Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Labor shortages, stressed supply chains and a major emphasis on ecommerce have turned fulfillment into one of the biggest challenges retailers will face in the 2021 holiday season. With so much at stake, retailers must get fulfillment right or risk being left behind. Store-Based Fulfillment Is Key, but the Right Tools Must Be in Place.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 17, 2025

She is SVP at the 65- year-old company, which supports and operates shipboard retail stores on nearly 100 ships operated by 15 cruise lines. Shaw: Its going to be very similar to what were doing on ships. For example, we have a fashion jewelry brand that sells very well across both mainstream and premium cruise lines.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 14, 2025

Its a problem that fashion brands have long been aware of but have struggled to resolve. These fashion brands are kicking off new recycling and resale initiatives during Earth Month, but they are fully intended to have a year-round impact.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 30, 2025

Driving forward as a truly global logistics platform for omnichannel brands, fulfilmentcrowd has announced that it is expanding its global footprint with a new fulfilment centre based in Australia. Kemps Creek is a 20,000 square ft fulfilment centre located at the Oakdale South Industrial Estate in Sydney, NSW.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Ethical sourcing is a key tenet of corporate social responsibility in the fashion industry and ensures fashion brands are committed to playing their part in the care of the people who make their clothes. In order to promote their commitment to ethical sourcing, fashion brands must prioritize traceability. Transaction tracking.

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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. Camilla targets teen ‘formal’ shopper.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2020

Teams in these cities will support various businesses across the company, including Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpsTech. 11 Fulfillment And Delivery Centers To Open In Metro Phoenix. Amazon plans to invest $1.4

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Dutch fashion brand Scotch & Soda has selected Nedap Retail as a strategic RFID partner for Europe and North America. It allows us to increase our online sellable stock, as we do not necessarily need to ship from our distribution centers anymore. Scotch & Soda will deploy Nedap’s !D

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2025

Up to 81 per cent of consumers visit stores to see, touch and try products, particularly in fashion, furniture and electronics. To compete, Australian retailers must also leverage AI and automation technology to personalise engagement, streamline operations and enhance fulfilment speed. Loyalty and personalisation are critical.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

For example, a fashion store may sell winter clothing in the Northern Hemisphere while offering summer apparel to customers in the South. They want seamless experiencesfrom clear product information and localised payment options to transparent shipping costs and easy returns. However, these challenges are not insurmountable.

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365 Retail

MAY 23, 2022

Secret Sales has launched a fulfilment service to support brands requiring a UK distribution centre, solving logistics challenges for those wanting to partner with the fashion marketplace but geographical location or technical infrastructure prevent them from fulfilling orders directly to consumers in the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

From household name brands declaring bankruptcy, to Amazon consolidating its ecommerce dominance, to curbside delivery options becoming a coveted competitive differentiator across categories ranging from electronics to grocery to fashion, the landscape for retailers looks radically different than it did 12 months ago.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2023

For years, fashion retailers have faced mounting pressures from both customers and employees to evolve. More recently, there’s been a strong urgency expressed for automation and robotics by fashion retailers for better throughput of parcels from warehouses to parcel carriers. By 2025, the value is said to reach well over $1.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Fashion Retail’s Looming Cash Crunch. Across the industry, nearly half of global fashion brands do not commit to paying for finished orders, which causes a huge liquidity problem for suppliers. The high probability of a second wave of infections this fall only adds to the uncertainty and risk.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When Decjuba was born in 2008, it was with a mission to make effortless fashion accessible. In the ensuing 16 years, it has opened 150 stores in Australia and New Zealand and now ships its clothing internationally through its burgeoning e-commerce presence. As it grew, it was essential to never lose sight of its mission.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

That led to this huge move toward making sure that people could get their fulfillment story and their operation story in line, where historically they were running their operations and their Amazon business very separately from their dot.com business. As a result, companies had to contemplate, ‘What is my omnichannel strategy?

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2021

Peachymama, Australia’s first post-pregnancy nursing wear specialist, merges fashion and functionality. To keep up with its expansion, Peachymama needed a more efficient and customised shipping process. The integration of Shopify and ShipStation has led to a more efficient and customised shipping process for Peachymama.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As the resale market continues to grow, leading fashion and sneaker reseller StockX is taking steps to improve the process of buying and selling authenticated, pre-owned products online. Last week, the Detroit-based company launched Xpress Ship, a new feature that shortens the shipping time for verified items to three business days.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

In an effort to reduce sizing-related return rates, some fashion brands are working with Fit:Match.ai, a ‘digital twin’ matching platform that uses AR body-scanning technology designed to help shoppers select their size more accurately. This is just one example of how companies are utilizing technology innovations to prevent returns up front.

