Retail Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

For example, a fashion store may sell winter clothing in the Northern Hemisphere while offering summer apparel to customers in the South. They want seamless experiencesfrom clear product information and localised payment options to transparent shipping costs and easy returns. However, these challenges are not insurmountable.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2025

Pact customers can generate a prepaid shipping label from pact.thredup.com , fill a shippable box or bag with apparel, footwear and accessories from any brand in their closet and ship it to ThredUp for free. Items that sell on the platform will generate Pact cash for the sellers. “At In 2024, the U.S.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

The Reject Shops Cahn highlighted that even though there was relief on the cost of international shipping rates over 2024, there is still some volatility in the rates. Forever News Pavone raised another lingering pandemic-related cost increase rental rates on commercial properties.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

IR : Hawaiis distance from the US mainland often results in higher shipping fees and other related costs, making it more difficult for Hawaiian-led brands to expand. That decision has given us more flexibility as weve scaled, especially when it comes to logistics, fulfilment and international expansion. HA: Ask more questions.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 27, 2025

Published June 27, 2025 By Howard Ruben post share post print email license The department store is offering free shipping on all e-commerce purchases during its Summer Cyber Deals event. In January, the retailer said it would shut down 27 underperforming stores and one e-commerce fulfillment center in San Bernardino, California.

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2025

British beauty products retailer Space NK has paused e-commerce orders and shipping to the United States “to avoid incorrect or additional costs being applied to our customers’ orders”, the company said in a notice on Wednesday. The move upended global trade and triggered retaliation from Beijing. It is not alone.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The truth is, most of us got in the old-fashioned way pitching over and over until we finally got the opportunity, she added. The Honey Pot CEO noted that for brands with products under US$20, e-commerce expenses are much higher due to shipping, marketing, fulfillment and labor requirements.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

PFS’ RetailConnect aims to enable retailers to fulfill ecommerce orders from brick-and-mortar stores efficiently and without disrupting ongoing store operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As discount shopping app Wish continues its comeback effort , parent company ContextLogic outlined its plans for 2023 at a summit for its merchants — including a major overhaul of the platform’s shipment pricing structure in order to bring down shipping costs for customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2024

Two digital-first brands, Misen and ModCloth , are partnering with Cart.com to improve their omnichannel fulfillment and logistics operations. fulfillment partner. The brand will ship its products out of two U.S. Cookware and knives brand Misen has made Cart.com its official U.S. ”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

But everyone is talking about brand delivered, brand fulfilled, e-concessions and digital concessions. Brand fulfilment and digital concessions are on the rise, which is more or less a form of dropshipping, except the goods are shipped directly from the supplier in branded packaging. E-commerce is undergoing a structural change.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Labor shortages, stressed supply chains and a major emphasis on ecommerce have turned fulfillment into one of the biggest challenges retailers will face in the 2021 holiday season. With so much at stake, retailers must get fulfillment right or risk being left behind. Store-Based Fulfillment Is Key, but the Right Tools Must Be in Place.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Ethical sourcing is a key tenet of corporate social responsibility in the fashion industry and ensures fashion brands are committed to playing their part in the care of the people who make their clothes. In order to promote their commitment to ethical sourcing, fashion brands must prioritize traceability. Transaction tracking.

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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. Camilla targets teen ‘formal’ shopper.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2020

Teams in these cities will support various businesses across the company, including Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpsTech. 11 Fulfillment And Delivery Centers To Open In Metro Phoenix. Amazon plans to invest $1.4

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Dutch fashion brand Scotch & Soda has selected Nedap Retail as a strategic RFID partner for Europe and North America. It allows us to increase our online sellable stock, as we do not necessarily need to ship from our distribution centers anymore. Scotch & Soda will deploy Nedap’s !D

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

From household name brands declaring bankruptcy, to Amazon consolidating its ecommerce dominance, to curbside delivery options becoming a coveted competitive differentiator across categories ranging from electronics to grocery to fashion, the landscape for retailers looks radically different than it did 12 months ago.

