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The Watson Weekend podcast is now at https://www.watsonweekly.com/. Please subscribe here for more great shows.Welcome to The Watson Weekend – a rollicking weekly live conversation (and dance party) about all things retail, tech, and ecommerce! Hosts Rick Watson and Jess Lesesky and guests from all around the ecommerce world cut through the BS and bring you no-nonsense conversation, deep insights, and opinions that aren’t afraid to be contrarian.Join us for the livestream every Friday at noon on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecommercestrategyconsulting/ and YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXgOk2gTui7w3ZAZxs95Qz_pcDX17K_cand then listen to the podcast and series a week later – your water-cooler game will always be on point!For media and sponsorship inquiries, please contact mediasales@rmwcommerce.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp
Watson Weekly hosts The Watson Weekend, a business show with 82 episodes published.
Hello friends! I have an important update regarding the Watson Weekend. To make it easy for you to keep up with everything happening in commerce, we're consolidating our shows. We're officially moving the Watson Weekend
The first episode of the new Watson Weekly Friday edition, featuring Rick Watson and Jessica Lesesky, debuts a new format focused on news and commentary related to e-commerce and retail. The new format includes three sto
The first Watson Weekend show of 2026 serves as a post-mortem for the NRF conference, where Rick Watson and Jessica Lesesky recap the live event held at the Asylum in New York City and share "Nostradamus-style" predictio
The Watson Weekend Festive Jeoparty is a special holiday podcast episode featuring a Jeopardy-style quiz among four e-commerce and retail podcast teams: Team NYC (Rick Watson and Nick Kaplan), Retail Razor (Ricardo Belma
In this special episode of the Watson Weekend, Rick Watson is joined by Scott Silverman, Co-founder of CommerceNext and Principal of Scott Silverman Associates, to talk about e-commerce leadership themes he is seeing. E-
This week's Watson Weekend episode features hosts Rick Watson and Jessica Lesesky, who deliver a news analysis in an entertaining Headline Hangover, plus holiday advertising commentary you do not want to miss. The
Watson Weekend host Rick Watson is joined by Nick Kaplan for the week's retail and e-commerce news. The headline hangover contains results from Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and Amazon is testing 30-minute deliveries. T
Rick Watson, Jessica Lesesky, and Nick Kaplan warm up the show with jokes about last week’s performance and introduce the episode’s segments. They highlight Jeoparty, Headline Hangover, and the week's special guest, Kell
The Watson Weekend hosts, Rick Watson and Jessica Lasesky, and guest Nick Kaplan discuss retail and commerce trends for Q4 and 2025. This week’s headline hangover includes the resurgence of Toys R Us, Airbnb's pilot kitc
The Watson Weekend hosts Rick Watson and Jessica Lesesky discuss the most important retail and e-commerce news from the past week. In the Headline Hangover, they discuss retail's Q4 challenges, AI's impact on brick-and-m
The Watson Weekend Halloween Special hosts Rick Watson, Jessica Lesesky, and Nick Kaplan discuss 2025 retail and tech headlines with a Halloween twist. Think of it as the e-commerce and retail news version of Saturday Ni
Watson Weekend podcast hosts Rick Watson and Jessica Leseski cover retail industry news, including Target's struggles and layoffs, potential large tariff refunds pending a Supreme Court ruling, and merchandising challeng
Watson Weekend hosts Rick Watson and Nick Kaplan discuss the retail industry's current state, emphasizing AI's integration into shopping experiences, such as Walmart's partnership with OpenAI. They highlight the rapid in
The latest Watson Weekend podcast episode, hosted by Rick Watson and Jessica Lesesky, discusses recent retail developments, including the elimination of the de minimis rule impacting U.S. imports, Starbucks' Taylor Swift
Watson Weekend hosts Rick Watson and Jessica Lesesky cover the latest retail industry news and trends this week. The headline hangover includes Gen Z's influencer-driven purchases, Mastercard's entry into retail media ad
The Watson Weekend hosts Rick Watson and Jessica Lesesky discuss recent retail headlines, including Amazon's $2.5 billion lawsuit over alleged Prime subscription deception, Walmart's significant referral traffic from Cha
The Watson Weekend is sponsored by Rithum because if you’re in commerce, this is the event you can’t miss. Rithum LIVE is happening Sept 25 in New York City and Oct 9 in London—bringing together top brands, retailers, an
In this crossover episode, hosts Rick Watson and Jessica Lesesky talk with Shailesh Kumar, SVP of Engineering at Salesforce. He is the Head of Engineering for Salesforce Commerce & Retail Cloud. He previously served as S
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