Everything important from Code Commerce, a forum on the future of commerce

Search for New York Knicks jerseys on Amazon and you’ll find a mishmash of results. Some Porzingis jerseys. Some jerseys for Derrick Rose, who’s no longer on the team. But certainly nothing that looks like an official NBA storefront.

Recent comments from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, however, indicate that may change in the future.

Andy Dunn, Bonobos CEO and SVP of Digital Consumer Brands at Walmart, talked with Recode’s Jason Del Rey on Wednesday at Code Commerce.

When Dunn co-founded Bonobos in 2007, the idea of digitally native vertical brands didn’t really exist.

To you, a cardboard box might look like, well, a cardboard box.

To Jesse Genet, a cardboard box looks like a business opportunity — both for her and for other online retailers.

John Foley is the founder and CEO of Peloton, a company that makes indoor exercise bikes with streaming online classes.

Prior to founding Peloton, Foley spent six years in manufacturing leadership with Mars Inc. He also served as a president at Barnes & Noble, was a co-founder and CEO of Pronto.com, CEO of Evite.com and an early leader of Citysearch.com, starting in 1996.

Venmo Chief Operating Officer Mike Vaughan talked with Recode’s Dan Frommer on Wednesday at Code Commerce.

Vaughan was one of the payment service’s first employees. He is now one of Venmo’s top execs, helping to oversee the rapid growth of the money-transfer service that surpassed $8 billion in payment volume last quarter alone. Vaughan discusses how he plans to turn PayPal-owned Venmo into a real business.

Matt Zeiler is the CEO of a company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to recognize and identify different videos and images.

While there are a lot of uses for image recognition — you’ve probably most recently interacted with facial recognition, for instance, on Facebook — Zeiler said online retail stands to benefit significantly from using AI.

Pinterest president Tim Kendall spoke to Recode’s Kurt Wagner on Wednesday at Code Commerce in New York.

If Pinterest surpasses its projected $500 million in revenue in 2017, Kendall will be a big reason why. As the president of the fast-growing image-discovery website, it’s on Kendall to help turn the attention of Pinterest’s 175 million monthly users into advertising dollars — and perhaps, someday, a real e-commerce business.

Andrew Rosen, founder and president of Theory, and Yael Aflalo, founder and CEO of Reformation, talked with Recode’s Jason Del Rey Thursday at Code Commerce.

These two fashion industry entrepreneurs are reimagining distribution channels and a brand’s environmental responsibilities. Aflalo and Rosen talked about everything from building sustainability and customer transparency into a business model to the pros and cons of direct-to-consumer approaches versus selling through digital marketplaces like Amazon and Stitch Fix.

Sweetgreen co-CEO and co-founder Jonathan Neman and Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss talked with Recode’s Dan Frommer and Racked’s Cheryl Wischhover at Code Commerce on Thursday.

Neman, an LA native, helped found Sweetgreen in 2007. Neman described Sweetgreen’s decision to go cashless at its roughly 75 salad-focused restaurants in California and the Northeast as a “good experiment.”

Heidi O’Neill is the president of Nike’s $9 billion direct-to-consumer business, including Nike.com and Nike retail stores.

O’Neill has been with Nike for 19 years, but as of June, she has taken on a new role: To unite all of Nike’s interactions with customers under one organization, and to build shopping experiences that make the most of the advantages that digital and physical retail each offer.

Fashion designer Rachel Roy, whose eponymous brand is sold through brick-and-mortar chains like Macy’s and digital-first retailers like Dia&Co, was joined onstage by Dia&Co co-founder Nadia Boujarwah at Recode’s Code Commerce conference. The two discussed the business opportunities in the plus-size fashion market, and the reasons why many mainstream fashion brands still avoid it.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

Williams-Sonoma CEO Laura Alber is still bullish about brick-and-mortar retail in spite of the looming threat of Amazon.

“I certainly don’t think we’re in the midst of a retail apocalypse,” Alber said at Recode’s Code Commerce event in New York. “I do not believe that and I do not believe that Amazon is killing retailers. I believe retailers’ bad service is killing retailers. And I think because of that you might not go to the malls as much as you used to.”

A fashion company that sells on Amazon, Theory, says it doesn’t think Amazon itself is too much of a direct threat on the platform.

