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.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

Online fast fashion retailer SHEIN is hosting the latest in its traveling series of pop-up events at San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center from June 24 to 26, 2022. The online resale platform offered Bay Area customers 40% off their first ThredUP purchase and free shipping if they pledged not to shop the SHEIN pop-up event.

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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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Retail Gazette

MARCH 25, 2024

Ryman owner Theo Paphitis is the latest British retailer to call on the government for a clampdown on a tax loophole used by fast fashion giants such as Temu and Shein. Worse than that, the companies benefiting from it are not British companies,” Paphitis told The Times. “The The government is not plugging loopholes.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

thanks to on-trend discount offerings enabled by its real-time fast fashion model. The company has been able to cut the time from product design to shipping from three weeks to five days, allowing it to offer an evolving slate of the latest of-the-moment trends. Shein has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

When delivering goods, luxury retailers can also reduce their carbon footprint by offering BORIS, BOPIS and BOSS (buy online, return in-store, buy online, pick up in-store, and buy online, ship to store) options. There is also a significant intersection of sustainability with customer preference data.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

I studied a Bachelor of fashion and textiles and from there I started doing market stalls and that’s the first iteration of the formal business side of things,” she said. Whilst we’ve always shipped to the UK, it wasn’t optimised for the customer.” “If

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Brand fulfilment and digital concessions are on the rise, which is more or less a form of dropshipping, except the goods are shipped directly from the supplier in branded packaging. Meanwhile, with traditional dropshipping, the goods will ship blind, without any marketing material that reveals the identity of the supplier.

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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. The post Not so fast!

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2024

One of the biggest challenges facing the fashion industry today is fast fashion. Shipping providers couldn’t help us because every booking on the platform is dynamic. They’re doing a great job selling to consumers quickly and cheaply,” Kore said. We don’t even know how to deal with this.’

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

The strategy, which Mosaic started rolling out in FY20 before Covid-19, has seen some of Australia’s most recognisable specialty fashion retailers expand into new categories, including homewares, beauty, jewellery, electrical and kids’ products. Mosaic’s department store move isn’t exactly unique in the fashion industry.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The report found that while Shein and Temu were fast-growing, “complaints about quality of goods, unethical production processes, unfair advantages in shipping, and increased nationalism” meant they were targets of environmental groups and governments. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2024

Especially in this era of fast fashion, most retail products are produced overseas and shipped thousands of miles to their destination. The airplanes, ships and trucks used to transport these materials consume significant amounts of fossil fuels, which are tremendously bad for the environment.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Your clients’ websites must clearly communicate how inventory can be delivered, arrival time frames, and what different shopping and shipping options cost. Undertake the following: Create a sitewide banner that boldly announces purchase-by dates for remote holiday shipping to prevent consumer letdown and brand reputation damage.

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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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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2022

Peer-to-peer fashion rental platform Designerex is looking to raise fresh funds to help it scale in the US and other global markets as it experiences record growth post-Covid. It has fast-tracked sustainability and circularity – especially within fashion. Post-Covid, the opportunity for the circular economy is huge.

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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.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Fresh off its biggest capital raise to date, peer-to-peer fashion rental platform Designerex is gearing up for a period of rapid growth that will see it launch one-hour delivery in Australia, enter the UK and Europe and start working more closely with brands to reach new customers. That’s more than David Jones or The Iconic.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The privately-held fast-fashion site currently ships orders from China to more than 150 countries where it operates. Shein is planning to build three large distribution centers in the U.S. to help speed deliveries to customers in three to four days.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2023

Achieving circularity in fashion is similar to the 10-year overnight success story. Yet, the need for a sustainable and ethical future in fashion is necessary, due to the industry’s social and environmental impact, which has already caused substantial damage. We’ve heard and said this before in some form or another.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2021

The niche crypto assets are also capturing the attention of some of the world’s biggest fashion companies, keen to associate themselves with a new generation of gamers – although most of their forays so far are for marketing. For NFT enthusiasts, online fashion does not replace physical purchases.

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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.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2022

Preppy US fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger has partnered with online thrift and consignment store ThredUp to launch a resale program for eligible preloved clothing. The initiative is part of Tommy Hilfiger’s commitment to creating a more sustainable future in fashion, giving its clothing a second life. Fast (preloved) fashion.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The fast fashion company saw the highest year-over-year growth in downloads of any retailer’s app globally, and also drove the most sessions. Even the placement and the imagery of the fashion that they’re selling is very influencer style. Well, we know that shipping is still an issue like it was last year.

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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. Equal parts retail and dining, fashion brands and small creative businesses sit alongside restaurants, cafes and medical services such as optometry and skincare. Major department store, tick. Supermarket giant, tick. Cinema, tick. Almost every part of the 6.4-hectare

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Local luxury fashion brand Camilla is well-loved for its vibrant prints and colours, and glamorously distinctive collections. I know that you work hard, particularly through Australian Fashion Week, which must be a crazy time as you get things prepared for the runway. First and foremost, we’re not a fast-fashion brand.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

But while the retailer operates a global e-commerce site and ships to over 130 countries around the world, its point of difference is clearly its department stores, which feature multiple restaurants, including a rooftop eatery by Dior, a cinema, numerous beauty and personal shopping services and even a skatepark.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

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. Walmart mandated that its suppliers put it on products by 2022, which has made a big impact on RFID adoption.

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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.

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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. For example, a summer dress can quickly go out of style in a couple of months.

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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. For example, a summer dress can quickly go out of style in a couple of months.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

From supply chain disruptions to shifting seasonality and evolving fashion trends, a majority of America’s leading retail brands are constantly left with excess inventory that simply won’t sell. In today’s age, sustainable fashion matters. So believe it or not, some of the best of the best even rely on off-price partnerships.

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