28th June 2018
Targetting the wrong customers? Misunderstanding the internet? Spending too much on the wrong things?
Is retail really collapsing? Management’s just getting misguided
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Once the world’s largest retailer, the company has lost $6bn – and 80% of its its staff – over the past five years
The “more inclusive” American Apparel: different DNA, same jeans?
They say:”a celebration of diversity and inclusivity”. But one jean only goes only up to a size 32, though the average American woman is a 38 .
US/Mexico/Canada deal “may bar deals with China”
The proposed US-Mexico-Canada agreement (USMCA) may prevent signatories from starting trade talks with China, experts claimed
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8th October 2018
UK Parliament demands social accountability records from ten leading clothing retailers
Mary Creagh, Chair of the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee revealed on October 5 she had sent a social accountability questionnaire to the country's ten leading clothing retailers , asking:. 1. Are all...
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19th October 2018
Britain’s physical stores keep growing. But is clothing now the exception?
September’s release from Britain’s Office of National Statistics show that sales in physical stores are still growing. They were 3.1% up year on year in September, and 3% for the...
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Read how retailers need to rely on their own customer insights, recapture their self-confidence, and rediscover their native frugality to avoid being the next front page horror story.
