CG: What New Forms Will Retail Take in 2018?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The line between brick-and-mortar and online retail continues to blur as companies embrace experimentation with new strategies to win over consumers. We cover three of the biggest trends that investors will want to follow in the new year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | We're pre-recording this episode for Tuesday, January 2nd, so happy New Year fools. |
| 0:11.0 | I hope you had some time to relax and are starting strong with your |
| 0:13.3 | new year's resolutions. This is your host Vincent Chin and I'm joined by |
| 0:16.8 | full.com contributor Daniel Klein who is connecting to the full HQ studio here via Skype. |
| 0:22.6 | Hey Dan, great to have you with us. |
| 0:23.8 | Hey Vince, how are you? |
| 0:25.2 | Good, good. |
| 0:26.2 | So fools, Dan and I had a tougher time than usual nailing down topics for this show. |
| 0:33.0 | Given that it's the first show of the year, |
| 0:35.1 | we had the year and review not long ago. |
| 0:37.2 | We wanted to kick off 2018 on a similar note, |
| 0:40.7 | which means going high level |
| 0:42.2 | and talking about the biggest trends investors can expect |
| 0:45.3 | to see in the consumer and retail sector this year. |
| 0:48.7 | Before we dive into that, I'm setting aside a few minutes here for you, Dan, especially especially because you're our resident cable and |
| 0:54.2 | entertainment specialist this is a big one right so I know you wanted to share your |
| 0:58.6 | thoughts on the Walt Disney and 21st century Fox deal that was announced a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:04.0 | So I've worked my way through a lot of the breakdowns to predictions for how Disney will leverage |
| 1:08.6 | its purchases from Fox, especially the TV and film properties. |
| 1:12.6 | We're talking about Avatar, X-Men, |
| 1:14.8 | classics like Home Alone. |
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