Wal-Mart v. Amazon: The Battle for Retail’s Soul

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by author Jason Del Rey to talk physical retail’s woes. They discuss Jason’s new book, Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart and the Battle for Our Wallets. Then they dig into what is going on with physical retail space and how looting can help Amazon and other resalers. And finally, why the IRS is investigating crypto bros in Puerto Rico. In the Plus segment: What happened to Taco Tuesday? If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:10.6	Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:18.7	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:22.4	Hello, hello.
0:23.3	With Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and elsewhere.
0:27.2	Hello.
0:27.9	And we have an amazing show this week. And the reason we have an amazing show this week is because we have Jason Delray on the show this week.
0:37.4	Jason, welcome.
0:38.8	Hello, thanks for having me.
0:40.8	Well, introduce yourself. Who are you? What do you do? And do you happen to have written a book recently?
0:46.9	I'll start with the happen to written a book recently. I have. I wrote a new book that's called
0:52.5	Winner Sales All, Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for
0:55.7	Our Wallets. It's published on June 20th. And for a decade, I covered Amazon and Walmart and sort of
1:04.3	the future retail and e-commerce at Recode and Recode's predecessor, All Things D. So we are going to talk about that. We're
1:14.3	going to talk about Amazon and Walmart and their rivalry and who's winning and the
1:19.5	trade-offs that happened between e-commerce and physical retail. We are going to talk about
1:26.8	retail more broadly. I am going to ask you about marijuana
1:29.7	stores. We also have a segment on Puerto Rico and it's tax breaks and whether those have worked
1:38.0	or not. Spoiler alert, no, they haven't. We have a slate plus segment on taco tuesday and taco johns and whether
1:48.1	the big corporate cease and desist bully of taco tuesday is actually for emily peck the underdog in
1:55.5	this whole story it's a fun one this week so it it's all coming up on Slate Money.
2:02.2	You should definitely sign up for Slate Plus for this one.
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