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Category Insights Report: Dollar Stores Redefine Themselves with Enhanced Merchandising and Mobile Apps

Retail TouchPoints

It’s almost a badge of honor to throw on a designer item with an item you found in the thrift store or a discount store. ” More frequent trips, smaller basket sizes Households do not go to dollar stores once or twice a week to spend $200 per visit. That all creates positive momentum for these retailers.”

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Secondhand Grew 15X Faster than New Apparel Sales in 2023, but ThredUp CEO Still Sees Ample ‘White Space’

Retail TouchPoints

Purchasing secondhand online also opens up this world to many new consumers who had found thrift stores unappealing or intimidating, and much of that tech is just at the beginning of its journey as well. “A The Americas Trade and Investment Act (Americas Act for short) is designed to promote economic potential in the U.S.

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6 POS Software Performance Metric Thrift Stores Must Track

I Vend

Thrift shopping continues to grow in popularity, particularly with millennial and Gen Z shoppers. For retailers, thrift stores have become part of the ‘mainstream’, managed with many of the key disciplines of ‘regular’ retail. But thrift retail also has its own unique characteristics and store performance indicators.

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Don’t Shop Around on Sustainability: Carbon Labels Deliver the Goods

Retail TouchPoints

ThredUP, an online consignment and thrift store that sells secondhand clothes, makes sustainability a part of its brand values. In February 2021, Unilever announced that it was working to introduce carbon labeling to 30,000 of its products. It’s not just global brands that are embracing carbon labeling, either.

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Retail Management Software – The Complete Guide for 2025

I Vend

Omnichannel Integration Your customers no longer differentiate between shopping online and in-store and often want to use a blend of channels within the one transaction such as ordering online and collecting in the store (click and collect), buying online and returning in the store (BORIS) or ordering in-store for home delivery.

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Cool kids: Why resale fashion app Depop has joined forces with The Sims

Inside Retail

The in-game experience will be available through an upcoming expansion pack and aims to promote thrift shopping, upcycling and circular fashion to its Gen Z audience.

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The rise and rise of the thrift retail store

I Vend

Walk down any high street and you’ll see evidence of one of the growing trends in retail – the rise of the thrift store. Read about how a leading US thrift store is embracing its growing popularity. All of which means that the thrift store has well and truly come into the retail mainstream.