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

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers want more information about the products they buy, and retailers want more visibility into the products their customers buy. 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. Who doesn’t want that?

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. Not only are these retailers fast to market with their trendy designs they are also skilled eCommerce operators. In the 2000s the internet met fast fashion, and a slew of new competitors began to emerge.

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How made-on-demand manufacturing is transforming the fashion industry

Inside Retail

Hear the phrase ‘fashion waste’ and most people immediately associate it with the fast-fashion industry producing products with short lifespans, ultimately destined for landfills. This is known as pre-consumer waste and includes scraps, offcuts, and rejected garments that are discarded during the production stage.

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Putting an End to the $50B Overstock Problem with Advanced Analytics

Retalon

Raw materials are destroyed, and a huge amount of energy is consumed when producing and moving products across the world. So, if a retailer is wondering why consumers and investors are pulling away, it’s because they are still using a traditional approach in a modern world. Entirely preventing these massive amounts of overstock.

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Putting an End to the $50B Overstock Problem with Advanced Analytics

Retalon

Raw materials are destroyed, and a huge amount of energy is consumed when producing and moving products across the world. So, if a retailer is wondering why consumers and investors are pulling away, it’s because they are still using a traditional approach in a modern world. Entirely preventing these massive amounts of overstock.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 303 Amazon, Walmart and E-com Q4 Results

Retail Geek

Jason: [2:00] Social shopping exactly and so it’s super interesting and they’re doing really well so they launched an e-commerce site in the u.s. Down so everybody saves more when you all by together kind of thing so it’s a. Scot: [1:58] Okay group buying used to be called back in the day.

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