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Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:17:00 +0000 https://jungeanleger.podigee.io/1178-wiener-borse-plausch-531-kapschtrafficcom-wiener-borse-fma-und-rbi-schaffen-best-practice-2023-einer-kapitalerhohung b7133bd206da60931f5e9a67ecb4831f Die Wiener Börse Pläusche sind ein Podcastprojekt für Audio-CD.at von Christian Drastil Comm. Unter dem Motto „Market & Me“ berichtet Christian Drastil über das Tagesgeschehen an der Wiener Börse. In Folge #531 geht es um die Kapitalerhöhung der KapschTrafficCom gestern und Kapsch, Wiener Börse, FMA und RBI haben gezeigt, dass man eine KE 2023 mit neuen Instrumentarium auch gut machen kann. Diese Variante samt Pricing am aktuellen Kurs sollte als Best Practice zur Benchmark für künftige Transaktionen werden, sodass nicht stets Privatanleger als Geschädigte zurückbleiben, wie wir es heuer schon gesehen haben. Weiters gibt es News zu AMAG, AT&S, Post, RBI, SBO, Oberbank/Lenzing und Research zu Verbund, FACC, CA Immo, ams Osram. - "40x DAX und bis zu 40x Österreich", die tägliche Podcastshow im deutschen Börsenradio ab 2024. Welche Österreicher dabei sind: https://www.photaq.com/page/index/4123 - Info-Podcast dazu hören: https://www.audio-cd.at/page/podcast/4868/  - Playlist 30x30 Finanzwissen pur für Österreich auf Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3MfSMoCXAJMdQGwjpjgmLm - Stockpicking Österreich: https://www.wikifolio.com/de/at/w/wfdrastil1? ATX aktuell: https://www.wienerborse.at/indizes/aktuelle-indexwerte/preise-mitglieder/??ISIN=AT0000999982&ID_NOTATION=92866&cHash=49b7ab71e783b5ef2864ad3c8a5cdbc1 Die 2023er-Folgen vom Wiener Börse Plausch (Co-verantwortlich Script: Christine Petzwinkler) sind präsentiert von Wienerberger, CEO Heimo Scheuch hat sich ebenfalls unter die Podcaster gemischt: https://open.spotify.com/show/5D4Gz8bpAYNAI6tg7H695E  . Co-Presenter im Oktober ist froots, die digitale Vermögensverwaltung aus Österreich, http://www.froots.io. Der Theme-Song wurde seinerzeit spontan von der Rosinger Group supportet: Sound & Lyrics unter http://www.audio-cd.at/page/podcast/2734 . Mehr Wiener Börse Pläusche: https://www.audio-cd.at/wienerboerseplausch  . Risikohinweis: Die hier veröffentlichten Gedanken sind weder als Empfehlung noch als ein Angebot oder eine Aufforderung zum An- oder Verkauf von Finanzinstrumenten zu verstehen und sollen auch nicht so verstanden werden. Sie stellen lediglich die persönliche Meinung der Podcastmacher dar. Der Handel mit Finanzprodukten unterliegt einem Risiko. Sie können Ihr eingesetztes Kapital verlieren. Und: Bewertungen bei Apple (oder auch Spotify) machen mir Freude: https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/audio-cd-at-indie-podcasts-wiener-boerse-sport-musik-und-mehr/id1484919130 . 1178 full

Kia ora,Welcome to Thursday's Economy Watch where we follow the economic events and trends that affect Aotearoa/New Zealand.I'm David Chaston and this is the international edition from Interest.co.nz.And today we lead with news central bank bosses have been out warning of inflation and economic stress.But first in the US, their Thanksgiving holiday has brought forward some key data releases. First up, the headline jobless claims numbers came in sharply lower than expected, indicating the American labour market isn't done yet showing its resilience. However we should note that the actual claim levels were higher than the seasonally adjusted levels even if not as high as was expected. There are now 1.65 mln people on these benefits, also quite a jump. But this is only back to September levels.Second, mortgage applications rose marginally last week, but again only with the benefit of seasonal adjustment. Benchmark mortgage interest rates continued to move lower, now to 7.29% plus points, the lowest rate in two months. That is down -15 bps in just one week.Also falling were new durable goods orders in October. After rising a good +4.0% in September, they fell a sharpish -5.4% on October so a net loss overall. Year-on-year they are only up +0.9%. Capital goods orders were up +1.6% however on that basis.Going the other way, a current survey of year-ahead inflation expectations rose to a 7-month high of 4.5% in November, up from the preliminary estimate of 4.4% and above 4.2% in the prior month. That is according to a final reading of the University of Michigan survey. The last actual US CPI reading was at 3.2% in October and the November report is due on December 13 NZT.In Canada, their central bank boss has signaled an end to rate hikes, saying "interest rates may now be restrictive enough to get us back to price stability".But in Australia, their new central bank governor is singing a different tune. She is warning that the inflation challenge they face is increasingly homegrown and demand driven.In China, one of their largest shadow banks warned it's “severely insolvent,” with a debt pile more than two times higher than assets, according to a letter seen by Bloomberg. Liquidity has dried up and the recoverable amount from asset disposals is expected to be low, the company said. China's retail-dominated equity markets are vulnerable to fake news and rumour and authorities are on edge. It never helps when there are also major real stresses.China isn't the only region of financial industry stress. In its Financial Stability Report, the ECB is warning that they too see "early signs of stress".And from left-field, perhaps should note that the price of uranium is soaring again as global demand spikes for clean energy projects. We haven't seen these price levels since 2008. Thermal coal on the other hand is retreating.The UST 10yr yield is little-changed from yesterday, now at 4.43%. The price of gold will start today just on US$1990/oz and down -US$10/oz from this time yesterday.Oil prices have fallen a sharpish -US$2.50 to be just under US$7/bbl in the US. The international Brent price is now at US$79.50/bbl. And this is happening after pricing in the OPEC+ production cut extensions expected to come in the weekend, although it now seems to have been delayed a day or so.The Kiwi dollar starts today at 60.7 USc and marginally firmer from this time yesterday. Against the Aussie we are unchanged at 92.4 AUc. Against the euro we are also unchanged at 55.5 euro cents. That all means our TWI-5 starts today still just under 69.6.The bitcoin price starts today at US$36,389 and down -2.4% from this time yesterday. Volatility over the past 24 hours has also been moderate however at just on +/- 2.6%.You can find links to the articles mentioned today in our show notes.You can get more news affecting the economy in New Zealand from interest.co.nz.Kia ora. I'm David Chaston. And we will do this again tomorrow.

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- After repeating benchmark workouts several times it can be fun to modify the workout to make it a new experience for athletes.- Pat & Adrian discuss how to put a fun twist on benchmark workouts.- They describe how to accomplish this through general principles, as well as provide specific workout examples. 

