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SHEIN Hosts Sold Out Pop-Up Event in San Francisco

Retail TouchPoints

Online fast fashion retailer SHEIN is hosting the latest in its traveling series of pop-up events at San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center from June 24 to 26, 2022. Consumers are still shopping SHEIN in droves, however, as evidenced by the sold-out San Francisco event.

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Shein, Temu in fierce fight over US market for $10 dresses

Inside Retail

Online fast-fashion retailer Shein and its newer rival Temu are in a race to win shoppers’ attention for their inexpensive China-made goods. The legal skirmish is important for US consumers and rival retailers because it shows how online retailers with vendors in China need to navigate US intellectual property protections.

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Three roadblocks to making circular fashion work – and how to navigate them

Inside Retail

The fashion industry is on the cusp of global intervention enforced by regulations and standards to ensure transparency and traceability are accessible to all consumers. Recently, The RealReal laid off hundreds of staff, and closed stores, consignment drop-off spaces and corporate offices , in an attempt at swift profitability.

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Balenciaga, Reflaunt and the rise of resale-as-a-service

Inside Retail

Customers can join the circular program by dropping off their pre-loved Balenciaga items to participating Balenciaga stores or request collection through Reflaunt. Once an item is sold, it’s shipped from Balenciaga and the seller receives either financial compensation or credit for use in Balenciaga stores. Resale-as-a-service.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 316 Annual Predictions 2024

Retail Geek

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping. Scot: [28:09] Yeah.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 318 Temu Deep Dive with Earnest Analytics

Retail Geek

The two credit card data sets we work with now, Orion and Vela, are probably the most pertinent to my conversations about the consumer economy and certainly this conversation today about TMU. And that’s something that we’re getting a lot of questions on from everyone from business to fashion to Dan McCarthy.

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Gen Z: Merchants of cool or brand killers?

Inside Retail

My Gucci Marmont bag from Vestiaire Collective has shipped. Bagged a pre-loved bargain, supported circular fashion and didn’t even set foot in a store. Single Mum school drop off duties for my Gen Z daughter before hitting the desk for work. That’s my dopamine ‘shopper’s high’ for the day. Definitely pre-Covid. Time to get up.