10 Best Articles on Retail
The most useful articles on retail from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
Refind focuses on timeless pieces and updates the list whenever new, must-read articles or videos are discovered.
Top 5 Retail Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on retail by Refind users in 2024 so far.
Videos
Watch a video to get a quick overview.
Scott Galloway - How Amazon is Dismantling Retail
Scott Galloway speaks at L2’s Amazon Clinic about how Amazon is disrupting retail. Not only has Amazon changed consumer shopping habits, it has changed the r...
How to ...?
How to avoid Amazon: the definitive guide to online shopping
Amazon is now making up to £8,800 a second, while concerns persist about its tax affairs, treatment of staff and effect on small retailers. Here’s how to buy everything from technology to beauty to…
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on retail—all under 10 minutes.
Why One Gen Z-Led Retailer is Limiting Orders Per Customer
Sustainable retail platform Toward is setting a new precedent by preventing customers from placing more than 12 orders per year.
Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business — Benedict Evans
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent,…
Why McKinsey sees 'commerce media' as the go-to media and marketing investment channel of the future
McKinsey believes it’s time to look at the e-commerce and retail media as one big industry, encompassing all the advertisers, retail media firms, media companies and shoulder industries that serve…
How artificial intelligence may be making you buy things
Retailers are increasingly using AI to try to predict and encourage what customers purchase.
Retailers as ‘experience designers’: Brian Solis on shopping in 2030
In the future, the most successful retailers will employ experts in video-game design and spatial computing, predicts Brian Solis of Salesforce.com.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on retail.
Why It's Hard to Escape Amazon's Long Reach
The ecommerce company is also a cloud computing provider, TV producer, fashion designer, wind-farm backer, and organizer of crowdsourced micro-labor tasks.
America's ‘retail apocalypse’ is about to spillover to the rest of the economy
The spillover from retailer debt will flow far and wide across the economy.
72 Startups Transforming Bricks-And-Mortar Retail In One Infographic
Companies are using technologies like wearables, augmented reality, and beacons to bridge the gap between digital and physical shopping.
What is Refind?
Every day Refind picks the most relevant links from around the web for you. Picking only a handful of links means focusing on what’s relevant and useful.
How does Refind curate?
It’s a mix of human and algorithmic curation, following a number of steps:
- We monitor 10k+ sources and 1k+ thought leaders on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
- In addition, our users save links from around the web using our Save buttons and our extensions.
- Our algorithm processes 100k+ new links every day and uses external signals to find the most relevant ones, focusing on timeless pieces.
- Our community of active users gets the most relevant links every day, tailored to their interests. They provide feedback via implicit and explicit signals: open, read, listen, share, mark as read, read later, «More/less like this», etc.
- Our algorithm uses these internal signals to refine the selection.
- In addition, we have expert curators who manually curate niche topics.
The result: lists of the best and most useful articles on hundreds of topics.
How does Refind detect «timeless» pieces?
We focus on pieces with long shelf-lives—not news. We determine «timelessness» via a number of metrics, for example, the consumption pattern of links over time.
How many sources does Refind monitor?
We monitor 10k+ content sources on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
Can I submit a link?
Indirectly, by using Refind and saving links from outside (e.g., via our extensions).
How can I report a problem?
When you’re logged-in, you can flag any link via the «More» (...) menu. You can also report problems via email to hello@refind.com
Who uses Refind?
450k+ smart people start their day with Refind. To learn something new. To get inspired. To move forward. Our apps have a 4.9/5 rating.
Is Refind free?
Yes, it’s free!
How can I sign up?
Head over to our homepage and sign up by email or with your Twitter or Google account.
Keep Learning
Get the big picture on your favorite topics.