A Taiwanese retail finance newsletter from a practitioner with 18 years of retail staff experience, examining how gross margin structure, customer loss, product mix and expense mismatches erode profit. Issues cover keeping customer lists when staff leave, when to have numbers reviewed internally or externally, and AI use that adds workload.
Website: https://thebizmemo.net/
Eric Product Manager is a blog by an agentic commerce product manager at eBay, analysing how AI shopping agents, checkout protocols and retailer policies will reshape online buying. Each issue combines sourced market data with the author's opinionated, clearly caveated analysis of what merchants should expect.
A hyperlocal column covering openings, closings, moves and events among merchants, restaurants and businesses in Davis, California. Readers get specific details such as addresses, dates, hours and quotes from owners, often as first reports.
Daily analysis of social media and retail news for food and beverage CPG brands, with practical takeaways for small and mid-size operators. Issues pair a specific news event, such as Meta earnings, a brand PR blowup or PepsiCo's refrigerated push, with sourced figures and a clear point of view.
A blog-style newsletter exploring urbanism, retail history, local architecture and cultural quirks, with a focus on how buildings and economies evolve. Issues mix economic argument, place-based history and commentary on retail formats.
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