The cigar review: The White Gold Limited Edition Toro by Principle Cigars. The drink review: Benchmark Old No. 8 Egg Nog. Topics this week include: Great Black Friday deals are everywhere! Weird McDonald's hacks. What is 'cricketing' and how can it help you sleep? Airlines continue to make air travel difficult to enjoy. Feds seize $1.3 billion in knockoffs from a Manhattan storage unit in largest-ever counterfeit bust. Gen Z can't stop using slang at work — 10 terms that annoy their colleagues the most. All that and much more on episode 264 of Eat Drink Smoke. More information on the White Gold Limited Edition Toro: Size - 6 x 52 Wrapper - Connecticut (Ecuador) Binder - Monte Plata Filler - Dominican Republic & Zimbabwe Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy (http://eatdrinksmokeshow.com) host Eat! Drink! Smoke! (http://facebook.com/eatdrinksmoke) recorded live at Blend Bar Cigar (http://blendbarcigar.com) in Indianapolis, IN. Follow Eat! Drink! Smoke! Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoEatDrinkSmoke | @GoEatDrinkSmoke Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eatdrinksmoke | @eatdrinksmoke IG: https://www.instagram.com/eatdrinksmokepodcast | @EatDrinkSmokePodcast The Podcast is Free! Click Below! On Apple Podcasts (http://bit.ly/eatdrinksmoke) On Amazon Music (https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/09697f78-947d-4008-92f6-18f6b241774a/Eat-Drink-Smoke) On Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/show/eat-drink-smoke) On Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Qf6qSmnpb5ctSMEtaB6lp)

How will the ESG agenda impact sport?ESG is short for Environmental, Social and Governance, and is a set of standards measuring business's impact on society, the environment, and how transparent and accountable it is; an attempt to capture all the non-financial risks and opportunities inherent in a company's day to day activities. It relates to sport in a number of very significant ways. For example, some major corporations are using ESG as a framework with which to shape their sport sponsorship spend.  Is the sports team or event rights holder transparent in its governance and supply chain practices? Is its workforce and executive suitably diverse? And what is the impact of its events on the climate? But the ESG movement has also proven controversial. Elon Musk called it 'the devil' and dismissed it as 'woke', after tobacco companies scored higher in sustainability indexes than Tesla: 'How could cigarettes, which kill over eight million a year, be deemed a more ethical investment than electric cars?' wrote Musk, accusing ESG of creating unintended consequences and creating a misleading rule book that's open to being gamed by unscrupulous business owners.To help us unpick where sport plays in the ESG debate, we're joined by Nick Keller, the CEO and founder of Benchmark, and the global foundation Beyond Sport, which has been backed by global leaders including Richard Branson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.00:00 Introduction and Benchmark Overview02:50 The Role of Agencies in Sports06:55 The Importance of ESG in Sports15:51 The Challenges of ESG Investing22:53 The Future of Sponsorship in Sports32:18 Understanding the Supply Chain in Sports33:09 The Role of Sustainability 33:26 The Impact of AI on Sports33:37 The Ethics of Sports Sponsorship34:13 The Role of Brands in Sports39:14 The Power of Athlete Activism39:59 The Future of Sports Sponsorship44:12 The Challenges of Major Sports Events51:56 The Role of Sustainability in Major Sports Events57:51 The Impact of Cancer on Personal LifeUnofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of listeners, sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter and TikTok at @UnofficialPartnerWe publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday. These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport. Our entire back catalogue of 300 sports business conversations are available free of charge here. Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner' on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher and every podcast app. If you're interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series, you can reach us via the website.

Hello, Digital Supply Chain enthusiasts! I'm excited to share with you the key insights from my latest podcast episode where I had the pleasure of discussing the evolving world of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) with Donavan Hornsby, Chief Strategy Officer at Benchmark Gensuite.In our deep-dive conversation, Donavan brought to light how cutting-edge technology, including AI and computer vision, is reshaping risk management in the workplace. It's not just about identifying risks anymore; it's about preemptively addressing them to ensure safety and compliance in real-time.We explored how companies, regardless of size, can leverage technology to not only meet compliance standards but also to push beyond them for greater operational efficiency and employee safety. This is particularly crucial in a world where regulations and expectations are continually evolving.Donavan shared fascinating insights on the role of data management systems in helping companies transition from traditional methods to more sophisticated, integrated approaches. It's not just about avoiding penalties anymore; it's about building a culture that prioritises safety and sustainability at its core.This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in how technology is revolutionising the way we think about and manage workplace safety and environmental compliance. Whether you're part of a large corporation or a smaller enterprise, there's something to learn and apply in your organisation.Here is the link to the webinars on the Benchmark website that Donavan referred to https://benchmarkgensuite.com/webinars/, and don't forget to check out the video version of this podcast on YouTube.So, tune in, get inspired, and let's keep pushing the boundaries for a safer, more sustainable supply chain world!Support the showPodcast supportersI'd like to sincerely thank this podcast's generous supporters: Lorcan Sheehan Krishna Kumar Christophe Kottelat Olivier Brusle Alicia Farag Joël VANDI Luis Olavarria And remember you too can Support the Podcast - it is really easy and hugely important as it will enable me to continue to create more excellent Digital Supply Chain episodes like this one.Podcast Sponsorship Opportunities:If you/your organisation is interested in sponsoring this podcast - I have several options available. Let's talk!FinallyIf you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to just send me a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. 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 for listening.

INDEX: 0:00 - Introduction 0:22 - First Private Equity Fund 4:11 - Evolution of Benchmark 8:17 - Benchmark's Geopolitical Influence and Industry Transformation 13:08 - The Timeline for Achieving US Battery Supply Chain Independence 16:30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger Champions Critical Minerals and Battery Supply Chain on Global Stage 20:47 - China's Imposition of Export Licenses on Graphite Sparks Global Concerns 23:41 - The Potential for AUS Players to Extend Down the Value Chain 27:00 - Lithium Industry Faces Shifting Dynamics: Could The Hunter Become the Hunted Amid Market Valuation Swings? 31:02 - Exxon's Lithium Aspirations: Investment Plans and Challenges of Pricing Mechanisms 36:20 - Challenges in Meeting EV Demand: Unpacking the Gap Between Ambitious Production Numbers and Supply Constraints 39:05 - Biden's Impact on U.S. EV Policy: Potential for Joe Manchin's Presidential Bid 45:47 - Bifurcation in Lithium Pricing: Capital Intensity, Regional Supply Chains and Different Prices in Global Markets 48:27 - Wrap-up #lithium #Tesla #electricvehicles  _________________________________________________ Thank you to our Patrons for supporting the channel.  Register your email at https://www.rkequity.com and follow Rodney and me on Twitter (@lithiumionbull @RodneyHooper13) and on LinkedIn. Please also subscribe here on YouTube to Rock Stock Channel to ensure full access to all our free content. And finally, if you find value in our content, please consider joining us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/rockstockchannel _________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH Rodney and Howard are not financial advisors nor broker-dealers, this video is for information purposes only and should not be considered investment or financial advice. Please do your own independent research and read the disclaimer at the end of the video or on RK Equity's website https://www.rkequity.com Intro and outro audio credit: Jamie Klein

Benchmark Weekly Defamation Law Friday, 17 November 2023 by Benchmark

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Benchmark Daily - Composite Executive Summary Thursday, 16 November 2023 by Benchmark

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Benchmark Weekly Criminal Law Review Friday, 17 November 2023 by Benchmark

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A recent report from ACT noted 70% of seniors fall short of college readiness benchmarks in math, and about 40% meet "none" of the college readiness benchmarks. https://tinyurl.com/e92ttej4 #BobUnruh #WNDNewsCenter #ACTreport #seniorstudents #schools #publiceducation #collegereadinessbenchmarks #highschoolscores #academicsubjects #mathematics #reading #science #VancouverWa #ClarkCountyWa #ClarkCountyNews #ClarkCountyToday

Ben Buell from Benchmark Physical Therapy joined Tyler and Will to discuss injuries in College Football and the NFL. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben Buell from Benchmark Physical Therapy joined Tyler and Will to discuss injuries in College Football and the NFL. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spaceflight News— Rocket Lab Failure Analysis (spacenews.com) (space.com) (rocketlabusa.com) (PDF: q4cdn.com VIA en.wikipedia.org)Short & Sweet— Astra's financial future (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)— X-37B readies for first launch on Falcon Heavy (spaceflightnow.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Dinkinesh adds a moon (planetary.org)Interview -- Jake Teufert CTO and Chris Carella CCO, Benchmark Space Systems— We last talked to Chris Carella in episode 373 (theorbitalmechanics.com)— benchmarkspacesystems.com— linkedin.com/company/benchmark-space-systems — linkedin.com/in/jake-teufert-86b375133/ — linkedin.com/in/christopher-carella-innovate/This Week in Spaceflight History— Nov 15, 1988: The first and only launch of Buran (en.wikipedia.org) (buran.ru) (buran.ru) (buran-energia.com)— Next week (11/21 - 11/27) in 1962: Clouds before Aurora

