EP040 - Jet.com and Dollar Shave Club Acquisitions

We've seen two major e-commerce acquisitions in the past 30 days.

Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever for a reported $1B.

Jet.com was acquired by Walmart for a reported $3.3B.

We discuss both acquisitions, with their implications for the involved parties and the industry as a whole.

This episode is sponsored by the National Retail Federation. The Jason and Scot show will be live podcasting at the NRF/shop.org digital summit 2016 which is in Dallas September 26-28th this year. We have a custom discount code for our listeners. The code is JASON&SCOT, you will get a 10% discount on the full conference fee. Visit retailsdigitalsummit.nrf.com to enter the code when you register for the show and we'll see you there!

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Episode 40 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, August 8th, 2016.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at Razorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.