Ecommerce and retail: what operators said this week

Ecommerce operators on what is moving product. The 12 strongest moments from named speakers, word for word, each playable from the second it was said. Updated .

“We put in orders that are made to order a lot of the products. You're not committing to massive inventory”
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The Good Liver
Shopify Masters ·
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Another view · “We're on the order of, you know, trillions of dollars now. And it's probably going to hit 10 trillion before it's done” Paul Kudrosky on The Ezra Klein Show · Listen
“The physical store is there to have customers come in, see the products in person, feel it, hold it in your hand, feel the real value”
TL
The Good Liver
Shopify Masters ·
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Another view · “For decades, devices running on the physical side were protected by the fact that they were too obscure to be worth an attacker's time. That protection was never a strategy and AI has erased it.” John Gallagher on Earley AI Podcast · Listen
“Number one thing I would do is take your best retail person in Europe and move them to America.”
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Gary Vee
The GaryVee Audio Experience ·
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Another view · “I have an FU number. ... it's that number where you think, that’s everything for me. I’m done. I’d pack it in today.” Karen Ely on Australian Investors Podcast · Listen
“We organized the inventory, sold it to our employees, sold it to our customers at a discount. We raised quite a bit of cash that way.”
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Rich Ashton
Your Business Growth Podcast ·
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Another view · “Microservices have not served us necessarily in the promise of microservices have not served us” Nivea Henry on The Stack Overflow Podcast · Listen
“Best place to start would be making sure that you as an organization have an updated record of every AI tool that's being deployed or used across the business. Again, it's effectively an AI inventory.”
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Dan Sampson
Exploring Standards with Assent ·
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Another view · “I think money counts when it is effectively deployed. ... they can't figure out how to effectively deploy it ... it hasn't changed the underlying reality.” Hillary Clinton on On with Kara Swisher · Listen
“Agents add about 40% to the Amazon basket. I see that in my own life. My agent upsells me constantly.”
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Devin Kunysz
The CPG Guys ·
Hard number ≈40% increase Share this moment
“We're going to invent a product that sells for exactly $100. And this is actually a really good TikTok shop product because it has 70% gross margins, meeting our landed product cost is $30”
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Jordan West
The Unofficial TikTok Shop Podcast with Jordan West ·
Business model $100 sale, $30 product cost, 70% gross margin Share this moment
“We were able to take that company from 70 million in revenue down to 60 million … up to five million operating profit… paid off 8.5 million of the debt in 18 months, just by doing things like collecting receivables or DC inventory.”
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James Andersen
Buyers and Builders ·
Why it worked $70 M revenue, $500 k operating loss, $10 M debt, $60 M revenue, $5 M … Share this moment
“The cost is, what, 20 bucks on Amazon, price of a movie ticket, if that, and popcorn. And that's just kind of how I got a pretty good wide variety of books.”
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Stony Grunow
Grow A Small Business Podcast ·
Pricing $20 Share this moment
“Give them a pre-visit agent that will pop up and they can ask questions like, what's the top three priorities in this store?”
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Devin Kunysz / Salesforce
The CPG Guys ·
“Are you going to do Azure Active Directory domain synchronization between that and your intra tenant if you have intra? Or maybe you have Okta, right? Or maybe you have servers that you're hosting in Amazon or some type of identity management process.”
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Bobby Guerra
Climbing Mount CMMC ·
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“Curtis was literally running down to a little store called Oregon leather… buying leather off the shelves and cutting and making stuff and then listing it for sale”
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Portland Leather Goods
Operators ·
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