Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Fashion brands are leveraging pop-ups to create buzz, showcase limited-edition collections and connect with customers in immersive, high-energy environments. Brands must also ensure permitted use and zoning laws allow for retail and promotional events, especially during high-traffic periods like New York Fashion Week.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2025

Even in an industry accustomed to a rapid pace of change like fashion manufacturing and retailing, AI is racing by like the Road Runner speeding past a desert mesa. Weve been learning more about what categories we can execute at what price point. That makes things both challenging and exciting for early AI adopters.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2024

They’ve been shaped/scarred by not one but two global economic traumas — the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the COVID pandemic — and they’ve grown up with social media playing an increasingly large (and loud) role in shaping culture, including how these consumers shop, research and purchase products and services. What are you listening to?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

Since its founding in 1999, Iroo has set itself apart in the fashion sector by offering new collections weekly rather than following the industrys standard seasonal drop. Inside Retail : How has the Taiwanese fashion market changed since Iroo’s inception? IR: Which markets do you see as the most promising?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Each year, more than 200,000 tonnes of clothing are discarded into Australian landfills , primarily influenced by the fast fashion model, according to a recent study by Professor Alice Payne from RMIT’s School of Fashion & Textiles. They’re more likely to donate the clothing they’re no longer wearing.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Traditionally, consumers bought them to get the benefit of wearing a near-enough copy of a luxury item they desired without having to sell a kidney to pay for it. Many shoppers, particularly younger consumers, see buying dupes as markers of frugal cool, and revel in their ability to find a bargain that has the look and feel of the real thing.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

Target has partnered with Kate Spade New York to create an extensive limited-time collection of more than 300 fashion, home and entertaining products. Launching April 12, more than half the collection will be priced at $15 or less, with prices starting at $5.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The Sussan Group, the retail collective behind women’s fashion brands Sportsgirl, Sussan and Suzanne Grae, is incorporating “responsible fibres” into its supply chain and investing in futuristic pilot projects, such as making a compostable T-shirt, as it looks to increase consumer awareness of its sustainability initiatives.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Most recently, when fashion and accessories retailer Primark unveiled its 450 th store worldwide at the Florida Mall in Orlando, it announced it would have an entire floor dedicated to its growing partnership with Disney — a new kind of experience for the blossoming retailer, although certainly not the last.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

-based operator of Forever 21 is preparing to close at least 200 of its approximately 350 stores in preparation for a potential bankruptcy, Bloomberg reports, citing people with knowledge of the matter. During her tenure she made a concerted effort to refresh the brand with a focus on younger consumers and enhanced omnichannel capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The fashion rental platform marks its 15 th anniversary this year, and to celebrate it has introduced a new brand platform — “Own Nothing, Have Everything” — aimed at reshaping how consumers think about fashion.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2025

Retail is at a tipping point in Australia. Global geopolitics are making Australia look like an attractive market, but retailers are continuing to grapple with huge shifts in consumer behaviour as well as technological change. These evolving consumer expectations are a key driver behind the changes happening in retail.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 8, 2025

Fewer orders, bigger baskets Although total orders were down by 15% compared to 2023, the higher AOV demonstrated consumers willingness to spend more strategically and free shipping thresholds, loyalty programmes, and bundle offers encouraged shoppers to increase basket sizes.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Let’s look closer at how these companies, currently trading at 30 per cent plus growth rates, are reshaping the retail landscape: 1. This seamless, integrated customer experience has redefined Australian consumers’ expectations, making it harder for traditional retailers to compete with their slower and more costly fulfilment methods.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2024

High-profile fashion collaborations are nothing new, but does making luxury accessible and marketing it to a younger audience come at a cost? Over the years Bitmoji has partnered with many fashion brands, including Ralph Lauren and Levis. There is no chatter about it on Reddit at all, just stony silence.”

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

US thrift giant Savers has opened two new megastores in Australia this year, and the “Got it at Vinnies” campaign is transforming charity shops into trendy vintage hotspots. It feels like every other Instagram story is about someone’s latest thrifted finds – at least on my feed. And it’s not just Gen Z and millennials who are into it.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Between the tariff tug-of-war, flailing markets, insanely high egg prices and general twitchiness (as one strategist put it), consumers have gotten a bit hard to nail down lately. In fact, AI was held at a pleasant distance at the annual retail conference, which kicked off Tuesday in Las Vegas. One thing is clear its not AI.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Secondhand wedding, bridesmaid and special occasion dresses, along with accessories, will be available through a curated, dedicated online storefront at 40% to 50% savings. David’s Bridal has introduced Adored by David’s , a resale program that will be managed by Arrive Recommerce.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Hot on the heels of being named the Australian Fashion Laureates Emerging Designer of the Year, Gabriella Pereira this month opened the doors to the first physical retail concept this month for her label Beare Park. My legacy is about creating things that last and are loved, not just consumed. GP: Interestingly, no.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

