Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

We sat down with leading retail finance experts from The Reject Shop, Forever New, Taking Shape and Vinomofo to find out. Clinton Cahn, CEO of The Reject Shop, noted that there has been a rise in demand for everyday essential items, whereas its discretionary range showed a drop-off in demand, which affected margins.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite having just officially begun, this holiday shopping season already is marked by supply chain disruption, persistent inflation and mixed consumer confidence. Holiday shopping insights from the Adobe Digital Economy Index predict that ecommerce will become even more ubiquitous, with U.S.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The shopping cart has some extra treats this season. drop in orders using expedited shipping. Growing Role of Generative AI in Holiday Shopping Adobe Analytics notes a significant rise in holiday traffic driven by Generative AI sources, which has increased tenfold from July to September. billion this season, an 8.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

With more people returning to in-store shopping as the pandemic has eased, brands are leaning into the phygital trend by designing physical stores that reflect popular elements of the online experience. Likewise, physical clothing stores for online powerhouse Amazon re-create the convenience of digital shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

When it debuted back in 2010, Wish was the only game in town as far as manufacturer-direct discount shopping apps went. But times have changed dramatically in the 13 intervening years: Temu , which debuted just last September, is now the top shopping app in the U.S., Reducing shopping and shipping friction.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Now, industry reports point to the possibility that the traditional Thanksgiving weekend — filled with frenzied shoppers in crowded stores and shopping malls — could be gone for good. As we’re experiencing that second wave of the virus and more closures, if anything, the pendulum will continue to swing in favor of digital and online shopping.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2021

The platform launched two months later with vetted sellers across a set of targeted categories including apparel, home, beauty and accessories. Most retailers manage this through some form of seller vetting process. In the case of Lands’ End , which launched its marketplace in March 2021, sellers can apply via an online form.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2024

For example, many consumers associated memberships with access, either through unique benefits, physical locations or even product drops. “A Birchbox gave more consumers access to luxury beauty products at a fraction of the price, while BarkBox promised dog parents (and their furry counterparts) a new toy and treat combo every month.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Mosaic Brands is seeing positive results from the implementation of a digital department store strategy across several of its core apparel brands, including Noni B, Rivers, Millers and Katies. Keeping costs down with drop-ship. It is working well across all brands as it is exciting our customers,” Evans told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

Consumers expect convenient, interactive shopping experiences, from online to in-store and everything in between. This year, 3D and AR adoption is expected to be one of the biggest trends for providing next-gen ecommerce experiences, especially for apparel and footwear brands looking to bring the physical world to digital shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

During its launch week, timed to coincide with NBA All-Star 2024, the NBPA metaverse space will feature daily limited-edition merchandise drops from brands founded by, invested in, respected or endorsed by NBPA members (known as “F.I.R.E Inside the virtual Brotherhood Deli. JD Sports and Jordan Brand Create Co-Branded Pop-Up Store On Feb.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

For example, consumers shopping for apparel and accessories frequently use in-store and online returns and deem these options to be very important (55%). Due to the coronavirus, retailers saw a drop in returns abuse in the early part of 2020, driven primarily by the drop in transactions overall.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

But contrary to pandemic-era predictions, it turns out people still want to shop in stores, and a swath of data privacy crackdowns have brought many of these rising stars back down to Earth. Three companies in the space — intimates brand ThirdLove , Shopify aggregator Win Brands Group and apparel brand U.S. pointed out.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 25, 2022

Although Omicron may have dampened New Year spending, ABS figures show the end of coronavirus lockdowns, Black Friday sales and early Christmas shopping led to record retail spending in November. . Australian Bureau of Statistics data for November shows retail turnover jumped 7.3 per cent, following rises of 4.9 per cent in October and 1.3

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Retail Focus

JUNE 9, 2023

Modern shopping is a blend of digital and in-person experiences – from online stores and social media to in-person events and bricks-and-mortar high streets. Today, Gymshark sells its fitness apparel direct-to-customer in almost 200 countries, and has translated its website into 13 languages to support its international growth.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The thought was, if you can get people shopping online on BFCM for some crazy deal, you can make them repeat customers. But now just about everyone who would shop online is shopping online already.”. WSL is known for its consumer surveys, especially its How America Shops research.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

For the uninitiated, Kicks Crew is an e-commerce marketplace for sneakers, apparel and accessories, and it offers over 400,000 unique styles online and ships worldwide. Whether you’re in the United States or APAC, a Yeezy drop is going to create demand and will bind global styles together,” pointed out Yip.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

For the uninitiated, Kicks Crew is an e-commerce marketplace for sneakers, apparel and accessories, and it offers over 400,000 unique styles online and ships worldwide. Whether you’re in the United States or APAC, a Yeezy drop is going to create demand and will bind global styles together,” pointed out Yip.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 25, 2022

Trademarked Amazon US FBA Workout Apparel. This Trademarked Amazon US FBA Workout Apparel business generates 98% of its revenue from Amazon. The products are the highest quality in the category with an activewear brand utilizing a trade secret technology to offer unique workout apparel with only a 6% return rate.

