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Amazon opens first cashierless store in UK

Amazon has opened an Amazon Fresh store in the UK, the first of the retail giant’s cashierless stores to open outside of the US. The 2,500-square-foot grocery store, located in Ealing, London, offers what Amazon has aptly called ‘Just Walk Out Shopping’. Customers use the Amazon app to enter the store. Once inside, a network of cameras and...

Mar. 4, 2021

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5 gender neutral brands to watch

The growth of genderless and unisex fashion brands is a sign of the times that the constructs of who-wears-what is evolving. Gen Z especially has embraced wearing clothing they feel comfortable in rather than what has been designated to them based on their sex. Constructs of masculinity and femininity are shifting, blurring the lines between...

Mar. 4, 2021

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In pictures: Dover Street Market opens Paris store

Comme Des Garçons-owned concept store Dover Street Market has opened a new shop at 54 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris. The new, small space, aptly called Dover Little Street Market, showcases seven brands that are part of the Dover Street Market Paris Company’s brand development division, an incubator of emerging talent launched last year....

Mar. 3, 2021

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“Icy Park” by Beyonce x Adidas is hot on StockX

The third collaboration of pop star Beyonce with sportswear giant Adidas,”Icy Park”, which launched on 19th February, has already been able to generate brisk demand on resale platform StockX, including earlier drops. Some pieces from the collection - such as the reversible monogram bucket hat - sold out within 48 hours. This led to brisk demand...

Mar. 3, 2021

Retail

“Icy Park” by Beyonce x Adidas is hot on StockX

The third collaboration of pop star Beyonce with sportswear giant Adidas,”Icy Park”, which launched on 19th February, has already been able to generate brisk demand on resale platform StockX, including earlier drops. Some pieces from the collection - such as the reversible monogram bucket hat - sold out within 48 hours. This led to brisk demand...

Mar. 3, 2021

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Retail after lockdown: how stores can prepare now

One day it will be that time again: retail staff will raise the blinds for the first time in months, unlock the entrance doors and open them wide. And then? Will anyone show up? Avantgarde managing director Martin Schnaack on the most important success factors for stationary retail and how stores now can prepare for a new start. Certainly, in...

Mar. 3, 2021

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Adidas expands streetwear app Confirmed to UK, Europe

Adidas has expanded its streetwear-inspired app Confirmed to the UK, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. The app, which Adidas debuted in August 2020 in the US before expanding it months later to China, taps into the burgeoning streetwear sneaker market and is dedicated to product drops, never-before-seen content and “...

Mar. 2, 2021

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Farfetch launches on Alibaba Group’s Tmall Luxury Pavilion

Farfetch is launching a Tmall Luxury Pavilion flagship store to enable thousands of luxury brands to reach Chinese consumers as part of its localisation strategy in the region. The integration of Farfetch on Tmall means that Alibaba Group’s 779 million consumers will have access to products from more than 3,500 luxury brands, 90 percent of which...

Mar. 1, 2021

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Spanish label Hoss Intropia relaunches following acquisition by Tendam

Spanish brand Hoss Intropia, which was acquired by fashion group Tendam in 2019, is returning to the market with its spring/summer 2021 collection. The label, which was founded in 1994 and positions itself as ‘affordable luxury’, will have its own web store and will also show its collections at shop-in-shops in 20 Spanish flagship stores of...

Feb. 26, 2021

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Etsy targets net-zero carbon emissions by 2030

Online marketplace Etsy has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. The US company said the committee will see it address Scope 1 and 2 emissions, including office operations and purchased energy, as well as Scope 3 emissions, which includes seller activities like shipping and packaging. The target is to slash Scope 1 and 2...

Feb. 24, 2021

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Non-essential stores in England set to reopen in April

Non-essential retailers in England will reopen in April as part of the country’s “cautious” plan to exit lockdown, prime minister Boris Johnson announced Monday afternoon. Speaking to MPs at the House of Commons, Johnson set out a four-step plan to ease lockdown restrictions in the coming months. In the first stage, students will return to...

Feb. 22, 2021

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Northern Ireland extends lockdown to April

Northern Ireland’s lockdown has been extended again in an effort to drive down Covid cases, this time until 1 April. It’s more bad news for non-essential retailers who have been closed since the end of trading on Christmas Eve as part of what was then planned to be a six-week lockdown, but was last month extended until March. The country’s first...

Feb. 22, 2021