Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

As retailers have struggled to navigate changes in consumer behavior and economic uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, one area has seen continued growth: recommerce. Recommerce checks many boxes for both consumers and businesses. Why the strong growth, particularly during a time of economic upheaval?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Ireland-based fast fashion retailer Primark is continuing its steady expansion in the U.S., The company’s most recent opening, its 13 th , took place in Philadelphia’s Fashion District in September 2021. The company’s most recent opening, its 13 th , took place in Philadelphia’s Fashion District in September 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2022

If you spend any time at all on social media it’s hard to escape influencers, and there’s a good reason for that — they are incredibly compelling, both to consumers and advertisers. While influencer marketing clearly isn’t going anywhere, it might soon have a new name: the “creator” appellation is increasingly taking precedence.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Fast fashion retailer Forever 21 will add 14 new stores to its roster across the U.S. In Q1 2021, Brookfield decided to sell its interest in the company for $63 million. through June 2023. Forever 21 started to unveil its new U.S. stores in August 2022 with the opening of a location at the Gran Plaza Outlets in Calexico, Calif.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2023

According to the e-commerce company’s latest Trender report, emerging innovations like ‘shoppertainment’ and virtual retailing are enabling brands to further diversify their omni channel offerings and cater to modern consumers who expect more from online retail platforms. Another driver is demographics.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Resale Continued its Rise but Came Under Financial Scrutiny Consumers’ enthusiasm for secondhand goods, as well as other forms of more sustainable consumption like rental and repair services, showed no sign of slowing in 2023. Media and Advertising Became More Contextual (and Measurable) Marketing teams are feeling more pressure to perform.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Chinese fast fashion retailer Shein may frequently grab headlines for the wrong reasons but there’s no denying the increasing popularity of the controversial brand. As of October 2020, Shein was the world’s largest online-only fashion company, according to Euromonitor International.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As SEOs [search engine optimizers], any heavy lifting we can do to clear a path for our clients toward success in the holiday shopping season will be especially welcome in 2021. Market trends indicate that a powerful three-point strategy for you to bring to the brands you promote is: Inspire, Deliver, Sustain. Department of Commerce.

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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. Coresight expects fashion resale to grow at twice the rate of the total U.S. fashion market this year alone. The Cool Factor.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

billion as it looks to extend its reach both in the apparel sector and with Gen Z consumers. Depop’s peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand fashion is the 10 th -most-visited shopping site among Gen Z consumers in the U.S., The site is primarily known for its vintage, streetwear and Y2K (late 1990s/early 2000s) fashion.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 31, 2022

Following its rapid success, many competitors have emerged from China with hopes to take a slice of the e-commerce pie, with the likes of Alibaba and TikTok jumping into the fast fashion ring. Seeing Shein’s massive popularity on the app, TikTok owner ByteDance launched its own fast fashion platform, called Dmonstudio, in late 2021.

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Hunton Andrews Kurth

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on October 20 seeking public comment on a potential regulation aimed at curbing deceptive consumer reviews and endorsements. decision has not entirely prevented the FTC from pursuing monetary relief for allegedly fake and deceptive consumer reviews.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

Levesque has served as President of The RealReal since 2021 and COO since 2019. She previously served as CMO of The RealReal from 2012 to 2019 and owned Anica Boutique , a fashion and home store. Julian has served as CFO since 2021 and has over 30 years of financial management experience in both public and private companies.

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Inside Retail

JULY 24, 2022

The peer-to-peer marketplace launched in 2021 and provides fashion influencers and sellers a platform for livestreaming commerce. Shoppers can buy clothes directly from their favourite sellers and fashion influencers. The capital will also support a hefty marketing push to onboard more sellers, including brands.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2023

Part of the reason is their success with young Asian consumers, who are driving demand for luxury consumer goods. We wanted to investigate why this strategy appeals to Chinese luxury consumers of the post-1990s generation. As a result, new forms of luxury consumption, like second-hand luxury markets , are popping up.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

It has been a year since the pandemic rocked a fashion industry that was already feeling the pressure of trying to keep pace with consumer shifts toward digital, ethical sourcing and eco-friendly products. 2021 will continue to be an uncertain year, with business growth slow to pick up for the industry. Fashion Resale.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

House of Representatives has issued a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, urging the market regulator to require that Shein certify that it does not use Uyghur forced labor before the company is allowed to launch a U.S. under the 2021 Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. “As A bipartisan group of 22 lawmakers from the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This has significant implications for the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry across the product value chain. A recent IBM Institute for Business Value study polling retail and CPG executives revealed that by the end of 2021, nine in 10 will be working on sustainability initiatives across the enterprise.

