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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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Enter Chat Commerce: Tips for Implementing the Newest Form of Consumer Engagement

Retail TouchPoints

We know one of the most critical ways brands connect with consumers is via social media. As one of the fastest-growing forms of communication (the average annual growth rate amongst consumers on social platforms is 7.2%), brands would be remiss to ignore this relatively low-lift form of engagement. In fact, there are now roughly 3.78

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Blockchain and Luxury Retail

Retail Focus

Nodes verify transactions using complex algorithms and then add them to a block, forming a linked chain structure. Blockchain’s decentralised ledger records every supply chain transaction, making it possible for brands and consumers to track luxury goods from production to sale, thus ensuring authenticity and integrity.

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Hermès under fire over NT crocodile farms

Inside Retail

Luxury fashion brand Hermès is under increasing scrutiny over what animal welfare groups have called “barbaric” crocodile farms in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT). Crocodiles are wild animals, not handbags.They are sentient beings who don’t deserve to languish in plastic-lined pens for the profits of French fashion houses.”.

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4 Retail Resolutions to Help Businesses Become More Profitable

Retail Minded

To help, consider the four, Retail Minded approved resources below. Resource #1: Faire If diversifying your storefront – whether it’s digital or brick and mortar – from marketplace competition is among your 2024 goals, then look to Faire to help. of consumers check their text notifications within five minutes of receiving a text.

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How to Raise Your Customer Service from ‘Good’ to ‘Excellent’ on Social Media?

I Love Fashion

Fashion Digital Marketing Agency. A quick checklist to creating happy Fashion Social Media Customers. One of the first challenges to providing great social customer service is determining on which platform to focus time and resources. How many are technical or account-specific questions? According to J.D.

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How to Improve Business Processes with B2B eCommerce Software

Retail Focus

The old-fashioned way of doing that was always to have staff available. Many of those processes can be time-consuming or repetitive, which makes them highly suited to automation. However, it is, unfortunately, a fact of business life that can be quite resource-intensive.