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.

Fast Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2025

economy may not have officially entered a recession, but consumers are nonetheless navigating rising prices, dwindling savings and a near-constant stream of financial anxiety. Now, with the onset of widespread global tariffs, consumer confidence has hit its second-lowest point since 1952. are up 10% since February.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Underlying impacts The partnership between Reliance Retail and Shein represents a significant shift in India’s fashion landscape, with several key implications for both businesses and consumers. The company estimates the fast fashion segment to reach $50 billion by FY31.

Returns

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

She led a brand refresh for the fast fashion retailer, focusing on younger consumers with a social-media-first approach to customer engagement. Co-founder Thomas Vellios will continue as Chairman of the Five Below board and work with the executive team to drive the retailers strategic priorities.

Social Commerce

Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

With the marketplace model now driving Debenhams’ growth, Boohoo hopes this fresh approach can turn around not just Debenhams, but its other brands, including the host of struggling fast fashion brands which once were the group’s driving force Boohoo, PrettyLittleThing, and Boohoo Man.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2025

High-profile brands like Dion Lee and Mosaic Brands closed their doors, and IMGs departure from Australian Fashion Week disrupted the sector. Rising operational costs, increased global competition, and shifting consumer behaviours are among the contributing factors. Supports sustainability by reducing freight and consumables.

Fashion

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

Consumer

Inside Retail

JULY 22, 2025

While fast fashion is synonymous with ‘buy, wear a couple of times, and throw it away’, that assumes the buyer will actually wear an item at least once or twice. Further reading: Vestiaire Collective founder Fanny Moizant on the rise of pre-loved luxury The post To fix fast fashion, we must confront the consumer.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 4, 2025

However, after several years of diminishing sales in an increasingly competitive fast-fashion market, rumors have been spreading about Forever 21 declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time. Basically, the competitive bar is now set a lot higher in fast fashion, and Forever 21 has had trouble getting over 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. Here’s what some of the leading minds in retail say consumers need now. One thing is clear its not AI.

Consumer

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2025

Retail is undergoing a generational shift, and at the center of it is a powerful and misunderstood consumer: Gen Z. According to recent research, more than 75% of Gen Z consumers prefer to shop in physical stores to interact with products and share the experience with friends. However, Gen Z doesn’t shop like their predecessors.

Social Commerce

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“We are seeing a fundamental shift in search marketing dynamics and the fast fashion brands are now outbidding the traditional retailers, and it does look like their strategies are a lot more aggressive,” she said.

Marketing

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Once regarded as a have to for those on tight budgets, purchasing pre-loved items has now evolved into a mainstream retail trend, fuelled by a combination of psychological drivers and shifting consumer values. As a result, consumers are turning and looking to second-hand shopping as a more sustainable alternative to fast fashion.

Shopping

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The results have highlighted the different strategies fashion retailers are deploying to stay ahead in a fragmented and challenging market. From agile inventory models to premium positioning, each retailer has its own distinctive plan to drive growth amid shifting consumer behaviours, economic pressures, and rising competition.

Fashion

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A notable gap is apparent, though, between values and actions, as many still shop frequently on fast-fashion platforms like Shein. Monitor emerging platforms to stay ahead of shifts in consumer behaviour. Engage in meaningful dialogues with consumers to foster loyalty and trust.

Social Commerce

Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

The executive said the company sees the European aesthetic as a blend of timeless sophistication and subtle individuality and consumers tend to value longevity in design, quiet luxury and a clear brand identity. Europe is at the heart of the global fashion industry, home to three major fashion capitals and a rich tradition of art and fashion.

Fashion

Inside Retail

JULY 15, 2025

And so began his first role at Topshop and a storied career that now sees him in the role of president of Primark US, the Irish fast-fashion chain, which last year turned over US$12.9 However, US consumers have been conditioned to look for deals. billion globally, and where he has worked two decades. “It’s

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2025

Zara – Nanjing, China Inditex-owned fast-fashion retailer Zara opened a key Asia-focussed store in Nanjing’s CBD, as part of its retail network revitalisation strategy. China remains a key market for Spain-based Zara, despite increasing competition from local brands and a broader slowdown in consumer spending.

Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2025

Hays: In both my personal and professional opinion, luxury has always been more sustainable than mass market fashion, and certainly fast fashion, in part because the luxury market can procure more expensive materials.

Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

Were increasingly over-consuming, largely due to fast fashion, so we need solutions for textiles, Kobe noted. We need recyclers that have this big technology where they can take our clothing and break it down to create new versions of fibers and create a new product for a market.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2025

But what makes Francesca more than just another direct-to-consumer brand is its multilayered approach to growth. Today, Francescas evergreen pieces, like their stacking bracelets, represent the kind of brand longevity most fast-fashion jewellery houses envy. So we solved that problem. On the surface, it’s sleek ecommerce.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2025

Here, we speak with #6, Babyboo co-owner and managing director Will Conditsis, about balancing rapid growth and profitability and repositioning the brand from ‘fast-fashion’ to ‘premium’ He also shares the top profession al skill he would still like to develop.

