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Study: Resale to Hit $47B by 2025, Giving Fast Fashion a Run for its Money

Retail TouchPoints

Resale — the segment of the secondhand market that ThredUP defines as offerings with more curated assortments — is expected to account for more than half of that total, $47 billion , by 2025. Growing Sustainability Concerns Favor Resale Over Fast Fashion. Fast fashion and thrift are very similar in a lot of ways,” said Clark.

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Does Buying Local Have A Positive Impact on the Planet?

Independent Retailer

“It gets a bit more complicated when we move out of the grocery store and into other local retailers. In 2019, the shipping industry accounted for about three percent of global carbon emissions, and that number is expected to rise to 17 percent by 2050. The way ‘stuff’ is made can vary greatly and most of our stuff moves around a lot.

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Gen Z: Merchants of cool or brand killers?

Inside Retail

Where I once hid my habit for thrift store shopping and slinked into charity stores incognito and inconspicuously along the walls, I now proudly thrift every second weekend with my Gen Z kid and tweet about it afterwards. They’re set to account for 40 per cent of the global luxury fashion market alone by 2025.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 300 – Goodwill Finds CEO Matt Kaness

Retail Geek

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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Secondhand Grew 15X Faster than New Apparel Sales in 2023, but ThredUp CEO Still Sees Ample ‘White Space’

Retail TouchPoints

alone, secondhand apparel accounted for $43 billion in sales in 2023, and it’s expected to reach $73 billion by 2028. Purchasing secondhand online also opens up this world to many new consumers who had found thrift stores unappealing or intimidating, and much of that tech is just at the beginning of its journey as well. “A

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