Ben Buell from Benchmark Physical Therapy joined Tyler and Will to discuss injuries in College Football and the NFL. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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With Jack and David finally reunited the Audioverse lies ahead! This week we begin with Benchmark from James O'Neill and Paul Freeman performed by Anton Lesser and music by Dan Harris. There's No Place For Old Spies. Defection is a dangerous game. Oliver West relives an event he will regret for the rest of his life. Afterwards we have lighter fantasy fare with "The Inn Between" and episode one "The Goblin Head" where our heroes meet in a tavern. As you do from Kristen Brand and music from Society favourite Eli McIlveen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Respect The Game Podcast   0:00 - Should Terrell Davis Be In the HOF 11:00 - Benchmark for "Good WR" 15:20 - Random Nonsense 19:00 - NFL Week 10 Picks 29:10 - Respect The Bet: Week 10 Bets 36:45 - Week 10 Preview/NFL Talk 1:00:00 - UM vs FSU 1:09:00 - This or That: Toilet Money/One Night Stand Consequences 1:16:00 - Fast Food Orders/Other Types of Animal Meat 1:23:30 - What You Watchin - The Sopranos, Fear TWD, Gen V, Power, The Challenge 1:34:00 - Only Bet the NCAA Ranked Teams   *Betting With Your Money Is Your Responsibility. Entertainment Purposes Only*

EP313 - Holiday 2023 Preview with Rob Garf of Salesforce Episode 313 is preview of Holiday 2023 with Rob Garf, Vice President and General Manager, Retail at Salesforce. This is Robs' fifth time on the show, having previously been on episodes 110, 248, 282, and 299. It's happened again. Your Halloween decorations have come down (or at least your pumpkin is not in good shape), you survived Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, and now you're getting ready to ditch your in-laws and enjoy one of the most exciting retail weeks of the year. Yes, it's time for Holiday 2023! This year, we've decided to do things a bit different by previewing the holiday in advance of Turkey 5. Rob Garf has kindly joined to walk us through Salesforce's e-commerce forecast for November and December, and we compare it to all the other forecasts out there (NRF, Deloitte, Bain, US Dept of Commerce). In addition to the top line forecasts, we touch on retail versus e-commerce, changing shape of the holiday, discounting climate, inventory and supply chain impacts, top performing categories, the economy, and the impact of rapidly growing Chinese brands (Temu, Shein, TikTok). Throughout this episode make liberal use of real-time data from Salesforce Shopping Insights HQ, which tracks how 1.5+ billion consumers are shaping shopping trends. You can see a real-time holiday dashboard, powered by Tableau so you can interact with the data yourself on the Salesforce Holiday Insights page. Episode 313 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday November 8th, 2023. 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 313 being recorded on Wednesday November 8th 2023 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 and Scot show listeners Jason is 3:13 the lucky number I had the 13 is kind of on there so I think we'll count it. Jason: [0:48] It's a lot of threes. Scot: [0:50] Yeah yeah I think it's a primal have to get one of our research analyst to work on the okay so we are recording this in early November as Jason said so at that critical part of the retail calendar all the plans are laid the discounts are on the table Cyber Monday. Thanksgiving Black Friday everything's teed up and everyone's waiting in anticipation of what holiday is going to bring us this year. And we know longtime listeners will know that our holiday turkey five coverage with a lot of sprinkling of data is second to none in the industry and this year we're going to take it up a notch in past years we've had our friend of the show Rob Garf VP and GM for retail at Salesforce on after the turkey 5 give us a real-time view of what they saw and for those of you that have been with us very long time this is her Jason's mom primarily those were episodes 110 249 282 and 299 man that's quite a track record this year we are going to take it up and have a delicious rub Garf before and after holiday sandwich it's kind of like that turkey sandwich but we're going to kind of sample it here before we even even have Thanksgiving. Rob before I before I go on welcome back for the fifth and I think record time on the show. Rob: [2:11] Wow I love it this is I will have to call the Guinness book up and make sure we get this knocked in memory on this is fantastic it's always good to be here and even better Scott and Jason and first of all thank you for having me on doing a little bit of a preview because as you mention were normally crawling through the data talking about the holiday weekend and seeing where everything lands after the critical time period and it's fun to take a little bit of a sneak preview and look at what we're anticipating and what we're seeing going into as you mentioned one of the most critical times of the year. Jason: [2:45] I think you're exactly right Rob I don't know why we didn't think of this sooner I feel like they should have always been part of our holiday tradition. And I do feel like we're getting all of the Rob protein with none of the nasty carbs so that's like a. Particularly healthy Thanksgiving treat but Rob before we jump into all of the good data remind listeners what the heck it is you do for Salesforce and how you get all this juicy data. Rob: [3:13] Yeah that's awesome let's by the way the listeners decide you know how. Advantageous this is after the fact I hope it is and again we'll do our best so yeah and I've been I always thinking about it thinking into this conversation now at Salesforce for over 7 years but I came. To the CRM Leader by way of demand where and if you remember demandware now Commerce Cloud was the leader and the cloud space and we instrumented the platform early on to get access to everything that flows. Through our Cloud so you think about all the Taps all the clicks all the swipes. [3:48] Now we don't have any access to personally identifiable information but we bubble that up and it becomes really The Benchmark for what's happening in digital and over the years we've included. Things from marketing and Service as well to look at a more complete buyers Journey. [4:08] And it's been really fun each quarter we release our shopping index which is available on salesforce.com built on Tableau and it's interactive so you can slice and dice it by vertical and by geography and it really helps. Retailers gauge how they're doing vis-à-vis their peer set which of course is extremely important anytime of the year but certainly even more important during. The holiday week now I think there's one thing that I sometimes forget to say so I want to make sure right cover it now which is. Our index and by virtue of that our benchmarks are from a outside in perspective so they are a look at the entire industry, not just Salesforce data we've modeled this over the last 10 years since its Inception so it's really intended to look at. The overall industry and benchmarking how peers are doing rather than speaking to anything that Salesforce is doing so that's my quick infomercial but hopefully more than anything just a little bit of credibility as to where we get the data, what we do with it and most importantly the conversations were able to have similar to what we're doing here. Jason: [5:19] God so that that sounds perfect. I do want just a couple clarifying questions before we jump into the actual data because I know we're going to talk about holiday like what is your official definition of holiday what what dates are you looking at. Rob: [5:38] Yeah thanks for asking that's always an important question so we've defined it over the years as the complete November and December so that's our holiday our peak season look. And we look at in particular for again the holiday weekend I know you call it cyber five or thirty five, we have cyber week which starts the Tuesday before, American Thanksgiving and works its way through Cyber Monday it's just something we started from the beginning and 4y like to like, your rear comparisons we've kept that intact so in on referencing cyber week or cyber five it's really looking at those, those seven days now of course the definition by some has been elongated and I hope we'll get into that in terms of when does the official real demand start but to answer your question straight on Jason it's for us at Salesforce November December. Jason: [6:27] Got it and so for historical purposes you've always been located in November December and then you're predominantly or exclusively focused on digital sales so you're you're reporting on what actually happened and forecasting what you think is going to happen in terms of e-commerce sales but unless I had this wrong you guys don't put a flag in the ground on on what you think is going to happen in brick-and-mortar is that true. Rob: [6:50] That is accurate now we do kind of go on the fringes a little bit because the bleeding between online or the blurring I should say between online and offline so we do have, data on buy online pick up at store we do have data on returns as well which is by virtue of, definition multi-channel omni-channel type of process but we don't put a stake in the ground because we just don't have the intrinsic data to be able to bubble that up and provide on the actuals. Jason: [7:20] Sure and then one other fun fact you reference the shopping index and you always have like the quarterly recap on there but I think. For sure during holidays and I think you're going to tell me your round you actually have a real-time dashboard up there so it's kind of a fun thing