Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Products shipped cross-border by Chinese online fast-fashion giant Shein have been found to contain toxic chemicals at rates twice the level allowed under EU regulations, according to a report prepared by Greenpeace in Germany. Image: Greenpeace.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With Zara-owner Inditex and H&M set to disclose their most recent sales results, investors will be focused on one major question: how are the two fast-fashion pioneers responding to the current market leader, Shein? Shein accounted for nearly one-fifth of the global fast-fashion market in 2022, outpacing Zara and H&M.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

They are already making sustainable and ethical supply chain decisions with regard to material sourcing and labor, and by layering in data they can also make intelligent decisions about pricing, discounting and future inventories so they can reduce unsold inventory at the end of a season.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

Now in its next global growth phase after successfully entering the US Dessy Hairis, Bydee founder and creative director told Inside Retail , “We are expanding into new markets and have our eyes locked on the UK at the moment.” Whilst we’ve always shipped to the UK, it wasn’t optimised for the customer.” “If

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We’ll look at these key elements of a positive and profitable holiday shopping program that will help you make a meaningful contribution to excellent client outcomes. Your clients’ websites must clearly communicate how inventory can be delivered, arrival time frames, and what different shopping and shipping options cost.

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2024

This was the topic of a panel discussion at the Online Retailer conference in Sydney last week , where five retailers talked about the misplaced fear around artificial intelligence (AI) in the workforce and how it can be used to create effective content. One of the biggest challenges facing the fashion industry today is fast fashion.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2024

It is a technology that uses radio waves to read information stored in an antenna — at retail, this is most commonly placed in a sticker or tag — without requiring physical contact or a line of sight. Especially in this era of fast fashion, most retail products are produced overseas and shipped thousands of miles to their destination.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The rapid rise of fast-fashion e-commerce retailers such as Shein and Temu is upending the global air cargo industry, as they increasingly vie for limited air-cargo space to woo consumers with rapid transit times, more than ten industry sources said. That equates to around 108 Boeing 777 freighters a day, the consultancy said.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

But last week, Selfridges’ owners, the Weston family, appointed Credit Suisse to oversee an auction of their European department store assets, including Selfridges’ four stores in the UK, Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland and De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands, at a starting price of £4 billion (AU$7.56 billion), The Guardian reported.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

Last year’s must-have dress, yesterday’s flares and countless other Western castoffs are strangling the Global South, prompting calls for fast fashion to pay the price for rampant overproduction. “Many of these garments should have been disposed of there, yet they put them into bales and ship them here.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

The Chinese fast fashion giant may be one of the most downloaded fashion apps around the world, but it continues to maintain a low corporate profile. Ask any consumer to name a fast fashion retailer and they probably think of H&M, Zara or Gap. Fast fashion, but slow deliveries. Inclusive fashion.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Supply bottlenecks, slower product deliveries and higher freight and labour costs risk shifting the fast fashion industry into the slow lane, as shown this week by British online fashion retailer Asos. Cheap supplies from Asia have been central to many fast fashion business models.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Groundbreaking at the time, but now sorely outdated, UPCs are finally getting a facelift and moving into the 21st century thanks to the GS1 Sunrise 2027 initiative. And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

People can request a prepaid shipping label from the website and send their clothes to ThredUp for sorting. However, there are a couple of conflicting issues at the intersection of resale and circular fashion and Tommy Hilfiger’s collaboration with ThredUp mentions them on the website. Fast (preloved) fashion.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Sustainability has become a top priority for investors and consumers concerned about the looming climate crisis – and the fashion industry, one of the leading creators of global emissions, is increasingly focused on portraying its green cred. “Investigate how a group is cutting its emissions,” Cummins told Reuters.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Fast fashion retailer Shein is set to open its first permanent store in the world – in Japan’s capital Tokyo. The store, located in the bustling fashion precinct of Harajuku, will open on November 13. However, they cannot purchase on the spot at this store – the products are shipped to their home or office.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

“I think what we’re seeing happen is that people are on mobile, and they’re showing indications of how that behavior is changing with the burden of inflation hitting their wallets,” said Lexi Sydow, Head of Insights at data.ai Well, we know that shipping is still an issue like it was last year. How is that an advantage?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2023

Despite the controversies, the fast-fashion brand has been named one of Gen Z’s favorite brands and one of the fashion industry’s most popular brands. SHEIN’s incredible reach, amplified through influencers, and its focus on creating on-trend items at an extremely rapid pace can be thanked for that.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