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365 Retail

MAY 23, 2022

Secret Sales has launched a fulfilment service to support brands requiring a UK distribution centre, solving logistics challenges for those wanting to partner with the fashion marketplace but geographical location or technical infrastructure prevent them from fulfilling orders directly to consumers in the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2023

For years, fashion retailers have faced mounting pressures from both customers and employees to evolve. More recently, there’s been a strong urgency expressed for automation and robotics by fashion retailers for better throughput of parcels from warehouses to parcel carriers. By 2025, the value is said to reach well over $1.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Fashion Retail’s Looming Cash Crunch. Across the industry, nearly half of global fashion brands do not commit to paying for finished orders, which causes a huge liquidity problem for suppliers. The high probability of a second wave of infections this fall only adds to the uncertainty and risk.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

That led to this huge move toward making sure that people could get their fulfillment story and their operation story in line, where historically they were running their operations and their Amazon business very separately from their dot.com business. As a result, companies had to contemplate, ‘What is my omnichannel strategy?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When Decjuba was born in 2008, it was with a mission to make effortless fashion accessible. In the ensuing 16 years, it has opened 150 stores in Australia and New Zealand and now ships its clothing internationally through its burgeoning e-commerce presence. As it grew, it was essential to never lose sight of its mission.

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2021

Peachymama, Australia’s first post-pregnancy nursing wear specialist, merges fashion and functionality. To keep up with its expansion, Peachymama needed a more efficient and customised shipping process. The integration of Shopify and ShipStation has led to a more efficient and customised shipping process for Peachymama.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

In an effort to reduce sizing-related return rates, some fashion brands are working with Fit:Match.ai, a ‘digital twin’ matching platform that uses AR body-scanning technology designed to help shoppers select their size more accurately. This is just one example of how companies are utilizing technology innovations to prevent returns up front.

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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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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

The strategy, which Mosaic started rolling out in FY20 before Covid-19, has seen some of Australia’s most recognisable specialty fashion retailers expand into new categories, including homewares, beauty, jewellery, electrical and kids’ products. Mosaic’s department store move isn’t exactly unique in the fashion industry.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2022

Fashion retailer Cue is among the first brands to offer a new same-hour delivery service through a partnership between logistics platform Shippit and tech business Uber. And with the current industry-wide delays in shipping and fulfilment, Lenton expects the increased certainty of the offer will tempt even more people to buy online. “If

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Mercari on Melrose store offers an engaging resale and community experience where shoppers can discover a variety of unique fashion items available on Mercari.com, including a curated collection of products from Japan that will be on display throughout the month of August. Peer-to-peer resale marketplace Mercari has opened its U.S.

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2024

One of the biggest challenges facing the fashion industry today is fast fashion. Shipping providers couldn’t help us because every booking on the platform is dynamic. Staff fulfil the frontline role of delivering against the brand promise and are ultimately responsible for creating amazing customer experiences. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2021

The biggest corporate push has been in fashion, and it’s working: 75% of its private label brands are in fashion, and according to Amazon (see exhibit below), fashion private label sales account for 9% of its total fashion first-party (meaning direct or 1P) sales. Volumes are highly uncertain.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Both Temu and Shein rely heavily on the de minimis exception to ship packages directly to U.S. According to the committee’s initial findings, Temu and Shein alone are likely responsible for more than 30% of all packages shipped to the U.S. consumers, allowing them to provide less robust data to CBP [U.S. that originate from China.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Australian plus-size women’s fashion brand, Taking Shape, has had a busy three years. . It is also exploring new in-store fulfilment options in Australia, and continuing to add new payment methods, which customers have been clamouring for. We’re also working to enable our UK distribution centre to fulfil to greater Europe.

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Retail Times

MAY 18, 2021

Fast-growing Danish fashion brand GANNI has selected the Nedap iD Cloud platform to achieve full inventory visibility. This eliminates the need for separate stock for web order fulfilment and store orders. This allows GANNI to further unlock omni-channel services, such as ship-from-store.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

This real-time visibility allows businesses to optimise stock levels, prevent stockouts and fulfil orders efficiently. Gaining visibility Another example of the benefits seen with a unified commerce platform is fashion retailer Eileen Fisher. Customers can access products from any channel, enjoying a seamless shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Australian consumers have the world at their fingertips and can order from all across the globe, not only from the large international e-commerce companies but also from specialist retailers – be it fashion, electronics or sporting goods. It’s the fulfilment of orders that is the key variable in what Dematic does,” explains Tomasiello.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

Our community already embraced sustainable fashion, and we wanted to incorporate that into our brand experience. Consumers can fill the ThredUP Clean Out Kits with women’s and kids’ apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand and ship them to ThredUP for free using a prepaid shipping label.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2023

Despite the controversies, the fast-fashion brand has been named one of Gen Z’s favorite brands and one of the fashion industry’s most popular brands. As its reach and impact in the fashion industry continues to grow, SHEIN is focused on righting the brand ship and zeroing in on its manufacturing and product development processes.

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