during the individual days of cyber week to kind of pop in and see see what's going on after your family Thanksgiving dinner to see if you're still going to have a retail job when this is all over. Rob: [7:50] Yeah yeah we do exactly so during particularly cyber week each morning the team is getting up super early as you can imagine and work around through the data and we're updating in real-time the data from the previous day and so for any retailer who is looking for the latest and greatest certainly by I would say 10:00 eastern time at the latest you will get that and see that up there we do have many customers who do use that in there Roundtable boardroom discussions each day to understand how they're doing it repairing it and more than anything Jason truth be told we need to get it up that early because our boss this guy named Marc benioff is typically texting us saying where's the data because I want to tweet it so yeah as much of a motivator as anything else. Scot: [8:40] Always fun when you get the text from The Seer. Jason: [8:44] Slack's slacks the he sends wax not to. Scot: [8:48] A slacks yes sorry I was off I was off brand for a second yeah he Einsteins it to his his Einstein slacks you. You mentioned one follow-up on that you mentioned American Thanksgiving that prompted me to ask this is largely we're talking about the u.s. here primarily we're not going to this is an international I'm sure you can go International but, we're doing more us right. Rob: [9:12] Yeah I'm prepared to do whatever I thought we'd probably borrow a bit more into us but we do have Global numbers but yeah. Scot: [9:20] Okay we have time Jason's obsessed with these Chinese companies I'm sure he'll ask you some questions so. Rob: [9:25] That's fair that wouldn't. Scot: [9:26] Yeah he gets all his clothes from she in any way. So before we dive into the topic du jour which is this year's holiday 2023 maybe recap for listeners kind of that you know. I know we had you on but the dust has settled and I'm sure you're going back and looking at it now with holiday 22 what were some of the bullet items that you kind of you you're thinking about as we go into 23. Rob: [9:56] Scot you don't think the listeners have totally taken This to Memory what we talked about last November 29 come on. You're probably right that's fine yeah I get it not all of us live and breathe this but yeah let's bring us back and you know actually if I could just for a minute, to put 2022 in context you need to think a little bit about 2021 and let me just spend a minute there and then I'll fast forward to 22 which is if you remember some of us don't want to in 2021 it was truly one of the first times that demand, actually got pulled forward in the holiday season and the reason was. The first mile delivery issues were stuck if you remember so many products were stuck in the port in the US of a Lala. The containers if they even got to the port or having a difficult time getting off the ship in into the domestic supply chain and people saw a headline after headline when I say people like consumers by or shoppers and they realized if they didn't buy early in the season. [11:03] They might not get the product that they actually want because in the past they would just have a waiting game and wait for the last and final deal and so. Demand got pulled earlier in the season and oh by the way retailers didn't have to Discount as steep as they normally do so going into 2020 retailers thought. [11:26] All of a sudden there would be this magical shift to Consumers buying earlier in the year and you know what that just didn't happen, there was actually a really good point of why that didn't happen when you look at the first two weeks of November we saw some of the lowest discounting rates that we typically see during the holiday season and because of these lackluster deals. People really didn't buy anything they waited and they again went back to their normal buying Behavior. One other by-product out of that is those that did by early. [12:04] We saw that they actually return the product during cyber week cyber week last year 2022 at some of the highest. Return rates during that week of the entire season people were doing their own price adjustments if they bought the product earlier in the year and realize they could have gotten a better price so there's like. I don't know how you calculate a triple or quadruple whammy on the bottom line that retailer saw. Because they were hoping to chase the deals earlier or wait I should say for the deals into the season and consumers just didn't bite. Overall and then I'll stop talking for a second here is what we saw. For let's just take cyber week as an example in the u.s. we saw a nine percent year-over-year growth growth online and globally we saw a 2% growth so us was really buoying up the global number there but a lot of that Sales Online happened right before cyber week and through the Thanksgiving holiday. Scot: [13:07] Got it it's kind of coming back to me I Remember You coining The Phrase discount chicken I remembered that is that right remember. Rob: [13:15] Yeah yeah yeah totally and thank you so discount chicken you know for the first time that we saw, retailers won the game of discount chicken last year I'm sorry in 2021 they tried to win again in 2022 but it just didn't happen consumers are really wise the real patient and now especially as they're seeing headwinds in their economic future there's definitely searching out for better and best deals. Scot: [13:46] Yeah this this kind of goes back to our data question it just occurred to me as we were talking about this obviously the macroeconomic is different now does that factor into your when you swirl all this together and you guys put together a funk forecast is that is that an input. Rob: [14:00] Absolutely yeah for sure and another piece that we look at very closely because it's driven so much of the growth over the last two years is inflation as well and so when you look at the last two years much of the online and growth is from increased prices not increased demand so people are just not getting as much from their dollar because of those increases we're starting to see that settle down the last couple quarters which is good news we're not quite seeing in Europe by the way but here in the US and so we're hoping, some of the growth will come from We're anticipating I should say some of the growth this holiday season coming from actual increase demand. Jason: [14:41] God so I want to I want to jump in the big reveal but a quick quiz first if you don't mind so last year us e-commerce growth nine percent G20 21 was also an incredibly abnormal year do you remember what the actual number you guys got for 2021 was. Rob: [15:00] For cyber week that's a. Jason: [15:02] No or sorry for holiday if you don't have it it's fine. Rob: [15:05] Overall holiday for 2021 was nine percent but that's Global so I'd have to go back to see what it was with the US. Jason: [15:13] No problem but so last year in the u.s. nine percent growth which was outlier for because Global growth was quite a bit softer. And so now here we are getting ready for Holiday 23 and what what do you think's going to happen when how much stuff we're going to sell online in November and December of twenty three in the US. Rob: [15:35] Yeah, so we're anticipating here in the US basically flat online growth and anybody I'm talking to is candidly quite okay with that and let me tell you why they're not overly bullish about significant growth online this year. For two major factors one is, we actually looked at the kegger over the last couple of years going back to 2019 and if things play out the way we anticipate we're still looking at for the holiday season compound annual growth of somewhere between 20 and 25% and so we're really where we are better than where we've been in 2019 year-over-year so we're you know we've been looking at these data points for quite some time during the holiday season if we're going to do 10 to 12 to 13 percent year-over-year growth online we're feeling really good and we've seen the average over the last couple of years come out well over that so there's a baseline that we're still needing to consider as we think about growth the second factor is. [16:50] The store. And we can't forget about even though our data doesn't explicitly account for that what we've seen in our data is that people are still going online very, aggressively meaning traffic quarter-over-quarter year-over-year is still really strong however what we're finding is people are then doing what they've naturally done for a long time which is in many cases then go into the store to actually make the purchase and so it doesn't necessarily tell when you look at flat growth year over year for the holiday season the entire story we're still feeling really good about it what helps us by the way one more caveat that I'll put in there and I should have mentioned it's got just a moment ago when you asked how we get to the numbers one of the key influences, is what does it October look like and particularly prime or we should I was about to say Prime day but the prime big deal days and so what we've seen when it first came out a nice halo effect. And we still see a halo effect certainly during the dog days of summer in July since the Inception of prime day. What was that 56 years ago but we although we saw bumps in the early part when it. First was established in October there wasn't a significant halo effect that happened during Pride a meaning those. [18:18] Not named Amazon during the October event we saw nice traffic we though saw really low discount rates once again so people were being patient they're biding their time and so we are seeing some nice add to cart rates as well so we saw people were poking around they were doing their research they were starting to. Think about what their holiday gifting this look like but they were waiting and so that's my long way of saying we're anticipating a fairly moderate holiday but we're not at all discouraged by what we. Jason: [18:54] Totally fair and so and I want to put your forecast in a little bit of context but before I do you kind of open the door on this whole October and shape of holiday thing like hey. Super useful to have historical consistency