Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Marcus Ng, regional head of air freight, Asia Pacific, at AP MllerMaersk, notes that the Sea-Air option where some products are shipped rapidly by air and others less quickly by ocean has been particularly attractive to some lifestyle apparel retailing customers.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Amazon’s push to offer more everyday essentials like toothpaste is hurting its average selling prices, but it is also a guard against rivals such as Temu and Shein who offer rock-bottom prices on goods they ship from China. But offering a variety of everyday products like dish detergent and floss is helping Amazon.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

Yet, many online retailers still focus primarily on domestic markets, missing out on the vast opportunities that lie beyond their borders. For online retailers, this opens the door to a massive audience, far bigger than what most domestic markets can offer. Seasonal dips in one market can be offset by peaks in another.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Customers will now be able to earn Stitch Fix credit for “gently worn” apparel items they give back to the brand via ThredUp ’s Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) functionality. Technology advancements, a refreshed brand identity and a new marketing campaign showing how Stitch Fix solves common shopping complaints are being rolled out.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2024

Nordstrom is expanding its shop-in-shop partnership with custom apparel brand Indochino by adding five new locations, bringing the total number of Indochino shops in Nordstrom stores to 32. Each unique piece of apparel is made to the customer’s precise measurements and shipped directly to their door within three weeks.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Affiliate marketing has become a multi-billion dollar industry globally – but in Australia, the concept remains shrouded in suspicion, largely misunderstood by consumers. Its share of the broader e-commerce market is just a fraction of that in China or the US. Around a quarter of affiliate marketers are working in the fashion sector.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

Let’s dive into some small ideas that can help tackle big goals: 1) Think Big: Increase customer engagement with more interactive marketing. If shipping is delayed and orders are late, tell your customers. Evolving a retailer’s marketing strategy and approach can take time. Act small: Use a QR code! The QR code is back.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This allows products to be quickly pulled from temporary storage locations and packed for shipping as soon as orders arrive, minimizing delays and ensuring a smooth, rapid fulfillment process. And while fast shipping remains important, its no longer a chief differentiator.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

The Container Store has debuted its Closet Clean Out resale program for apparel and accessories, powered by the ThredUp Resale-as-a-Service solution. Additionally, footwear and apparel retailer Sam Edelman has launched its ReLove resale initiative with support from the Archive platform.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 24, 2025

The international success of prominent K-pop artists such as BTS, Blackpink, and Stray Kids has catalysed unprecedented levels of consumer engagement, resulting in expanded market opportunities for merchandising. In contrast, prices in the pre-loved market can change based on how rare it is. million KRW ($1029).

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

Once an item is purchased, the seller will receive a prepaid shipping label to send it to its next owner. The process is designed to reduce the retailers’ environmental footprints and reduce the need to handle the logistics of shipping items to a third-party warehouse.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers. The ‘Attenborough’ effect.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

South African-owned Retail Apparel Group has reported strong performance and market gains in its latest results. The business says current macroeconomic conditions and shipping disruptions will likely continue for the rest of the calendar year coupled with global inflationary pressures and rising interest rates. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

Anomalie Co-founder and CEO Leslie Voorhees Means will join David’s Bridal to lead new strategies and will report to the company’s Chief Marketing and IT Officer Kelly Cook. In 2021, the retailer partnered with The Black Tux , the online men’s formalwear brand, to expand its offerings in the special occasion apparel space.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

While design can be managed from anywhere, logistics can be intimidating to many apparel companies contemplating expanding abroad. Harnessing the expertise of platforms such as Startshipit, together with our simple, reliable shipping solutions, can unlock significant opportunities.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 20, 2025

secondhand market was on a steep growth curve: The 13th annual ThredUp Resale Report showed the secondhand retail clothing market outpacing the market for new apparel by 5X and growing by 14% in 2024 compared to the previous year. Even prior to the current period, the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

