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In the first three months, for context, it had roughly as many weekly active users in the US as the largest fastfashion brand, Shein, and within 10 months had surpassed Shein in sales. Brand awareness and net promoter score. Is it apparel? And it had taken Shein years to get to that point. The answer is probably not.
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Shein has moved from its humble beginnings as a small player in the ultra-fastfashion world has grown to a global juggernaut – reshaping the fashion market with rock-bottom prices, a lightning-fast supply chain, and dominant social media presence. “This group isnt watching Panorama documentaries.”
But there still is a lot of inventory moving through the system and all that inventory moving through the system is based on what everyone thought the man was three months ago and because, the macros are shifting so fast and you know we’ve gone from all these wants to needs like most of that inventory is still wrong.
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