so I'm glad you guys report. The same time period every year right like I'm by no means proposing that everyone should change periods but it is interesting there's there's a lot more promotional activity. Happening in October than was true 10 years ago right and in very specific ways you convoluted 22 years ago, Prime day was cancelled in summer and happened in October and then they move prom date back to Summer but they added this second prime day and put a lot more marketing behind it this year than last year so and every other retailer on the planet. Counter programs against that that holiday and so there's been a. An increasing amount of pressure to pull sales in in October and then on the flip side a lot of people feel like holiday doesn't really end. And told mid to late January and there's a variety of reasons for that but one very particular one heck of a lot of gift cards get sold and gifted during holidays and they get redeemed. [20:18] Predominantly in January and so I guess I'm just kind of curious I'm not sure you would have necessary data behind this but like it does feel like holiday is flattening out and I know you guys pay particular attention to cyber week which you know is still a huge outlier and obviously we see way more sales on Cyber week than a traditional holiday week but. As a. Relation to the total holiday period it does feel like that spike is starting to flatten out a little bit like do you see holiday getting kind of stretched and flattened. Rob: [20:53] Yeah I love the question in this I feel like we could look back you know in a year or 25 years and do a whole. [21:03] I don't know extensive research project around how, people in mindset and shopping has evolved because it has and of course the pandemic had a big accelerator to that what we've seen in our data Jason is there has been a flattening out throughout cyber week meeting the big Spikes have typically been Black Friday and Cyber Monday and those still remain the two largest online days of the entire year but we are seeing a flattening out throughout the entire week but we haven't seen a lot of the sales, when it's all said and done pulled into October we do see a little bit of a blip in and around, the big deal days and we actually to your point other retailers have preempted the sales and we saw that in July as well meaning doing sales events the week before and it does draw them up, some traffic but we haven't seen a large portion being pulled into that time period what I will also say again lackluster discounts played a big role we're anticipating, comparing big deal days to cyber week cyber week we'll see about a 40% higher discounting rate. [22:28] Then what we witnessed just a couple of weeks ago in October you are totally right by the way that. [22:37] The holiday season does definitely extend through December and into January that's why most every retailer has there. You know fiscal year ending in January so they can really reconcile and get out from under what happened in the holiday not just gift cards but all of the returns and exchanges that invariably happen as well but at the end of the day just put a nice little underscore here is in 2020 and 2021 we did see a bit of pulling forward into October a couple of percentage points of sales but we're forecasting that 25% of all holiday sales will happen again as we Define it the 7-Day is of cyber week. Jason: [23:27] Interesting very cool okay so before we dive into some more granular topics I do you want to put the 9% in context and some listeners will be familiar with Nate silver and his poll of polls in the the kind of boring, boring a political forecast but the way more interesting March Madness forecast so I like to fancy myself as the Nate silver of e-commerce and so I do try to watch all of this data and huge caveat, nobody's data is Apples to Apples right so it's not really a matter of though this number doesn't match up to this number. Everyone has a slightly different definition of what e-commerce means everyone has a slightly different set of dates that they're looking at and they have different methodologies right so your methodology I feel like you get perfectly accurate data from a slice of the market right like there's there's no like. Human. [24:30] Are introducing your data because it's coming right from the systems and that the challenge for you guys is to take your slice and extend that to the the entire world of retail. The and I feel like you guys do that really well. So another data source that of course people are sick of me talking about is the US Department of Commerce which are these like surveys that they force retailers to fill out and. There's. Entirely different challenges and flaws in their survey methodology and how they defined e-commerce but just to kind of put things in perspective. I'm going to talk about they give us both brick-and-mortar and e-commerce data and so I pulled right before a show I pulled their data for the historical averages of November and December and so for the 27 years before covid-19. November and December sales grew, 3.8 5% per year so that's brick-and-mortar that's not related to the number you gave it all so average retail growth in that States of America / the US Department of Commerce in November and December three point eight five percent so and then I remind people the three covid years 20 21 and 22. [25:45] Were the greatest three years in the history of retail right because we didn't let anyone spend any money on travel and we mailed 10 trillion dollars to every man woman and child in America, to spend and so via the US Department of Commerce data 2020 Drew 9.2 percent. [26:04] 20:21 Drew 12.5 percent in 2020 to grew 5.4% so three straight years of, way over the historical average growth right and then using that same methodology they US Department of Commerce reports internet sales I'm way more skeptical of their internet sales because of the methodology in the way they Define it but just to put it in perspective. [26:32] For the 27 years before covid they have e-commerce growing eleven point two five percent a year and so then 2020 when everyone was locked in the house and not going to retail we had this monster year e-commerce group 35% in November and December from their data and then the following year because there was sort of a rebound and a return into two brick-and-mortar sales e-commerce sales were actually lower than the industry average so 2021 they had sales at 10.5% so a little bit off of the historical average and then last year they were the softest of all they were seven point six eight percent which is the slowest e-commerce growth in Holiday in the last 30 years so that's just kind of an interesting context right so the orders of magnitude are all right you had nine percent growth last year they had seven point six percent growth they don't forecast of course and so then I start looking at the forecast and a big forecast that comes out every year we're all friends of the NRF here and there in RF members the NRF just did their holiday forecast their forecasting brick-and-mortar growing three to four percent so. [27:45] Pretty much in line with that historical average that's a deceleration from last year which was 5.4% and they're forecasting internet sales of 7.9 percent so they're kind of perfectly splitting the difference between the US Department of Commerce and Salesforce for whatever that's worth by pretty pretty broad range and so that just kind of passes my quick sanity check Deloitte also does a forecast now deloitte's forecast is a different time range they consider holiday November to January and they're forecasting brick-and-mortar 3.5 to four point six percent so a little more optimistic and they're forecasting e-commerce at ten point three to twelve point eight percent so again a little more optimistic and then Bain did a forecast this year and they have three percent brick-and-mortar so I just wanted to throw that out there that most people are expecting this kind of three to four percent brick-and-mortar growth and this kind of we'll call it eight to eleven percent e-commerce growth. Rob: [28:51] Yeah and I would say given what you just talked about. Others a bit more bullish on the e-commerce growth than we are but I think directionally both brick and mortar and e-commerce are telling a very similar story which is e-commerce is still alive and kicking but it now has to be looked at in the context of brick and mortar and I think there's a lot of factors in that that actually will make the reporting moving forward even more difficult it is making it difficult and Jason you and I have talked about this before it's just the attribution models because it's not just about last-click anymore especially as people might you know in many cases go online and then go into the store where's that last click and how is that I'd be factored so everything from. [29:38] What we had anticipated in seeing around, you know 60% of digital sales now influenced by the physical store because the associate is driving demand through, customer service or client telling or social media or they're fulfilling Demand with being able to, you know pick pack and ship and online order. Or what's happening in digital as well in terms of people buying online and then picking up in or around the store so I think what is super interesting. In addition to what you said is how these metrics might evolve over time because it will depend a lot on, by retailer who's getting the credit and I know that's something that's been talked about for quite some time but literally how to is it how is it being accounted for and what does that do to how their reporting the numbers. Jason: [30:33] Yeah couldn't agree more and just 11 sort of example to illustrate that 11 kind of category that sold almost no meaningful volume online before the pandemic was grocery right second biggest category of consumer spending but none of it was online before the pandemic now depending on how you count ten to twelve percent of its online and guess what it all gets attributed as store sales right because it all it's all bananas that are getting delivered from a store and you know so 100% of instacart sales look like store sales to the retailer. And so it like I agree with you it's just it's just getting more