The Watson Weekly: eCommerce Strategy & News
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Ozempic Economy, Nike's Reset & the AI Compute Crunch
Apr 17, 202624 min
Ads in ChatGPT? AI Agents Buying for You? Three Retail Leaders Debate Agentic Commerce
Apr 15, 20261h 14m
April 13th, 2026: Amazon USPS Deal, New BNPL Data, Eko Product Catalog Data & Revolve Returns
Apr 13, 202612 min
What Does a $99 Lowe's Subscription, 60% Returns, and Gen Z's Dentist Have in Common?
Apr 10, 202618 min
April 6th, 2026: Shopify's Partner Town Hall, Lowe’s HomeCare+, USPS and Amazon Fees, and Allbirds is Done
Apr 6, 202612 min
Apple at 50, Amazon's Robot Bet, and How Allbirds Burned $4B
Apr 3, 202627 min
I Read Rick Watson's Research Prompts and Used Them Against Him | Kaplan Wednesday
Apr 1, 202614 min
Shoptalk 2026: The Agentic Fog and the Retail Advice Nobody Wants to Hear
Mar 27, 202628 min
The AI Double Standard — Why Brands Fear AI Mistakes More Than Human Ones
Mar 25, 202628 min
March 23rd, 2026: The Shoptalk Edition
Mar 23, 202613 min
Dollar Stores Win, Prime Day Jumps the Calendar, and the AI Reboot Begins
Mar 20, 202624 min
Why Most AI Projects Are Failing — And What to Do Before It's Too Late
Mar 18, 202625 min
March 16th, 2026: Stripe’s Agentic Suite, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Rebrand, Costco Earnings, and Customer Wallet Share Research
Mar 16, 202610 min
Analyzing Dick’s App Success, Nike’s Strategy, and the Amazon-Walmart Gap
Mar 13, 202624 min
From 50% to 95% AI Adoption: How Mirakl's Chief Data & AI Officer Is Disrupting Enterprise Commerce
Mar 11, 202640 min
March 9th, 2026: Shopify Middleware? Stripe Letter, Amazon-OpenAI Deal, & Thoma Bravo
Mar 9, 202613 min
Who Is Really Winning Between OpenAI and Amazon?
Mar 6, 202622 min
The Retail Earnings Breakdown: Who’s Winning 2026?
Mar 4, 202626 min
March 2nd, 2026: Walmart Continues Its Tear: eCom Growth at 27%, Perplexity Abandons Advertising to Maintain User Trust, The Great Parcel Reconfiguration No One is Talking About, and About That 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
Mar 2, 202612 min
Trump Tariff Doo Doo Doo
Feb 27, 202622 min
The Death of the Subscription Box & The Rise of Membership
Feb 25, 202627 min
February 23rd, 2026: Stripe’s $140 Billion Question, Why Temu is the New Cross-Border Standard, The UPS $150k Exit: Strategic Rightsizing or a Teamster Trap? and Is Agentic Commerce a Nothingburger?
Feb 23, 202613 min
She Broke The Saks Global Saga
Feb 20, 202626 min
Mythbusting AI: Why SaaS Isn't Dead and Your Job Might Be Safer Than You Think
Feb 18, 202626 min
February 16th, 2026: Amazon is a Vertically Integrated Utility, Shopify Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings: a Pony with One Great Trick, Could it Be More? Kroger Opens a New Marketplace, and Paypal Earnings and David Marcus
Feb 16, 202615 min
Shopify: It’s Always Been About the Checkout and Swipe Stupid
Feb 13, 202623 min
Why Your Agency is Falling for the AI Trap
Feb 11, 202624 min
The Goliath Paradox: Why Scale is a Lie in Modern Commerce
Feb 9, 202623 min
Whatnot vs Traditional E-commerce: The Shift No One’s Talking About
Feb 6, 202623 min
NRF 2026 Debrief: Beyond the Buzzwords & The "Age of Intelligence"
Feb 4, 202628 min
February 2nd, 2026: ChatGPT's 4% Fee Confirms Marketplace Economics, American Eagle to Close Quiet Logistics Business, UPS Releases 4Q 2025 Earnings and Provides 2026 Guidance, and Meta Earnings in Superintelligence We Trust
Feb 2, 202615 min
What Really Happened inside the Shopify Massacre
Jan 30, 202626 min
From Banking to AI: The Future of Agentic Commerce with Gareth Cummings
Jan 28, 202634 min
January 26th, 2026: Sam Altman Testing Ad, Lowes to license its checkout, AI meets Davos and a Jassy Sighting, and Claude Code Is Having a Viral Moment
Jan 26, 202611 min
From Playbooks to Pipelines: How DigitalGenius Is Scaling AI in SaaS Sales & Service
Jan 21, 202625 min
January 19th, 2026: Walmart Shakes Up Its Leadership Ranks, NRF 2026 Recap, and More Content Coming To You from the Watson Weekly
Jan 19, 202610 min
January 12th, 2026: It’s Time to Be Bold in 2026 and Welcome to NRF
Jan 12, 20265 min
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