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SHEIN Hosts Sold Out Pop-Up Event in San Francisco

Retail TouchPoints

Online fast fashion retailer SHEIN is hosting the latest in its traveling series of pop-up events at San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center from June 24 to 26, 2022. Consumers are still shopping SHEIN in droves, however, as evidenced by the sold-out San Francisco event.

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How to transform returns from a costly headache into a profit centre

Inside Retail

Up to 30 per cent of your sales may end in a return, and up to 50 per cent of an item’s original value makes up the return cost, including shipping, warehousing, and labour costs,” explains Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns. For example, a summer dress can quickly go out of style in a couple of months.

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How to transform returns from a costly headache into a profit centre

Inside Retail

Up to 30 per cent of your sales may end in a return, and up to 50 per cent of an item’s original value makes up the return cost, including shipping, warehousing, and labour costs,” explains Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns. For example, a summer dress can quickly go out of style in a couple of months.

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Three roadblocks to making circular fashion work – and how to navigate them

Inside Retail

Achieving circularity in fashion is similar to the 10-year overnight success story. Yet, the need for a sustainable and ethical future in fashion is necessary, due to the industry’s social and environmental impact, which has already caused substantial damage. We’ve heard and said this before in some form or another.

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Shein, Temu in fierce fight over US market for $10 dresses

Inside Retail

Online fast-fashion retailer Shein and its newer rival Temu are in a race to win shoppers’ attention for their inexpensive China-made goods. The legal skirmish is important for US consumers and rival retailers because it shows how online retailers with vendors in China need to navigate US intellectual property protections.

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Balenciaga, Reflaunt and the rise of resale-as-a-service

Inside Retail

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has launched a circular initiative in partnership with resale-as-a-service company, Reflaunt. Customers can join the circular program by dropping off their pre-loved Balenciaga items to participating Balenciaga stores or request collection through Reflaunt. Good for business.

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Gen Z: Merchants of cool or brand killers?

Inside Retail

My Gucci Marmont bag from Vestiaire Collective has shipped. Bagged a pre-loved bargain, supported circular fashion and didn’t even set foot in a store. Single Mum school drop off duties for my Gen Z daughter before hitting the desk for work. That’s my dopamine ‘shopper’s high’ for the day. Definitely pre-Covid. Time to get up.