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

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Slate Podcasts

Business, Investing

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 56 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. 

 

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0:00.0

Hello!

0:27.0

Hello! with Elizabeth Spires of Axios of New York Times and elsewhere. Hello.

0:28.0

And we have an amazing show this week.

0:31.5

And the reason we have an amazing show this week is because we have

0:34.8

Jason Del Rey on the show this week. Jason welcome. Hello thanks for having me.

0:40.4

Well introduce yourself who are you what do you do and do you happen to have written a book recently I'll start with the happen to written a book recently I have I wrote a new book that's called Winner Sales All, Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our

0:55.9

wallets.

0:56.9

It was published on June 20th, and for a decade I covered Amazon and Walmart and sort of the future retail and e-commerce at

1:06.7

recode and recode's predecessor all things D.

1:11.2

So we are going to talk about that we are going to talk about that. We're going to talk about

1:14.9

Amazon and Walmart and their rivalry and who's winning and the trade-offs that

1:20.9

happen between e-commerce and physical retail. We are going to talk about retail more broadly.

1:28.1

I am going to ask you about marijuana stores. We also have a segment on Puerto Rico and its tax breaks and whether those

1:37.2

have worked or not. Spoy or Alert, no, they haven't. We have a Slate Plus segment on Taco Tuesday and Taco Johns and

1:47.8

whether the big corporate cease and desist bully of Taco Tuesday is actually per Emily Peck, the underdog in this whole story.

1:56.4

It's a fun one this week, so it's all coming up on slate money.

2:02.4

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