Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

The value of luxury and premium fashion goods is often in their design, storytelling and product quality. But recently, fast-fashion brands including Zara, H&M, Mango, Urban Outfitters and Topshop have been testing limited-run premium collections in addition to their regular and frequent product drops.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 25, 2024

Ryman owner Theo Paphitis is the latest British retailer to call on the government for a clampdown on a tax loophole used by fast fashion giants such as Temu and Shein. It’s becoming absolutely clear that the emperor has no clothes on.”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The fashion industry, in particular, has come under scrutiny for its environmental impact for some time, with Australia alone discarding 222,000 tonnes of clothing annually into landfill. As a result, consumers are turning and looking to second-hand shopping as a more sustainable alternative to fast fashion.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Amazon’s vast marketplace, combined with its rapid fulfillment and Prime business, effectively calcified its position. Shein uses user data insights to predict what products customers will want in the future, effectively taking fast fashion to the next level. Now, we’re witnessing a new wave of ecommerce in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But operating sustainably isn’t just about meeting consumer expectations — there are industry and business practices to fulfil too. This year saw the proposal of the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act. This year saw the proposal of the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act.

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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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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2024

One of the biggest challenges facing the fashion industry today is fast fashion. Staff fulfil the frontline role of delivering against the brand promise and are ultimately responsible for creating amazing customer experiences. “We They’re doing a great job selling to consumers quickly and cheaply,” Kore said.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The credentials to create a more sustainable future were never seriously acknowledged, but this has become a key selling point for pre-loved fashion. Overconsumption within the fashion industry has become a significant problem, further exacerbated by the rise of fast fashion and discount retailers such as Shein.

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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. Third-party suppliers then access these demand metrics through the system and let the brand know whether they have the capacity to fulfill that demand for production.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2021

Since the fast fashion brand first launched on Tmall in China in 2018, it has continued to embrace third-party marketplaces in the broader region, including Myntra in India and Zalora in Southeast Asia. “It’s just that the channels and platforms will fulfil different purposes going forward.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Temu alleged that Shein had “engaged in a campaign of threats, intimidation, false assertions of infringement, attempts to impose baseless punitive fines and has forced exclusive dealing arrangements” with the clothing manufacturers that both apps rely on for their ultra-fast fashion offerings.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

The Chinese fast fashion giant may be one of the most downloaded fashion apps around the world, but it continues to maintain a low corporate profile. Ask any consumer to name a fast fashion retailer and they probably think of H&M, Zara or Gap. Fast fashion, but slow deliveries. Inclusive fashion.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The rapid rise of fast-fashion e-commerce retailers such as Shein and Temu is upending the global air cargo industry, as they increasingly vie for limited air-cargo space to woo consumers with rapid transit times, more than ten industry sources said. TikTok Shop did not return messages seeking comment.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2024

The fast fashion chain is currently trialling click-and-collect across 57 stores, for its womenswear and kidswear products. Primark is looking to expand its click-and-collect trial across further stores, with the possibility of launching the service to markets outside Britain, its CEO has confirmed.

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Retail Focus

MAY 9, 2023

This is creating what we’ve coined the conflicted shopper; consumers who seek value for money – acting with price-sensitivity and spending-caution – on one hand, but want to consume in line with their values on the other, opting for eco-conscious decisions across their buying journey, from product choice to fulfilment methods.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2024

A Tailored Retail Experience In the era of mass production and fast fashion, personalization has become a key element in attracting and retaining visitors. The move toward experiential shopping is vital in bringing people back to physical retail spaces, creating an emotional connection that can’t be found while online shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The retailer was founded in 1986 by Raúl Méndez on Spain’s Gran Canary Island, and now has 145 points of sale throughout Spain, including 125 stores, and operates under the women’s fast-fashion brands Encuentro Moda and Öbu. The handheld readers also are employed for online order fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The latter had always been based on a marketplace model, and Shein added a marketplace in May to expand its reach beyond fast fashion. Among the biggest challengers were Chinese-based discount shopping apps Shein and Temu.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

