Prime Day with Alex Stone

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Without further ado, let's say congratulations. He's probably got his
Denver Broncos stuff displayed everywhere today. Alex Stone is joining us.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Alex, you guys like your text yesterday because I wasn't.
I still in the beginning of the game, went oh,
this is over because the Broncos were so far behind.
And then you texted me and I was like, oh
wait they won.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh yeah, I was in chock just like you when
you read my text. I mean I watched a lot
of the game and it was just like wow, I
I I just you know, I didn't see it coming.
I'll be honest, most most of the people betting probably
did not see that coming either. And now there are
no undefeated teams left in the NFL, and the world

(00:40):
is welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
My team took care of you. You you're not the Eagles,
but still take care of it.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
And then the Bills last night too, they were there.
They were the last undefeated team going into right, they
were undefeated. I'm pretty sure, but anyway, so yeah, so
there it is. Nobody is now undefeated in the NFL.
And you know, I looking like looking back at the
what do you call it, the you know, the highlights

(01:05):
or what have you. You I'm sure you've looked at
some of them. You had to be like, oh, now,
I wish I would have watched the whole.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I know, but I gave up at the beginning. We
had stuff to do and it was like, well, there's
no good and it shows you never give up.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, I mean that's again, nobody really saw that coming.
I didn't see it coming, you know. Quite frankly. The
Eagles they're elite, they really are, right, but but I
think they'll probably I don't know who they play next,
but whoever they play next is probably going to feel
the wrath.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Did they push any Tush yesterday?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh? You know, I didn't see that. I didn't see that.
Every time I hear that phrase, I feel like charges
should be filed or tickets shower. They're at the Giants. Actually,
the Eagles are next. I was just looking at that.
There they're at the Giants.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Police report the Giant push Matt Tush.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh get this though the Giants are won. I was
just looking at this, just real quick one and four.
Of course, the Eagles now are form one and they're
only seven and a half point favorites. Although in the
NFL that is a lot. Seven and a half is
a lot in the NFL. So but man, yeah, a
lot of craziness with well, Penn State lost over the

(02:20):
weekend and so did Texas and there's it was a
weird sports weekend for like top tier teams. A lot
of them people did not have losing lost, So you
were part of that.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
So that's what was I watching. There was another game
that had a crazy score. I don't remember, but yeah,
probably the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Maybe the Ravens. I think it was, yes, because they
got Lamar Jackson is you know, he's out. I don't
know what's wrong with him, but boy that I was
telling my wife, I go, if I'm Lamar Jackson watching
this debacle. They I'm like, is Derrick Henry still getting paid?
And I get it. What happens is defense is no,
Lamar Jackson's not back there. He's always a threat to
pull it down and take off. The guy looks like

(02:58):
he's gliding, yet he he's covering forty yard. I mean,
he's got a great forty yard dash. And they know
that he's not back there. They pin their ears back.
So Derrick Henry had no chance running the ball yesterday.
It was it was crazy, man. They got smoked. They
got smoked, which I love being in that. I am
in the AFC North, my Steelers, so Brown's Bengals Ravens

(03:22):
all lost yesterday in my division, and being a California boy,
we should probably congratulate him on crushing the life of
a people in Penn State. Yeah, U c la like
just they smoked him.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
It was you're going to congratulate the Dodgers, But.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
No, I know that. Wo, I'm not going to be
doing it. No, could you do the rest of your
report in Spanish? Please? Right? Yeah, do a tribute to
bad Bunny and just speak Spanish the rest of the time.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, yeah, you don't want to hear that.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
No, Okay, probably not. But so Prime Day starts tomorrow.
How many Prime Day this is like Black Friday? Now,
it's like there's a Black Thursday, Black Wednesday, Tuesday. It's like,
like how many Prime Days are there? Because I thought
we just had a Prime.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Day we did in July, and these go back to
twenty fifteen when it was a Prime Day at twenty
four hour period to celebrate twenty years of Amazon, and
they went, whoa, that's a really good money Baker. That
worked out well, and so it became an annual thing,
and they did it in July because that's the time
when people aren't buying as much and they're not buying
holiday gifts yet and it's not back to school yet,

(04:24):
and so they needed to boost the sales. And then
at some point it became two days, and then they went, wait,
we could do this in the fall as a holiday
shopping event as well, And so here we go with
this one. It's going to be the two day event.
And this one has become pretty huge for Target and
Walmart and Best Buy and of course Amazon and the others.

