Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Supply bottlenecks, slower product deliveries and higher freight and labour costs risk shifting the fast fashion industry into the slow lane, as shown this week by British online fashion retailer Asos. Attention will focus on Thursday on Fast Retailing, the Japanese parent of Uniqlo, when it reports quarterly financial results.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Additionally, congestion at the Port of Shanghai, the largest port in the world, appears to be easing. The average waiting time across all vessel types, including tankers, bulkers and containers, at Shanghai has reduced to 28 hours, which is down considerably from its peak average waiting time of 66 hours during the lockdown in China.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2022

China is Fast Retailing’s biggest foreign market, with 863 stores on the mainland and almost 90 outlets in Shanghai, where stringent lockdown measures, introduced in late March, remain in place to contain the country’s worst outbreak of the pandemic. Fast Retailing has more Uniqlo stores in China than in its home market of Japan.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Spanish fashion retailer Encuentro Moda is deploying a radio frequency identification solution across its 125 stores, both to meet omnichannel requirements and to gain visibility into the stock availability at each store and throughout the supply chain. When goods are received at a store, sales associates use the !

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2021

Spanish fast fashion giant Zara made headlines for all the wrong reasons last month when Mexico’s Ministry of Culture accused it of using embroidery patterns distinctive to the Mixteca community of Oaxaca in its garments without credit or benefit to the Indigneous community. If it isn’t, then it’s good.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In a world where fast fashion often takes the spotlight, Marie France Van Damme stands as a beacon of slow, deliberate artistry. Recently worn by none other than Beyoncé for her iconic Renaissance World Tour, the Hong Kong-based designer fashion brand is entering a new phase of growth. Paris is the fashion capital.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 21, 2023

Zara x Barbie Zara’s dreamy Barbie collection dropped at the beginning of the week, with some products selling out within hours of going live. The impressive 60-something-piece range spans across all of the retailer’s departments from clothing and accessories to homewares and stationery.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2022

You might not get the glam of a trendy big-city mall; there are no fast fashion retailers here, no H&M, no Zara. In fact, there are hardly any fashion stores at all, and that’s partly the point. A closer look at the Big C model. That includes Sisaket. There is a cinema upstairs and a game zone.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2022

Co-founder and co-CEO Kirsten Kore says the business is in the “right place at the right time” to capitalise on consumers’ growing interest in sustainable alternatives to fast fashion, such as rental. It has fast-tracked sustainability and circularity – especially within fashion. Focus on customer experience.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2022

The next retailer that looks to be in trouble is fast-fashion titan H&M. As a result, H&M shuttered more than 20 physical locations last year. Adidas, which is currently the second highest valued sportswear company in the world, is valued at $US74.4 ASOS, Topshop, and New Look have also left China, among others.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“Everyone is now realising there are alternatives to fast fashion and through brands like InStitchu you can purchase tailored clothing for the same price as off-the-rack mass-produced garments – less clutter for the customer, less waste for brands, and less impact on the environment,” Wakefield said.

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2022

Unspun currently has stores in San Francisco and Hong Kong, but since the buying experience can be accessible to anyone who has an iPhone X and beyond, their growth is not technically limited by its bricks-and-mortar locations. However, Lam is clear that there is still a lot of work yet to be done at Unspun. The reality.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

And then she puts all these things all over the floor and she briefs our incredible team of graphic artists; and somehow, they manage to capture that sense of escapism and colour, and that just makes you feel happy to look at it and wear it. A lot of customers prefer a glass of champagne on the sofa and chatting to one of our Angels at home.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

The founder was an ambitious entrepreneur who opened one of the first professional optical stores in Hiroshima at that time. SW: At Tanaka, we seek to serve our treasured customers with the joy of seeing and the pleasure of being seen through our intimate eyewear recommendations.

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Independent Retailer

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The rise in D2C ecommerce, combined with dramatic changes in our shopping habits and supply chain disruptions have created a retail landscape that is unrecognizable compared with pre-pandemic times,” Brian Weinstein, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Whiplash , said. Balancing Friction in the Brick and Mortar Retail Experience.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2022

JW: We’ve gone through a brand building exercise to fuel that brand awareness at the top of the funnel so that people can ultimately become customers. It wasn’t focused around weddings, but at the moment, we’ve never been so inundated with wedding parties. Where are you on that journey at the moment?

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If I look at the last quarter, I took a little glance at that. Tried to sell them to furniture stores and they laughed at us and told us it was a dumb idea. [3:34] 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 locations now. Sean, welcome to the show.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2022

Trained as a milliner, she opened her first boutique in 1972 and through determination and grit, she has grown it into Feathers, a national women’s fashion brand that is sold through a handful of standalone bricks-and-mortar locations and in Myer. I can’t believe how fast 50 years have gone.

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