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| Dec 20, 2024 | Don't Bank on Holiday Sales to Save Your Bottom Line — Here's How to Engage the Discount-Driven Customer Year-Round Consumers are expected to hit holiday spending records this year with more shoppers than ever looking for deals. Instead of focusing on what's directly in front of them, retailers ...... | The holiday shopping frenzy — Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and every "deal day" in between — has become a staple of retail. In 2024, Black Friday alone saw a record $10.8 billion in U.S. online sales, with discounts driving the mot... |
| Nov 16, 2024 | The Battle for Workers' Rights: A Showdown Between Corporations and the NLRB | The landscape of labor rights in the United States is shifting. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) stands at a crossroads, facing unprecedented challenges from powerful corporations like Amazon and SpaceX. These companies are not jus... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | 'Gen Z Worships Influencers' — 5 Myths About Young People and How Businesses Can Win Them Over By looking beyond stereotypes, stores can build stronger connections with young consumers | They live online. They worship influencers. They're budget shoppers. They're not joiners.
Those are all familiar tropes about Gen Z and other young shoppers. As it turns out, they're all wrong. I've got the data to prove it.
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| Jul 18, 2024 | Crocs Chief Marketing Officer Heidi Cooley Joins Fellow Board of Directors | Fellow Logo
New board member brings diverse brand marketing expertise to the specialty beverage space
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Fellow, the specialty beverage gear company helping elevate everyday rituals into momen... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Discounts and Deals Used to Be Enough to Make Loyal Customers — But Not Anymore. This Is What You Need Now. Building brand loyalty today requires more than just low prices, discounts, deals and referrals for deeper, lasting relationships with customers. | Building brand loyalty previously relied on price. Discounts, deals and offers for referrals and reviews were typical promotional tactics. In the current competitive marketplace, however, the key to sustainable growth and success lies in bu... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Rootless raising $1.2M for seaweed-based hormonal health | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Rootless, a seaweed supplement startup that supports hormonal health, aims to raise a $1.2 million seed via crowdfunding by the end of June, CEO Sachi Singh tells Axi... |
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| Oct 30, 2023 | Meet Emma and Jens Grede, the team behind Kim Kardashian's Skims and Kylie Jenner's new clothing line, Khy | Kim Kardashian, Jens Grede, and Emma Grede pose with the Amazon Innovation Award during the 2022 CFDA Fashion Awards. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Emma and Jens Grede are the power couple behind celebrity brands like Skims and Brady.
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| Oct 25, 2023 | Viral drama spills across TikTok in a fragmented mess. These are the best 'tea' or gossip channels that you should follow. | Culture Viral drama spills across TikTok in a fragmented mess. These are the best 'tea' or gossip channels that you should follow.
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| Sep 29, 2023 | Не просто развлечение: как иммерсивные технологии применяют везде — от тушения пожаров до хирургии | Шлемы виртуальной реальности и AR-гарнитуры многим все еще кажутся прежде всего блажью для игр, метавселенных и других развлечений. Но игровой сегмент составляет лишь 28% от общего объема огромного XR-рынка, который составляет $105 млрд. Се... |
| Aug 1, 2023 | Let’s Get “Phygital” — Connecting With Consumers In-Store Or At Home | Women Shopping Online While in a StoreAdobeStock_240749648 |
| Jul 21, 2023 | The history of Skims: Kim Kardashian's wildly popular $4 billion shapewear line | Kim Kardashian said she might be more "covered-up" in Skims campaigns as she gets older. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Skims, the shapewear brand that Kim Kardashian owns, is worth $4 billion.
