The Watson Weekly: eCommerce Strategy & News
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December 19th, 2025: Thank You!
Dec 22, 20251 min
December 15th, 2025: Shopify Winter Editions 2025 Special Podcast
Dec 16, 202515 min
December 8th, 2025: Black Friday Cyber Monday - You Devil You! Sam Altman Calls a Code Red to Stop Google Threat, Amazon and Visa Partner on Agentic Payments, and Nike CEO Purges John Donahoe’s Lieutenants
Dec 8, 202510 min
November 24th, 2025: Walmart Plans a CEO Transition, Commerce Operations Foundation Critical to Our Common Agentic Future, Intuit's Announcement Makes it Clear: OpenAI Coming for Operating Systems, and Walmart Earnings Call Important for Everyone to Understand
Nov 24, 202521 min
November 17th, 2025: Same-Day Facilities Key to Amazon's New Powerful Grocery Strategy, Walmart CEO Doug McMillion Steps Down, TheRealReal Records Record GMV During Earnings, and Google Releases Some AI Shopping Updates
Nov 17, 202513 min
November 10th, 2025: Implications of Amazon Working with OpenAI and ChatGPT, Shopify Reports Great Q3 Earnings, Some of the Worst Mistakes I Made First Time as CEO, and Klaviyo’s Earnings Answer Some Key Questions
Nov 10, 202518 min
November 3rd, 2025: Walmart Holiday Plans Shows There Will Be Blood, UPS Gains Margin, Plans Strong Peak, But Remains Mired in Uncertainty, Amazon All In On Agentic - Reports Great Earnings, and Shopify Merchants Go Live with ChatGPT Instant Checkout
Nov 3, 202513 min
October 27th, 2025: Commercetools CEO is out, so what’s next? Bigcommerce partners with Paypal to improve monetization, Will the new Ulta Beauty marketplace cook? And Shopify and Lovable Integration Shows a Fire and Motion Strategy
Oct 27, 202514 min
October 20th, 2025: Walmart Partners With OpenAI, Cannot Hold Back the Tide, S&P Global Puts Tariff Costs at $1.2T This Year, Salesforce Partners With OpenAI, and Saks Struggles to Deliver in Q2
Oct 20, 20259 min
October 13th, 2025: Process Re-Engineering Is a Key Skill in the Age of AI, Stripe Link Moving More Consumer Facing, Is OpenAI Building a Super App? And Shopify CRO Bobby Morrison Forced Out
Oct 13, 202514 min
The CEO Spot with Matt Harris of Harris Digital
Oct 9, 202532 min
October 6th, 2025: ChatGPT Is Actually The Ultimate In Influencer-Driven Commerce and OpenAI x Stripe Agentic Commerce Protocol Has Makings of Silicon Valley Catfight
Oct 6, 202512 min
September 29th, 2025: What the Hell Will Happen At Tiktok? Ryder Releases New eCommerce Study, Klaviyo Innovations Made Possible By Different Ecosystem Approach, and OpenAI Announces They Are Pursuing Ads
Sep 29, 202512 min
September 22nd, 2025: Google and Paypal Announce New Commerce Partnership, Fireside Chat With Andy Jassy at Amazon Accelerate Conference, and The First Q4 Holiday Predictions Appear
Sep 22, 202512 min
September 15th, 2025: The Future is Less If Then And More Prompts, Agents, and MCP - A SVP Looks to the Future
Sep 15, 202525 min
September 8th, 2025: Shopify Betting Big on Design, Amazon Still Stuck Muddling Through Day 2, Why Software Sales Is Still Hard in 2025, A New Podcast where SaaS Meets AI: Oh Shift
Sep 8, 202515 min
September 1st, 2025: Best Buy Relaunches Its Marketplace, Target Earnings: Like a Slow-Moving Train Wreck, Upcoming RMW Commerce Events in Second Half of the Year, and Walmart Raises Revenue Guidance in Earnings Call
Sep 1, 202513 min
August 25th, 2025: Shipping Smackdown: Nate Skiver on the Parcel Industry's Biggest Myth
Aug 25, 202529 min
August 18th, 2025: We Once Made a Deal with Google. The Deal Has Changed, The Unspoken AI Enthusiasm Gap At Large Companies, The Road Ahead for Commerce.com, and An Update On Gnawing Your Arm Off, or Replatforming
Aug 18, 202513 min
August 11th, 2025: Amazon Reports Earnings, Dogged by AI Questions, Shopify Q2 Earnings Show Its Not Going Anywhere, Klaviyo Delivers Growth, But Efficiency Still Lacking, and Recap from Austin: Auctane’s Spicy Innovation Delivered Event
Aug 11, 202515 min
August 4th, 2025: Bigcommerce Rebrands as Just Commerce, UPS Q2 Earnings Highlights Strange Economic Times, Last Flight of the Aggregator: OpenStore Valuation Burns, and Amazon Pulled out of Google Shopping for AI, not for Advertising
Aug 4, 202512 min
The CEO Spot: From Silicon Chips to Supply Chains – Dipti Desai’s Mission to Modernize EDI
Jul 17, 202554 min
July 14th, 2025: NRF Files Suit Against NY State Law, Why Is There No Best Practice for ECommerce Org Structure, Amazon Quietly Cornering Market on Robot Patents, and LuluLemon in Markdown Hell
