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It’s Time to Confront the Exploitation Behind Ultra-Fast Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

After May 2, ultra-fast fashion will be slightly more expensive. For years, ultra-cheap, ultra-fast fashion has rewired where and how Americans shop. Led by Chinese-founded online retailers Shein and Temu, ultra-fast fashion has succeeded in part by driving prices for trendy clothes as low as possible.

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Ultra-fast fashion is undermining efforts to make the industry more sustainable

Inside Retail

Since the 1990s, fast fashion has enabled everyday people to buy the latest catwalk trends. Now, just when the fashion industry should be waking up and breaking free of this vicious cycle, it’s heading in the opposite direction. We’re on a downward spiral, from fast fashion to ultra-fast fashion.

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The Trade War that Restructures What Sells and Why

Retail TouchPoints

economy may not have officially entered a recession, but consumers are nonetheless navigating rising prices, dwindling savings and a near-constant stream of financial anxiety. Now, with the onset of widespread global tariffs, consumer confidence has hit its second-lowest point since 1952. are up 10% since February.

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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

Precise data on the growth of clothing waste is scarce but collection for recycling and reuse increased gradually in several European countries from around 2010, a 2021 EU report said. Fast fashion, or making and selling cheap clothes with a short lifespan, is “highly unsustainable”, the Commission said in July.

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U.S. Apparel Resale to Double in Next Five Years, Fueled by Retailers and Brands

Retail TouchPoints

There was a time, not too long ago, when it took a lot of convincing to get consumers to consider secondhand. Now, both consumers and the retailers that serve them are quite willingly jumping on the resale bandwagon, driving an already hot sector toward even further growth. Retailers and Brands Take the Baton.

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What Recommerce can Teach Retailers About New Consumer Behaviors and Future-Proofing Sales

Retail TouchPoints

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. Consider that 223 million consumers say they have or are open to shopping secondhand products.

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Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop in push for younger consumers

Inside Retail

More young consumers are moving toward second-hand fashion options, conscious of the environment and carbon footprint of the clothing industry. The deal, which Etsy said would be funded via available liquidity, is expected to close during the third quarter of 2021. Reporting by Nivedita Balu.

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