The brand sells undergarments and apparel ... |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Generative AI in Ecommerce: A Look Beyond Texts | Experimenting with generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT may rather quickly lead to faster and more creative text ‘writing’, but the technology harbours many more opportunities for ecommerce. However, not without risk. Therefore, ... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | How Influencer Marketing Could Shift In 2023: Aligning Values And Seeking Authenticity | Cole Mason is cofounder and CEO of creator collaboration platform Pearpop. |
| Apr 11, 2023 | TikTok considers ditching its ‘Friends’ tab for a new ‘Explore’ experience focused on discovery | Unlike Facebook, TikTok grew in popularity by connecting users with their interests, not their real-life friends and family. In fact, many people today deny the app’s request to upload their contacts because TikTok is a place where they don... |
| Apr 10, 2023 | Moj Mahdara On Closing The Gap Between Founders And Investors | Moj MahdaraKohl Murdock |
| Mar 28, 2023 | Pepsi embraces maximalism for first visual overhaul in 14 years | A branded reality show, a virtual restaurant and soda experiments ranging from nitro-infused cola to Peeps collaborations are just a few of the creative swings Pepsi has taken in recent years to establish what it bills as a “disruptor” repu... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | How to Startup: Mission Acquisition | Numbers don’t lie, but often they don’t tell the whole story. If you look at the facts and figures alone, launching a startup seems like a daunting enterprise. It seems like a miracle anyone makes it out the other side.
90% of startups arou... |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Sephora’s TikTok Training Holds Lessons For Social Beyond TikTok | |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Бьюти-ритейл: тренды, которые не развиты в России | Привет, это Antro. Мы разобрали сотни исследований и статистики о бьюти-сфере в eCommerce. В статье собрали популярные практики из США, Европы и Азии, которые пока не так развиты в СНГ. Рассказываем, что можно внедрить в бизнесе, чтобы стат... |
| Dec 16, 2022 | Panic over sex toy sales at CVS and Target is overblown— they've been sold at the retailers for years | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Conservative lawmakers and pundits criticized stores like Target and CVS for stocking sex toys.
But national chains began carrying the brands in 2021 and are adding more products all the time.
The sexual wellness mar... |
| Dec 9, 2022 | Arielle Charnas' company, Something Navy, is floundering amid dwindling sales, an employee exodus, and furious suppliers | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The India-based supplier was incensed. It was June, and buzzy clothing brand Something Navy — founded by the influencer Arielle Charnas — w... |
| Dec 8, 2022 | John Deere And Prose: Digital Transformation Is 80% Strategy And 20% Technology | Last week Boston Consulting Group announced the formation of BCG X, a unit dedicated to digital transformation. They also released a study saying that 60% of companies surveyed plan to increase spending on digital transformation in 2023 des... |
| Nov 15, 2022 | The Organized Consumer — How To Respond To This Holiday’s Growing Retail Trend | Young couple walking in shopping mall for Christmas. Holding Christmas gifts and wearing warm ... [+] clothing.getty |
| Nov 14, 2022 | Here are the 25 fastest-growing DTC brands, according to monthly traffic and Q3 growth from Similarweb data | Molekule, Bev, Brave Robot, Eclipse Foods, and Hiya Health were among Similarweb's 25 fastest-growing DTC brands in the third quarter. Marianne Ayala/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and ... |
| Oct 10, 2022 | Old Navy Scales Back But Stitch Fix Commits To Plus Size Despite Mill Closure | Stitch Fix has joined Old Navy in scaling back its own label inclusive apparel. (Photographer: ... [+] Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg)© 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| Oct 7, 2022 | Education Path Leads To Unlikely Entrepreneurial Success For Garrett Greller | Garrett Greller has been honing his craft as an entrepreneur for over half of his life, and he's 26. ... [+] getty |
| Sep 19, 2022 | How Tymely aims to improve chatbot conversations | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
As digitization continues to shape consumer behavior toward ecommerce businesses, consumers are increasingly demanding ... |
| Aug 24, 2022 | How young brands are shoring up their businesses ahead of a potential recession | While an economic downturn isn’t guaranteed, brands are increasingly starting to prepare for worst-case scenarios in the coming months. Record-high inflation rates, coupled with unstable market conditions, have led emerging brands to map ou... |
| Aug 8, 2022 | Brands are using forums like Reddit for awareness and product development | For Short Story, using social media discussion isn’t so much a marketing play as it is an R&D device. It’s also a quick way to build a community around the brand’s mission, as it tries to cater to specific body types.
