9 Most Popular Retail Blogs You Should Follow
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:34 am
If you're Clash, you spend a lot of time thinking, should you stay? Or should you go? That's what you do. If you're me, you spend a lot of time reading about the retail industry. That's what you do.
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Considering I've spent so much time scouring the web for great retail reads, I can save you some time and give you a comprehensive list of retail blogs you absolutely need to check out. That is, if you really need to read anything other than the Platforms retail blog .
Please note: they are not in any particular order. I love all of these blogs equally and for different reasons.
1. Medallion Retail
Medallion Retail by Bradley Daves focuses on retail telemarketing usages marketing. Bradley covers everything you need to know about retail marketing, from the proper use of signage to important retail marketing conferences, in easy-to-read, bite-sized posts. You can’t help but walk away from one of Bradley’s posts with easy-to-use knowledge. My favorite part of this blog, however, is Bradley’s writing. Many of his posts are narrative poetry, which makes them very entertaining, like his recent “The Old Man and Sears – An Ode to Dad.”
2. Trading blog
Led by retail and point of sale software expert Francesca Nicacio, Vend is a phenomenal blog that retail managers and store owners in particular can follow. Vend focuses on solving the big problems retailers face and providing solutions.
Many of these issues represent everyday struggles for retailers, such as what questions to ask a retailer before opening new stores or what you should do if a major retailer moves into town. But they don’t shy away from the big industry issues that affect retailers. One of my favorite articles is about how traditional clothing retailers can compete with fast fashion. These insightful posts make Vend the perfect resource for anyone looking for solutions to their store’s problems.
Bonus: Vend has a weekly newsletter that I look forward to every Friday. They collect the best retail articles from the web that week and introduce you to a different expert in the field each week. Totally worth subscribing to.
3. Shopify Blog
Shopify has one of the most well-known and respected blogs in the eCommerce space. They publish all sorts of insanely informative articles more or less daily. Many of the articles are aimed at helping people start and run their own small eCommerce business (like “How to Find Time to Build Your ECommerce Empire While Working a 9-5”). However, they often write about larger eCommerce industry topics like shoppable Pinterest pins.
What makes the Shopify blog truly special, however, aside from being a guide for the e-commerce entrepreneur, are the well-researched articles they put out quite regularly. These articles provide incredible insight into issues that affect the retail industry as a whole and are always great learning moments. My favorite? “Why All Retail Signs Are Red: The Science of Color in Retail.”
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Considering I've spent so much time scouring the web for great retail reads, I can save you some time and give you a comprehensive list of retail blogs you absolutely need to check out. That is, if you really need to read anything other than the Platforms retail blog .
Please note: they are not in any particular order. I love all of these blogs equally and for different reasons.
1. Medallion Retail
Medallion Retail by Bradley Daves focuses on retail telemarketing usages marketing. Bradley covers everything you need to know about retail marketing, from the proper use of signage to important retail marketing conferences, in easy-to-read, bite-sized posts. You can’t help but walk away from one of Bradley’s posts with easy-to-use knowledge. My favorite part of this blog, however, is Bradley’s writing. Many of his posts are narrative poetry, which makes them very entertaining, like his recent “The Old Man and Sears – An Ode to Dad.”
2. Trading blog
Led by retail and point of sale software expert Francesca Nicacio, Vend is a phenomenal blog that retail managers and store owners in particular can follow. Vend focuses on solving the big problems retailers face and providing solutions.
Many of these issues represent everyday struggles for retailers, such as what questions to ask a retailer before opening new stores or what you should do if a major retailer moves into town. But they don’t shy away from the big industry issues that affect retailers. One of my favorite articles is about how traditional clothing retailers can compete with fast fashion. These insightful posts make Vend the perfect resource for anyone looking for solutions to their store’s problems.
Bonus: Vend has a weekly newsletter that I look forward to every Friday. They collect the best retail articles from the web that week and introduce you to a different expert in the field each week. Totally worth subscribing to.
3. Shopify Blog
Shopify has one of the most well-known and respected blogs in the eCommerce space. They publish all sorts of insanely informative articles more or less daily. Many of the articles are aimed at helping people start and run their own small eCommerce business (like “How to Find Time to Build Your ECommerce Empire While Working a 9-5”). However, they often write about larger eCommerce industry topics like shoppable Pinterest pins.
What makes the Shopify blog truly special, however, aside from being a guide for the e-commerce entrepreneur, are the well-researched articles they put out quite regularly. These articles provide incredible insight into issues that affect the retail industry as a whole and are always great learning moments. My favorite? “Why All Retail Signs Are Red: The Science of Color in Retail.”