Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Seeking to minimize customers’ return complexities, Walmart has partnered with FedEx for at-home pickup of unwanted gifts or ill-fitting apparel. Customers can schedule returns via the new Carrier Pickup by FedEx service for products that have been shipped and sold by Walmart.com, using either the website or the Walmart app.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

Ebay has added luxury apparel to its consignment service , so sellers can now hand off the listing and selling of these goods to Ebay experts. After sellers fill out a product intake form, they receive a prepaid insured shipping label and send their products off to the consignment experts. UK and Germany, the company reported.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Marcus Ng, regional head of air freight, Asia Pacific, at AP MllerMaersk, notes that the Sea-Air option where some products are shipped rapidly by air and others less quickly by ocean has been particularly attractive to some lifestyle apparel retailing customers. In many cases, they are mixing air and sea freight solutions.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Vuori has received a $400 million investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 that values the activewear brand at $4 billion just six years after its debut. Launched in 2016 as a DTC business, Vuori has since expanded to brick-and-mortar via wholesale at retailers including Nordstrom and REI , as well as with 10 standalone stores.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Amazon’s push to offer more everyday essentials like toothpaste is hurting its average selling prices, but it is also a guard against rivals such as Temu and Shein who offer rock-bottom prices on goods they ship from China. Amazon is also facing competition from rivals at home.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Items are available at up 60% off retail prices. They may be ex-display products or feature small defects like scuffs, a loose thread or missing buttons that disqualify them from being sold at full price. Sample of an ‘Imperfects’ listing on eBay UK — Gucci bag with a scuff available for 50% off.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2024

Nordstrom is expanding its shop-in-shop partnership with custom apparel brand Indochino by adding five new locations, bringing the total number of Indochino shops in Nordstrom stores to 32. Each unique piece of apparel is made to the customer’s precise measurements and shipped directly to their door within three weeks.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Customers will now be able to earn Stitch Fix credit for “gently worn” apparel items they give back to the brand via ThredUp ’s Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) functionality. As part of this, we support our clients through wardrobe updates daily – from seasonal refreshes to life and body changes.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Starboard Cruise Services , LVMH Moët Hennessy and Celebrity Cruises are launching an immersive luxury shopping experience onboard the cruise ship Celebrity Beyond. The shops will feature a wide range of merchandise, from apparel, accessories, spirits and eco-friendly products to beauty, logo, destination and watches.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2021

Eddie Bauer is following the lead of other top retailers and getting into the rental business with the launch of a new program that will allow customers to rent its technical apparel and gear at “a fraction of the full retail price.”. The retailer’s rental offerings can be shipped anywhere in the contiguous U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

The Container Store has debuted its Closet Clean Out resale program for apparel and accessories, powered by the ThredUp Resale-as-a-Service solution. Additionally, footwear and apparel retailer Sam Edelman has launched its ReLove resale initiative with support from the Archive platform. Central; winners will be notified by May 12.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The collection, available while supplies last, encompasses women’s, girls and baby apparel and accessories along with beauty and home décor items starting at a $4 price point. There’s so much to spark joy, just in time for new spring looks — available only at Target.”

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Yards, Covent Garden brand store, located at 125 Long Acre, St Martin’s Courtyard, London WC2E 9AA, is the first Salomon flagship store in the United-Kingdom and measures 3,628 sq ft. This central London location is known for launching premium concepts and being home to sector-leading brands.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

South African-owned Retail Apparel Group has reported strong performance and market gains in its latest results. The business says current macroeconomic conditions and shipping disruptions will likely continue for the rest of the calendar year coupled with global inflationary pressures and rising interest rates. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

At PacSun, we are committed to digital innovation and delivering services that our customers will love and use,” said Mimi Ruiz, VP of eCommerce at PacSun in a statement. Our community already embraced sustainable fashion, and we wanted to incorporate that into our brand experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2022

The premium apparel retailer operates in 128 countries at approximately 6,800 points of sale as well as online in 59 countries. Knowing what items are in-stock at its stores in real time will help improve the efficiency of ship-from-store and BOPIS operations at Hugo Boss.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

Focus and blame generally turn to the manufacturing, production and distribution parts of the chain, but other aspects are not usually at the forefront of the mind, especially when it comes to the consumer standpoint. Robert McKee is Senior VP of Global Strategic Alliances at Fortude and heads up the sales growth in South America.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