Crowdsourcing onli... |
| Aug 2, 2022 | DTC Briefing: Why community building has become such a hot topic for startups | Now, the term is being tossed around more by DTC brands for a few reasons. One, is that there are simply more tools, like Geneva, through which DTC brands can build chatrooms for their customers. Previously, brands mostly stuck to Slack (wh... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | How DTC startup Parade is moving beyond underwear and into new retail channels | Nearly three years after launching, Parade is diversifying its channels and product assortments.
The move is in line with other digitally-native brands, like Allbirds and Lalo, in trying to diversify their offerings and distribution to reac... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | How DTC startup Parade is moving beyond underwear and into new retail channels | A big part of that is in attracting shoppers with exclusive colors, patterns and collaborations.
For example, Parade struck collaborations with larger brands early on — and continues to release them every few months to draw buzz. A couple o... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | ‘People want to engage with the brand’: Glossier’s executive creative director on opening a new store in D.C. | I understand that each Glossier location has some unique features in the store. From a design perspective, what are some of the elements you consider when building a new location?
There are a few different, I would say, creative guardrails ... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | From beauty behemoth to bankruptcy: Five lessons companies can learn from Revlon | Source: Unsplash/Raphael Lovaski
When the news broke last week about Revlon filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, many weren’t surprised. It’s not just the external supply, cost issues and debt that the company was experiencing but it... |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Unpacked: From deep discounts to phaseouts, how retailers are unloading excess inventory | “Part of it is trying to create demand for something that’s typically either not exactly in season or you just have too much and your normal sales are not going to reduce the levels enough you need to encourage more people to buy it,” Berli... |
| May 31, 2022 | Why recycled luxury brand Philip Karto is opening physical stores | In some instances luxury sales associates personally reach out to customers when new products come in or even write handwritten notes for customers, Wong said. Chanel, on the other hand, said it is planning to open dedicated boutiques for i... |
| May 24, 2022 | Clothing Labels Can Underline a Fashion Brand’s Cause Marketing Efforts, says Hi-Tech Printing & Labeling | Los Angeles-based Hi-Tech Printing & Labeling Inc. provides labels and tags for clothing manufacturers and more nationwide. Ehen brands take a stand, it’s crucial that they reach out to their sympathetic clientele.
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| May 18, 2022 | YouTube teases livestream shopping expansion with co-streams, live redirects | In recent years, YouTube has been working to transform its platform into more of a shopping destination with product launches like shoppable ads or more recently, the ability to shop directly from livestreams hosted by creators. Now, it’s f... |
| May 12, 2022 | How Southeast Asia’s booming recommerce market can reach the next level | EcommerceTIA Partnership
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In August last year, United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres called a report ... |
| May 9, 2022 | How Studs is approaching its ear piercing studio expansion | One of Studs’ latest locations, at Nashville’s Fifth + Broadway shopping complex, is meant to be an alternative to its existing location on the popular South Congress strip.
Studs now says it is rethinking its physical footprint as more peo... |
| May 9, 2022 | How Studs is approaching its ear piercing studio expansion | After pausing physical expansion during the height of the pandemic, piercing studio startup Studs is plotting a rapid expansion throughout 2022.
In the past few weeks, Studs opened two new shops, bringing its total to 11 locations across th... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | ‘It’s important to have a showroom’: DTC furniture brand Burrow plans to open 10 new stores | He said apart from its Boston store, the location for the other stores has yet to be finalized. However, Kuhl said that he’s eyeing locations where many of its customers reside and is around 2,000 to 4,000 square feet.
Polly Wong, president... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | ‘It’s important to have a showroom’: DTC furniture brand Burrow plans to open 10 new stores | Burrow is bringing its design-centered furniture to more cities across the U.S.
