EP288 - News and Q4 Earnings Reports  News Amazon Stock Split Shopify Fulfillment Network eBay “The Vault” Twitter E-Commerce Pilot Retail Media Networks are on fire Inflation continues to rise Q4 Earnings Reports Winners Dicks Sporting Goods Walmart Target Neutral Best Buy Ulta Kohls Gap Nordstrom Ralph Lauren Losers Dollar Tree Abercrombie & Fitch Macy’s Episode 288 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday March 10, 2022. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 288 being recorded on Thursday March 10th 2022, I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott showed listeners Jason covid is defrosting and you are getting yourself back on a plane and I saw that you went out to eat tail. Jason: [0:50] It is true I don’t know if listeners can see me knocking on wood when you say that but yeah I yes went to my first post covid trade show that felt like trade show from before covid which is cool. Scot: [1:04] Sprinkle what was what was the buzz in the like the first time and well I guess in RFC some folks got together did you end up you didn’t go to. Jason: [1:15] I did not go to in our app and an attendee and sit in our F was I think there are people that went in and found a good but attendance was significantly down from a normal and RF show. Scot: [1:28] Was kind of the first normal. Jason: [1:29] Yeah and the interrupt timing was just rough because that was kind of In the Heat of the Omicron variant like re-emerging and. Um but so e-tail is in Palm Springs in February you know. People are like turning off Mass mandates and it felt pretty good and so the show was sold out the hotel was fully booked and if you if I just popped you on at the trade show for. It wouldn’t have felt any different than e-tail 2019 felt to me so I think people were like frankly pretty excited about getting back together. And took full advantage of the you know typical trade show activities that cocktail parties and and all the frivolity. So I did a couple of sessions I did a keynote interview with the chief marketing officer from Signet Jewelers and they have a pretty interesting story during the pandemic the, you know they even have an interesting story in the metaverse that like I didn’t realize this but millions of people have gotten married on the metaverse and are buying jewelry for it. Scot: [2:39] Nice can you buy a is your diamond and ft. Jason: [2:43] In some cases yeah. Scot: [2:46] I’d like to see picture I found it. Jason: [2:49] Yeah I don’t want to actually bring up the topic of buying jewelry and then tell her it’s digital jewelry because that won’t that won’t go where I was wanting it to go. But so so that was good I did a panel on on sort of growth tactics with a bunch of kind of younger digital native Brands and so that’s fun to get you know some some different perspectives and some novel stuff and I did record a couple podcast there so listeners have that to look forward to will drop those over the next few weeks and so some good good conversations with with real people in the industry. Scot: [3:26] What was the back of the hall conversations the you and I have talked a lot about the impact that the Apple and Google privacy changes have had was that kind of one of those yeah you’re on the stage everything is Rosy but behind the scenes I was like oh no what are we going to do with this this whole thing that’s crashing down around us. Jason: [3:44] Yeah it depends I because I feel like there’s a couple of different cohorts