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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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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

This real-time visibility allows businesses to optimise stock levels, prevent stockouts and fulfil orders efficiently. Gaining visibility Another example of the benefits seen with a unified commerce platform is fashion retailer Eileen Fisher. Customers can access products from any channel, enjoying a seamless shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2022

Fashion retailer Cue is among the first brands to offer a new same-hour delivery service through a partnership between logistics platform Shippit and tech business Uber. And with the current industry-wide delays in shipping and fulfilment, Lenton expects the increased certainty of the offer will tempt even more people to buy online. “If

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Mercari on Melrose store offers an engaging resale and community experience where shoppers can discover a variety of unique fashion items available on Mercari.com, including a curated collection of products from Japan that will be on display throughout the month of August. Peer-to-peer resale marketplace Mercari has opened its U.S.

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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. Staff fulfil the frontline role of delivering against the brand promise and are ultimately responsible for creating amazing customer experiences. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2021

The biggest corporate push has been in fashion, and it’s working: 75% of its private label brands are in fashion, and according to Amazon (see exhibit below), fashion private label sales account for 9% of its total fashion first-party (meaning direct or 1P) sales. Volumes are highly uncertain.

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Retail Times

MAY 18, 2021

Fast-growing Danish fashion brand GANNI has selected the Nedap iD Cloud platform to achieve full inventory visibility. This eliminates the need for separate stock for web order fulfilment and store orders. This allows GANNI to further unlock omni-channel services, such as ship-from-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Both Temu and Shein rely heavily on the de minimis exception to ship packages directly to U.S. According to the committee’s initial findings, Temu and Shein alone are likely responsible for more than 30% of all packages shipped to the U.S. consumers, allowing them to provide less robust data to CBP [U.S. that originate from China.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Australian plus-size women’s fashion brand, Taking Shape, has had a busy three years. . It is also exploring new in-store fulfilment options in Australia, and continuing to add new payment methods, which customers have been clamouring for. We’re also working to enable our UK distribution centre to fulfil to greater Europe.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Australian consumers have the world at their fingertips and can order from all across the globe, not only from the large international e-commerce companies but also from specialist retailers – be it fashion, electronics or sporting goods. It’s the fulfilment of orders that is the key variable in what Dematic does,” explains Tomasiello.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

Our community already embraced sustainable fashion, and we wanted to incorporate that into our brand experience. Consumers can fill the ThredUP Clean Out Kits with women’s and kids’ apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand and ship them to ThredUP for free using a prepaid shipping label.

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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. As its reach and impact in the fashion industry continues to grow, SHEIN is focused on righting the brand ship and zeroing in on its manufacturing and product development processes.

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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 2, 2023

Container Store customers can pick up a ThredUp Clean Out Kit at any of the retailer’s 97 stores or generate a prepaid shipping label from containerstore.thredup.com. Together, we can slow fashion waste and reduce its impact on our planet.” When they sell, customers will be sent a pre-paid label to ship the items to the purchaser.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

Further, excess inventory can lead to lost revenue because products that are not sold quickly can become obsolete or go out of fashion. Opening a clear channel for communication between sellers and their suppliers ensures a seamless order fulfillment process, thus decreasing backorder and supply chain frustrations.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers that buy a bit more selectively can put less product in the store, and hold back more for direct-to-consumer (DTC) fulfillment. This trend applies to the whole broad area of apparel and footwear, but we’re also seeing it hit in areas like home décor, fashion and soft lines products, for example bedding and linens.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Deliver fast, reliable fulfillment to Chinese customers. On their tour of Woodbury, they visited the Michael Kors , Coach and Stuart Weitzman stores, all of which feature primarily women’s fashion. At the end of the day, we want our customers to be able to purchase online and decide how they want that order fulfilled.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve. Shein used to be differentiated from Temu and Wish for operating more like a traditional retailer and focusing solely on fashion, but that has changed recently with Shein adding a third-party marketplace to its mix.

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