You can do the math on the trillions.Įven when the Whole Foods acquisition went through, their pushback there on why that should be a no-brainer and be allowed was combined market share in grocery was just 2 percent. I want to say that the e-commerce part is 300 or 300 to 400 billion. what’s the number? What’s the big number? The argument on their side would be e-commerce is only, let’s call it 10 to 15 percent of overall retail spend in the U.S.

There are a lot of people out there who wonder whether Amazon has too much power right now. around tech companies, power, how they use it, how they control it or not. Obviously there’s a lot of conversation going on all across the U.S. Can you talk a little bit about that? First about their power, and then we’re going to talk specifically about their hardware push. Today we’re going to talk about Amazon’s continuing push into hardware and the power of Amazon, because that was a big topic at your event. One of the things that happened at the conference is everybody talked about Amazon, because that’s what you have to do in commerce today. I really enjoyed it and learned lots of things about commerce, and the guests were amazing. You just had a fantastic Code Commerce Conference. Jason Del Rey: I will not confirm nor deny that, but thanks for having me. I’m delighted to have Recode Senior Commerce Editor Jason Del Rey back on the show, because he is so much better than Lauren. Then I remembered I could easily replace her. While this script says it made me sad for 30 seconds, it didn’t at all. My regular co-host, Lauren Goode from The Verge, couldn’t join us today because she’s busy making YouTube videos or something like that. We also have an email address: Reminder, there are two Rs and two Ss in embarrassed.

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