Recode Decode: Hudson's Bay Company CEO Helena Foulkes

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hudson's Bay Company CEO Helena Foulkes talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at An Evening With Code Commerce in Las Vegas. In this episode: Yep, Foulkes was considered for the Uber CEO job; her background at CVS; how she came to Hudson's Bay; why she sold its European department stores, Gilt Groupe, and Home Outfitters; the importance of making retail shopping an experience; how Foulkes is rethinking Saks Off Fifth; "you can never out-Amazon Amazon"; how do physical retail stores use data?; and what will the store of the future look like? Subscribe to Casey Newton's newsletter, The Interface, at theverge.com/interface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:19.8	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.
0:25.2	You may know me as the owner of the Knock-Off Luxury Store, Facts 6th Avenue, but in my spare
0:30.0	time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Deco from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:34.6	I'm here with Recode's Jason Del Rey, who just put on an event in Las Vegas, which we
0:39.0	called an evening with code commerce.
0:41.3	Hey Jason.
0:42.3	That sounded very good.
0:43.3	Hey Cara.
0:44.3	How was Vegas?
0:45.3	I was there for 14 seconds.
0:46.3	It was a very fun time then that I had been.
0:47.3	It was a very fun time.
0:48.6	We found out how a company is trying to reinvent the department store.
0:53.4	Good luck with that.
0:55.2	We talked about one of the fastest growing shopping apps in the country called Poshmark.
1:00.0	Then we heard from an old media executive that we know well to Armstrong who's trying
1:04.3	to get into the direct to consumer push with something he's saying is an event like Coachella.
1:11.5	What do you think about that?
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