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As France weighs fast-fashion ban, is the circular economy the future of retail?

Inside Retail

This week, France announced legislation to “limit the excesses of ultra-fast fashion”. Not the risk your mortgage payment kind of addiction – more the ‘I shop because it makes me feel good’ kind. And back home, David Jones has Reloop, a platform that helps shoppers to buy and sell designer fashion.

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H&M opens up donations at checkout to support vaccinating kids worldwide

Inside Retail

The Australian arm of fast-fashion brand H&M is launching an initiative today to help vaccinate children against preventable diseases by partnering with UNICEF. The partnership relies on the launch of Adyen’s ‘Giving’ platform, which allows merchants to accept charitable donations during an online checkout process.

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A documentary revealed Shein’s poor working conditions. Will it change?

Inside Retail

Valued at US$100 billion ($150 billion) , fast fashion brand Shein is in hot water after a recent Channel 4 documentary hosted by British journalist Iman Amrani, Inside The Shein Machine , lifted the veil of secrecy behind the corporation’s operations in China. for fashion brands and be transformative for workers.?.

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Can anything take the Shein of China’s e-commerce titan?

Inside Retail

Fast forward to 2020 and Shein had become the world’s largest online-only fashion firm, valued at more than US$30 billion ($40.1 In the past five years, Shein has acquired Romwe, another Chinese e-commerce site operating in the US, and begun developing its own integrated supply chain, rivalling those of Zara, Fashion Nova, and H&M.

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Zalora talks e-commerce growth drivers, consumer trends in new report

Inside Retail

The region’s digital transformation process is accelerating at a rapid pace, and discerning shoppers expect a seamless journey across both online and offline spaces. One example of this in the world of fashion is the transition from live streaming to augmented reality shopping.

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H&M’s New SoHo Location Features Secondhand Shop-in-Shop

Retail TouchPoints

Inside H&M ’s new store in NYC’s SoHo neighborhood, the fast fashion retailer has nested a shop-in-shop featuring curated secondhand pieces — the brand’s first resale location in North America. To celebrate the debut, beginning Feb.

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Smaller Spaces, Bigger Tech and Optimized CX

Retail TouchPoints

Appointments for high-end fashion brand shopping have been a long-time standard, but they’ve begun to trickle down to fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara too. Roaming checkout enables employees to take payments from shoppers from anywhere inside the store. This too increases employee satisfaction and retention.