Jul 14, 202513 min
June 30th, 2025: Klarna CEO Claims They Will Be a Super App, Walmart Investor Event Sheds New Light, Should You Put a Chatbot In Front Of Your Retail Store, and Musings from CommerceNext and Mirakl’s Summit
Jun 30, 202512 min
June 23rd, 2025: Saks Global Still Sounds in Trouble, Facebook Says eCommerce is Great -- For Other People, Jassy’s AI Memo Was a Snoozefest, In a Good Way, and Amazon Extending Prime Day Doesn’t Give me Warm Fuzzies
Jun 23, 202511 min
June 16th, 2025: Palantir Partners with Bolt, Amazon Releases AI Video Generation Tools, Sezzle Sues Shopify For AntiCompetitive Practices, and Walmart Releases New AI Tools
Jun 16, 20259 min
June 9th, 2025: Shopify MCP Server Raises More Questions Than Answers, Could the AI Race Become a Hardware Race, and Temu Half Off - Just In Time For Summer
Jun 9, 202510 min
June 2nd, 2025: Salesforce to acquire Informatica, Social Commerce Panel Reveals Influencer Importance, Lowes Launches Its Marketplace, and Tariff Feud Event with Passport Recap
Jun 2, 202511 min
Special Episode: Scott Eckert on Leading Mirakl and the Marketplace Revolution
May 29, 202536 min
May 26th, 2025: Rapid Fire Headline Update and Shopify Releases Its Summer Editions
May 26, 202523 min
Special Episode from Shopware Partner Day– Pimcore & the Data Layer Revolution in B2B
May 22, 202517 min
May 19th, 2025: Amazon Announces New AI Tool to Enhance Product Listings, Venture Capital Dominated by AI Right Now, FedEx and Amazon Strike Up a Partnership, and Klaviyo Reports Q1 2025 Earnings
May 19, 202510 min
Special Episode from Shopware Partner Day– Conscious Commerce & Regulated Realities: The Aysnd Way
May 15, 202521 min
May 12th, 2025: Shopify Needs Incentive Alignment to Win in Enterprise, 3 Notables From BigCommerce earnings call, Instacart CEO Departs for OpenAI, and Shopify Reports Solid Earnings Amid Global Uncertainty
May 12, 202517 min
Special Episode from Shopware Partner Day– Inside B2B Growth: Smith Commerce on Scaling Smart
May 8, 202519 min
May 5th, 2025: Amazon Reports Q1 2025 Earnings, Walmart Releases an Annual Shareholder Letter, UPS Reports Q1 2025 Earnings, and Kohl’s Fires Its CEO
May 5, 202514 min
Turning Tariffs into Tactics — Cross-Border Commerce in 2025 with Alex Yancher, CEO of Passport
May 1, 202557 min
April 28th, 2025: Composable Conference in Chicago shows MACH progress, ChatGPT and Shopify partnership teased, and Shopify promotes internally for Chief Design Officer: What's going on?
Apr 28, 202514 min
April 21st, 2025: Walmart Investor Day shows strong tariff headwinds, is 2025 the year to eat the entire enchilada, Shop for Brands on Amazon seen in the wild, and Amazon surveys its sellers on tariffs
Apr 21, 202517 min
The Debate: Is Replatforming Worth It?
Apr 14, 20251h 4m
Redefining Retail: Commercetools, InStore, and the Future of Unified Commerce – A Conversation with Dirk Hoerig
Apr 10, 20251h 0m
April 7th, 2025: Key takeaways on public and private markets, Shoptalk did not answer my key industry questions, Consumers getting stressed out, and Amazon makes last minute bid to buy TikTok
Apr 7, 202513 min
Watson Weekly: Navigating the Digital Commerce Maze with Bryan House
Apr 3, 202543 min
March 31st, 2025: Shoptalk Recap
Mar 31, 20259 min
March 24th, 2025: Adobe teases new commerce offerings, BigCommerce launches new account functionality, Klarna files IPO paperwork, and welcome to Shoptalk Week!
Mar 24, 202513 min
March 17th, 2025: Paypal in hot water over its Honey application, AllBirds sales plunge in 2024, why did Walmart buy a mall? And upcoming eCommerce debate event at Shoptalk
Mar 17, 202511 min
March 10th, 2025: Target 2024 earnings shows company falling behind, when will merchants stop treating data as a project? Commercetools layoffs throws into question IPO plans, and has Shopify Enterprise turned a corner?
Mar 10, 202514 min
March 3rd, 2025: Is Beyond.com doomed? Klaviyo reports 2024 earnings, Klaviyo coming for Salesforce Service Cloud, and Paypal Investor Day offers problematic vision
Mar 3, 202515 min
February 24th, 2025: Walmart reports fiscal year 2025 earnings, Saks stopped paying vendors on time, TikTok subscriptions could help creators, and BigCommerce reports 2024 earnings
Feb 24, 202517 min
February 17th, 2025: Shopify Q4 2024 earnings: The age of efficiency comes to Shopify, it’s not just you - age of efficiency accelerating, Amazon Q4 earnings wins the Grammy for free cash flow, and Amazon ad engine getting hungry: look out Google Shopping
Feb 17, 202517 min