EP259- Listener Questions News Amazon is building Micro Fulfillment Centers to deliver fast-moving grocery & convenience SKUs in under 45mins. Locations include Seattle, DC, Baltimore, Dallas, Nashville, Detroit, Chicago, San Diego, Phoenix launching this year. Listener Questions Ted: will headless commerce take off in 2021? why/why not? RetailRazor: Amazon has been getting hit w/an endless series of media articles about their private label development at the expense of other merchants on the platform. But #retailers have been doing this since, well, forever. Ex. – Dept Stores private label apparel. Why is Amazon different? Wanda Cadigan: We're seeing a big increase in visual media use cases for e-com. It's the new digital proxy for in-store experience. Curious on your thoughts around shoppable video trends and adoption esp. in Americas. Darin Archer: When will we have a major paradigm shift from the online store? Category pages and PDP's seem dated in the era of TikTok. Instagram shopping and all those other things are like pop-up shops. When will retailers make a big step change in the experience? Brendan Witcher: When will the Jason And Scot Show T-shirts finally be made available and can I have mine signed before you send it? You guys rock! Thanks for helping to keep balance in the (retail) Force. Kevin Cronin: Thoughts on e-com conversion tracking and how it has +/- impacted companies/industry. BinhWinn: What do you think is keeping Amazon from entering the promising African market? Kelly Goetsch: Looking forward to the episode! I'm seeing all the CX-related vendors (Salesforce, SAP, Bloomreach, Acquia, etc) building or buying CDPs in the past ~12