and more convoluted. Rob: [31:14] Yeah well it's an interesting point around grocery you know our data showed in 2020 and most of 2021 we saw Triple digit growth year over year because of what you just talked about you just wouldn't ordinarily or historically by groceries online what drove a lot of that and what I think will drive Behavior moving forward is in 2020 we saw a 40-percent increase of net new. Digital Shoppers so these are people that hang out online but they wouldn't click the buy button and so a lot of those people now want to go back into the store but they're using digital they're using their phone in particular to really be that connective tissue. Scot: [31:55] What's a continue to peel the onion here you hit on this a little bit but tell us more about what you think is coming up in the 2023 cyber week for example if I recall last year Cyber Monday was the biggest e-commerce Day Ever set, is that did you guys agree with that or what's a my misremembering. Rob: [32:14] Yeah yeah so we actually have seen Black Friday actually. Bust up to the largest I know that's kind of hard to how others have looked at it but they're both really strong and we anticipate that being the case again again though we are seeing a bit of smoothing out of demand throughout the seven days. [32:36] Particularly on phones and I guess that's not a big butt when we weren't traveling we saw the Resurgence of you know iPads and tablets and actual regular computers especially when you get nice groovy one Scott like you did just recently but anyways I am getting distracted here by your awesome new computer but. What we are now seeing though is I move back to mobile and what we saw also during Thanksgiving a really strong traffic particularly local times between 4:00 and 8:00 if you think about it that's essentially when people are finishing their Thanksgiving Neil and they need a little break there sitting on their couch and they pull out their phone and so we're seeing a lot of traffic. Via Mobile and social as well by the way we are anticipating and we predicted this going back in June that we're going to see. Traffic via social be at a 10 times higher rate. Than traditional marketing so there's a lot of budget being pushed towards that media and we're seeing. [33:49] A lot of success there now they're still a bit of a gap in terms of conversion rate through that channel but again if you connect the dots mobile. And social happening over cyber week in particular on Thanksgiving it's going to be really strong and we're seeing again retailers lean into that. Scot: [34:10] So Black Friday was bigger growth last year or bigger absolute dollars or both. Rob: [34:18] For us it was biggest absolute dollars the growth was essentially spot-on for both Cyber Monday and Black Friday. Scot: [34:28] Jason and I'm assuming that did other people say it was Cyber Monday or it was at all. Jason: [34:32] Yeah they're they're different different folks had that different Peak yeah so but. Scot: [34:39] Controversy in e-commerce I love it. Jason: [34:41] Yeah controversy and they're getting closer together like they're worth in the early days. E-commerce Cyber Monday was a giant Tower and no one had internet access on Black Friday like that that could really is no longer the case. Scot: [34:55] Yeah well rip Cyber Monday cool I don't have any follow-ups Jason's Europe. Jason: [35:03] Awesome so. I want to jump into one of the other topics you introduced a little earlier so far we've been mostly topping up talking about Top Line which is a kind of easy way to think about this and it's you know it's a it's a kind of easy way to get your brain around it, at the end of the day retailers care a lot more about bottom line and a huge impact on holiday bottom of line is how aggressively in deeply folks have to Discount in order to achieve those sales so, are you guys like what do you forecast I don't know if you have a formal forecast for discounts but what what should people expect from discounting this year versus last year and what what are the trends there. Rob: [35:46] Yeah yeah yeah this is good because I missed a point before that I want to make as a relates to Discount and so this will give me a good opportunity to bring that up but still has to go right at that Jason we're forecasting on average a. Thirty percent discount rate throughout cyber week and again to put that in perspective it was 20% here in the US during the October event for. Prime big deal days again we look at the entire industry not just Amazon as a relates to that and so we're seeing a much more aggressive, discount rate now it's going to differ obviously by different segments you're not seeing as high in luxury as an example we do anticipate for tour toys and a consumer electronics which have been a bit of a softer category over the last 12 months again especially because because of the high Baseline they had because of the growth over 2020 2021 but we're also seeing and this goes back to the pulling forward of demand. Is more and more retailers are providing. [36:55] Black Friday deals throughout the course of November and. What's different in the past was it was fairly opaque in terms of we're giving you deals but we're not really sure those are going to be the best deals right and though we're seeing now much more transparency there's one major retailer that I'm sure you can guess who's doing Black Friday deals throughout the course of November and they are guaranteeing price matches. If for some reason they do go lower and they are also offering buy now pay later so you can commit to getting the product so you don't miss out on it but you can then pay over time and so what really came to life for me in this topic was we were doing a round table. [37:47] In Toronto in June and one of the attendees and she talked about this again at dreamforce in. September so I feel comfortable talking about it is a digital executive from Desi mm which is a cool health and cosmetics and Beauty brand that also has two other brands one called the ordinary and they have something that they've been doing for quite some time calling it, slow vember and their whole point is don't cause any urgency but rather. Make it a more relaxed buying experience and their point is throughout the course of all of November we're going to provide the same exact discount no matter when. And if you buy it and so we're seeing that a bit more and more some of it is coming by way of. [38:38] Early Access or exclusivity but also again extending and providing visibility, part of it is again trying to create that confidence that you're getting the best and final deal and also by the way you talk about the bottom line Jason. Is trying to reduce the Deluge of returns that often happen a lot of retailers. Are changing 88 percent according to our research are changing their returns policies and that's going to be a. Big risk and what and how that impacts holiday purchases this year. Jason: [39:13] Yeah you know it's funny there's so many moving Parts it's so complicated you think about like what a big impact inflation had on last holiday and you know good news like it seems like inflation is going to be lower this holiday. Consumer was in a better economic position last year than it seems like they're getting their sure we're seeing credit and defaults and things like that start start to creep up so there's there's just all these moving Parts but one thing I think a lot of people lose sight of is in the last three years predominately driven by the pandemic every retailer has completely reinvented their supply chain and their demand forecasting and I would argue everybody's way better at it now and they have way more agile Supply chains and there they're they're a lot more accurate with their level of inventory which means. They're more confident they're going to sell through their inventory and that changes their discount strategy like they're just all these moving parts that make it really hard to compare your over year when you know. Preview point the last three years sometimes we didn't have anything to sell and then the next year we had two years worth of stuff to say so. Rob: [40:24] I was just talking about that with an executive just earlier today and how retailers have gotten as you said better at demand forecasting. Better at Inventory management and I joke sometimes although I'm only half joking that supply chain has really come to the front office it's like really part of the customer experience at this point and has such an opportunity, to either negatively impact our hopefully positively impact. The customer experience especially when you're you know trying to find product after the shipping cut off window we're anticipating once again a huge uptick for those that have the ability for Consumer to buy online and. Pick it up in and around the store after. [41:06] The ship and cut off window we're seeing seven times higher growth rate for those that have that capability because essentially you're kind of shutting down your online doors if you cannot. Fulfill those orders after the fact and so but that requires to your point Jason like a lot of tuning. Around supply chain order management inventory oh and by the way store associates as well we have to. You know planned for that extra time that they'll have to take to fulfill that order will have to provide the right incentives and will have to give them the tools as well and I think retailers have gotten better at it. I don't think anybody's fully cracked the code but going back to your bottom line point last year for us the holiday theme was profitability and that doesn't go away I think people have gotten meaning retailers have gotten better at it but certainly always opportunity so I'm glad you called that out. Jason: [42:02] Yeah I like to say profit is cool again. Rob: [42:04] Providence cool again yeah. Jason: [42:06] The if you take nothing else away from this episode profit is cool. The the way it's funny like I joke about this but it's kind of serious when I started my career the the VP of supply chain probably started his career as a truck driver and and today that VP of supply chain like probably has a PHD in data science um so it's a that that occupation has dramatically changed the one other follow-up question. One of the