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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

E-Commerce Overreached. Now What?

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It's hard to argue with a headline like "The Great Post-Covid Online Shopping Bet Was a Costly Delusion", but we're going to anyway. (0:21) Bill Mann  discusses: - Why the investments Amazon and Shopify made were not a "delusion" - What to watch for among online retailers this holiday shopping season - Inventory management being the metric to watch in early 2023 (11:13) Mark Kantrowitz is an expert on saving for college and author of "Filing the FAFSA". Robert Brokamp talks with him about some of the most common errors people make when applying for financial aid. Got questions about stocks? Call the Motley Fool Money Hotline at 703-254-1445. Stocks discussed: AMZN, SHOP, W Host: Chris Hill Guests: Bill Mann, Robert Brokamp, Mark Kantrowitz Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We've got a closer look at the e-commerce landscape and a few tips on paying for college.

0:10.0

Motleyful Money starts now.

0:11.6

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio.

0:23.4

It's Motleyful Senior and let's bill man.

0:25.2

Good to see you.

0:26.2

I'm not tired of that actually.

0:27.6

Neither am I.

0:28.6

I'm just going to be doing some research on the way that I'm doing them.

0:32.6

I'm going to be doing some research on a new studio and I must say as chilly as it has

0:36.6

been in this room as we've been here in the past, it is delightful in here today.

0:40.6

It is someone not you and not me.

0:43.6

Someone took the video and it's no longer like a meat locker.

0:46.6

Whoever is involved on our side of the thermostat battle is up one at the moment.

0:52.6

Hopefully wherever folks are listening the temperature is just lovely where they are as well.

0:57.6

shall we? Because you would point it out a Bloomberg article to me and I don't put and I don't

1:05.4

think anyone puts Bloomberg in the same category as the New York Post when it comes to headline writing.

1:11.7

Right. And I'm not saying they are. But it's pretty straightforward when you have a headline like

1:17.0

the great post-COVID online shopping bet was a costly delusion. I know it does. There's some

1:24.8

heat to that headline. There's absolutely some heat to that headline and as someone as you are

1:31.1

who has been involved in providing content over the years, you do know in practice that headlines

1:39.2

sometimes don't really give you the whole story and the reason why they're written that way is

1:45.6

to get people to click on them. I don't love the word delusion in this case because I think a delusion

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