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Gen Z: Merchants of cool or brand killers?

Inside Retail

Where I once hid my habit for thrift store shopping and slinked into charity stores incognito and inconspicuously along the walls, I now proudly thrift every second weekend with my Gen Z kid and tweet about it afterwards. I had never heard of the label before clicking ‘buy’. Yet Gen Z is by no means conundrum-free.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 300 – Goodwill Finds CEO Matt Kaness

Retail Geek

Order management system warehouse management system all the way down to the call center and the warehouse it was, um pretty pioneering on the web services side as far as. [12:35] Hey would you come in and manage the company to get us through holiday while we won for somebody. Like 10,000 uniques on the site all third party.

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Secondhand Grew 15X Faster than New Apparel Sales in 2023, but ThredUp CEO Still Sees Ample ‘White Space’

Retail TouchPoints

“With more than half of all consumers shopping for secondhand apparel last year, it’s evident that resale is now firmly embedded in the fashion landscape ,” said Neil Saunders, Managing Director at GlobalData , which conducted the research for the report, in a statement. Now the question is: Where does resale go from here?

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