Over the next two years, the direct-to-consumer furniture and lifestyle brand will open 10 new stores. One of its newest stores in Boston will open by appointme... |
| Apr 18, 2022 | Rental and resale services hope to benefit from inflation concerns | James Reinhart, co-founder and CEO of ThredUp, said in a statement that “in a world where retailers have been forced to raise prices due to inflation or supply-chain pressures, consumers can always find a vast and ever-fresh selection of se... |
| Apr 15, 2022 | ‘The consumer of the future’: Luxury brands place their bets on Gen Z | “Brands are finding that, especially in collabs with Tik Tok or Instagram or other such channels, they’re able to kind of build a following then have a level of virality to them,” George said.
Versace, for instance, has grown a following of... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Amazon Briefing: How new stores could aid in Amazon’s fashion discovery efforts | This is the latest installment of the Amazon Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail column about the ever-changing Amazon ecosystem. To receive it in your inbox every week, sign up here.
Later this year, Amazon will open its first brick-and-morta... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Amazon Briefing: How new stores could aid in Amazon’s fashion discovery efforts | The Drop has just 371,000 followers on Instagram despite numerous high-profile influencer partnerships. StyleSnap has very few social media references despite the retailer’s promise that it would “change the way you shop, forever.” The comp... |
| Apr 6, 2022 | How DTC home cleaning startups are mapping out their 2022 growth plans | When the coronavirus spread throughout the U.S. in 2020, direct-to-consumer cleaning brand alternatives received an influx of new customers.
Back then, brands like Grove Collaborative, Blueland and Branch Basics experienced a spike in sales... |
| Apr 6, 2022 | How DTC home cleaning startups are mapping out their 2022 growth plans | Similarly, Tim Murphy, CEO of non-toxic cleaning brand Branch Basics, said the green cleaning category is seeing a swing back to a middle ground. “Consumers are now somewhere between stockpiling Lysol and trying better for you variations,” ... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | ‘Apparel is hard’: Why VC funding has moved on from traditional clothing startups | As funding for traditional apparel startups dries up, VCs are instead turning toward more profitable niches like resale or apparel tech.
In the early aughts, e-commerce apparel startups became venture capital darlings as more investor money... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | ‘Apparel is hard’: Why VC funding has moved on from traditional clothing startups | Benton, however, points out that many investments in resale are more about platform, than product.
“Depop was a tremendous success story [after it] was acquired by Etsy last fall,” said Benton. “I would still say that that looks and feels m... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Inside livestream marketplace Whatnot’s plans to ‘double down’ on NFTs | Livestream shopping platform Whatnot is going all-in on NFTs.
In January, Whatnot started letting users resell their NFTs (non-fungible tokens), which are essentially receipts powered by the blockchain that symbolize ownership of a digital ... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Inside livestream marketplace Whatnot’s plans to ‘double down’ on NFTs | Thomas Sineau, senior manager at CB Insights, said that NFT buyers are often younger consumers that are willing to spend money on these assets. He said many NFT buyers are gamers or Web 3 enthusiasts, a consumer group that many brands are e... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | ‘We really saw the viability’: How Peace Out leverages viral moments on TikTok for growth | Peace Out’s wake-up call to change its business model came in the form of a TikTok duet almost two years ago. Skincare influencer Hyram Yarbro posted a duet on the app — which the company said it didn’t sponsor — essentially giving his stam... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | ‘We really saw the viability’: How Peace Out leverages viral moments on TikTok for growth | For Peace Out, the brand prefers to team up with nano- and micro-influencers as well as TikTok dermatologists because customers tend to trust them more, Pence said. The company’s founder and CEO Enrico Frezza also appears in some of Peace O... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | How Harry Rosen used chatbots to help its 11-person customer service team | During the retailer’s early days of operation, founder Harry Rosen’s personal rolodex served as a database where customers’ birthdays, kids’ names and anniversaries were then used in personalized interactions with customers, Maciel noted. N... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | How resale players are charting new paths for growth in 2022 | In the short term, Reinhart said resale-as-a-service assists platforms with a “supply advantage” and increases “sell-through” and a “return on assets.” Longer term, Reinhart believes the model will drive the platform closer to profitability... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | How resale players are charting new paths for growth in 2022 | According to their most recent earnings, resale companies like ThredUp and Poshmark are looking to stand out as the space grows — and gets more crowded.
