Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As prices continue rising, consumers rely on a combination of their wallets and consciences when deciding which fashion industry trends to buy into. Innovations include new biodegradable materials and manufacturing processes that reduce both textile and environmental waste in the pursuit of sustainable apparel.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2023

Amid the rise of fast fashion and social media platforms accelerating consumptive behaviour, it appears that many Australians aren’t wearing or re-wearing the clothes they purchase. This was highlighted by the Fashion Resale Report from online retailer Reluv and Monash University. Consumer behaviours will also inevitably change.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

Last year’s must-have dress, yesterday’s flares and countless other Western castoffs are strangling the Global South, prompting calls for fast fashion to pay the price for rampant overproduction. Fashion reparations? “We’re collecting used clothes from our beaches and gutters every week.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2021

At the same time, businesses have a chequered history when it comes to engaging with societal problems, from self-serving “box ticking” corporate practices under the guise of social responsibility to shifting responsibility to consumers to make ethical choices (such as reusable coffee cups). Read the original article.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2021

While the pandemic had a chilling effect on apparel sales as a whole, the resale sector was blazing hot: it grew 29% in 2020 to capture $9 billion in U.S. Clark isn’t exaggerating: 33 million consumers bought secondhand apparel for the first time in 2020, according to the report.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Material circularity is on the rise and the latest company to produce a completely recyclable piece of clothing is sustainable apparel brand Pangaia. The impact this has on the planet is diabolical and it is not just a consumer problem, it is the responsibility of everyone in the fashion and textiles industry.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2021

The teen apparel retailer announced that it will be closing its flagship store in May – the brand’s only store in the country. Most visible, however, was the decision to discontinue its sexualised marketing as consumer preferences had clearly moved on. This included the images on in-store photos, gift cards and shopping bags.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

In the past, repurposing it required a meticulous approach that was equal parts complicated and time-consuming. By 2021, off-price retailers are anticipated to experience apparel revenue growth of 6% to 8%, exceeding the broader apparel segment by a collective 4%. Eco-Friendly Benefits.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

This section of the business is a consumer favourite with most pieces selling out within days of being online. We are also committed to being honest and frank about our progress, so that we can be held accountable and to provide clear and evidence based information to our customers.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act (or Fashion Act) would apply to global apparel and footwear retailers and manufacturers with annual revenues of more than US$100 million that do business in New York. All of this information would need to be accessible to consumers online or in written form.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2023

Externally, brands are feeling pressure from consumers and regulation. First, consumer desire for traceable and ethical supply chains continue to grow. Consumer enquiries into supply chains are becoming more sophisticated, and consumer patience is wearing thin for brands that don’t appear to take traceability seriously.

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2022

Unspun is a robotics and digital apparel company based in Hong Kong and San Francisco that builds custom jeans for each consumer on demand. That said though, we get pulled into Europe a lot, given how progressive and conscious the consumers are,” noted Lam. Lam acknowledges that ‘actual sustainable fashion is a very lofty bar’.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2022

In a statement via its official account on Weibo, a local social media platform, the brand explained that its departure was due to an “adjustment of the brand’s global strategy”. The next retailer that looks to be in trouble is fast-fashion titan H&M. Last August, Urban Outfitters announced it was exiting China temporarily.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2023

With the launch of SA1NT Layers, Former 2XU owner Aidan Clarke has gone back to his roots, with a renewed focus on performance and recovery sportswear apparel. We have evolved our moto jeans and fabrics no less than six times, and this obsession to set the standard and keep raising the bar is now driving us to stand out in sports apparel.

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A1 Retail

MAY 31, 2022

As the rising cost-of-living crisis sees energy bills, fuel and food prices continue to climb, more UK consumers are turning to second-hand shopping and upcycling in order to make ends meet – as well as minimise their environmental impact. Coming around to the circular economy . Sustainability is a selling point for shoppers .

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Rising prices put a squeeze on consumer spending throughout the year, and although inflation has finally started to ease, shoppers sill remain cautious with Accenture research revealing 64% of UK adults plan to reduce their spending over Christmas.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2021

Recently, however, something new has begun to drive massive growth in the used goods sector — consumers who are shopping based on their values , in addition to searching for value. Coresight expects fashion resale to grow at twice the rate of the total U.S. fashion market this year alone.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2023

Despite the controversies, the fast-fashion brand has been named one of Gen Z’s favorite brands and one of the fashion industry’s most popular brands. billion on a pa r tnership with Apparel Impact Institute , a nonprofit that works with manufacturers to set and implement energy efficiency programs.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

But you, the ultimate consumer and gesture and recool charter of all the data, do you agree that I got this one? 43:12] I actually think that we’re going to see more Chinese companies focusing on Western consumers. Scot: [35:36] Yeah, I will.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 15, 2024

The two credit card data sets we work with now, Orion and Vela, are probably the most pertinent to my conversations about the consumer economy and certainly this conversation today about TMU. They sourced respectively from a large account aggregator, like a budgeting app, and part of a POS system in the US.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

Matt: [2:02] Yeah have you too I like to think about my career or having two careers to date the first one was, very foundational for what I’m doing now but very quantitative, process-oriented mechanical engineering patent law Manufacturing, Ops Consulting things that had nothing to do with retail or fashion or e-commerce and then I. [2:32]

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Inside Retail

MARCH 31, 2022

Following its rapid success, many competitors have emerged from China with hopes to take a slice of the e-commerce pie, with the likes of Alibaba and TikTok jumping into the fast fashion ring. At the time of writing, Shein’s official TikTok account has more than 3.7 Winning with TikTok.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Retailers now compete with social media networks for eyeballs Apparel has shifted from designer led to consumer led, as evidenced by the meteoric rise of Shein. Properly and consistently I can tell you that the person assigned to fill out the surveys is generally not the most senior accountant at the it’s usually not the CFO.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 7, 2022

Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures Yes Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers No Grocery E-Com > 10% someone deploys(not pilots) MFC Yes Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution) No Retail Media > $20B Yes. Yeah they’re serving a bunch of consumers yeah.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2024

A few years ago, buying resale online was still something that had to be sold to consumers. But as ThredUp ’s 12th annual Resale Report shows, the need for a hard sell is over — consumers of all ages have clearly bought into the idea, with secondhand apparel sales growing 15X faster than the broader retail clothing sector in 2023.

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