What you read on the Retail Dive website is the result of thoughtful research, writing, reporting and editing. But, what our readership may not know is that our reporters and editors are extremely chatty. And loud. Our collective obsession about retail news results in endless discussions about the top stories of the day, deliberation on trends that are percolating on the horizon and analysis on how to best focus our coverage. 

This episode of The Backroom delves into the stories that got under our skin in 2019. Sometimes the news made us double over in laughter. Or a story would catch our curiosity and push us to delve deeper. Then there were the articles from other news outlets that completely inspired us with their coverage. 

It's been a fantastic year to be a retail journalist.