Ever changing technologies and the rise of online shopping hasn’t dented the popularity for brick and mortar retail, but mastering in-store experiences alongside user experience online is the pinnacle of future success. Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, wrote in an opinion piece in Raconteur that online shopping...
Jan. 5, 2022
The State of the In-Store Experience 2021 report has been released, and found that 48 percent of shoppers still prefer to shop in-store. In an article, CEO of Raydiant, Bobby Marhmat, outlined what brick-and-mortar stores can introduce in order to outpace their online competitors. When all other factors are equal, the physical shopping...
Dec. 27, 2021
Online retailer Wildberries has launched in the UK. This Wildberries’ 19th country of presence. The platform has previously launched in the US, Germany, France, Italy, Latvia and others. It originated in Russia, and is now the country’s biggest online retailer. 450,000 entrepreneurs sell goods through the platform. Residents in the UK will now...
Dec. 21, 2021
Global direct-to-consumer e-commerce solution provider ESW has reported that revenues will reach 1.5 billion US dollars in 2021, and will support continued growth with the appointment of Noelle Burke as chief people officer and plans to recruit a further 500 more staff within the next three years. The Dublin-based cross-border e-commerce...
Dec. 14, 2021
Swarovski has announced its new collaboration platform, Creators Lab. The platform allows customers to buy collaboration products from Swarovski channels. Swarovski has also included collaboration brands in its Instant Wonder concept stores for the first time in its history. Collaborations with brands such as FAO Schwarz, Nike and Market will be...
Dec. 13, 2021
Shopify has announced its Black Friday sales to be a total of nearly 2.9 billion dollars. This is a 21 percent increase in sales from 2020, which saw a 75 percent surge in sales due to lockdown. It is also double Shopify’s sales on Black Friday in 2019. Merchants using Shopify earned peak sales of 3.1 million per minute at 12:02 PM EST during...
Nov. 30, 2021
New data suggests around 50 percent of the top 100 most visible¹ websites on Google.com still fail to deliver a “good” page experience on desktop as defined by the Core Web Vitals (Page Experience) update which finished rolling out in August 2021. And 44 percent of the top 100 websites fail on mobile. Fashion ecommerce sites are one of the worst...
Nov. 29, 2021
Nonprofit WomenServe have launched an online holiday shop in collaboration with the Thar Artisan Collective, in order to fight gender inequality in Rajasthan, India. Its shop for a cause website will see 100 percent of the proceeds donated to funding programs in water security, health and education. It aims to promote gender equality through...
Nov. 23, 2021
In this episode, Menswear Style Podcast has interviewed John Bright, founder of menswear brand The Good Neighbour, about his fashion background and why being direct-to-consumer gives customers a fairer price. Also discussed was the benefits of short-term retail space on both branding and ecommerce sales, as well as making clothes from deadstock...
Nov. 22, 2021
Let’s consider for a moment the packaging journey of a garment prior to it arriving in one’s wardrobe. Most garments are packaged several times over before it reaches the customer, seeing multiple variants of discarded single-use packaging. More than 80 billion garments are produced annually across the world, many of which are shipped and packed...
Oct. 15, 2021
Dubai retailers were hit hard by the pandemic, as access was restricted and customers stuck at home turned to online shopping. Majid Al-Futtaim, one of the largest mall operators, with 27 shopping malls across five countries, reported a 7 percent year-on-year fall in revenues to 8.88 billion dollars in 2020, resulting in a net loss of AED 2.7...
May 28, 2021
A new survey shows how women’s clothing purchasing habits and wardrobes have evolved during the pandemic, and how the fashion industry seems to struggle to connect with older female consumers. Tamar Miller, former Head of Merchandising at Gap Inc. and founder of Bells Becks talks to FashionUnited about where the opportunity lies for fashion...
Apr. 30, 2021
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