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Speaker 1: From the heart of where innovation, money and power colli

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Speaker 1: in Silicon Valley and beyond. This is Bloomberg Technology with

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Speaker 1: Emily Jay. I'm Emily jan in Las Vegas for the

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Speaker 1: retail event of the year, Shop Talk, where brands from

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Speaker 1: around the world have gathered to talk about the future

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Speaker 1: of commerce. I caught up with Uber CEO Dara Kazra

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Speaker 1: Shah earlier to talk about everything from their vision to

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Speaker 1: create a super app to Ukraine and inflation. Here's what

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Speaker 1: he had to say. So, I understand this is your

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Speaker 1: first shop Talk, this is my first shop Talk. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you very much. Um. A few years ago,

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't expect the CEO of Uber to be at

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Speaker 1: a conference talking about the future of retail. Many things

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Speaker 1: have changed in a few years. Indeed, so why are

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Speaker 1: you here. Why do you believe Uber is the future

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Speaker 1: of retail? Well, I don't think that we're the future

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Speaker 1: of retail, but we can certainly help drive the future

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Speaker 1: of retail. If you step back on demand has completely

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Speaker 1: reshaped transportation, It's completely reshaped e commerce. You know, Amazon

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Speaker 1: as kind of the the big player there and we

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Speaker 1: are right in the middle of reshaping it. In terms

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Speaker 1: of local commerce goes. It is happening right now, and

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Speaker 1: we can be a force and essentially we can bring

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Speaker 1: all of the fulfillment technology that we have on a

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Speaker 1: local basis, pricing, matching, routing, etcetera, and use it to

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Speaker 1: power our local merchant partners to essentially out Amazon Amazon

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Speaker 1: on a local basis. So the goal is to be

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Speaker 1: sort of an anti Amazon, Like, if you can get

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Speaker 1: it there in two hours, that's a lot faster than

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Speaker 1: two hours, which what Amazon is doing now. Correct. I

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Speaker 1: think Amazon had an unfair advantage and they built a

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Speaker 1: national essentially fulfillment network, a vertical fulfillment network, and create

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Speaker 1: an incredible business as a result of it. And I

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Speaker 1: think now you're seeing technologies like Shopify come in, the

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Speaker 1: stripes come in, etcetera. We are think of us essentially

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Speaker 1: as a local Shopify. We can help you power your

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Speaker 1: local online commerce. And the Uber platform and the Uber

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Speaker 1: audience is unrivaled in the world. So I think that

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Speaker 1: but we can bring to them an audience that no

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Speaker 1: other player can. Shopify CEO Toby Luca told me, if

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Speaker 1: Amazon is building an empire we're arming the rebels. How

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Speaker 1: would you put it, We're arming the local rebels. So

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Speaker 1: the question is how Amazon has has a huge advantage.

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Speaker 1: They've got all of these gistics centers. You are barely

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Speaker 1: cracking the grocery market, which is, you know, a pick

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Speaker 1: and pack operational model, which is different than just picking

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Speaker 1: up food and dropping it off. So tell me about

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Speaker 1: the how well. I think the how is, First of all,

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Speaker 1: the local logistics UH has been built out right. The

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Speaker 1: boxers are there, are grocery partners. Our retail partners have

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Speaker 1: built out an incredible infrastructure that they've invested in over many,

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Speaker 1: many years. Our technology essentially allows that infrastructure to be

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Speaker 1: tied into your local home. And for us, what's unique

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Speaker 1: about us is that we're the only go get platform

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Speaker 1: opening up. Whether a consumer comes to your store and

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Speaker 1: we're neutral. We can power both and essentially we can

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Speaker 1: and we do well whether the consumer comes to you

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Speaker 1: both use cases. Now, Cousin Greg from Succession tells me

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Speaker 1: that Uber can gets me a lot of things these days,

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Speaker 1: including things that I shouldn't eat. Um, I believe we

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Speaker 1: have a clip of cousin Greg. Let's take a listen

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Speaker 1: to what he had to say. You can now get

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Speaker 1: anything delivered with Uber eats. But take it from me,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you can eat anything. He gets. Burger

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Speaker 1: And what we found is we're able to transition from

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Speaker 1: the habits that were forming with them. We've got their identity.

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Speaker 1: We already have their payments information. We probably know where

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Speaker 1: So could it get a deal for your drivers on gas?

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Speaker 1: So we are benefiting from a secular trend right, more

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