A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Millennials and Gen Z shoppers are expected to be the highest returning demographics when it comes to sending back fashion purchases bought on Black Friday this year, according to the latest research by True Fit , the AI-driven platform that decodes size and fit for shoppers and fashion retailers.

Returns

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Indian retail conglomerate Reliance Retail has introduced an app in India to sell Sheins fashion products through a licensing agreement, marking the Chinese brand’s return after a five-year ban due to diplomatic tensions. This stand-alone app will be expected to compete with other fashion retailers like Walmart-owned Myntra.

Returns

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. While a bankruptcy filing isnt certain to happen, its goal would be to find a buyer for Forever 21s remaining U.S.

Fast Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The majority of products offered are priced at $10 or less, with some as low as $1. It’s early days for this experience, and we’ll continue to listen to customers as we refine and expand it in the weeks and months to come.”

Drop-Shipping

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.

Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2025

If you’ve never had someone dress you, you may not realize what an intimate thing it is, said Sarah Funderburk,VP of Styling and Client Support at Stitch Fix in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Were always looking at how we can actually achieve this balance, and not overswing in any one direction.

Returns

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.

Boutique

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Australia and New Zealands leading pureplay online fashion, lifestyle and sporting destination has had a year of evolution; with seemingly smooth transitions overhauling the businesss order warehouse management system (OWMS), building a new B2B platform business and tackling the intricate returns issue.

Returns

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Following his previous stint at Asda Leighton was chair of the Co-op from 2015 to 2024 – and has previously chaired the boards of Royal Mail and the Canal and River Trust. He is currently chair of Brewdog, Pizza Express and European fashion chain C&A. Archie didn’t do it on his own [at M&S], nor can Allan.”

Supermarket

Inside Retail

MAY 14, 2025

Reverse e-commerce, referred to as recommerce, is no longer exclusive to consumers today, brands are trying to figure out how they too can capitalise on the global secondhand fashion market that is expected to hit $367 billion by 2029.

Fashion

Retail Focus

JANUARY 20, 2025

Festive sales at Battersea Power Station increased by 13.4% Fashion sales performed particularly well in lead up to Christmas, growing 11.7% Demonstrating visitors inclination to indulge at Christmas, Vagabond Wines sold over 1,304 cheese fondues in December.

ATS

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As a result, brands are now using Roblox to create incremental revenue opportunities via “twinned” items for users’ physical and avatar selves: 43% of respondents to Roblox’s Digital Expression, Fashion & Beauty Trends report said they want brands to provide such “twinning” items.

Accessories

Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2025

With its theme of Ya (Elegance), EP Yayings Autumn/Winter 2025 collection opened this seasons Shanghai Fashion Week, together with an alluring performance by a traditional Kunqu Opera singer and a guitar soloist. This was Chinas fashion industry, dressed in its cultural inheritance, stepping onto the world stage.

Fashion

Inside Retail

AUGUST 4, 2025

Since it was founded by the former model and fashion designer Jodhi Meares in Sydney in 2000, Tigerlily has changed hands multiple times and undergone two voluntary administrations and two major rebrands. But now, it appears to be returning to its roots. You just knew, because it had such a strong brand positioning,” she said. “It

Returns

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. growth in sales. Fluke or form?

Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2025

At the same time, tariffs are being introduced or expanded in some sectors, adding to the steady climb in digital ad prices, and ecommerce businesses find themselves in a perfect storm of expense. Marketing Efficiency: Doing More with Less Making a return on ad spend (ROAS) is becoming harder to achieve as advertising costs continue to rise.

Social Commerce

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

Introducing tariffs on consumer goods could further escalate prices, reigniting inflation at a time when consumer budgets are already stretched painfully thin. Rishabh Dubeyis an Implementation Manager at Impact Analytics with over nine years of experience in the retail and supply chain industry.

Apparel

Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2025

Here’s a closer look at where this mixed-media world is evolving and what best-in-class brands are doing right. A look at what’s working, what’s next Retailers are beginning to experiment with biometric sensors that can interpret facial expressions and body language to detect a shopper’s emotional state.

ATS

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Online CX Index, a partnership between Inside Retail and Humii, covers the entire website experience through checkout, delivery and even returns, evaluating eight key criteria based on up to 200 data points. The fashion retailer delivers orders about four days faster than competitors, while delivery speed is 2.2

Checkout

Retail Focus

DECEMBER 9, 2024

True Fit , the leading AI-driven solution that decodes size and fit for shoppers and fashion retailers, has announced its certification as a Shopify Plus Certified App Partner, helping fashion retailers selling on Shopify leverage AI-size and -fit recommendations to power conversions, improve customer lifetime value (CLV) and reduce returns.

