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Family Date Night at the Olive Garden Special Episode.

Homepod: more like yawn-pod. Plus: retail investment is gaining steam, mobile advertising to overtake traditional advertising, and bye bye sales! Finally, Nike makes the foam sole more personal.

Homepod: nobody cares

• Actually, people do care: they care to talk about how irrelevant it is.

• Business insider even gives you 7 reasons not to buy it.

• It's just a giant ipod and it only works with itunes.

• Hey, Apple, it's 20 bleepin' 18 already.

• At least it's more competition for sonos?

• In episode 1, we talked about Apple's exciting developments. Unfortunately, they haven't followed through of them.

• The lesson: Apple gonna Apple.

Amazon Go:

• Amazon Go is live!

• 2 weeks from today: we're going to the store and doing a review. Get ready.

• Bob Schwartz, friend of the pod, stood in line on day 2 of the launch said it worked seamlessly. But caveat: he didn't like the sandwich he bought.

We're we get all these new listeners?

• Thanks, new listeners.

• Thanks, NRF.

• Thanks, Branden Moskwa, for all of the new listeners.

The actual "Big News":

• A lot of positive news in retail.

• News from NRF: it's not a retail apocalypse, it's just a transformation.

• The Wall Street Journal reports on a 65 million dollar retail investment in Manhattan. Because Manhattan needs more retail :)

• But it makes sense to develop your own retail space without being entangled with existing retail lease agreements.

• A lot of people are redeveloping retail space.

• Developers taking expensive real estate and turning it into retail space is a really positive sign.  

• Phillip's family bet: is the new development in the neighborhood going to be a Walgreens? Probably.

You know what's still relevant? Digital Advertising:

• Goldman Sachs predicting digital advertising will Account for over half of all advertising globally

• Facebook and Google probably gobble up 94% of it.

• Traditional advertising still on the decline.

• Amazon now has a paid self-service platform for advertising, so does Snapchat.

• Instagram integrated into Facebook's digital advertising model.

• They predict video will have a breakout year.

• Meg Whitman went from CEO of HP to a CEO of a startup of a Jeffrey Katzenberg backed venture called new TV.

• They're specializing in scripted content under 10 minutes long.

From Digital to Brick and Mortar:

• Dollar shave club is opening a pop-up store in London. It looks like a retail experience with an old timey barber shop setup.

• Ecommerce companies starting to invade larger retail exp