The company has been able to cut the time from product design to shipping from three weeks to five days, allowing it to offer an evolving slate of the latest of-the-moment trends. before rolling out to other global markets. Shein has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the U.S. 1 shopping app in America. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Macy’s has joined a number of other major retailers — including Walmart , Kohl’s and JCPenney — in the Fanatics club after announcing a new partnership with the online sports merchandise retailer to increase its own online assortment of fan apparel 20X , according to multiple sources.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As the resale market continues to grow, leading fashion and sneaker reseller StockX is taking steps to improve the process of buying and selling authenticated, pre-owned products online. Last week, the Detroit-based company launched Xpress Ship, a new feature that shortens the shipping time for verified items to three business days.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

Payment and shipping details are prepopulated using the customer’s Roku Pay information, allowing the order to be placed with the push of a button. Upon purchase completion, the viewer returns to their programming and an email confirmation with shipping and other details is sent directly from the merchant.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

in the next five years and also has its sights set on international expansion, with plans to launch omnichannel operations in key markets in Western Europe and Asia Pacific next year as well as an innovation center in Taiwan. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

customers can print a prepaid shipping label from torrid.thredup.com, fill a shippable box with apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand and send it to ThredUP free of charge. The ThredUP RaaS platform allows brands to tap into its Clean Out program, which helps consumers clean out their closets for retailer credit.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2020

Industry is working to develop and document standardized methods to describe raw material attributes for apparel and general merchandise. If every single order gets shipped in an individual box, inefficiencies abound. Order Consolidation.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2021

by early July 2021, expanding INDOCHINO’s physical presence to nearly every major market in the country. Purchases are custom-made to fit the customer’s measurements and shipped directly to their home in two to three weeks. Nordstrom will open 21 INDOCHINO store-in-a-store shops across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

After several years of declines and a host of executive switch-ups (particularly in the CEO role), Wish began a major overhaul of its business (still underway) and launched a marketing blitz to “reintroduce” itself to consumers in August 2022. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In June 2022, ThredUP responded to a SHEIN pop-up in San Francisco by offering Bay Area customers 40% off their first ThredUP purchase and free shipping if they pledged not to shop the SHEIN pop-up event. Then in August 2022, ThredUP launched a helpline inviting Gen Z to call in for support in resisting fast fashion.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To participate, customers generate a prepaid shipping label from beyondyoga.thredup.com , then fill any shippable box or bag with apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand in their closet and send it to ThredUp. For items that sell on ThredUp, customers receive Beyond Yoga credit that can be used both online and in stores.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From humble beginnings as a fitness-focused apparel brand to a global business with a rapidly growing retail network, Staxs journey showcases the power of community engagement, strategic product evolution, and adaptability in a dynamic market. Community has been in the brand DNA right from the get-go.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The free points-based program includes free shipping twice per year and access to personalized deals, perks, exclusive member events and special sales. Claire’s has launched its first-ever loyalty program, Claire’s Rewards.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

based designers to develop the first apparel collections for the EvoluSHEIN by Design program, which aims to accelerate the use of preferred materials and scale responsible manufacturing processes. All the pieces are produced using Shein’s small-batch, on-demand production model and shipped in packaging that contains recycled content.

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2024

According to Walmart, while traditional methods of apparel production require the fabric to be cut and stitched, Unspun’s first-of-its-kind 3D weaving technology skips these steps, going straight from yarn to garment, eliminating waste generated by the process: fabric offcuts, discarded unsold inventory and transport emissions.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Target’s comparative store sales were up 13 per cent in FY21, according to Pearson, and even more in the kids category, a key area where he sees an opportunity to gain market share. The most important part of our offer will always be our own products where we can bring things to market that nobody else can.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For example, online apparel reseller ThredUP recently announced plans for a new 600,000-square-foot distribution center in Texas that will expand its capacity by 150% to meet growing demand on the part of both sellers and buyers of used goods. This supply influx is echoed in reports from other resale platforms. over the past five years.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

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. Personal styling and apparel ecommerce platform Stitch Fix cut 15% of its salaried workforce in June following less-than-stellar Q3 2022 results.

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