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Dropshipping: Fashion’s favourite fulfilment method?

Inside Retail

Now, we’re moving further up the supply chain, with manufacturers and suppliers doing the same, shunning wholesale distribution in favour of a different model. Digital concessions have become a popular model for fashion marketplaces in particular since Covid. The model gives suppliers more control over pricing and promotion.

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Jeans for the greater good: Outland Denim

Inside Retail

Bartle said one of the most powerful brand promotions is when people go out and talk about the product and how it’s made. Looking into 2024 As the economy gets tighter, consumers will look more towards brands with purpose, he said, and noted that even fast fashion brands like Shein are starting to attach themselves to sustainability. “If

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Boohoo and the cries of celebrity-driven “eco-conscious” campaigns

Inside Retail

UK-based fast fashion brand Boohoo recently announced that it had tapped US celebrity and influencer Kourtney Kardashian as its “sustainability ambassador” and launched a “sustainability journey” campaign that included a capsule collection and mini-series. “A spoiler alert for everyone: you can’t.

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‘An exciting way to test a new market’: More fashion brands turn to rental

Inside Retail

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.

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Tapping into Temu: Why American Gen Zs love the Chinese app

Inside Retail

Like Shein, Temu offers discounted fashion and lifestyle goods, but unlike Shein it sources and ships directly from manufacturers in China. That means it can promote thousands of Chinese small businesses and micro-brands yet need not store any inventory.

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

Retail Geek

Scot: [34:05] Yeah yeah and having a Marketplace will be good will be another piece of data to feed into this kind of viral Crazy Fast fashion engine that they’ve created. Scot: [5:20] Cool shouldn’t you know who your clients are as a chief digital retail strategy officer.

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

Retail Geek

You’re back into fashion as much as I really thought that there was this route there’s a unique opportunity with lucky they were. Over a billion in gmv which is to say the direct to Consumer wholesale and the value of their licensing business in the market was over a billion dollars. Matt: [46:34] Yeah I’m.