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H&M opens up donations at checkout to support vaccinating kids worldwide

Inside Retail

The Australian arm of fast-fashion brand H&M is launching an initiative today to help vaccinate children against preventable diseases by partnering with UNICEF. The partnership relies on the launch of Adyen’s ‘Giving’ platform, which allows merchants to accept charitable donations during an online checkout process.

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Closing the Billion-Dollar Gap in Returns Waste

Retail TouchPoints

It either becomes dreaded waste or is severely discounted, resulting both in a growing problem for the planet and a financial loss for merchants. So why aren’t merchants processing these returns in efforts to recoup these massive losses? Fortunately, there are remedies to fix this broken process.

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

Retail TouchPoints

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. Brands can include a number of features in a 2D barcode that can help improve and ease access to customer service. alongside a large QR code. A true win-win!

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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 Airrobe makes it easy for fashion brands to enter the circular economy

Inside Retail

We power that marketplace and we unlock supply by bringing the merchant and the consumer together in this primary retail space. If you think about what the peer-to-peer re-commerce marketplace looks like today for fashion, largely, it hasn’t changed since eBay launched. The reality with fast fashion is it’s achievable.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

Services to other retailer. So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02] So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02]

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 316 Annual Predictions 2024

Retail Geek

A lot of people are using it for customer service and really improving that. And I think the ones that are getting hurt are the non-fast fashion, the slow, the glacierly slow fashion. They’re actually riding it themselves.