Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

McKinsey & Co stated in mid-2022 that social commerce comprised more than 13 per cent of China’s total e-commerce sales. In the US, social commerce is anticipated to double to US$80 billion in annual sales between 2021 and 2025, putting the US second only to China in social commerce, although China outsells the US by a factor of 10.

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Hunton Andrews Kurth

MAY 16, 2022

The FTC continues its pursuit of deceptive Made in USA claims, this time with allegations that company Lions Not Sheep and its owner, Sean Whalen, marketed apparel as being “Made in USA,” “Made in America,” “100% AMERICAN MADE,” and “BEST DAMN AMERICAN MADE GEAR ON THE PLANET” when in fact the products were made in China.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Price hikes drive urgency in China. Price hikes drive urgency in China As rumours of the price adjustments began circulating, several Chinese bloggers posted the latest prices of key Louis Vuitton products, indicating much higher price increases for customers in Asia. per cent and 20 per cent – respectively.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

Hublot and Bulgari, alongside LVMH stablemates Zenith and TAG Heuer, are holding LVMH Watch Week online, with digital presentations of their latest collections. But they bounced back last year, with Swiss watch exports slightly above 2019 levels at the end of November, thanks to strong demand in the United States and China.

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Hunton Andrews Kurth

JANUARY 11, 2023

Beware the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: FTC Takes Action Against Apparel Retailer Who Bragged He Could Rip Off Consumers by Ripping Out Made in China Tags. FTC Holds Online Fashion Brand Accountable for Suppressing Negative Reviews, Issues Updated Guidance for Marketers, and Warns Review Platforms.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2023

A] lot of our stuff is manufactured in China, and they’ve had months-long shutdowns that we couldn’t foresee,” she said. We’re also progressing [with] sustainable packaging – whether it be through our swing-tags, or how our products are packaged – to minimise our footprint,” she said. But we have been growing. A moving target.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Value Many Australians might associate “made in China” with cheap price tags and low quality. Temu’s sister company operating in China, Pinduoduo, is renowned for its AI-driven recommendation system. But beyond that, similar to other e-commerce platforms, using it isn’t entirely risk- or guilt-free.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

After “six years of development and trial and error” Construct It has grown to be one of the company’s most successful brands, with products conceived and designed in Australia and manufactured in China. Licencing can be a massive growth driver for a business if they take on the right assets or licences,” he explains.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Justifying the billion-dollar price tags Rather than signalling the strength of Australia’s retail landscape more broadly, the acquisitions of Aesop and Zimmermann reflect the quality of these particular brands and the global recognition they have achieved, Grant Thornton Australia’s financial advisory partner, Peter Thornely, argues.

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2021

The 100-yen stores range over 100,000 products, including household, kitchenware and cleaning products, many of which are imported from China, Korea, and Japan. It has a presence in around 25 countries worldwide including the US, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. The retailer also supplements stores with an e-commerce offer.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Conducted by the Geena Davis Institute, the survey asked nearly 7000 parents and kids in China, the Czech Republic, Japan, Poland, Russia, the UK and the US, questions such as whether it’s OK for girls to play football and boys to practice ballet. While 82 per cent of girls said it was, only 71 per cent of boys agreed. .

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2023

The group – which includes subsidiaries Louis Vuitton, Dior, Tiffany & Co, Sephora and Tag Heuer – realised a 23 per cent increase in its revenue and profit from recurring operations. The only dent in the group’s performance was in Asia, which was affected by persistent COVID-19 restrictions in China.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2022

The current price tag is going to be the cheapest you’ll ever see because the brand continues to jack up prices,” Cho Eunbit, a Chanel enthusiast from Seoul, said. In China, the price of a Chanel small classic flap bag is US$8,250, exceeding the Hermès Kelly 20cm, which typically begins at US$8,000 for Togo leather.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2021

25 years in the making, built by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, with a reported price tag of $760 million, it is an unmistakably global museum, but it’s also a key part of the emerging West Kowloon Cultural District. From the outset, it was very clear that this would be even more important with M+.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