But how can these brands optimise customer experience and delivery capabilities when they are based literally at the other end of the world? While design can be managed from anywhere, logistics can be intimidating to many apparel companies contemplating expanding abroad. It’s not a one-size-fits-all,” Ciano concludes.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The National Basketball Association’s Charlotte Hornets have debuted a Virtual Fan Shop that will allow fans to interact with each other virtually as well as browse and purchase fan gear that will then be shipped to their home in the real world.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

In 2021, the retailer partnered with The Black Tux , the online men’s formalwear brand, to expand its offerings in the special occasion apparel space. that were in stock and ready to ship to customers in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

customers can print a prepaid shipping label from torrid.thredup.com, fill a shippable box with apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand and send it to ThredUP free of charge. These sellers will receive a Torrid credit for all items sold that can be used in the retailer’s stores or online at Torrid.com.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The site offers items across categories including apparel, jewelry, pet supplies and home and garden, many at bargain prices. Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S. Pinduoduo has made its most aggressive move yet into non-Chinese markets with the Sept.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Yards, Covent Garden brand store, located at 125 Long Acre, St Martin’s Courtyard, London WC2E 9AA, is the first Salomon flagship store in the United-Kingdom and measures 3,628 sq ft. This central London location is known for launching premium concepts and being home to sector-leading brands. – 7 p.m., and on Sundays from 12 a.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

Once an item is purchased, the seller will receive a prepaid shipping label to send it to its next owner. The process is designed to reduce the retailers’ environmental footprints and reduce the need to handle the logistics of shipping items to a third-party warehouse.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

The Kohl’s Marketplace already features thousands of products in categories including apparel , fitness , wellness , toys and home. The user experience is seamless within Kohls.com, with marketplace products identified by a badge on the product listing, and items are shipped directly from Kohl’s Marketplace Certified Partners.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

Its retail performance exceeded Moody’s analyst expectations, and margins held up well despite heavy competition from rivals like Walmart , Target and Best Buy , according to Charlie O’Shea, VP at Moody’s. Struggling Apparel Retailers See Hope Online.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

Online fast fashion retailer SHEIN is hosting the latest in its traveling series of pop-up events at San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center from June 24 to 26, 2022. The online resale platform offered Bay Area customers 40% off their first ThredUP purchase and free shipping if they pledged not to shop the SHEIN pop-up event.

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2024

Unspun’s mission is to have 3D weaving machines at microsites across the US, with a target of 350 machines in operation by 2030. At first glance, the 3D-woven chino will appear identical to a traditionally manufactured pair, however, several aspects can be obtained only by 3D weaving.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2020

Industry is working to develop and document standardized methods to describe raw material attributes for apparel and general merchandise. If every single order gets shipped in an individual box, inefficiencies abound. Order Consolidation.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2023

Individuals and companies are finding that they can apply the lens of sustainability to virtually any part of their operations — from the raw materials used to make products to how those products are packed for shipping to handling the waste that comes from unsold food.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Macy’s has joined a number of other major retailers — including Walmart , Kohl’s and JCPenney — in the Fanatics club after announcing a new partnership with the online sports merchandise retailer to increase its own online assortment of fan apparel 20X , according to multiple sources.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2021

customers return any Timberland footwear, apparel or accessory to a Timberland store to either be repaired or refurbished. A ship-from-home option will launch later in the summer, and the overall program will expand to the EMEA region in fall 2021 and the APAC region in spring 2022. Starting in August 2021, ReCircled will let U.S.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Detroit-based company launched Xpress Ship, a new feature that shortens the shipping time for verified items to three business days. Under the Xpress Ship program, products are sent to an authentication centre, where they go through a multi-step verification process.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2024

The crux of the issue lies in how revenue is recognized: most ecommerce platforms record revenue based on the sale date, not the ship date, contradicting Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which require specific treatment of revenue recognition. We have witnessed these challenges firsthand at Crew Finance.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Logistics and returns management company Shiperoo has tapped Catch co-founders Gabby and Hezi Leibovich to lead its new direct-to-consumer platform that focuses on selling returned items at discounted prices. Store categories include apparel, electronics, footwear, homeware, and beauty.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While retail presence is shrinking in many big cities, apparel retailers’ brick-and-mortar locations are actually growing overall — just with a different approach. A downtown location in a major city might stock a larger apparel section, while a store on a college campus might carry quick-and-easy meals or dorm room necessities.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

Payment and shipping details are prepopulated using the customer’s Roku Pay information, allowing the order to be placed with the push of a button. Upon purchase completion, the viewer returns to their programming and an email confirmation with shipping and other details is sent directly from the merchant.

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