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Gucci’s new challenge: reigniting heat while boosting timeless appeal

Inside Retail

De Sarno, a senior fashion designer from Valentino, is tasked as creative director with reviving the fortunes of the brand that accounted for two-thirds of Kering’s profits in 2021. For Bernstein analyst Luca Solca, Gucci needs to make a strong statement to return to the center stage.

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Gen Z Alternative to Credit Cards

Retail TouchPoints

Contactless payment evolved with Venmo’s release in 2009, and similar mobile solutions like the Apple Wallet have followed. Some services will even suspend consumers from accessing their accounts for additional loans until their existing debt is cleared. Many commercial apps now ask for a credit card on file to make in-app purchases.

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Inside the Online Bookstore Building a ‘Model for Small Businesses to Compete with Amazon’

Retail TouchPoints

Customers across the country are making a concerted effort to effort to return to their local bookstores , but when they can’t, they shop on Bookshop.org. But then, “from the years of like 2009 to 2018, I just watched Amazon start eating everybody’s lunch,” he said.

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More recessions lessons from Greenlit Brands, Camilla, Super Retail

Inside Retail

Suppliers were going broke left, right and centre, so it was all about the efficient management of inventory. But the biggest risk is buying and the efficient management of our working capital. Of course, you also have to manage costs, but that’s always important. We also had a forensic focus on our inventory stock turn.

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Vestiaire Collective’s fast-fashion ban: clever or counterproductive?

Inside Retail

She said the company would like to find a solution for the fast-fashion items that already exist – and to ensure that the ban doesn’t push the responsibility of managing waste onto places like Kantamanto in Ghana, for instance, (more about that later). “We

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How H&M, Nike and Kering are taking action on climate change

Inside Retail

When you take into account each country, and the way they do farming, they could be different. The manufacturing firm has been focused on its environmental impact for years and created its first sustainability report in 2009. “We We want to hold ourselves accountable with what we do,” Lee said. Lee said. . TAL Apparel.

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Subscription Pro Tips: Encourage Loyalty and Long-Term Relationships by Making it Easy to Cancel

Retail TouchPoints

There’s plenty of opportunity for many types of retailers: Juniper Research predicts that physical goods will account of 45% of global subscription revenue this year , as opposed to 39% for digital services like music and video streaming. Indeed, consumers are signing up for subscriptions in record numbers — a whopping 85% of U.S.

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