cool things about your data set versus some of these other ones I look at is. You guys have real-time access to the data so as we record this we're eight days into November have you seen anything interesting or there any patterns that have stood out it you does it make you more confident in your forecast or in anything that's interesting for listeners to know. Rob: [43:01] Yeah we did look at the first couple days of November and also of course looked at October it's pretty consistent with what we saw, in Q3 in the US we're basically flat in terms of growth however traffic is up so traffic is up four percent. Orders are slightly down what we've seen which I think again is a very nice leading indicator is, product view rates have increased by 5% and add to cart month-over-month so September to October plus a little bit of November we've seen a slight uptick as well so what that's telling us is people are interested. They're doing their research. They're looking for the best deals they're understanding where the inventory is available and so that they're ready to make the move when they feel like they're getting the best and most value. Scot: [43:58] Cool so it sounds like if traffic's up in orders are down a lot of Tire kick in and kind of prepping and watching and making your list and you know could be the start of discount chicken 2.0 will see. Rob: [44:10] There you go exactly 2.0 I'm using that Scott I'm grabbing that I hope that's okay. Scot: [44:14] Discount chicken the chickens Strike Back. Rob: [44:18] Well and also I mean you talked about kick the tires so I think it's a good opportunity for a promo for spiffy at this point too so don't forget to get your gift cards as well right. Scot: [44:28] Yeah yeah we will be running some promos thanks. Jason: [44:30] And if you do kick your tires Scott can come to your house and replace them for you. Rob: [44:34] Exactly. Scot: [44:36] And shop for the new shoes online. Rob: [44:38] There you go I think there's a mash up there there's going to be spiffy and a DDOS coming together for anyways I don't know we'll leave that to the markers. Scot: [44:48] That's a good segue into my question in the predictions on category so I remember last year you guys had some interesting data on that does your prediction. Kind of data science get down into the category slicing of things or that's going to be more in the rearview. Rob: [45:06] Yeah no we certainly look at that we do it obviously based on what we've seen historically we're anticipating for the holiday. Active apparel active Footwear Health and Beauty being really strong so. You know we talk about the big number because that gets the headline in terms of essentially flat growth but we had tisza Pate some nice growth in those areas it's going to be a challenging partly because of comping as a relates to toys and gaming and consumer electronics if you think about that's just macro trend. People are looking for Comfort part of it is coming out of covid and maybe not all of us getting back into three piece suits but also when you feel a little bit of economic uncertainty I was listening to some Financial show. [46:02] While I was traveling over the last couple weeks and somebody put it as kind of the household PL or the household balance sheet you know when you're looking at that in your making choices you're taking more control of your finances which is happening people often migrate not only obviously to value, and safety they're looking at comfort and so there's something to be said for comfort and shoes and Footwear comfort, in apparel and almost the openness to be a bit more comfortable both in Social and in work situation so what are anticipating like I said active apparel active Footwear Health and Beauty being really strong luxury as well don't sleep on luxury they've been the most resilient category. In the pandemic and coming out of the pandemic and so that end of the market has held really well we're seeing a little bit. Of softness and what I'll call the aspirational luxury but as a whole that category is looking really strong and we anticipate it looking pretty strong, during the holiday as well. Scot: [47:12] Yeah this is old school but I remember a channel advisor going through 08-09 we were always shocked that luxury you know it's like the world is falling apart around us and people are like oh yeah I'll get a get a 400 dog and back it's gone. That part of the market just doesn't care that they're immune to those things I guess. Rob: [47:30] They're pretty resilient. Yeah I mean one other thing I'll throw in there just because I'm talking about it more and more with customers as we think about the holiday more as a. I think Bellwether to what will anticipate next year over the course and this is a global number but over the course of holiday were anticipating 194 billion dollars of online sales being influenced by a. Sorry are you thought you were going to get through this whole I know should I have not done that I'm sorry because you definitely that's on your bingo sheet. Jason: [48:07] Now I have to check the there's a I in this episode flag on iTunes. Rob: [48:11] Exactly well might get some more traffic that way so who knows but we find that super interesting most of it I want to like temper that. A lot because people are getting really excited about that headline is most of it will be from predictive a I like product recommendations which we've been doing for quite some time we're starting to see some early adoption of generative AI whether that's in email marketing with subject lines or body copy for that Saint product detail page with product descriptions or in service super interesting wood Gucci is doing and what they call a Gucci 9 their service center and teeing up responses for their agent to make them more efficient and allow them to scale but also stay on brand and so we'll see that a bit more but again a vast majority like I said it's around globally sixteen Seventeen percent of all sales will be influenced by AI this holiday. Jason: [49:06] That interesting so Rob we're almost out of time but I want to throw a super meaty 12 you for for a final question Scott was making fun of me but I am super interested in these Chinese brands that are capturing attention and share in the u.s. right and in particular that's that's Tim ooh which is has more traffic than Target more sales than Ed see in the United States Xi'an is the largest apparel reseller in the United States and then to a lesser extent Tick-Tock which has the vast majority of consumers attention in the United States and is now trying to sell stuff to people. What super interesting is it's not obvious those guys are all growing at Breakneck Pace much faster than your your nine percent growth number it's not obvious if or who they're taking share from so I'm curious of you if you have any POV it kind of seems like there they're inventing new demand or at the very least they're taking sure from brick-and-mortar it does not appear they're taking sure from the Amazons of the world. Rob: [50:09] Yeah that's awesome I'm glad you're addressing this I've just spent a couple weeks. In Europe I was in four different cities so talking to a lot of luxury Brands talking to a lot of traditional brick and mortars, and this is an area one of the executives put out Tech intermediary and I told him I would steal that and here you go I'm stealing it. Because I would say those that you just categorized are really wedging themselves in between the demand and the supply and they're creating a whole new platform where. It was just an originally with Tik-Tok and others about inspiration and now it's about purchase and so you know what we're seeing in Jason you and I have talked about this got 20 degree as well this idea of embedded Commerce or shopping at the edge. Where the buy button is being pushed up through the funnel on these delivery platforms again these Tech intermediaries I mean if you think about it they're almost like. The next generation of the shopping mall the shopping mall is created because of access because the highway here in the states and it created a place for people to hang out for people to get some food for people to shop. [51:16] People to socialize and because of that hey they could have tenants who that would then pay rent and sell stuff right and it's not dissimilar to what these Tech into mediators are doing in that they're monetizing their traffic I think they're coming after, the brick-and-mortar to a degree they're all so I wouldn't say creating more demand but fraying some of the man from. The brand sites because the brands are showing up there and so I would say there. [51:52] A little bit creating more demand but more than that they're kind of defraying the demand we've seen is. A high degree of growth thirty percent over the last couple of years of growth on these third-party intermediaries that we're talking about and they are taking from other platforms. Jason: [52:14] Interesting I don't know what the real answer is but I do know it's super interesting and important to pay attention to so I'm glad we brought it up but Rob that is going to have to be where we leave it because we have used up all of our allotted time I'm going to make sure to put a link to the Salesforce holiday dashboard in the show notes and super grateful for you taking at time and I hope you have a great Thanksgiving and we're looking forward to talking with you right after Cyber Monday. Rob: [52:45] Thanks Jason Banks got ya looking for doing a short couple weeks looking forward to talking to you then. Scot: [52:50] You robbed remind listeners where they can find your pontification xand and do they just Google the the index to find your daily things or like is there a quick URL that you guys have that. Rob: [53:04] Yeah you know to be honest with you the best way to is go to Google and put in shopping index Salesforce and you'll get to our holiday insights Hub so it not only has the dashboards but has all of the blog's were writing and all of the up-to-date analysis. Scot: [53:20] Cool well thanks we really appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule to deliver this delicious holiday sandwich for our for Jason I in our listeners. Jason: [53:31] All right you guys be well and until next time happy commercing!