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Inside Retail

MAY 12, 2021

With exciting overseas holidays and drinking and dining off the cards in the past year, some consumers are now indulging in other ways and spending their money on discretionary categories such as fine jewellery, which has seen a rise in sales during Covid. The company saw a 29 per cent increase year on year to €714.3 told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Inflationary pressure on consumer discretionary spending, supply chain disruptions and elevated inventory levels, which tie up a retailers’ net working capital, are set to create the perfect storm for retailers that do not have a strategy in place to ensure they are well positioned for the choppy market conditions ahead.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. Not only are these retailers fast to market with their trendy designs they are also skilled eCommerce operators. Something has to be said about a first mover advantage, it makes things easier.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

Recommerce, the sale of secondhand merchandise, is a hot topic as consumers become more enthused about recycling goods rather than contributing to enormous mountains of landfill waste. While secondhand marketplaces are steadily growing, they barely make a dent in the billions of items today’s consumers generate. Take the U.S.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2021

The brand plans to expand the Refurbished program to more US stores throughout 2021 and beyond. At the same time, consumers are becoming more and more conscious of the environmental impact of throwaway fashion consumption and the opportunity to extend an item’s life through buying secondhand.”.

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CJ Retail Solutions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Retail Industry Landscape 2021. There’s talk of Black Friday tips and the future of retail spaces , and the C word was most definitely “consumer”. The most pressing was the ever-growing encroachment of online retail into the physical space’s share of the market. Resilience. Experience. Omnichannel retail. Looking forward.

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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. Getting products to market faster also incentivizes shoppers to continuously visit the ecommerce site or mobile app, essentially gamifying product consumption.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

Uniqueness is one of the most coveted elements of fashion for many style-conscious shoppers, and in a world drowning in new brands, buying vintage or resale is the best option to find something truly special. “To Even e-commerce giant Amazon is entering the resale market. Rent the Runway has a good chance of making this a success.

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2023

The progress made by 25 retailers has been tracked and monitored by World Baptist Aid – via its Ethical Fashion Report and in accordance with its guidelines – with factors relating to supply chain governance, including workplace conditions and wages, being accessed. The conscious consumer segment is growing quickly.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2022

The next retailer that looks to be in trouble is fast-fashion titan H&M. Poor sales led to the brand’s profits in China falling 23 percent, year on year, during Q2 of 2021 – a staggering loss of $74 million. Nationalism shifts spotlight to homegrown brands The pandemic has also made China a tougher market for Western brands.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Budget conscious consumers flocked to the retailer to buy its inexpensive clothing. With 917 stores in China, China is UNIQLO’s number one international market making up approximately 25% of UNIQLO’s revenue. In 2021 Uniqlo had a 1.4% share of the Chinese apparel market, larger then any other brand.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The space is the upper level of a three-level empty box, the two levels below having been left by upscale department store Bloomingdales , which closed in March 2021. Its public art includes “Wave” in Seoul’s K-Pop Square, and, in the summer of 2021, “Waterfall-NYC” and “Whale #2” in New York’s Times Square.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2021

However, A&F’s recent financial figures and strategy actually show a brand that is firmly in recovery mode, with a focus on more on-point marketing messaging and fewer stores, as sales are shifted to its digital channels. . Abandonment of sexualised marketing. International expansion driven through flagships.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 31, 2022

By Tricia McKinnon Beyond Meat, the company that is making eating plant-based protein mainstream continues to grow at a fast pace. In 2021 Beyond Meat’s revenue increased by 14.2% Plant based burgers are not new but Beyond Meat has been able to capture more of the mainstream market. Expand the definition of your target market.

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365 Retail

JULY 5, 2022

With fast fashion (AKA disposable fashion) quickly losing its appeal, especially among those 30 years old and younger, the timing of this sponsorship couldn’t have been better. eBay is once again hitting the sweet spot of consumers. Designed to be worn only a few times, most fast fashion ends up in a landfill.

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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. According to FMI, global online clothing rental sales are expected to grow 11 per cent CAGR between 2021 and 2031. Focus on customer experience.

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A1 Retail

AUGUST 1, 2022

50% rise in online searches for ‘second-hand clothing’ year-on-year from June 2021 to June 2022 revealed by Google search trend analysis by small business insurance provider Simply Business. Simply Business data also reveals a 23% rise in independent fashion SMEs in past 12 months.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The fashion industry has been a leader in adopting new technologies and circular-economy initiatives in recent years. During the pandemic, direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands took centre stage, including popular Australian activewear brand LSKD. One example is NFT studio RTFKT, which Nike acquired in December 2021.

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