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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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Closing the Billion-Dollar Gap in Returns Waste

Retail TouchPoints

It either becomes dreaded waste or is severely discounted, resulting both in a growing problem for the planet and a financial loss for merchants. So why aren’t merchants processing these returns in efforts to recoup these massive losses? Fortunately, there are remedies to fix this broken process.

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

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. In the 2000s the internet met fast fashion, and a slew of new competitors began to emerge.

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How Enabling Crypto Currency can Up Level your Fashion Business

I Love Fashion

Fashion Digital Marketing Agency. billion of cryptocurrency through NFT marketplaces, up from just $106 million in 2020, according to a report by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis. NFTs have taken the fashion industry by storm lately. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are no passing fad. In 2021, users sent more than $44.2

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 284 Annual Predictions 2022

Retail Geek

Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. Jason : NFTs, Web 3, Metaverse, and Ultrafast delivery services are all overhyped and don’t deliver meaningful commerce revenue in 2022. Shein exceeds $30B in annual sales, disrupting apparel industry Adoption of BNPL services slows down to less than 15% CAGR in 2022.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 264 – Retailer Q1 Earnings and E-Commerce data

Retail Geek

April Sales – Flat vs. March 2021, up 41% vs. April 2020 (severely Covid impacted month). vs Q4 2020, up 39.1% vs Q1 2020. 8:15] But if we compare April of 20 21 to April of 2020 retail sales were up a whopping forty six percent. Perry was up 200 and or I’m sorry 727 percent from April of 2020.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 303 Amazon, Walmart and E-com Q4 Results

Retail Geek

Scot: [6:16] Should be over should be like part of the onboarding. So it’s an area where companies are looking to save money very quickly because you’re not locked into certainty or anything like that like you would, be with some software as a service platforms. percent so. [31:38] Quarter for Best Buy.

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