The apparel resale sector grew by an estimated $9 billion to a total of $43.2 billion i... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | Moving To Where The Consumer Is Can Be The Difference Maker For Brands | Social media and digital online concept, woman using smartphone and show technology icon. getty |
| Feb 17, 2022 | ‘New York will always be our flagship’: Stadium Goods remodels Soho store to highlight apparel | What we really want to do is optimize that in-store experience for our customers and give them something that feels different, that feels elevated and premium because we pride ourselves in being the premium destination for sneakers and stre... |
| Feb 17, 2022 | ‘New York will always be our flagship’: Stadium Goods remodels Soho store to highlight apparel | Stadium Goods is openings the doors to its newly renovated and expanded Soho store this week.
The now-2,860 square feet store features a modified 360-degree circular cash wrap, a fitting room, a “Sock Bar” that showcases a wide selection of... |
| Feb 16, 2022 | Why more DTC brands are testing linear TV ads | Even given the relative success, Behrens said “I’d never spend all our budget on upper funnel like linear, but we’ll see how it fits into our budget later this year.”
DTC smoothie brand Kencko also began testing linear TV advertising over t... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | Mall-based brands like Gap and Abercrombie are having a ‘renaissance’ on TikTok | Meanwhile, a growing number of retailers have also been using the app to inform their merchandising decisions — including what product to launch, which influencer to team up with and what product to bring back.
When its website relaunched i... |
| Feb 4, 2022 | Addison Rae launches 'blue light face mist' just a few months after another influencer had to cancel the same product due to backlash | News Addison Rae launches 'blue light face mist' just a few months after another influencer had to cancel the same product due to backlash
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| Feb 4, 2022 | Addison Rae launches ‘blue light face mist’ just a few months after another influencer had to cancel the same product due to backlash | Addison Rae launched a blue light mist just a few weeks after Valkyrae had to cancel her similar product due to backlash. Screen Break, RFLCT
Addison Rae has just launched a “blue light mist” to protect skin from the blue light from screens... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | ‘We’re just going to bite the bullet’: After holding off for a year, some startups are raising their prices in 2022 | This week, direct-to-consumer bedding brand Buffy is the latest DTC brand to implement a price increase.
In an email to customers, the company said “we wanted you to be the first to know that on February 1, we’ll be raising prices across ou... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | ‘We’re just going to bite the bullet’: After holding off for a year, some startups are raising their prices in 2022 | In early January, Stojo notified its DTC consumers of their new pricing structure beginning January 10: an increase between $1 and $5 on select products. Swarts said that before Stojo announced the price hikes, “we gave everyone a week’s no... |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Glossier lays off over 80 employees | Beauty brand Glossier announced to its staff today that it is laying off over 80 employees. That’s about one-third of the DTC brand’s corporate workforce.
In an email announcing the layoffs, which was obtained by Modern Retail, Glossier CEO... |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Glossier lays off over 80 employees | This year, expanding Glossier’s retail footprint has been a big focus for the company. In her email, Weiss named several milestone achievements by Glossier in 2021. These included opening new stores in Seattle, Los Angeles and London and la... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | ‘Cult following’: How Liquid Death sold $3M worth of merch last year | There’s no strict cadence Liquid Death follows for merchandise drops, but Cessario said the company typically releases three to five items per month. More than 50% of people who buy water through Liquid Death’s site also attach merchandise ... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | ‘Cult following’: How Liquid Death sold $3M worth of merch last year | Since launching in 2019, canned water company Liquid Death has been looking for new ways to figure out just how much its customers are willing to shell out for company-branded merchandise.
