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Goodwill Shutters Online Marketplace GoodwillFinds

Retail TouchPoints

Complicated Competitive Dynamics GoodwillFinds.com was launched in October 2022 in a bid by the 120 -year-old thrift store chain to grab a larger piece of the growing online resale market. You can also keep supporting Goodwill by shopping at your local Goodwill store.

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Urban Outfitters Launches New Platform for Vintage and Upcycled Apparel

Retail TouchPoints

“Vintage + Remade turns the scarcity of well-made, high-quality vintage pieces into a surplus through our collaborations with vetted curators, upcyclers and artists,” said Cyntia Leo, Head of Brand at Urban Outfitters in comments shared with Retail TouchPoints.

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From Unwanted to Pre-Loved: the Branding Lessons from Poshmark and Mercari

Retail TouchPoints

shoppers have purchased secondhand items at a lower cost, with the added benefit of ensuring clothing gets a new lease of life and avoids landfills. With the sector valued at $43.9 What were previously unwanted and undesirable items dumped at a thrift store have become valued as pre-loved items, full of potential for their next owner.

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Gen Z Australians still prefer boutiques to online for fashion

Inside Retail

Physical stores are still preferred to online channels among Gen Z Aussies when it comes to shopping for fashion. per cent of respondents said they want to buy clothes on online marketplaces such as Depop or Facebook.

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Superdry opens at London landmark, Battersea Power Station

Retail Focus

ft store on the ground floor, joining the first tranche of over 100 shops, bars, restaurants, and leisure venues, including other leading retail names such as lululemon, Uniqlo and Mango, as well as designer favourites, Hugo Boss, Mulberry and Ralph Lauren. Superdry opened its 5,676 sq.

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Japan’s luxury secondhand sector gains popularity as tourism booms

Inside Retail

Entering the US in 2018, 2nd Street had 43 stores in the country at the end of November. Besides the US, the company currently operates stores in Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand.

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To Speed Expansion, Resale Marketplace GoodwillFinds adds Walmart, Office Depot Execs to C-Suite

Retail TouchPoints

GoodwillFinds — the new resale marketplace from nonprofit thrift store chain Goodwill — has added two retail veterans to its C-suite and onboarded three new Goodwill member organizations (representing more than 50 retail stores) to the platform. Genest previously held roles at Modcloth , Walmart U.S.