“I think fashion sort of looks good to them,” said Andrew Rosen, the head of the fashion retailer Theory. “But I don’t think they’re really that serious about it.”

Months after Sweetgreen officially swore off cash in all of its stores, the company says it’s “so far, so good” — even as its exec stressed it’s still developing a way to help those without credit cards or smartphones pay for their food.

Onstage at Code Commerce today, Sweetgreen co-CEO Jonathan Neman described the decision to go cashless at its roughly 75 salad-focused restaurants in California and the Northeast as a “good experiment” that has helped improve employee safety, reduce line length and remedy health concerns — all without denting the company’s bottom line.

Bozoma Saint John, Uber’s newly minted chief brand officer, wants to take a brand with an ugly image — sexual harassment, stolen trade secrets, profiteering off protests — and make it something people love.

“There needs to be love there, some emotion connecting the user to the product,” Saint John told Recode Thursday at Code Commerce in New York City. “We’ve got to get people to be in love with the product.”

Uber has had a rough year. We’re talking to Bozoma Saint John, chief brand officer for Uber, about the company’s next steps now that it has a new CEO.

Most recently, Saint John was the head of global consumer marketing for Apple Music and iTunes. When Saint John introduced the new interface for Apple Music at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, BuzzFeed called her the “coolest person to ever go onstage at an Apple event.”

When Walmart — the largest U.S. retailer — acquired Bonobos — a somewhat yuppie mens clothing brand — for $310 million in June, it seemed a bit surprising.

First, because Walmart — via its Jet subsidiary, but still, Walmart — was buying a somewhat yuppie mens clothing brand.

Nike is looking out for sneakerheads fighting to land a pair of the hottest shoes on release day.

That’s according to Heidi O’Neill, who leads Nike’s direct consumer business and claims that the retailer is successfully stemming the tide of bots that try to secure every possible pair of sneakers and resell them for a profit.

Venmo will allow users to pay at merchants like Williams-Sonoma, Chief Operating Officer Mike Vaughan told audience members today at Code Commerce in New York City.

Users of the peer-to-peer money-transferring service would be able to use their Venmo balance — or charge their bank account — to buy or split gifts with friends on the bridal registry at Williams-Sonoma.

TV viewership is dropping across the board — including for live sports, which were supposed to be immune to shrinking ratings.

NBA boss Adam Silver has a solution: Make sports look more like video games.

In the face of constrained supply and few distribution channels, plus-size women were quick to move online to shop for clothes, according to the CEO of plus-size e-commerce company Dia&Co, Nadia Boujarwah.

“This is absolutely a digital community,” Boujarwah said at Recode’s Code Commerce event in New York City. “The plus-size shopper has been online for a long time and moved into e-commerce for apparel much more quickly than straight-size women did because most options are online. Even for most traditional retailers, the vast majority of assortments for plus exist online only.”

Culinary superstar Mario Batali came to Recode’s Code Commerce conference and talked to Kara Swisher about lots of stuff: GMOs, minimum wage, why he’s generally uninterested in food technology, and much more.

But you’re here, on the internet. So let’s tell you what he had to say about the way he uses the internet — specifically, different social media platforms.

Fewer than 10 percent of images on Pinterest are buyable but that will change soon, according to Pinterest President Tim Kendall, who spoke Wednesday at Recode’s Code Commerce in New York City.

“Only a small set of Pinterest users want to buy on Pinterest,” Kendall said. “A majority are still going to the retailer and the retailer takes the entire retail transaction. We don’t take a cut.”

The retail world is in transition: Brick-and-mortar stores are losing customers to e-commerce, and consumers are expecting more from the traditional shopping experience. Retail has to rethink itself.

That’s the message Kirsten Green, founder of VC firm Forerunner Ventures, gave today during a presentation to Code Commerce attendees in New York City.

Blue Apron CEO Matt Salzberg got a call “a little bit before everyone else” about Amazon’s announcement this June that it would buy Whole Foods.

Since then, it’s been a tough few months for the meals-on-demand company, which began trading publicly and immediately had to weather questions as to whether it’s bound to lose big to Amazon’s new grocery gambit. But Salzberg is optimistic: “In some ways, it’s applicable to our space; and in some ways, obviously, what they’re doing, it’s much different than what we’re doing,” he said onstage at Code Commerce today.