Last summer, the company advertised made-to-order L... |
| Jan 20, 2022 | Amazon Briefing: Why casualwear is still dominant on Amazon | This is the latest installment of the Amazon Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail column about the ever-changing Amazon ecosystem. To receive it in your inbox every week, sign up here.
Despite Amazon’s foray into luxury fashion, shoppers are st... |
| Jan 20, 2022 | Amazon Briefing: Why casualwear is still dominant on Amazon | This strategic shift to separate luxury fashion from the rest of its cavernous marketplace has been viewed as a means of giving those high-profile companies more control over branding and the appearance of exclusivity. Meanwhile, casualwear... |
| Jan 17, 2022 | Walmart Plans Launch Of NFTs Cryptocurrency And Tokens As It Dives Into The Metaverse And Virtual Reality | Group of young people wearing Oculus glasses to shop in virtual reality.getty |
| Jan 13, 2022 | Amazon Briefing: Is Amazon missing out on the rise of social commerce in Asia? | This is the latest installment of the Amazon Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail column about the ever-changing Amazon ecosystem. To receive it in your inbox every week, sign up here.
Amazon is losing ground to social commerce apps in Asia.
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| Jan 13, 2022 | Amazon Briefing: Is Amazon missing out on the rise of social commerce in Asia? | If it was to do so, the decision would likely be viewed as a reaction to rival Flipkart’s own push into social commerce. The Walmart-owned online shopping service, the largest e-commerce platform in India, launched a dedicated social commer... |
| Jan 12, 2022 | How Walgreens is growing beauty sales beyond the coronavirus halo effect | Experts claim that improvements to the app and loyalty program are key to generating more beauty sales from store visitors. Walgreens is already using “aggressive promotions” to target customers and its personalization efforts can help it t... |
| Jan 10, 2022 | Timberland launches recycling program for footwear and apparel | But in many ways, Timberland is late to the resale game compared to heritage outdoor brands like Patagonia, LL Bean or North Face. Patagonia launched its free repair program in 2017, NorthFace launched its recycling program in 2017 and LL B... |
| Jan 3, 2022 | How Abercrombie is reinventing itself to become a digital retail leader in 2022 | Alongside external-facing site changes, Desai is working to update its internal digital technology and data analytics processes. For example, Abercrombie added a customer insights team in 2015, and the company plans to grow this team in 202... |
| Jan 3, 2022 | Department stores are running out of ways to reinvent themselves going into 2022 | Fueled by this digital growth, many department stores like Kohl’s and Macy’s have finally returned to pre-pandemic sales levels in the back half of 2021. But it’s little cause for celebration as department stores struggle to grow sales from... |
| Dec 23, 2021 | Following its acquisition by Wacoal, Lively is using its ambassador program to drive growth | After being acquired by intimates conglomerate Wacoal in 2019 for $85 million, direct-to-consumer lingerie brand Lively has been building out its ambassador program to drive growth.
