Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Products shipped cross-border by Chinese online fast-fashion giant Shein have been found to contain toxic chemicals at rates twice the level allowed under EU regulations, according to a report prepared by Greenpeace in Germany.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

When delivering goods, luxury retailers can also reduce their carbon footprint by offering BORIS, BOPIS and BOSS (buy online, return in-store, buy online, pick up in-store, and buy online, ship to store) options. There is also a significant intersection of sustainability with customer preference data.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

Online fast fashion retailer SHEIN is hosting the latest in its traveling series of pop-up events at San Francisco’s Embarcadero Center from June 24 to 26, 2022. The online resale platform offered Bay Area customers 40% off their first ThredUP purchase and free shipping if they pledged not to shop the SHEIN pop-up event.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

thanks to on-trend discount offerings enabled by its real-time fast fashion model. The company has been able to cut the time from product design to shipping from three weeks to five days, allowing it to offer an evolving slate of the latest of-the-moment trends. Shein has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Brand fulfilment and digital concessions are on the rise, which is more or less a form of dropshipping, except the goods are shipped directly from the supplier in branded packaging. Meanwhile, with traditional dropshipping, the goods will ship blind, without any marketing material that reveals the identity of the supplier.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

Last year’s must-have dress, yesterday’s flares and countless other Western castoffs are strangling the Global South, prompting calls for fast fashion to pay the price for rampant overproduction. “Many of these garments should have been disposed of there, yet they put them into bales and ship them here.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

In recent decades, fast fashion became incredibly popular due to its cost efficiency, both for manufacturers and consumers. Today, with technological advancements reaching new heights, the fashion industry is aiming to phase out the use of coal and reach 100% use of electricity through solely renewable sources by 2030.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The privately-held fast-fashion site currently ships orders from China to more than 150 countries where it operates. Shein is planning to build three large distribution centers in the U.S. to help speed deliveries to customers in three to four days.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

People can request a prepaid shipping label from the website and send their clothes to ThredUp for sorting. This raises another question: with the resale market booming, is hyper-consumerism associated with fast fashion shifting to preloved fashion? Fast (preloved) fashion. Is that a concern?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Fast fashion retailer Shein is set to open its first permanent store in the world – in Japan’s capital Tokyo. The store, located in the bustling fashion precinct of Harajuku, will open on November 13. However, they cannot purchase on the spot at this store – the products are shipped to their home or office.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Supply bottlenecks, slower product deliveries and higher freight and labour costs risk shifting the fast fashion industry into the slow lane, as shown this week by British online fashion retailer Asos. Cheap supplies from Asia have been central to many fast fashion business models. SLOW TRANSIT.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2022

They head a growing list of retail brands which have already announced actions to end or reduce sales in Russia, including Swedish fast-fashion company H&M, online apparel store Asos, and tech giant Apple. Spanish fast-fashion rival Mango said it would temporarily close its stores and website in Russia.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Your clients’ websites must clearly communicate how inventory can be delivered, arrival time frames, and what different shopping and shipping options cost. Undertake the following: Create a sitewide banner that boldly announces purchase-by dates for remote holiday shipping to prevent consumer letdown and brand reputation damage.

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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

MARCH 9, 2023

Online fast-fashion retailer Shein and its newer rival Temu are in a race to win shoppers’ attention for their inexpensive China-made goods. Shein, originally founded in China, relies on drop-shipping directly from its extensive network of China-based suppliers. “I am with Temu who has the same and more for less.”

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2022

China is Fast Retailing’s biggest foreign market, with 863 stores on the mainland and almost 90 outlets in Shanghai, where stringent lockdown measures, introduced in late March, remain in place to contain the country’s worst outbreak of the pandemic.

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VMS

JUNE 1, 2021

Fast fashion brand H&M (Stockholm), owner of second-hand retailer Sellply, said it will open 20 more locations in Europe, according to Business of Fashion. Sellply handles the sales process from retrieving merchandise from sellers’ homes to listing, selling and shipping those items.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JANUARY 17, 2023

The fast fashion retailer turns out new trends even faster than the likes of Zara and H&M. Shein, unlike some of its rivals, does not have any permanent stores and now is the largest online only fashion site in the world. Shein is even taking on legacy fast fashion stalwarts. Do you like this content?

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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. Keeping costs down with drop-ship.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2023

Like Shein, Temu offers discounted fashion and lifestyle goods, but unlike Shein it sources and ships directly from manufacturers in China. Suppliers can design more personalised products, accurately plan production volumes and efficiently manage warehousing and shipping.

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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. Disruptions in the supply chain increased the cost of goods and shipping steeply.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2022

Co-founder and co-CEO Kirsten Kore says the business is in the “right place at the right time” to capitalise on consumers’ growing interest in sustainable alternatives to fast fashion, such as rental. According to FMI, global online clothing rental sales are expected to grow 11 per cent CAGR between 2021 and 2031.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Sustainability has become a top priority for investors and consumers concerned about the looming climate crisis – and the fashion industry, one of the leading creators of global emissions, is increasingly focused on portraying its green cred.

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Retail Focus

MAY 9, 2023

A quarter (25%) were still choosing next day deliveries or fast fulfilment options, while almost a fifth (17%) of Gen Z who identified as sustainably-minded shoppers admitted to still buying fast fashion, despite being renowned for its damaging impact on the planet.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The fast fashion company saw the highest year-over-year growth in downloads of any retailer’s app globally, and also drove the most sessions. Well, we know that shipping is still an issue like it was last year. Mobile Retailing Requires a ‘Mindset Shift’. It was the second-most downloaded shopping app in the U.S.,

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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.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

But while the retailer operates a global e-commerce site and ships to over 130 countries around the world, its point of difference is clearly its department stores, which feature multiple restaurants, including a rooftop eatery by Dior, a cinema, numerous beauty and personal shopping services and even a skatepark.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2023

Textile sorting and disposal Textile recycling facilities are becoming more readily available, but it can be difficult for brands to ascertain the type of textiles that can be recycled, what the downcycled textiles are being made into, and whether textiles are being shipped to low-income countries or being incinerated.

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Independent Retailer

APRIL 19, 2022

Most of that transportation takes place by ship. In 2019, the shipping industry accounted for about three percent of global carbon emissions, and that number is expected to rise to 17 percent by 2050. Unless you know how impactful each of those attributes are within any given product category, it is best to leave it up to the experts.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Once an item is sold, it’s shipped from Balenciaga and the seller receives either financial compensation or credit for use in Balenciaga stores. Enacting change is proving to be very good for business, even though the fashion industry is in the top five most-polluting industries in the world. Resale-as-a-service.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Recent improvements to the customer experience, including the ability for lenders to generate shipping labels with Australia Post , and the launch of three-hour delivery for last-minute rentals, have been key to its growth. The post What’s next for Designerex, the Airbnb of fashion rental appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 12, 2021

For NFT enthusiasts, online fashion does not replace physical purchases. For NFT enthusiasts, online fashion does not replace physical purchases. But Paula Sello and Alissa Aulbekova, co-founders of the digital fashion start-up Auroboros, say it could be an environmentally-friendly alternative to fast fashion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

According to a study by the World Bank, the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of annual global carbon emissions, which is more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. In today’s age, sustainable fashion matters.

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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.

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365 Retail

MAY 9, 2023

A quarter (25%) were still choosing next day deliveries or fast fulfilment options, while almost a fifth (17%) of Gen Z who identified as sustainably-minded shoppers admitted to still buying fast fashion, despite being renowned for its damaging impact on the planet.

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