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H&M opens up donations at checkout to support vaccinating kids worldwide

Inside Retail

The Australian arm of fast-fashion brand H&M is launching an initiative today to help vaccinate children against preventable diseases by partnering with UNICEF. The partnership relies on the launch of Adyen’s ‘Giving’ platform, which allows merchants to accept charitable donations during an online checkout process.

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H&M’s New SoHo Location Features Secondhand Shop-in-Shop

Retail TouchPoints

Inside H&M ’s new store in NYC’s SoHo neighborhood, the fast fashion retailer has nested a shop-in-shop featuring curated secondhand pieces — the brand’s first resale location in North America. To celebrate the debut, beginning Feb.

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How Uniqlo Plans to More than Triple its North American Store Count by 2027

Retail TouchPoints

stores will be opened in areas where the fast fashion retailer already has a presence, with two slated for California and one each for Maryland and New Jersey. Each new store will feature self-checkout kiosks, in-store pickup and free clothing alterations. The first four U.S.

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Fujitsu Market Place Self-Checkout goes live in the UK

Retail Times

Fujitsu is today announcing that Fujitsu Market Place Self-Checkout (SCO) is live in a fast-fashion store in the UK.

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Smaller Spaces, Bigger Tech and Optimized CX

Retail TouchPoints

Appointments for high-end fashion brand shopping have been a long-time standard, but they’ve begun to trickle down to fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara too. Self-Checkout/Roaming Checkout. Roaming checkout enables employees to take payments from shoppers from anywhere inside the store.

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

It’s hard to believe that the invention of the UPC — first used by railroads almost 100 years ago and then introduced to speed grocery checkout lines back in 1974 — hasn’t changed. And in 2014, Inditex SA, which owns fast-fashion giant Zara, implemented RFID to effectively track all its products at every step in the process.

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What’s next for Designerex, the Airbnb of fashion rental

Inside Retail

As part of the deal, PixelForce is building a Shopify app that will enable designer fashion brands to show customers exactly how much they could earn if they rented out items on Designerex after purchasing them. The post What’s next for Designerex, the Airbnb of fashion rental appeared first on Inside Retail.

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