Merchant Services

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

On the back end, retailers can employ gen AI to help recognize patterns in customer shopping history and use it to support the crafting of personalized emails at scale. This saves marketing teams tons of time, allowing them to simply edit and approve pre-written content and send personalized promotions at scale.

Accessories

Retail Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

You can unsubscribe at anytime. Published June 24, 2025 By Michael Brady post share post print email license A return of a Shein item leveraging UPS' Happy Returns occurs at a Forever 21 location. Permission granted by Happy Returns First published on Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated.

Returns

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

With a target of 5 billion in annual revenue, it raised handbag prices beyond 2000 and adopted a positioning that aimed to compete with the highest and most elite fashion houses. At first, this strategy appeared super promising. Burberry gained a lot of traction with high-net-worth, fashion-forward clientele.

Fashion

Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

featured speakers such as Beatrice de Quinsonas Drouas, Director of Research at BPCE Solutions Immobilires; Mathieu de Mallman, Global Head of Retail and Healthcare at AXA IM ALTS; Eric Decouvelaere, Head of EMEA Urban Destinations at CBRE Investors Management; and Romain Muller, Head of Investment Management Retail at Union Investment.

Marketing

Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2025

Inefficient delivery routes and services drive up the environmental impact and undermine any efforts the retailer may be making at sustainability. Mecca and Nike are two such examples delivering a unique and engaging in-store experience while offering fast and accurate ordering and online returns.

Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

With COVID-19 cases dropping in 2022, shoppers returned to physical stores, including supermarkets, while maintaining some of their e-shopping habits acquired in the pandemic. Using creators to market a holiday destination, makeup or fashion brand seems intuitive, given the products’ glamorous or experiential nature.

Shopping

Retail Gazette

APRIL 24, 2025

The online fashion giant’s chief executive Jos Antonio Ramos Calamonte said the retailer had spent two years rebuilding the product assortment of Topshop before moving ahead with relaunch plans. We havent ruled out anything. Asos bought Topshop, along with Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT, out of administration in 2021 for 295m.

Wholesale

Retail Focus

JANUARY 20, 2025

Braintree Village has announced that global fashion house Coach, will be joining its retail line-up this Spring. Coach is a global fashion house founded in New York in 1941. The 2,260 sq ft store will be located opposite the South Entrance and will be the first standalone Coach store in the region.

ATS

Inside Retail

APRIL 9, 2025

Bigger isnt always best in retail, Steve Cohen, executive general manager of performance and lifestyle at Accent Group, told Inside Retail. Cohen returned just last week from a trip to South Koreas Seoul and Japans Tokyo, where he was looking at whats next in fashion and the Glue Stores new creative direction.

Fashion

Retail Gazette

APRIL 30, 2025

Topshop is stepping back into physical retail with a one-day-only pop-up event next month in Shoreditch, ahead of a wider high street return teased for this summer. The event, created in collaboration with house music label Defected Records, will take place on Saturday 10 May at Defecteds basement space on Curtain Road, Shoreditch.

Returns

Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

Denim and preppiness with a professional edge are ruling the fashion world, especially for millennials, who were then in their junior high, high school, college, and first-job years. Since Dicksons debut at the company, however, Gap brands have adopted more focused and intentional strategies for assortment, discounting and pricing.

Fashion

Inside Retail

JULY 2, 2025

This idea we have all heard time and time again that fashion retail is all about trend cycles and glossy campaigns is fading – and fast. If the latest BoF Insights and Amazon Fashion data from Europe’s five largest markets (EU5) tells us anything, it’s that our customers no longer want to be impressed, they want to be understood.

Fashion

Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2025

Example: A national fashion retailer implemented a new in-store appointment system to reduce wait times for personal styling. Redirecting efforts into express checkout lanes and self-service kiosks led to a 40 per cent reduction in wait times and a 15 per cent lift in customer return rates.

Returns

Inside Retail

JULY 2, 2025

Luxury menswear retailer Harrolds has made its return this month with the opening of a new flagship store at Westfield Sydney. ” is led by directors Zia Khorram, Gino Pagano, and Arasch Enayat, who bring various experiences across fashion, retail operations, and brand strategy.

Fashion

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

. “Priceline’s relentless innovation and continued efforts to refine its digital and physical retail offering have positioned it at the forefront of the Australian market not just as a pharmacy but a leading omnichannel shopping destination for consumers,” said the judges.

Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

Key Goal: Extending the Product Lifecycle Goodwills operations allow it to take in and manage returns but also to identify items that can easily be resold. One Canadian retailer has Goodwill accept returns on its behalf, with customers then getting a voucher to shop for a new product with the retailer.

Fast Fashion

Retail Wire

MAY 27, 2025

“At David’s, we believe every bride deserves a magical experience and it starts the moment she walks into one of our stores,” saidKelly Cook, CEO of David’s Bridal. These extras are not traditionally offered at local David’s Bridal retailers.

Accessories