Brittain Ladd worked at Amazon and helped them conceive of a model that was both cheaper than traditional package delivery and more convenient as well.  The goal? To help Amazon (2.5% share) grocery catch-up and ultimately beat Wal-mart in grocery (25% share).

It starts with grocery distribution centers that are fully robotic/automated called Local Vending Machines (LVMs) instead of stores.  These LVMS can fill traditional Prime va...

EP328 - Navigating E-commerce News and Innovations in AI Answer Engines for Commerce

0:36  Welcome to the Jason and Scot Show
4:53  Consumer Trends in Retail
5:03  Upcoming Retail Events
8:42  Insights on E-commerce Growth
10:35  Earnings Season Insights
44:13  Amazon Prime Day Analysis
51:30  New Developments with Alexa
56:00  Predictions for the Holiday Season

In this episode of the Jason and Scot Show, recorded on Thursday, July...

EP327 - Agentic Commerce

Happy Fathers Day!

In this exciting episode of the Jason & Scot Show, recorded on Friday, June 6th, 2025, hosts Jason Goldberg and Scot Wingo dive into the latest happenings and insights in the world of strategic e-commerce, AI technologies, and retail innovations. This episode picks up where Episode 326 left off, continuing the engaging con...

EP326 - Are Retail Media Networks Mid?

Happy Fathers Day!

In our previous episode (326) Jason made a comment about retail media networks sometimes being over-hyped. In response, Scot recruited all his friendsd in the the industry and inticed Kiri Masters to make a rebutle. Which she did via two part linked-in post and a podcast. So in this episode Jason doubles down...

In this episode, Scot Wingo is joined by Forrester retail analyst Sucharita Kodali to dive into the emerging world of agentic shopping and the growing influence of generative AI in commerce. They cover:

- The explosion of retail media networks
- Why marketplaces are making a comeback
- OpenAI’s retail ambitions (and that Instacart CEO hire)
- GenAI adoption across retail use cases
- The rising threat to Google from TikTok and AI s...

Greetings Jason and Scot show listeners, here's another Retailgentic episode to hold you over until Jason and I can get our schedules to line up.   

Today on the Retailgentic pod, we’re excited to share our discussion with Michelle Grant, Director of Strategy & Insights for Retail and Consumer Goods at Salesforce, to explore how AI agents are already reshaping retail, both online and in-store.

Reminder to subscribe to the retailg...

Greetings Jason and Scot show listeners.  Today we are cross posting the first episode of a new podcast from Scot Wingo, the 'Scot' from Jason and Scot.  Don't panic!  The Jason and Scot show is still alive and kicking - Jason's schedule has limited our time together, but we're working on it.

While you wait, Scot has a new podcast that is focused on an area he's excited about - the disruption coming from AI Shopping agents.   Thi...

Amazon Q1 2025 results and AI Commerce

Happy Starwars Day!

In this episode we do a deep dive into Amazon Q1 2025 results. Amazon had an overall strong quarter with record profits from their retail business unit. Amazon GMV grew 7.9% in Q1 2025 vs the same quarter in 2024, three times as fast as the retail industy as...

EP324 - Amazon Q4 Earnings 

In this episode we do a deep dive into Amazon Q4 and Full Year 2024 results. Amazon had an overall strong quarter with record profits from their retail business unit. Amazon GMV grew 11% in 2024 vs. 2023, almost three times as fast as the retail industyr as a whole. Amazon's North American GMV also nearly matched Walmart's in 2024 (Walmart reports it's Q4 results next week).

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