more than 800 different industries, across 59 countries and 5 continents have benefitted from his input. Trusted by dynamic and aspiring leaders in Healthcare, Real Estate, Automotive, Financial Services, SaaS, Home Improvement, Retail and many more – Phil is the kind of expert that achieves his success through the people he supports and adores seeing other people shine.    Influence is the ability to make our conversations count, but exactly how to do it isn't something we're taught. So we end up needing to be influential in high stakes situations, but what if we could distill influence down so that we can use it in low stakes interactions like convincing our kids to clean their rooms, or our spouse to eat at that Italian restaurant for dinner?    It's hard to increase our influence without practice, and confidence is often the missing ingredient. If we turn down the pressure, ramp up our experience, increase the reps we can build our influence-competence through confidence and experience.    Guest Info   Phil M Jones is a Master of Influence and Persuasion, author of Seven Best Selling Business Books, including Exactly What To Say, and one children's picture book, producer of the most listened to non-fiction audiobook of all time. Phil M Jones thinks and acts differently. His precise insights around communication, added to a proven personal pedigree of peak performance and a richness of real-world experience mean that Phil is the kind of thought-leader whose counsel is sought by other thought-leaders.   He believes with passion that the answer to increased success, in every area of life, is to ask better questions, focus on QUALITY of conversation as well as quantity and that quite often, the difference between you, and all the others, is knowing Exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make more of your conversations count.   Entering the world of business at the tender age of 14, with nothing more than a bucket and sponge, he went from single-handedly washing cars on weekends to hiring a fleet of friends working on his behalf, resulting in him earning more than his teachers by the time he was 15.   Best known for his international best-selling book, Exactly What to Say – The Magic Words for Influence and Impact and his vast experience as a professional speaker at conferences and events, what is often overlooked is the strategic intellect he provides behind the scenes for some of the world's biggest brands to understand their critical conversations and the success language required to maximize their effectiveness. To date, more than 800 different industries, across 59 countries and 5 continents have benefitted from his input. Trusted by dynamic and aspiring leaders in Healthcare, Real Estate, Automotive, Financial Services, SaaS, Home Improvement, Retail and many more – Phil is the kind of expert that achieves his success through the people he supports and adores seeing other people shine.    For more information, visit https://www.philmjones.com/.    CTA   ​​Please leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/nla  

2021 was a great year for vehicles (and kind of a lousy one for many of us humans). Automotive specialist Tom Voelk looks at the positive and picks the best cars, trucks and SUVs from what he's driven over the past year. His choice for Vehicle of the Year can be had for as little as $21,500. So there are some surprises in this list. As a This Is Spinal Tap fan, Tom turns it up to 11. Maybe 12. This year, the unveiling comes from Hawaii's Big Island. Because, why not?

This week the boys discuss 2021, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Shook tells a story. Chuck likes the Chiron Josh and Corey laugh and swear. https://revivalmotoring.com/ Subscribe to YT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsVwFJLxESvvMhY2FNC1jKQ