End of life care is a topic rarely discussed in healthcare. In a sensitive and candid conversation, critical care nurse Seung Eli Oh, RN, MSN, CCRN, explores what it means to die well, with Jim Cagliostro.    Episode Introduction  Seung explores the need for more medical training on end of life care, and why quality of life should be considered in patient treatment decisions. He also encourages all families and patients to have timely conversations about their wishes, discusses the importance of dignity in death, and welcomes the return of spiritual care for terminally ill patients.  Show Topics   The current state of end of life care in America A gap in understanding between doctors and patients Enabling meaningful conversations around quality of life Dignity in death and dying well Spiritual care and the end of life journey Serving as a model of leadership      4:04 The current state of end of life care in America Seung said doctors require more training on end of life care conversations.  ‘'….there are some interesting books out there that really talk about how health care in the modern age has become more and more secular. So it's gone away from kind of the clergymen who used to have this conversation of end of life. Sure. You know, your primary doctor was probably the only doctor in your village who came and came to your home. So these conversations we're having in your house. But now it's all happening in the hospital. And it's happening away from faith communities. So it's much more secular now. And it's all done by doctors, which there really isn't that much training, to be honest. Most doctors that I talk to tell me pretty honestly that there really is no training in med school, if at all. You might get 1 class, you know, at most about palliative care, goals of care conversation. And I see that pretty realistically on the floor when we do have the situation when patients are dying and there are goals of care conversations about changing code status. A lot of these residents have no idea how to handle these conversations, and they kind of freeze up, and they're not giving the patients really enough data. I've seen, like, the shifts towards palliative care. I think that's really good. I think there's more of that happening. But I don't think it's happening fast enough, and those conversations are still way behind. And I think the doctors are still very undertrained in terms of having goals of care conversation because it really is an art more than the science.''   06:38 A gap in understanding between doctors and patients Seung said doctors must have honest conversations with families around patient survival.  ‘'But I think we also have a cultural issue here in America….. American medicine is reluctant to be paternalistic. They really don't want to tell patients and their family how things should be done. They try to just give them data, and then the family gets to decide. But sometimes that doesn't always work. We live in the age of Google, and every patient and their families think they can Google everything and find out the information. But I find that even with patients who are highly educated, that when it comes to medical decisions, it's very difficult. And when it comes to their family, it's even more difficult. There are many more emotions that come into play. And I think a typical example might be a family member who's an engineer. If the doctor were to tell them you have 10% chance of survival, he sees the 10% much differently than the medical personnel who sees 10% as well. That's basically an impossibility. But as someone who works with computers, he might actually think 10% is not so bad, so we should keep trying.''    08:00 Enabling meaningful conversations around quality of life  Seung explained the difficulty of discussing quality of life with families and patients.  ‘'… I think a lot of conversations are happening in less than probably 5 minutes, and there's not enough time. And sometimes there's a really good family meeting, and we do have good conversations, and there is a full discussion. But a lot of times in emergency, sometimes it's a 5 minute conversation, and patients just want everything done. The family just wants everything done because they feel guilty. They want everything for their family. Without a full understanding of what does this mean for quality of life? What does it mean how this patient will die? And I think I've had one really good conversation where I try to tell the patient, you know, if you were to be intubated and go to ICU, this might mean that you never wake up. This might be a final time with your family. Versus if you were to go comfort care, you might have the last few hours with your family. You might be able to converse with them and tell them what's on your mind. I think those things are really meaningful in life that are not always talked about during, goals and care conversations.''   11:10 Dignity in death and dying well  Seung explained the difficulties in having timely conversations around death.  ‘'…Ideally, a patient would be surrounded by their loved ones, their family members, their grandchildren, just all around the bed and just holding their hands, Sometimes singing together, I've seen that. And I think that's such a meaningful way to spend your last breath and having your loved ones hold your hand. Now in the code blue situation when you're really sick, that's not always going happen. We try to get family in the room, but it's often a traumatic experience. I think that's not always the way we want to go. We really have to be realistic and say, if our chance of survival isn't that high, how is it that I want to go? Do I envision me going in the ICU bed with a nurse putting lines at me…..how much unnecessary suffering are we causing? You know, we promise to do no harm in medicine in nursing as well. ….There's a lot of futility, when these patients are so sick.''   13:57 Spiritual care in the end of life journey Seung said he has seen a rise in the need for spiritual support in terminally ill patients.  ‘'I think spiritual care is a huge part of that. I think medicine and science has moved away from the spiritual aspect of things. And now we're starting to see a little bit of that come back. Even though it's not as religious now, there's still a movement towards people who want a spiritual atmosphere,…. when we took the spiritual out of the goals of care conversation, end of life conversations, I think that's made it very sterile or very secular. And now that some of the spiritual things are coming back into conversation, that makes it easier for families to talk about. …. How would they want to be remembered? How would they want to spend the last hour together with their family members? Those are really good things to think about and talk about it. ….that's really important and helpful.''   18:18 Serving as a model of leadership  Seung said a focus on serving others helps to enhance patient care.  ‘'… the best leaders I've seen in health care are the ones who really model servant leadership. I've had many managers who their description of their job was to really serve the team, serve other nurses, so that they can better provide care for their patients. I thought it was really empowering to say, you know, I'm going to serve the team rather than just be the boss. I think that's something I always think about as just being a leader and even outside of my job. How can I serve and do what is best for the other people? …that's such a great example of leadership.''     Connect with Lisa Miller on LinkedIn Connect with Jim Cagliostro on LinkedIn Connect with Seung Eli Oh on LinkedIn Check out VIE Healthcare and SpendMend      You'll also hear:    Seung's career history and experience as a rapid response nurse: ‘'… most of my nursing career has been critical care, rapid response. … you see a pattern of just the way we handle goals of care conversations and end of life care.'' Healthcare providers must be capable of approaching end of life conversations more appropriately. ‘'… it's almost like we've compartmentalized that to say, oh, well, that's .. an end of life issue. We're going to pass you on to the palliative care team…but death is something that every family has to deal with at some point.'' The need to be honest with patients and families: ‘'I think often doctors are too reluctant to tell (families) like it is and really paint an honest picture of what the chances are. …I do a lot of CPR with my job, but CPR is only effective 10% of the time.'' Helping families prepare for end of life conversations at an early stage. ‘'…. that's a difficult conversation, but it's something I really encourage family members to have.''   What To Do Next:   Subscribe to The Economics of Healthcare and receive a special report on 15 Effective Cost Savings Strategies.   There are three ways to work with VIE Healthcare:   Benchmark a vendor contract – either an existing contract or a new agreement. We can support your team with their cost savings initiatives to add resources and expertise. We set a bold cost savings goal and work together to achieve it.  VIE can perform a cost savings opportunity assessment. 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Not Escaping Containers but escaping Clusters - Managed Kubernetes distributions such as Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) attack vectors can allow you to reach the underlying AWS Account etc. In conversation with Christophe Tafani-Dereeper & Nick Frichette, from Datadog on how this is possible in Amazon EKS and achieving potentially the same in GKE & AKS too. Thank you to our episode sponsor Sagetap Guest Socials: Nick's and Christophe's Linkedin (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nick Frichette + Christophe Tafani-Dereeper) Podcast Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CloudSecPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security BootCamp Questions asked: (00:00) Introduction (04:11) A bit about Christophe (04:37) A bit about Nick (05:03) What is managed Kubernetes? (06:26) Security of managed Kubernetes (09:02) Comparison between different managed Kubernetes (10:41) Service accounts and managed Kubernetes (14:22) What is container escape? (18:20) IMDSv2 for EKS (19:51) IMDSv2 in EKS vs AKES and GKE (22:01) Benchmark compliance for Kubernetes architecture (24:49) Low hanging fruits for container escape (27:17) Shared responsibility for managed Kubernetes (29:34) Fargate for Managed Kubernetes (32:00) Different ways to run containers (33:37) Escaping Managed Kubernetes cluster (38:39) Find more about this attack path (42:38) Escalation priviledge in EKS cluster (44:19) Reducing the Kubernetes attack service (44:58) MKAT for Kubernetes Security (48:23) Preventing AWS AuthConfig (50:11) Propagation Security (54:55) The fun section (57:47) Resources for latest Kubernetes updates Resources spoken about during the episode Nick Frichette's Blog - Hacking the Cloud Christophe Tafani-Dereeper' Blog Corey Quinn's - 17 ways to run containers on AWS MKAT cloudseclist newsletter