Wal-Mart v. Amazon: The Battle for Retail’s Soul
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🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 61 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! Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Felix Amin of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times |
| 0:26.2 | Houston, elsewhere. Hello! And we have an amazing show this week and the reason we have an |
| 0:32.7 | amazing show this week is because we have Jason Del Rey on the show this week. Jason, welcome! |
| 0:38.2 | Hello! Thanks for having me. Well introduce yourself. Who are you? What do you do? And do you |
| 0:44.7 | happen to have written a book recently? I'll start with the happen to have written a book recently. |
| 0:49.7 | I have. I wrote a new book that's called Winner Sales All, Amazon Walmart and the Battle for |
| 0:55.8 | Our Wallets. It's published on June 20th and for a decade I covered Amazon and Walmart and sort |
| 1:04.1 | of the future retail and e-commerce at Recode and Recode's predecessor, All Things D. |
| 1:12.1 | So we are going to talk about that. We're going to talk about Amazon and Walmart and their |
| 1:16.5 | rivalry and who's winning and the trade-offs that happen between e-commerce and physical retail. |
| 1:24.7 | We are going to talk about retail more broadly. I am going to ask you about marijuana stores. |
| 1:30.7 | We also have a segment on Puerto Rico and it's tax breaks and whether those have worked or not, |
| 1:38.6 | what do we let? No, they haven't. We have a Slate Plus segment on Taco Tuesday and Taco |
| 1:47.0 | John's and whether the big corporate cease and desist bully of Taco Tuesday is actually |
| 1:53.5 | for Emily Peck, the underdog in this whole story. It's a fun one this week so it's all coming up |
| 2:00.4 | on Slate Money. You should definitely sign up for Slate Plus for this one. |
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