Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Fast fashion retailer Forever 21 will add 14 new stores to its roster across the U.S. In addition to this Southern California store, the retailer has new shops planned for Illinois, Rhode Island, Nevada, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico. through June 2023.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2024

This retail renaissance is not just a return to traditional shopping spaces but also signifies a shift in the shoppers’ culture, expectations and behaviors. The move toward experiential shopping is vital in bringing people back to physical retail spaces, creating an emotional connection that can’t be found while online shopping.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. A seamless returns experience is now a baseline expectation for customers,” explains Daly. The Shopify-backed company has more than 250 employees and oversees 2 million returns per month.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. A seamless returns experience is now a baseline expectation for customers,” explains Daly. The Shopify-backed company has more than 250 employees and oversees 2 million returns per month.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

The resale market is growing 11 times faster than traditional retail and is expected to reach $84 billion by 2030, far eclipsing the predicted $40 billion market for fast fashion. . Here’s how brands can marry sustainability with returns optimization to get better ROI out of what they’ve already invested in — chiefly, their products.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

Consumers are becoming increasingly mindful about sustainability when it comes to shopping habits, and luxury retail is responding by investing in sustainable initiatives that will protect the environment while still allowing them to continue delivering luxurious items.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

PrettyLittleThing founder Umar Kamani is returning to the fast fashion retailer as he vows to make the brand special again. One of Kamani’s first actions will see the reintroduction of free returns to customers part of PrettyLittleThing’s loyalty programme just three months after the retailer scrapped the perk.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

E-commerce businesses are navigating new economic conditions that have seen reduced discretionary spending and the Covid-19 online shopping storms subsiding. We put $1000 into US ad spend and that went crazy,” Hairis said, adding “I didn’t understand the potential until we saw the return on investment.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2023

She believes that the inefficiencies that have existed such as a lack of representation, poor fit and high returns have been amplified by the shift to online shopping which was accelerated by Covid, fast fashion and an increasingly global world.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2024

Additionally, they have had to contend with the growth of fast fashion and discount retailers like T.J.Maxx and Marshalls. Mid-priced brands like Bob’s also struggle with competition from luxury retailers as well; they are often unable to provide the shopping experience or product quality needed to keep pace.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 17, 2024

Ebay UK is returning as the headline sponsor of Love Island’s latest season, marking its fifth consecutive series in partnership with ITV. Fans of the popular reality show can also shop the villa looks via a dedicated Love Island fashion hub on its website.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2021

Recently, however, something new has begun to drive massive growth in the used goods sector — consumers who are shopping based on their values , in addition to searching for value. Both socially conscious shopping and the resale sector already were on the rise before COVID, but the pandemic gave a boost to both. REI , for example.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fast-fashion giant H&M recently unveiled the autumn/winter 2024 collection from its atelier spinoff H&M Studio. The limited-edition fashion drop signals the brand is “returning to its roots and reconnecting with its community through a global ‘re-ignition’,” H&M’s head of design Eliana Masgalo told Vogue Scandinavia.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

The term rose to the surface last year as 2020’s unique confluence of events drove consumers toward shopping alternatives that were both environmentally friendly and economically feasible. Gen Z] has this massive demand for luxury fast fashion , what we now call the ‘affordable luxury’ sector. Talk about circularity.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The US-inspired shopping event – which sees retailers across the country offer deals and discounts to tempt customers and boost sales – kicks off the peak period, and is routinely one of the busiest days on the calendar for shops, large and small. Chadstone Shopping Centre in Melbourne’s south east went all out for the shopping event.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2024

With more than half of all consumers shopping for secondhand apparel last year, it’s evident that resale is now firmly embedded in the fashion landscape ,” said Neil Saunders, Managing Director at GlobalData , which conducted the research for the report, in a statement. In the U.S. We deserve to exist.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 21, 2025

In The Style Fast fashion retailer In The Style slashed at least 17 roles at the end of February ahead of its collapse this month. New Look Last month, New Look announced it was exiting the Irish market and would be shutting all of its 26 shops across the Republic of Ireland. The business narrowed its pre-tax losses to 374.5m

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2020

Loyal customers are returning and increasing average order values (AOV). Fast Fashion trends downward, still, but there’s hope : There have been some fluctuations in fast fashion revenues, but ultimately this retail sector is down YoY: from -20% in mid-March, it has now dropped to -29.1% in mid-April 2020.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even before the pandemic, the bricks and mortar aspect of the retail sector was undergoing major changes as the battle to attract people into stores, rather than shop online, intensified. Relatively new to Ikea are shop windows and check-out zones on all floors, all designed to engage, entertain, and inform customers.