“Up to 30 per cent of your sales may end in a return, and up to 50 per cent of an item’s original value makes up the return cost, including shipping, warehousing, and labour costs,” explains Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns. million from customer experience time savings.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

“Up to 30 per cent of your sales may end in a return, and up to 50 per cent of an item’s original value makes up the return cost, including shipping, warehousing, and labour costs,” explains Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns. million from customer experience time savings.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. These include Sweetgreen test kitchen, Van Leeuwen’s homemade ice-creamery, rooftop restaurant Margot with sweeping views of the city and the beautiful Bianca bakery at the base of the car park. Major department store, tick. Supermarket giant, tick. Cinema, tick. Almost every part of the 6.4-hectare

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2022

They head a growing list of retail brands which have already announced actions to end or reduce sales in Russia, including Swedish fast-fashion company H&M, online apparel store Asos, and tech giant Apple. Spanish fast-fashion rival Mango said it would temporarily close its stores and website in Russia.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Mosaic’s department store move isn’t exactly unique in the fashion industry. Boohoo, the British fast fashion giant best known for its bodycon dresses and celebrity collabs, recently launched its first ever homewares collection, including candles, picture frames and bedding. Keeping costs down with drop-ship.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2022

China is Fast Retailing’s biggest foreign market, with 863 stores on the mainland and almost 90 outlets in Shanghai, where stringent lockdown measures, introduced in late March, remain in place to contain the country’s worst outbreak of the pandemic. The company maintained its full-year profit forecast at 270 billion yen.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2022

Co-founder and co-CEO Kirsten Kore says the business is in the “right place at the right time” to capitalise on consumers’ growing interest in sustainable alternatives to fast fashion, such as rental. It has fast-tracked sustainability and circularity – especially within fashion. Focus on customer experience.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. Not only are these retailers fast to market with their trendy designs they are also skilled eCommerce operators. In the 2000s the internet met fast fashion, and a slew of new competitors began to emerge.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

And then she puts all these things all over the floor and she briefs our incredible team of graphic artists; and somehow, they manage to capture that sense of escapism and colour, and that just makes you feel happy to look at it and wear it. A lot of customers prefer a glass of champagne on the sofa and chatting to one of our Angels at home.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

Boasting a large selection of everything from ultra-affordable party dresses to £1 bikinis, this fast fashion e-tailer was the preferred choice of the Love Island cast and everyone who wanted to be on the show or wished to look like those on the show. Disruptions in the supply chain increased the cost of goods and shipping steeply.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

From a consumer perspective, shoppers don’t want to spend top dollar on expensive items when there are better deals they can find at a TJ Maxx, HomeGoods or Marshalls. . With the economy expected to struggle for at least the next 12 to 18 months, an increasing number of full-price consumers are shifting to value-based shopping.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here, we speak with founder Susannah Khouzame about the thinking behind the launch, and what’s next for the fast-growing business. At the end of the day, our retail division has to provide feedback around lost sales, and we got a lot of feedback around boots just not being able to be zipped up in-store.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2023

Like Shein, Temu offers discounted fashion and lifestyle goods, but unlike Shein it sources and ships directly from manufacturers in China. Suppliers can design more personalised products, accurately plan production volumes and efficiently manage warehousing and shipping.

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Independent Retailer

APRIL 19, 2022

A study from 2008 found that you could likely only reduce your emissions by about five percent if you bought local food all the time, and the same can be said for general products found at your local grocers or mom-and-pop shops. Most of that transportation takes place by ship. Second Hand Shopping Gaining Popularity.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Spanish fashion retailer Encuentro Moda is deploying a radio frequency identification solution across its 125 stores, both to meet omnichannel requirements and to gain visibility into the stock availability at each store and throughout the supply chain. When goods are received at a store, sales associates use the !

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Recent improvements to the customer experience, including the ability for lenders to generate shipping labels with Australia Post , and the launch of three-hour delivery for last-minute rentals, have been key to its growth. The post What’s next for Designerex, the Airbnb of fashion rental appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And Nike and Adidas entered the metaverse at full speed. During the year, LSKD opened three physical stores – at Chadstone, Loganholme and Chermside. It is at the front of everyone’s minds, as we are in an incredibly uncertain economic environment. But the most referred to ‘I’ word of late is inflation.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2023

At the start of 2023, France started targeting the country’s biggest fashion companies, which are required to give customers in depth details relating to a product’s environmental characteristics under the Environmental Code, Section 9 : p P ublic information on waste-generating products legislation.

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