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The Jason & Scot Show - E-Commerce And Retail News

The Jason & Scot Show delivers insightful discussions on the latest e-commerce and digital marketing trends. Join industry veterans Jason Goldberg and Scot Wingo as they explore critical topics that shape the future of retail.

 

Recent Episodes

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Oct. 30, 2026

EP354 - Amazon Q3: Ads Slow, AWS Sells Out, and AFS Takes Over

Episode 354 of The Jason & Scot Show is all earnings. Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg and Scot Wingo break down Amazon's Q3, Google's Q3, and DoorDash's acquisition of Instacart, which Jason sees as an infrastructure play to power DashMart. They cover why Google's search queries went up while search revenue slowed, the Wall Street "Muse Mania" around Meta's shopping agent, AWS selling out its capacity while promising 40%+ growth in '27 and '28, and how Amazon's grocery and everyday essentials push
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Oct. 26, 2026

EP 353 - Why Agentic Commerce Starts With Data: Eli Anselm of Ridge Ventures

Recorded live on day two of the RetailClub AI Festival in Huntington Beach, Jason and Scot sit down with Eli Anselm, an investor at Ridge Ventures. Eli spends his time on early-stage B2B enterprise software, and he has been thinking about agentic commerce since before most of the industry had a name for it. The conversation covers how Ridge defines agentic commerce (hint: it's much bigger than an agent buying a house with your credit card), why the data layer has to come first, and where AI-nat
Oct. 22, 2026

You May Also Enjoy: Ensh*ttification is coming to personal AI agents (from AdGentic)

Bonus episode for Jason & Scot Show listeners: we're sharing an episode of AdGentic, another show in the ReFiBuy Media Network. If you've been following our retail media conversations, this one asks what happens when the ads move inside your AI agent. If you like it, subscribe to AdGentic for more. Personal AI agents feel magical right now, and part of the magic is what's missing: ads. Kiri Masters walks through how Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Amazon all started clean and ended up ad-funded,
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Oct. 19, 2026

Episode 352 - Is Agentic Commerce a Mirage? Jason & Scot Debate It Live

In this live episode, Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg and Scot Wingo take the stage for an audience-driven debate on the future of AI in retail. The room picks the topics, and Jason and Scot argue the sides. Sometimes they even disagree. They start with why Walmart has moved so fast on AI: a top-down mandate from Doug McMillon that began when he found out his own team thought AI was "illegal" at Walmart. Then they set the table with where e-commerce growth stands and tackle the most-argued question
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Oct. 13, 2026

EP351 - Bringing the Store Sparkle Online with Kendra Scott

Recorded live at the RetailClub AI Festival in Huntington Beach, Jason and Scot sit down with Kristi Carlson, VP of Digital Technology at Kendra Scott, and Chris Hardisty, who leads the brand's e-commerce business. Kristi is a 25-year Austinite who came to Kendra Scott from Whole Foods. Chris is an old friend of the show from their shop.org board days. The conversation covers what's next for a founder-led brand with 165 stores, including the Western-inspired Yellow Rose by Kendra Scott concept
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Oct. 5, 2026

EP350 - Live Commerce Is Where E-commerce Was in 2005: Whatnot's Tom Verrilli

Recorded live at the Retail Club AI Festival in Huntington Beach, Jason and Scot sit down with Tom Verrilli, Chief Product Officer of Whatnot. Jason says Whatnot is now his answer when big brands ask what they aren't paying enough attention to, the way TikTok Shop was two years ago. Tom came to Whatnot after nearly seven years at Twitch. The conversation covers how Whatnot grew from a static Funko Pop trading site into live commerce across 224 categories in nine countries, where fashion is now

About the Hosts

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Jason Goldberg

Chief Commerce Strategy Officer @ Publicis

Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg is Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis Groupe, where he advises many of the largest retailers and brands in the world. A fourth-generation retailer, he launched e-commerce at Blockbuster in 1995, then built the online businesses at Best Buy and Target before most companies had a website. He co-hosts the long-running Jason & Scot Show podcast, writes a column for Forbes, and was named to the National Retail Federation’s “The List,” its annual honor for the 25 people shaping the future of retail.

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Scot Wingo

CEO ReFiBuy

Scot Wingo is a 5-time serial entrepreneur with deep eCommerce experience. He's started five companies: Stingray Software, AuctionRover, ChannelAdvisor/Rithum (IPO 2013), Spiffy, and now ReFiBuy, with three successful exits along the way. Scot co-hosts the Jason & Scot Show, a top eCommerce podcast, with Publicis Chief Commerce Officer Jason Goldberg. His newest podcast and Substack, Retailgentic, covers where agentic commerce is heading and what it means for brands and retailers.