BET YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU’D SEE THE NEWS GUY’S OUTFIT OF THE MONTH, OR MAYBE YOU DID, OR MAYBE YOU NEVER CARED, WHICH FINE, BUT THIS IS MY LAST POST OF THE YEAR SO WE’RE DOING THIS!*

As has been reported (and reported and reported), the 2010s were an especially rough decade for retail, and with the decade nearly at a close, Vox asked some its favorite writers to eulogize the now shuttered companies that meant most to them.

According to a recent piece from The Atlantic, millions of small businesses are getting crushed with shipping fees as they attempt to keep up with Amazon and other eComm giants.

According to Vogue Business, more and more brands are angling to break into the increasingly lucrative resale market – and there’s a new wave of tech to help them do just that.

There once was a time when retailers avoided political discourse like sidewalk vomit, but everything is upside down in Trump’s Belligerent America. According to a recent report from WSJ – that was detailed by GQ – more and more consumers are basing their clothing purchases on brands’ political affiliations, rather than the actual product.

According to Reuters, police in Naples just raided a sweatshop that was found to be producing goods for “some of Europe’s best-known luxury groups.”