(04:45):
They've all got to compete. So here we go tomorrow
and on Wednesday, the veck PANDEA Adobe Analytics they do
all the number crunching for the retailers, and he says,
some of the numbers will look really good.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Some the deepest discounts will go as much as twenty
eight percent. We see that in categories like electronic. But
then we're also anticipating discounts to be pretty competitive for
apparel at twenty five percent, appliances at eighteen percent.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
So overall they expect around nine billion dollars to be
spent in the next two days on these prime day
sales across all the retailers at six point two percent
over last year, and they think buy now, pay later
use will jump about eight percent. Probably not good for
the American consumer. That that means people are buying it
now and they'll deal with it down the road. But
they think around seven hundred and twenty three million dollars

(05:29):
will be buy now, pay later on things that people
don't want to pay for right now. This one makes sense.
Their analytics show that fifty percent of all shopping will
be on mobile devices compared to desktop computers. You know
that some of that comes from people on desktops at
work and at home that but most of it, or
at least a big chunk of it, will be on
mobile devices. And he says increasingly AI is leading people

(05:52):
to what they buy, that there are a lot of
people who use chat, GBT and other things for all
kinds of things now, including trying to find the best
deal on something instead just going to Amazon. That you say, hey,
give me the best deal on a Samsung fifty five
inch TV, and AI will look at everything that's out
there and show you the best deal. And he says
a lot of people are doing that.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
We have a consumer that's really leaning on the online
sector to try to understand what's available to them. They're
using some of these generative ALI platforms, these LLM models
to get a sense of where they can get the
best absolute deal, where they can find cheaper versions of goods,
discovering different products on social media platforms and through micro

(06:34):
and macro influencers.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
So influencers. I don't know about your son, Mark, but
with my kids, the influencers mean everything. And we're talking
baseball equipment and like whatever influencer is out there of
the Sherbert colored, you know, or vanilla. Everything's ice cream
flavored now in baseball equipment in the colors, and man,

(06:56):
if this influencer has it, Jackson's got to get it immediately.
And so that that comes into play here as well.
But they think that the biggest deals twenty eight percent
off of TVs, the big surprise there, toys twenty seven percent,
that apparel twenty five percent. Would they say this year
that they see the trend that consumers are not only
looking for the lowest price but also looking to trade
up that on things like TVs and refrigerators and other

(07:20):
appliances that this year is the consumer is looking for
things to get better versions of what they've got, and
not only the cheaper. So a lot of good deals
on Yeti products, on Ninja products, vacuum cleaners, tons of
other stuff. But remember not only Amazon. You may find
where you want or a better deal at Target or
at best Buy or somewhere else. So it's not only Amazon.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I am running out of. I am maxed out on
the space for my TV. I have a seventy I
have like a sajalous well. I have like a seventy
inch or whatever that is, and I would put a
ninety eight inch up there. I really would, But the
mantle and the between the mantle and where the ceiling
is we have not foot ceilings. I can't fit like

(08:02):
a bigger because I need a bigger because I'm I'm
going ninety eight inch screen.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
You might as well put it in the garage because
that's like a drive in movie. Yeah, that's what I want.
And your part inch is so tiny. But my point
wife keeps saying, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I would do that in a second. I would
trade up kind of to your point. I would do
that because I'm getting my vision's getting worse as I
get older, So I'm like, I'm looking for the but
I ran out of root.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
You making an excuse for TV? Yeah, No, ninety inches
is not big enough. I think I need one hundred
and twenty. My vision's going either.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
They have one twenty somewhere. That thing can't be light,
you know. So it sounds like you're having that delivered,
Like where are they sitting at on the front porch?
That's gonna be porch pirate city. Man, They're gonna need
like a whole team of ancient Egyptians with pyramid experience
to mount a TV that big. You're probably right.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
TV and it doesn't fit in your car. I did
that one time. Oh no, that was another Costco story.
It was a cost years ago. I went and bought
it and brought it out to my car and went.
It looked like it was gonna fit. But then because
of the way when you put up the back that like,
you know, the roll bar comes down a little bit,
and I thought, this is a problem now, And I

(09:14):
ended up taking it out of the box in the
parking lot Y fit it in and it just barely
fit in and yeah, everyone looking at me. They were closing.
It was late in the evening, and I'm like ripping
this thing apart and taking the styrofoam out and hoping
please fit in here. When I do this, You're genius.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
That's genius, dude. Most people won't figure that out. I
I've been a part of that particular thing. It hasn't
happened to me exactly, but I do know if people
who are like, you know, the box and everything adds
so much bulk because there's.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
So much styrofilm in there, that you don't take that
into account when you're like, oh, I can fit a
sixty inch TV in here, right, and then the box
makes it a heck of a lot bigger.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Were you able to leave the box there in the
parking or give it to somebody who I'm not saying litter.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
There was no room for the box. I just kind
of it just made its way there in the parking lot.
But we don't know how it got.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
There, right, And that's the thing, like I I might've
even been inclined to of course I don't know. You
go back in and they go no, and then now
you're connected to it. They've said no, you do it anyway,
and they're like, we know who it was that loved it.
It was that Alex So a.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Few years ago too, and so was a plasma screen.
And those things were so heavy. They were thin, but
they were incredibly heavy. And I remember out there, like
you know, leaning back and forth trying to get this
thing in and like, you know, I looked like I
was gonna fall over, and it was not pretty.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
I can also tell you they don't need Prime Day
for me. I was just looking while we were sitting here.
I opened my Amazon account and I started looking at
I'm not kidding, like I was like October first, October first,
September twenty eight, September twenty eighth, twenty seventh, twenty sixth,
like three different twenty six deliveries. I'm like, oh yeah,
I'm like I have a problem.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I have a big property day at our house. We
have the same problem.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
I'm like, they don't need to reel me in with
Prime Day. Every day's prior day for me. You know,
It's like pretty crazy. Alex Stone, ABC News out of
Los Angeles, Alex, thank you very much. See you man,