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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

Fast fashion, or making and selling cheap clothes with a short lifespan, is “highly unsustainable”, the Commission said in July. Africa awash At the Barcelona plant, garments arrive from more than 7,000 donation bins in supermarkets and Zara and Mango stores.

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10 retailers cutting jobs in 2025

Retail Gazette

The supermarket chain is seeking to expand the amount of buying roles at its Atherstone head office. 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.

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Art, community and creativity: Three shopping centres setting new standards

Inside Retail

Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. Supermarket giant, tick. Major department store, tick. Cinema, tick. We’ve all encountered those shopping centres that look and feel the same, no matter where you are in the world.

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AV in retail: Putting the customer first

Retail Focus

Supermarkets, for example, are targeting promotions based on different areas of their stores or using screens to manage queues. This is exceptionally helpful in industries such as fast fashion, where styles are being changed out continuously, and restaurants, where new menu additions and daily specials can be visually displayed.” .

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How an Aussie startup is helping Lululemon tap into ‘infinite recycling’

Inside Retail

Samsara Eco established a partnership with Woolworths late last year, with its infinitely recycled packaging set to be on supermarket shelves in the near future. It has been described by the company as the world’s first “infinitely recycled” project using nylon 66 and polyester materials. It follows a big year for the startup.

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Meet Big C: The Thai hypermarket chain thriving in small cities

Inside Retail

You might not get the glam of a trendy big-city mall; there are no fast fashion retailers here, no H&M, no Zara. In fact, there are hardly any fashion stores at all, and that’s partly the point. This is a social concept through and through, built around food, entertainment and services.

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Why department stores are thriving in Japan even as the US sector shrinks

Inside Retail

Supermarkets (5,921 stores) gained 1.8 The nation’s 56,000 convenience stores posted a sales increase of 5.4 Large specialty stores selling home appliances (2,667 of them) were down by 4.6 per cent and home improvement sales (4,440 stores) were down 0.4 per cent gain. METI counted 190 department stores for its first quarter survey.