Lively launched its ambassador program in 2015 with 100 am... |
| Dec 23, 2021 | Following its acquisition by Wacoal, Lively is using its ambassador program to drive growth | The brand has also hosted over 300 events in person and online for ambassadors as well as broader community members. Every month, for example, the brand hosts a “New Member Mixer” for ambassadors in New York to get to know each other. Livel... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | ‘Connect the dots with publishers’: Walmart is doubling down on livestream shopping with a new TalkShopLive partnership | “We know shoppers are constantly looking for inspiration in new places, particularly on social media and are shopping more in the moment,” Schlaybaugh wrote. “We want to continue to curate special experiences that live in dynamic, immersive... |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Lululemon’s Mirror struggles among crowded connected fitness space | A RunRepeat research report from the fall predicted online fitness to grow 66.32% by the end of 2021, in comparison to pre-pandemic levels in 2019 and earlier; the connected fitness segment is expected to have a 33.10% per-year growth rate ... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | The founder of Untuckit launched a degradable activewear brand | This story was first published on Glossy, Modern Retail’s sibling publication
Polyester and nylon are some of the most used materials in the fashion industry, especially in the activewear sector. And yet they are also one of the worst when ... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | The founder of Untuckit launched a degradable activewear brand | During the pandemic, the founder had noticed that he was wearing through his sports socks at an alarming pace. Building on his experience at Untuckit, which celebrated a decade on the market last month, Sanandres was moved to tackle another... |
| Dec 6, 2021 | Brands are betting that shopping in virtual reality is on the horizon | Ralph Lauren in August said that its digital clothing line on Zepeto marked its entrance into virtual economies. Taking interactivity further, Nike’s Nike Land level in Roblox allows users to play and create mini games, purchase digital spo... |
| Nov 18, 2021 | Companies like Nestle and Coca-Cola are eager to use more recycled material — here’s why that actually raises concerns over sustainability | Thanks to several big companies, these bottles are now extra valuable. Rehman Asad/Getty Images
Companies are setting ambitious goals for increasing the use of recycled plastic, driving demand.
Recycled polyester depends on the collection o... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | Why payment providers are investing in livestream shopping | For its part, Klarna is harnessing live shopping to reach younger consumers, whose purchasing decisions it claims are heavily influenced by social media. In February, the company hosted a livestream event from Macy’s Herald Square flagship ... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | Why payment providers are investing in livestream shopping | American Express and Klarna want to bring livestream shopping to the masses.
The two payment providers are putting their financial weight behind the nascent retail format, a QVC for the streaming age, which proponents tout as the future of ... |
| Oct 20, 2021 | Why children’s apparel growth is outpacing men’s and women’s wear | “We’re having huge momentum in the kids space,” said Feldman. “We have a belief that we can take Kids Foot Locker to actually be a billion-dollar brand in the next few years.”
Other brands are also stepping into childrenswear for the first ... |
| Oct 12, 2021 | URBN achieves the retail-resale-rental trifecta with launch of Nuuly Thrift | Resale is a much larger market opportunity than rental. By 2025, global rental revenue is expected to be more than $2 billion, while resale will hit $77 billion.
According to data from Nuuly, Nuuly’s approximately 30,000 subscribers already... |
| Sep 9, 2021 | Nordstrom is the latest retailer to expand its health and wellness assortment | Wellness has always been an amorphous category: retailers will list anything from vibrators to facial skincare rollers to workout gear within their beauty and wellness hubs. Nordstrom’s partnership with Viome signals a further expansion of ... |
| Sep 9, 2021 | The Human Element: People Need To Be Front And Center In Retailers’ ESG Commitments | http://blogtoscano.altervista.org/cstu.jpggetty |
| Sep 2, 2021 | Women’s Viagra-Like Sex Serum Coming To Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks And Nordstrom | Vella Bioscience Vella women's pleasure serum Photo by Kendall Mills |
| Sep 2, 2021 | Meet Yuty, the beauty business building sustainable AI | As investor and consumer interest in sustainable beauty brands grows, UK-based Yuty has just secured £500k in pre-seed funding. With Black female founders receiving just 0.02% of VC funding in the UK, it’s only the tenth business in the UK ... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Tracee Ellis Ross, Pattern Beauty founder: ‘Beauty ends up being a portal into your soul’ | You may know her best as an actress, but Tracee Ellis Ross’ efforts to highlight diversity, equity and inclusion do not stop in Hollywood. In 2019, Ross launched her line of natural hair products, Pattern Beauty, to fill a void she witnesse... |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Fred Segal’s Jeff Lotman on the fashion retailer’s return to global expansion | Fred Segal has been dubbed “the curator of LA cool.” How do you translate “coolness” across your storefront locations around the globe?
We’re really going to constantly push the LA look, but at the same time, as we go to other countries and... |
