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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. iVend offers specialist POS software designed for thrift stores.

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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. It’s our responsibility as brands, retailers and marketers to ensure we meet those expectations, or risk getting left in the shadows of companies that are.

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Why Mercari is betting the time is right for bricks-and-mortar

Inside Retail

Mercari was founded and first launched onto the retail scene in Japan in 2013 and launched into the US online retail market just a year later. The launch of its first permanent brick-and-mortar location reflects the quickly growing interest in the American retail scene for resale apparel and accessories. billion in 2022.