EP218 - Amazon Q1 2020 Earnings and Covid News Episode 218 covers some Covid-19 related e-commerce news, and provides an analysis of Amazon's Q1 2020 Earnings. Announcement Next weeks show will be a live listener question show. Join our Zoom webinar on May 6th at 9pm ET, and you can watch us make a show, and ask your own questions. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89837125650?pwd=QTM2QWZKRDlSNFFIU0xnRmZ2VWowQT09 Password: 877145 Webinar ID: 898 3712 5650 International numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kuutcaEJm News Shopify becoming a marketplace? Google shopping is now free Covid impact 630,000 retail businesses have been closed since mid-March (about 61% of sf sq) Forrester 16% E-Com -> 25% in april (70% digital influence) 3% digital grocery -> 10% digital Grocery Goldman Sachs: Retail Chain down 20.9% ShopperTrack: Traffic down 48% Bankruptcies – JCREW, Neiman, JCP, Tuesday Morning, Lord & Taylor Gordon Brothers 25,000 stores and 100,000 restaurants could end up closing permanently this year UBS 100,000 retailers close by 2025 (15% -> 25% e-com penetration) Everyone making PPE Happy Story: Pets ("adopt a pet" surged about 335% in volume) Simon Prop