With issues in ports arising from COVID-19, some retailers switched from sea to air to secure supply of product from manufacturing hubs such as China or India. Shipping companies can obtain information through GPS tags to help locate containers and ships in real time.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The focus on personal service can further be seen on the iconic tag attached to every pair of R.M. “The space. is a fundamental step to fortifying the path we’ve taken and making our customer purpose clearer,” Anders said.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2022

Interestingly, Andretta mentioned that customers in China and Korea are very much attuned to sustainability messages, based on their purchasing habits and browsing behaviours on their international websites. Customers are able to view this information by tapping onto the NFC-enabled tags using their smartphones.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Also, while users can no longer tag products in live broadcasts, they can still host live broadcasts and can still tag their products in photos, Stories and, crucially, Reels. Merchants can still create Shops on Instagram; it’s just the shortcut from the home screen that was removed.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In the last two months alone, TikTok has rolled out dedicated “Shopping Tabs” for Shopify merchants, Twitter began a pilot of its “Shop Module,” and Pinterest made it possible for creators to “control the shopability of their content” by tagging products. Suffice it to say that social commerce has arrived in America.

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Indigo 9 Digital

AUGUST 2, 2022

A Hema supermarket in China. By Tricia McKinnon If you want to know what the future of retail looks like perhaps it’s time for you to take a trip to China. China is considered to be two to three years ahead of the United States when it comes to merging digital with offline retail. Digital price tags.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

SSI currently has production in China, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, India and El Salvador, and is working on expansion into regions such as India, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He began his career in the industry right after receiving his business degree from Seton Hall University in 2014.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Some brands have further reinforced this behaviour by providing additional prizes for consumers who share their photos of the product and tag the brand in their social media posts. Nike debuted “Nike Rise” in Guangzhou, China where visitors are able to use their Nike app while in-store to sign up for local soccer matches and running clubs.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

“For any AI or analytics to be successful you need three things: 1) A lot of data; 2) That data needs to be clean and accurate (big problem with using the internet as a whole for this); and 3) That data needs to be tagged or trained as to what it is. If there were a huge break between the U.S.

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Wiser

MAY 12, 2020

You could also add recommendation tags next to appliances letting consumers know where coffee selection can be found in-store. According to Reuters, coffee importers in some of the largest consuming countries are stockpiling, bringing forward orders by up to a month to avoid shortages if supply chains are disrupted by COVID-19 lockdowns.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

This single innovation –the container ship, swung open the doors of the global economy to countries like China. Like the US of 200 years earlier China was a nation rich with land, resources and – it must be noted – a willingness to engage in varying levels of slave labor. Image credit: The Guardian).

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

Use WhatsApp is your customer service channel for asynchronous chat and you can natively sell stuff through that, B dance which owns Tick-Tock and you know also one of the biggest Platforms in China they have a they have a couple apps now that are doing really well, and you heard it here first on the show the up-and-coming one in the u.s.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2022

Paid Partnership Tool — Pinterest has added a new way for brands to monetize their partnerships with creators — by allowing companies to turn creator-generated Idea Pins in which their product has been tagged into Idea Ads. This is a particularly smart way for Pinterest itself to monetize the growing trend toward user-generated content.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

Like inexpensive, stuff but they they are a public company in China and they in their their earnings, they announced that they had 780 8.4 million users at the end of 2020, and the reason that that is interesting is because, Ali Baba has 779 million which means pin duo duo has more users in China than Alibaba has in China.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite the format’s wild success in China, where it accounted for more than 17% of all ecommerce sales in 2022, livestream commerce has been slower to take off in the U.S. featured Influencer duo XinShiDanDan , a tactical choice based on their massive following in China. Livestream shopping has proven a tough nut to crack in the West.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

4:49] They’re the last couple shows there’s there there have always been what I’ll call digital shelves like electronic fact tags everybody knows I always like to talk about video displays on shelf Edge smart shelf so that know, um what inventory they have on them and.

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