We are part of fast fashion because of the price that we offer, but certainly a low price doesn’t equal poor ethics or poor sustainability. If you’re looking for a pair of $10 jeans or $4 T-shirt, you should also be able to choose more sustainable and recycled fabric; that should be available to you.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

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. Walmart mandated that its suppliers put it on products by 2022, which has made a big impact on RFID adoption.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

Boasting a large selection of everything from ultra-affordable party dresses to £1 bikinis, this fast fashion e-tailer was the preferred choice of the Love Island cast and everyone who wanted to be on the show or wished to look like those on the show. Missguided was once Britain’s most visited online retailer. Self-inflicted wounds.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Mosaic’s department store move isn’t exactly unique in the fashion industry. Boohoo, the British fast fashion giant best known for its bodycon dresses and celebrity collabs, recently launched its first ever homewares collection, including candles, picture frames and bedding. Leveraging loyalty.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We all know those great Aussies fashion start-up stories, those household names who cut their teeth in the city markets,” John said.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

As an online-only business, Robinsons won’t hold much inventory – it has some private-label homewares brands – but it will take responsibility for last-mile fulfilment. . Another point of difference for the business is around delivery.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We’ve expanded our omnichannel options so we include invisible aisle fulfilment and forward order digital wish lists. PZ: I’m going to talk a little bit about fashion sustainability, because it’s another key issue for the industry. First and foremost, we’re not a fast-fashion brand.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It’s not the first time the embattled fast fashion retailer has made such a u-turn. However, the retailer revealed that it will cease supplying US customers from the Pennsylvania distribution centre and shift fulfilment of all US orders to the UK.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 18, 2024

Shein has launched AI technology across its fashion production lines as it looks to speed up its go-to-market lead times. The fast fashion giant has partnered with NTX to utilise artificial intelligence across its design, planning and production stages.

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365 Retail

JULY 5, 2022

With fast fashion (AKA disposable fashion) quickly losing its appeal, especially among those 30 years old and younger, the timing of this sponsorship couldn’t have been better. eBay’s sponsorship of Love Island has brought the environmental impact of fast fashion to the forefront.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 9, 2024

Unlike pretty much all of its fast fashion rivals, Primark has long resisted selling products online. O’Brien agrees that the market is a challenging one for fashion retailers to navigate. Even in the wake of a worldwide pandemic and enforced store closures, the retail giant stood firm.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 6, 2024

The supermarket said that it would cut roles in its contact centre in Widnes, in Cheshire, at its in-store bakeries and a few at local fulfilment centres. The fast fashion giant opened the Northamptonshire distribution centre in 2021 following the acquisition of Debenhams and Arcadia Group brands Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 26, 2023

The Swedish fashion giant is seeking unspecified damages and an injunction to stop the Chinese fast fashion rival from infringing on its copyrighted designs. H&M has filed a lawsuit against Shein for copyright infringement, according to court documents filed in Hong Kong.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This includes a change in product lifecycle management processes – from sourcing, development and waste management to packaging and fulfilment. Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion giant, is by no means a leader when it comes to sustainability. This process is more effective when the predictions are augmented with third-party data.

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Going forward, retailers may be expected to prove their sustainability efforts by following in the footsteps of others in expanding their regional fulfillment facilities, as Amazon has done, thereby cutting waste and CO 2 emissions. The Rise of Re-commerce. Another example is the encouragement of re-commerce, or the sale of second hand items.

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365 Retail

MAY 9, 2023

This is creating what we’ve coined the conflicted shopper; consumers who seek value for money – acting with price-sensitivity and spending-caution – on one hand, but want to consume in line with their values on the other, opting for eco-conscious decisions across their buying journey, from product choice to fulfilment methods.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In addition to the rise of fast fashion and seasonal items, trend-driven products have further shortened product life cycles. Retailers face immense pressure to offer personalized, fast, and seamless experiences across channels. Retailers are required to adapt their assortments more quickly than ever before.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 28, 2024

Instead it now fulfils more orders closer to its global distribution hubs, driving further economies of scale, meaning the UK is a far greater focus. It has also cut staffing levels, using natural attrition to make £40m in cost savings, and has reduced both price and marketing investment in European territories.

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