The Watson Weekly: eCommerce Strategy & News
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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
February 10th, 2025: Trump eliminates the de minimis for China, AI won't solve all the problems, but we don't realize it yet, UPS Q4 2024 earnings, AI is not the new SEO. Brands could be in a marketplace without realizing it
Feb 10, 202513 min
Special Episode: Global eCommerce Leaders Forum, Cross-Border Trends, & Honoring Kent Allen
Feb 6, 202535 min
February 3rd, 2025: Risks to Amazon in the AI Wars, private equity outlook in 2025, Artificial Intelligence moving from creating to doing with OpenAI Operator, how to grow faster is an elusive question
Feb 3, 202514 min
Shaping the Future: Social Commerce, AI, and Predictions for 2025 with Kelly Goetsch
Jan 23, 202511 min
January 20th, 2025: Our 2025 NRF event analysis, recapping the first ever RMW Commerce Five Forces event in New York City
Jan 20, 202510 min
Modernizing B2B Commerce: Overcoming the Bob Problem with Kelly Goetsch
Jan 16, 202518 min
January 13th, 2025: Shopify 2025: The Entrepreneur, the Rulemaker and the Bridge-Builder, Mastercard Holiday numbers show roses for eCommerce, Is 2025 the year of the niche down? And Amazon still the king of warehouse growth
Jan 13, 202514 min
Breaking Barriers in E-commerce and Healthcare with Kelly Goetsch
Jan 6, 202528 min
December 23rd, 2024: Amazon building 25% of all warehouses, UPS hiking SurePost rates by 10%, Lowes develops a new marketplace, and Quickbooks partners with Amazon Marketplace Seller Central
Dec 23, 202413 min
December 16th, 2024: Shopify releases a boring update, was Amazon haul launched sooner as political strategy? What is the potential impact of tariffs on eCommerce? And why use an outside consultant to help you solve a problem?
Dec 16, 202418 min
December 9th, 2024: 3 observations from Cyber Week, the 3 coming wars in the next 5 years, and 5 reasons Klaviyo is growing faster than most anyone right now
Dec 9, 202414 min
We'll be back next week!
Dec 2, 20240 min
November 25th, 2024: How you should read the Gartner Quadrant, Wordpress is the Craigslist of website builders, Target reports terrible earnings, and Walmart reports great earnings
Nov 25, 202417 min