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Wiser

APRIL 7, 2020

Alternatively, if you’re in the apparel or accessories industry, there is immense pressure to sell your items while they are still on-trend. Markdowns differ from sales and discounts because they tend to be permanent, whereas sales and discounts are temporary price drops that create urgency for customers to buy now.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Online shopping is gaining more momentum around the globe, with a growing number of new companies using social media platforms and marketplaces to launch their novelties. The outdoor retailer began to reopen shops that launched zero-contact bike shop services, virtual events, and a pilot program for virtual outfitting.

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Domestic-made apparel is also on the rise, and with California’s Senate Bill 62 , the Garment Worker Protection Act, this could be the key to a healthy comeback for the nation’s apparel sector. Starfish with Oval Cat’s Eye Drop Earrings. Consumers want products that are made in the U.S., and big brands are catching on.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But in 2020 Marks & Spencer opened up its website to outside apparel brands. Marks & Spencer has said it started out with third party brands flowing through its distribution network but it is planning to give sellers the flexibility to use a drop ship model where the brand holds onto its inventory and fulfills the order itself. “M&S’s

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

Many categories were wildly up, most notably Apparel which was up 727% vs the same month last year. Um and shop for apparel. [3:41] Um and shop for apparel. [3:41] Apparel had the greatest comp month in the history of apparel since someone like invented the first fur to put on the naked guy.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 19, 2022

All sellers pay referral fees (a percentage of the total price, shipping cost, and any gift-wrapping charges) — those will not change when the new fees hit on January 17, 2023. Since nearly 60 percent of the items sold on the marketplace come from third-party sellers, this increase is going to impact many different businesses. .

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Retail Geek

MARCH 15, 2024

So they became familiar to millions of Americans with the Shop Like a Billionaire ad that ran in the Super Bowl in 2023. 6:36] They’ve been the most downloaded shopping apps on the Android and Apple app stores since they were born. For an idea of size, about 18% of US households have shopped at TeamView since its launch.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

How, when, and where the customer prefers to experience their product fulfillment affects the sourcing and shipping decisions. In fact, recent McKinsey industry research found that when delivery (fulfillment) times are too long, almost half of consumers will shop elsewhere. Customer preference (fulfillment). Why is this happening?

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Jason: [2:00] Social shopping exactly and so it’s super interesting and they’re doing really well so they launched an e-commerce site in the u.s. Extraordinarily inexpensive apparel and you know inexpensive tchotchkes that you probably didn’t know you need but like if you start browsing the side it for a.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

Those boxes will then be shipped back to the retailers where the products originated, in the never-ending ebb and flow of goods sold-shipped-returned-resold that is commerce today. If you’re 25 years old, your relationship with ecommerce is fundamentally different than if you grew up shopping in stores.

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Store Growers

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Last Updated on February 22, 2023 When you’re shopping online, what’s the first thing that catches your attention? This image is displayed to customers in two ways: In Shopping Ads (along with the title and price), and as a product image in free listings. 100 x 100 pixels Apparel images: min. jpeg) WebP (.webp)

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 20, 2021

Apparel is in the biggest recovery, up 63%. 30:21] Severe uncertainty about the holiday and I think everything we talked about for ship again in last year’s going to be worse this year. US Dept of Commerce Data. In July retail sales were up 13.3% from previous July (down 1.1% from June). Year to Date sales were up 21.1%

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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

This powerful platform lets merchants manage, modify, and adjust their ecommerce shops across Google’s various services, such as Google Shopping, Ads, My Business, etc. However, the platform can extract this data and stop showing them in free listings and Shopping ads. How to fix it?

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 21, 2022

So since we didn’t get to do that at shop at NRF I thought maybe we could do it on this podcast for our listeners. Scot: [2:42] Yeah that sounds good and then I know you always put together a little for your clients kind of the summary deck and I know that’s hard for our podcast listeners so do you have a way to solve that.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

6:44] Super exciting a revolutionary to anyone that’s used to shopping in the US but e-commerce is a pretty interesting Battle Ground Amazon is not the incumbent there’s a Marketplace you know well Mercado Libre that, really focuses on Latin America.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Jason: [48:08] Just on the shop pay thing them being on Facebook isn’t that interesting to me but it what it signals is right so. Like an industry-standard estimate what what you do have you know again think about this December had a weird or shape than ever before it was way more e-commerce n trick.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

drop in 2020. “It’s The other complicating factor is you’ve got consumers who are incredibly aware of the supply chain, inventory and shipping challenges that are out there. We appreciate the physical experience of brick-and-mortar and the value of shopping in-store. Overall sales were up 8.5% 1 through Dec.

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