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What Shein’s return to India means for the country’s future retail scene 

Inside Retail

Indian retail conglomerate Reliance Retail has introduced an app in India to sell Sheins fashion products through a licensing agreement, marking the Chinese brand’s return after a five-year ban due to diplomatic tensions. The company estimates the fast fashion segment to reach $50 billion by FY31.

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The Trade War that Restructures What Sells and Why

Retail TouchPoints

Consumers will always shop; they may just start asking the tougher questions about what they are buying and why. Fast Fashion Faces the Biggest Challenge The world has long known the detrimental effects that ultra-cheap fast fashion brands have on the environment.

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How Temu and Shein drive up Black Friday marketing costs for US retailers

Inside Retail

Typing a few words into a search engine is a key starting point for shoppers looking online for gifts or buying for themselves in Black Friday sales, the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on the day after US Thanksgiving.

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Goodwill Industries: The Secret ‘Conduit’ for Textile Innovation and Circular Commerce

Retail TouchPoints

Key Goal: Extending the Product Lifecycle Goodwills operations allow it to take in and manage returns but also to identify items that can easily be resold. One Canadian retailer has Goodwill accept returns on its behalf, with customers then getting a voucher to shop for a new product with the retailer.

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10 retailers cutting jobs in 2025

Retail Gazette

In The Style Fast fashion retailer In The Style slashed at least 17 roles at the end of February ahead of its collapse this month. New Look Last month, New Look announced it was exiting the Irish market and would be shutting all of its 26 shops across the Republic of Ireland. The business narrowed its pre-tax losses to 374.5m

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Japanese exceptionalism: What can we learn from it?

Inside Retail

Since Covid-19, the run-up in duty-free sales as tourism has gradually returned to normal has been important; however, the big sales gains of 2024, particularly at flagship stores in major tourism destinations such as Tokyo and Kyoto, were never expected to be matched this year, with the bar being set so high.

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New Fast Fashion Powerhouse: Shein Teams Up with Forever 21

Retail TouchPoints

The deal may eventually include Shein shop-in-shops at some of Forever 21’s 540 brick-and-mortar stores, which are heavily concentrated in malls, as well as offering consumers the ability to return Shein items at Forever 21 locations.