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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. Shein hauls.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

Amazon Australia today announced the launch of Amazon Warehouse, a new storefront on the country’s Amazon site, which offers pre-owned and open box items that include a wide range of items, including fashion, electronics, accessories, toys, music, books and more. The future of secondhand fashion. That has totally dissolved.”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

The rest can be returned to the sender or recycled responsibly. This raises another question: with the resale market booming, is hyper-consumerism associated with fast fashion shifting to preloved fashion? Fast (preloved) fashion. Shopping for clothes is far more complex than many people realise.

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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. TikTok Shop did not return messages seeking comment.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2024

Over half of the biggest online fashion retailers do not offer free postal returns, Which? The consumer choice firm looked at the returns policies of the 20 biggest online fashion retailers, including Asos, Boohoo and Amazon and found that 12 do not offer free postal returns. The returns fees range from £1.99

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many members of this young, savvy demographic are exchanging their dependence on fast-fashion destinations like SHEIN , choosing to invest in quality over quantity. These consumers are using digital channels and experiences to discover and engage with once out-of-reach luxury brands. Will Luxury’s Biggest Market Rebound?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 18, 2021

As the British high street dwindles to a handful of household names, discount retailers and independent businesses, the pressure is on to revive the high street and shop local — or risk the collapse of local retail hubs. Due to the structural nature of ecommerce, online shops remained open as usual during the coronavirus pandemic.

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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. The group also announced that Passi would be returning as CEO of the company.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

Meanwhile, NRFs vice president of industry and consumer insights Katherine Cullen, PwCs global retail leader Kelly Pedersen, Happy Returns chief operating officer Timothy Fehr and Pinterests director of consumer product marketing Rachel Hardy discussed emerging consumer trends in 2025.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2022

Suddenly our ‘not good enough to donate, but not bad enough to bin’ items had a purpose; through a trip to our local shopping centre, we were able to recycle them and help turn them back into usable products. What incentives are retailers providing to consumers to return products to be recycled? Reducing, not just optimising, returns.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 19, 2022

But now, with the pandemic posing less of an economic threat than it did just two years ago, and with customers returning to a more ‘normal’ state of shopping, it’s high time for retailers to really consider what is next for the industry. Most retailers tend to focus on the top of the funnel: on their return on advertising.

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A1 Retail

JANUARY 27, 2022

The majority of consumers across all demographics are concerned about the environmental impact of online shopping, according to new research. Almost all of Gen-Z – those born between 1997 and 2012 – feel concerned (96 percent) by the impact that online shopping has on the planet.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

Without real-time visibility or existing systems in place to manage excess levels, cross-functional teams wasted valuable time and resources on work that didn’t produce valuable returns on investment. And for some industry-leading brands, billions of dollars in lost capital from unused excess inventory is still an unfortunate reality today.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Throughout 2022, there were numerous headlines indicating a monumental shift in innovation across retail and that customers were keen to get back to physical shops while retaining the convenience of hybrid shopping. As a new normal emerged, so did successful e-commerce brands, creating a presence in our local shopping precincts.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

An old TopShop store in north London’s Brent Cross shopping centre has been revived after two years of sitting empty since the fast fashion brand closed down. It appeals to shoppers looking for unique vintage clothing by offering a curated selection of fashion and accessories from the UK’s most loved charity retailers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2023

Online shopping platform Zalora expects e-commerce to remain resilient despite the economic uncertainties facing businesses in Southeast Asia and an increasingly dimming global economy. One example of this in the world of fashion is the transition from live streaming to augmented reality shopping. What’s next?

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Retail Insider

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The scale of the fast fashion phenomena is driven by the young – the perceived conservatism of the older generation on renting is balanced out by the higher likelihood of them hanging on to clothes for much longer or repairing damaged items rather than re-buying. The wedding shop at Selfridges. But this is only half the story.

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