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Reports: Chinese Ecommerce Player Pinduoduo Launches U.S. Site

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Pinduoduo has made its most aggressive move yet into non-Chinese markets with the Sept. The site offers items across categories including apparel, jewelry, pet supplies and home and garden, many at bargain prices. Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S.

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How Skyline Furniture Boosted Agility and Speed to Market With 3D Virtual Showrooms

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Manufacturers and retailers of products that rely on touch as a selling point (think apparel, décor and furniture) have faced some of the highest hurdles erected by COVID-19. The technology has served as more than a stopgap substitute for attending events like Las Vegas Market. “It With a showroom, you’re limited in what you can show.

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The Secret Behind Quick-Turn Merch: A Strong Partner

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To take the obsession even further, it seems like everyone is wearing branded apparel promoting them. This branded apparel — or merch, as it’s more commonly called — sent consumers into a frenzy. How do these brands turn around these drops so quickly? Everywhere you look, someone is talking about these moments.

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Tommy Hilfiger Amps Up Circularity Efforts with Resale in the U.S., Rental in the UK

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Tommy Hilfiger customers can generate a prepaid shipping label from tommy.thredup.com , fill any shippable box or bag with women’s and kids’ items from any brand and men’s products from Tommy Hilfiger, then ship the items to ThredUP to be resold. The second drop will reportedly feature one-of-a-kind Tommy Hilfiger archive pieces.

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Q4 Roundup: Amazon and Target’s Success Spotlights Fulfillment Prowess, Stores or no Stores

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Amazon in particular invested more than $60 billion in shipping alone in 2020, helping it maintain blazing fast delivery times, but O’Shea believes its lack of a significant physical store footprint will cause it to lag behind the competition to some degree. Struggling Apparel Retailers See Hope Online.

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Shopify Cuts Workforce 10% as Ecommerce Demand Cools

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To help merchants, we threw away our roadmaps and shipped everything that could possibly be helpful.”. Our market share in ecommerce is a lot higher than it is in retail, so this matters. Amid the news, Shopify stock dropped 15.34% only one day before the company is scheduled to hold its Q2 2022 earnings call.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

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And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.