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

The second half of the briefing starts with the experience layer that holds Amazon's grocery push together, including the new green grocery interface and the end of the three-cart problem. From there it's Prime at 21 years old and why Amazon would rather it never became a profit center, a walk through the Prime Air drone factory, and where Alexa+ and AFS go next. It closes on the scenario that should worry every retailer, which is a shopper who asks ChatGPT first and never opens Amazon at all.

Jason and Scot are in the same room for once, recording from Seattle after two days inside an Amazon executive briefing on grocery and Prime. They get into why grocery is the frequency engine every retailer covets, how Walmart wrote this playbook back in 1990, and what Andy Jassy actually meant when he told investors grocery had seen a "trajectory change." Along the way: a field guide to every data source people use to guess at retail numbers, and why the weekly stock-up trip is quietly dying.

Recorded live at NRF Nexus, Brian Seewald joins Jason and Scot to talk through the digital side of the Victoria's Secret turnaround. Brian traces his path from a May Company buying-office trainee to running e-commerce at The Limited in 2007 ("I don't know if this internet thing is gonna work"), then digs into what conversion rate even means when traffic quality varies wildly by channel, why the VS and PINK apps punch above their weight, and how PINK Wednesday Drops went from a small hack to a re

Recorded live from NRF Nexus, Jason and Scot sit down with Josh Krepon, President of U.S. D2C and Global Digital at Steve Madden. Josh shares his path through Ralph Lauren, Victoria's Secret, Tory Burch and Cole Haan, and what it takes to operate inside founder-led companies. At Steve Madden, a $3 billion business with an in-house sample factory and brands including Dolce Vita, Betsey Johnson and Kurt Geiger, his remit covers stores, e-commerce and marketing under one P&L. He makes the case that

EP344 - How Brooklinen Is Preparing for Agentic Commerce Live from NRF Nexus in Colorado Springs, Jason and Scot sit down with Abbie Weiss, SVP of Digital & E-Commerce at Brooklinen, to talk digital-first retail, changing discovery, customer experience, and preparing for agentic commerce. Abbie shares how Brooklinen is expanding across retail, B2B, and the design trade while keeping customer experience, and “ease, at the center of its strategy. They also explore the changing role of discovery,

n this episode, Jason and Scot reunite after seeing each other in person, sharing stories from recent conferences and discussing how social media, micro-influencers, and AI-powered shopping agents are reshaping the way consumers discover and book travel. The main event, though, is Amazon's Q2 earnings. They break down AWS's continued growth, stronger margins, and Wall Street's reaction to Amazon's aggressive AI investments. From retail performance and gains in everyday essentials to robotics, c