EP250- Holiday 2020 Recap This week we recap the commerce results for Holiday 2020 (including the data sources you can use to get a read for yourself), give an update on #shipageddon, and cover some industry news.   2019 2020 YoY %Ch Stores $864.69 $822.79 -4.8% Online $140.28 $190.47 35.8% Total $1004.97 $1013.26 0.8% Nov-Dec Sales estimates from e-marketer $B November Retail Sales Aren’t As Ominous As You Think Jason's article in Forbes, recaping the results we've seen through November. Consumer Trends 2021 report - Dan Frommer's recap of 2020 consumer trends (highly recommended). MasterCard Spending Pulse Shipageddon Recap: Episode 250 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday, January 7th, 2021. 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: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason's got. Scot: [0:42] Jason's got show listeners happy New Year Jason it's a new year and you actually said. Jason: [0:47] Said the wrong year in the intro so we need to we need to jolt your brain bring it back back into 2021 here get you out of the. Scot: [0:54] 2020 one here get you out of the. Jason: [0:56] Time traveling hot tub. [1:05] The grace period ended on the 7th at about 9 p.m. so. What did you have a it's been been a long time already so. Scot: [1:24] The 250 episodes we do about 50 a year so that feels like we've been at this about five years of. [1:42] Yeah I think have outlasted. Jason: [1:42] Have outlasted your wife at this point we're pretty close if I recall sticks. [2:01] Yeah if you can survive covid then you can survive anything the also you get to. Scot: [2:05] The also you get to update your slide and say if you enjoy this talk there's 250 hours. Jason: [2:09] 250 hours of me out on the internet. [2:17] It's a chuckle errands like did you have a good holiday. [2:54] Cool and I saw you updated your profile picture everywhere that got a lot of lot of chatter out on the interwebs so that was good you you're actually smiling in your new. Scot: [3:01] Actually smiling in your new profile picture that's. Jason: [3:30] The good news is you haven't changed your Zoom Avatar so I'm sitting here looking at Good Ol. Scot: [3:36] 2020 scally Jason or just the one I've. Jason: [3:36] Sally Jason would just the one I've known for five years so I'm going to stick with. [3:56] The one of the character chur kind of things. [4:29] That's very cool did you get any fun. Scot: [4:31] Any fun gadgets. Jason: [4:33] To report on for for the listeners. [4:50] Yes. [5:58] So it's true. Scot: [5:59] Transparent so you're looking through the. Jason: [6:00] You're looking through the camera and the camera can't see it. [6:26] Brickell. [7:36] Zell. Scot: [7:39] Oh oh am I rlu. Jason: [7:40] Mayer L you and I okay cool awesome to some good new stuff there. Scot: [7:59] To a beachy destination sir. Jason: [8:00] A beachy destinations that was good got a little we're here in the. Scot: [8:04] The very cold North. Jason: [8:05] Carolina so we're get down before T so we had to escape that warm weather which was good and. There yeah we are we are pretty 10 and then on the gadget side I am I'm like eight steps below you I finally get it. Kind of more modern dlsr without a mirror that I can do better streaming with so I've been having fun trying to get the firmware update on that that's been an adventure. Scot: [8:35] A lot of Mandalorian stuff including a baby Yoda you want to say. Jason: [8:38] That's amazing. [8:51] My name is Greg ooh so that was good. Scot: [8:54] That was good yeah so it was it was great. Jason: [8:57] And then. Scot: [8:59] PS 5 and I. Jason: [8:59] S5 and I got an X