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Should Data be a Luxury for the Fashion Industry?

Retail TouchPoints

They’re changing the concept of engagement with luxury brands, expecting them to set up co-creation environments, seamlessly interact with digital content and operate at their highest standard, all while remaining authentic and becoming more sustainable. “To Set up store processes at the service of the customer.

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PayPal to sponsor Melbourne Fashion Festival for another three years

Inside Retail

PayPal Australia will continue to support the Melbourne Fashion Festival through 2027 after extending its sponsorship for the event. Meanwhile, PayPal senior director of consumer engagement Shane Capron said that the fintech company supports over 150,000 fashion businesses in Australia through its payment services.

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Power imbalance: data reveals “woeful” payment times by large retailers

Inside Retail

According to data analysed by ASBFEO of 7,000 big businesses collected by the federal government’s Payment Times Reporting Regulator , only 24 per cent of big businesses in the retail sector are paying its small business customers within 30 days. This was introduced as a mechanism to increase transparency, and improve payment performance.

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Zalora to optimise global payments with BridgerPay

Inside Retail

Southeast Asia’s leading online fashion and lifestyle retailer offers customers a world of payment options and a seamless shopping experience. Now, consumers who shop Zalora will have the ability to pay with any of their preferred local payment solutions at online checkout as part of a seamless shopping experience.

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Lifestyle products and services: How to harness Asia’s silver economy

Inside Retail

From May 6-10 an event called the World Ageing Festival is at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. As populations age and start to fall, there is tremendous interest in providing goods and services to the elderly. It sounds a bit wacky but it signifies a trend to which retailers should be paying a lot of attention.

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Exclusive Q&A: Venmo GM on the Company’s ‘Natural Extensions’ into Business Payments

Retail TouchPoints

For shoppers, paying for the items they want is a necessary evil at best and a complicated chore at worst (especially online). That inherent distaste for the transaction phase is one reason payment companies are so eager to expand into other parts of the shopper journey. And with 50% of global spending in the U.S.

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‘Targeting the vulnerable’: Asic halts Urban Rampage Centrelink payment scheme

Inside Retail

Retailer Urban Rampage has been ordered to stop deducting payments for purchases through deductions from Centrepay benefits. Urban Rampage sells clothing, household goods and essentials at 10 locations in regional and remote locations across Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.