While policymakers often champion tariffs as a mechanism to protect domestic industries, their ripple effects are far-reaching, inflating costs, disrupting supply chains and, ultimately, burdening consumers. Price-sensitive products suffered a drop in demand as consumers struggled to shoulder the rising cost of tariff-stricken goods.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Here, we speak with #2, Babyboo’s founder and director, Argylica Conditsis, about the challenge of staying relevant in the fashion industry for more than a decade, her proudest accomplishment in the last year and what it will take to grow online in 2025. When the customers win, the business wins, too.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Nagnata is a premium Australian fashion and lifestyle brand designed for modern movement, including pilates, yoga and dance and studio-to-street style. Laura May Gibbs: Nagnata was founded with the vision to contribute to a more sustainable business model within the fashion industry.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Over the last week there has been a raft of updates from fashion retailers, from Primark to M&S. The results have highlighted the different strategies fashion retailers are deploying to stay ahead in a fragmented and challenging market. For the year ending 1 September, it posted a full-year loss of £379m, up from a £296.7m

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These new second-screen shopping experiences will be powered by Shopsense AI, which offers an AI-driven retail media platform that allows consumers to shop while consuming content. Etalk, Canadas longest running entertainment news program, will unveil a shoppable experience that features accessible fashion inspired by celebrities.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

Searches for Coachella start spiking at the beginning of the year on Pinterest and nearly half of those searches are driven by Gen Z, said Sara Pollack, VP of Global Consumer Marketing at Pinterest in a statement. This gives us an early peek into what trends are likely to pop this festival season.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2025

Sydney-based fashion brand One Mile was founded by Sammy Robinson in 2020 after a collaboration with another brand sparked the desire to have her own label. One Mile made its runway debut at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week 2022 with its Resort ’23 collections.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

and European retailers have observed – and, often, participated in – the social-commerce explosion happening in China and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) while wondering if, when, and to what extent the same thing would happen at home. Cultivating KOCs (key opinion consumers, a.k.a. For the last half decade, U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The goal, according to Allison Peterson, Chief Retail & Digital Officer at Carters, is to connect with the next generation of families while doubling down on the issues (like sustainability) that the business has prioritized for years. Peterson: Our reimagined retail experience is fully captured at Carters first-ever flagship in Atlanta.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Frasers Group has warned the Budget has “spooked” consumer confidence as it prepares for its tax bill to rise £50m next year from changes to employers’ National Insurance contributions. The retail giant’s CFO Chris Wootton noted that consumer sentiment has “definitely weakened pre- and post-Budget”. “It’s

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Active and lifestyle fashion brand Fabletics is expanding into Mexico through a partnership with Liverpool , an omnichannel retail group that has more than 177 years of operating experience in the country. Through this partnership with Liverpool, the brand is now able to meet the needs of the Mexican consumer.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2025

consumers returned $890 billion in merchandise in 2024, equaling 16.9% For more insights on how to prevent at least some returns from occurring in the first place, as well as strategies for mitigating the negative impact of the returns that do happen, check out the full report, Rethinking Returns: How to Tackle the Inevitable.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

Taking place from 4 th to 6 th April at Westfield London, followed by Westfield Stratford City from 11 th to 13 th April, the event is expected to draw over 300,000 visitors across both weekends rivalling the footfall typically seen on Boxing Day at the centres. Spanning 4.2

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2025

To date, only three UK retailers have ever made it into the 1bn profit club – and fashion giant Next has just become the fourth member. In fact, the retail boss seems to downplay that Next is only one of two fashion retailers to ever hit the prestigious 1bn threshold. So how is Next looking for growth next? growth in sales.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Located at Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne, the 250sqm flagship offers Gentle Monster’s full range of product and experience to Australian consumers. Gentle Monster represents innovation and disruption in the fashion eyewear category that we are confident the Australian consumer will embrace,” added Ngadiman.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After failing to find a buyer, Dion Lee is set to leave the Australian fashion scene. Rosanna Iacono, fashion industry expert and CEO of strategy consultancy The Growth Activists, said that without apparent potential, a transaction is unlikely.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Located at the BLVD , a new retail and entertainment destination in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, this is the global sports brand’s second U.S. consumers and international visitors alike,” Freundt said in a statement. “I

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Australian fashion label delivers a unique in-store retail experience. A runner waits at the ready to collect each customers selections from the stock room ensuring fresh garments await their try-on in the change room. We’ve got another space that we’re looking at in Sydney and Melbourne, that is moving quite fast.

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