Fast Fashion

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Do consumers really care? Despite the fact that surveys are regularly wheeled out purporting to show that sustainability is important to consumers in the purchasing decision, the purchasing behaviour itself seems to contradict that. Lululemon is pumping out strong revenue growth, particularly internationally.

Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Zara’s “Pre-Owned” platform enables shoppers to sell, repair or donate pre-owned clothing, Net-a-Porter allows consumers to buy and resell secondhand designer items, and Patagonia’s “Worn Wear” program even allows shoppers to trade-in pre-loved products to buy new items. Many shoppers are aware of the negative impact.

Thrift Store

Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

The fast fashion brands saw a 21% drop in sales from 1.2bn to 94m year-on-year. Weve created a thriving community of brand partners with millions of consumers and we are growing rapidly. The iconic British heritage brand, bought out of administration, has been successfully turned around.

Department Stores

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2025

Fashion always has been a part of the Ebay mix; in fact, in 2024 nearly 40% of all the clothing, shoes and accessories sold on the platform were listed as pre-loved, and global users searched for vintage items more than 1,200 times per minute. The supply is there, as is the consumer demand.

Fashion

Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2025

Most consumers wont go out of their way to hunt for secondhand gems, but they will browse a well-placed, beautifully merchandised pop-up while shopping for new items. Integrating resale into malls meets shoppers where they already are, making circular fashion convenient and enjoyable. Consumer response. The racks are set.

Fashion

Retail Gazette

JUNE 10, 2025

rise in first-quarter sales to €8.27bn (£7.3bn), falling short of analyst expectations of €8.36bn, as the fast-fashion giant faces a more cautious consumer environment. Zara owner Inditex reported a 1.5% The Spanish retailer ’s revenue growth slowed compared with the same period last year, which saw sales increase by 7%.

Net Profit

Retail Gazette

MARCH 19, 2025

GlobalData senior apparel analyst Pippa Stephens explained: “Sheins meteoric rise has subsequently taken share away from other fast fashion online pureplays, especially Asos and boohoo.com, which have seen their sales plummet over the past few years. percentage point drop in market share from 3.0%

Fashion

Retail Gazette

JUNE 13, 2025

Inditex has been increasing investment behind its Lefties brand for the last couple of years in a bid to compete with its rapidly growing fast fashion rivals such as Shein. It comes after the Spanish fashion giant saw first quarter sales edge up 1.5% and delivered a net profit of £1.16bn, up marginally year-on-year.

Net Profit

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The digital marketing funnel from search to consideration to purchase is fragmenting into exploration across more varied digital channels, making it more challenging to capture a consumers attention and lead them where we want them to go. While not a hard and fast rule, AI tools tend to go for the more established brand over the upstart.

Consumer

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2025

This growth is being driven by accelerated consumer adoption, with 58% of consumers saying they shopped for secondhand apparel in 2024, an all-time high for the survey. Amid consumer wallet share challenges, people are being more discerning, looking for value, and that’s what resale is offering.

Apparel

Inside Retail

APRIL 9, 2025

Enabled by the e-commerce explosion and accelerated by Covid-era consumption, this loophole helped supercharge the rise of ultra-fast fashion giants. They bypassed traditional supply chains, shipping individual parcels directly to consumers and often avoiding scrutiny from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

While this has always been true, today, assortment planning is complicated further by three key influences: rapid shifts in consumer behavior, heightened competition from e-commerce giants, and ongoing supply chain disruptions. Assortment planning in retail is a careful balance between inventory and demand influenced by external factors.

Planning

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

This exemption has become a cornerstone for companies like Shein, Temu and Amazon Haul, enabling them to ship vast quantities of inexpensive goods directly to American consumers. Under the existing rule, individual shipments valued at less than US$800 are allowed to enter the US duty-free, with minimal inspections. per cent (US$228.3

Net Profit

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

Retaliation Likely Despite Secretary Bessents Warning In the meantime, businesspeople of all stripes, from farmers to retailers (not to mention consumers), are panicking at the realization of how much this will increase costs in the short term. Does Closing of De Minimis Loophole Signal the End of Fast Fashion? tariff-free.

Apparel

Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2025

As businesses globally fret about sky-high US tariffs reviving rampant inflation, in Australia, the redirection of cheap Chinese goods is expected to provide relief for consumers and policymakers worried about stubborn cost pressures. Headline consumer price inflation held at 2.4 per cent peak in late 2022.

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