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All I want for Christmas is same-day shipping

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With Christmas Day falling on a Monday, online shoppers are cutting it close if they haven’t ordered all their gifts yet. As consumers grow accustomed to same-day or next-day shipping from Amazon, Target and Walmart are trying to catch up. But a nationwide network of fulfillment centers isn’t built in a day. Also in this episode, the state of hunger in the U.S., the rise and fall of rentable e-scooters, and Buc-ee’s: an embodiment of American excess and efficiency.

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0:00.0

It's the sound of another sale on Shopify, the all-in-one commerce platform to start, run, and grow your business.

0:08.0

Shopify is the commerce platform revolutionizing millions of businesses worldwide, covering all your sales channels,

0:16.3

from the Shopfront Ready POS system to its all-in-one e-commerce platform. Shopify even gets

0:22.2

you selling across social media marketplaces like Facebook,

0:25.6

Instagram and Tik-Tock.

0:27.6

It's time to get serious about selling and get Shopify today.

0:31.7

Sign up for a one pound per month trial period at Shopify today. today. Sign up for a one pound per month trial period at shopify.co. UK slash marketplace, all lower case.

0:39.3

Go to shopify.co.uk. marketplace to take your business to the next level today

0:45.0

Shopify dot co dot UK slash marketplace

0:50.0

okay no pressure here but all y'all not going into the office much anymore?

0:55.0

That is macroeconomically, not great.

1:00.0

From American public media, This is market plans. In Los Angeles, I'm Con I Rizdell. It is Thursday, today the 21st of December.

1:18.8

Good as always to have you along everybody. We lead today with a number 300. That is approximately the number of

1:28.3

regional banks at dire risk next year because of distress in the commercial real estate market. That's

1:35.0

the analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research and if you remember the

1:38.8

whole Silicon Valley Bank situation this past spring you'll recall that regional banks do a whole lot of lending to local office markets.

1:48.0

Now, yes, we have been waiting for that commercial real estate shoe to drop since, like well, since half of us stopped going to the office, right?

1:56.7

And isn't this just like all the economists who cried recession earlier this year?

2:01.6

Yeah, and no.

2:05.0

Here's Marketplace's Metlevin.

2:07.0

I visited Steve McDonald's suite of offices back in 2021.

2:11.0

He runs a law firm out of the flood building, a century old office tower in San Francisco.

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