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The Watson Weekly: eCommerce Strategy & News

The Watson Weekly: eCommerce Strategy & News

The essential strategic digest for eCommerce executives covering AI, supply chain, and retail marketplaces.

Watson Weekly

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Show overview

The Watson Weekly: eCommerce Strategy & News has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 335 episodes. That works out to roughly 95 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 13 min and 20 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Business show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 105 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 105 episodes published. Published by Watson Weekly.

Episodes
335
Running
2021–2026 · 5y
Median length
14 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

Stop reading the headlines and start understanding the frameworks. The Watson Weekly is the premier resource for eCommerce executives, delivering sharp, independent strategy on the industry's most critical developments. Join 20-year veteran Rick Watson as he cuts through the noise to help you understand not just what is happening, but why it matters to your business. Broadcasting three times a week: Mondays: Strategic deep dives into earnings, mergers, and market shifts. Wednesdays: Candid interviews with C-Suite luminaries and tech innovators. Fridays: Join the Watson Weekend for Spirited debates on controversial topics with co-host Jessica Lesesky. From AI implementation and marketplace dynamics to supply chain logistics and retail operations, we cover the entire commerce landscape. Whether you are a CEO, VP, or operator, this is your competitive advantage in audio form.

Latest Episodes

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Costco Runs its Own Chicken Plant in Nebraska to Keep a $4.99 Loss Leader Going

Oct 9, 20267 min

Tom McFadyen's AI Commerce Book Went From 125 Use Cases to 500

Oct 7, 20265 min

Anthropic Has $518B in Compute Bills and $4.6B in Revenue

Oct 5, 202613 min

Amazon Blocks AI Shopping Agents as Oreos Climb From 10% to 70%

Oct 2, 20268 min

Your Data Lake Won't Make You AI-Ready

Sep 30, 202627 min

Amazon Wants to Handle Agent Payments While Blocking Agents

Sep 25, 20261 min

Hairstory Collected Tax It Never Remitted, Then Fixed It

Sep 23, 202627 min

Amazon's First Price Rate Went From 4% to Nearly 80%

Sep 21, 202613 min

Amazon Isn't Your Friend. The FTC Says It Overcharged Sellers $20B

Sep 18, 20267 min

How to Buy AI Agents Without Getting Stuck on One Model

Sep 16, 202632 min

Costco Said Next Was Growing, Then Deleted It Over a Weekend

Sep 15, 202613 min

Let the AI Agents Do the Shopping So They Don't Kill Us All

Sep 11, 20269 min

The Middle Miles Are Where B2B Money Is, with Andy Hoar

Sep 9, 202630 min

Walmart Got $2.9B Back And Won't Say What Reached The Shelf

Sep 7, 202614 min

Walmart's 11K Rollbacks and Who Actually Pays for Them

Sep 4, 20268 min

The CFO Who Didn't Care About a 35% Return Rate

Sep 2, 202626 min

Three Years In, We Finally Ranked the Stores We Actually Shop

Sep 1, 202623 min

Tariff Refund Quarter: Walmart's 28.8%, Target's $994M, and Lowe's 11 Cents

Aug 31, 202612 min

Google Buys a Dead Airline's Data, Mom Outranks TikTok, QXO's $55M Loss, Stripe Bids for PayPal

Aug 24, 202610 min

Stripe wanting PayPal says more about Stripe than about PayPal

Aug 21, 20268 min
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