Retailers

Retailers take cues from streetwear, Gen Z

By Keisha P. Crabtree 1 week ago

The off-price retailer Saks Off Fifth has teamed up with The Phluid Project to create a line of gender-fluid apparel, coinciding with Pride Month.

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For Christina McCann, shopping at the mall involves sifting through the women’s and the men’s aisles in search of the perfect outfit.

McCann, who is nonbinary, often starts out by perusing dresses, which tend to be a better fit for a female body type. Then, McCann will shift to the men’s side of a store to pick out more masculine items: combat boots, oversized tees and sweatpants. McCann, who uses the gender-neutral pronoun they, mostly spends time and money on resale apps like Depop, and shopping vintage goods from thrift shops by browsing by size instead of by gender.

“The way that I dress has changed a lot to reflect what I want people to think about my gender,” the 24-year-old retail

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Retailers shine a spotlight on Black-owned beauty brands

By Keisha P. Crabtree 1 week ago

NEW YORK (AP) — When Rose Ingleton launched her own namesake skincare line two years ago, she couldn’t break into the big chains and was forced to use her own funds and get financial help from family and friends.

But things changed after the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests last year. Ingleton, a Manhattan-based Black dermatologist with more than 20 years of experience, reconnected with beauty chain Sephora and now her products can be found on the retailer’s website as well as at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue.

“There was this sudden awareness,” Ingleton said. “I am now at the top food chain. I’m now getting ready to approach deeper pocket investors.”


As corporations continue to face a racial reckoning, the beauty industry is trying to address the criticism that it centers too many of its products around whiteness by pushing more items onto store shelves that better represent

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Fashion Retailers Of Chicago

By Keisha P. Crabtree 1 month ago

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  • The fashion designer has curated a restricted-edition snack box that can benefit Heart of Dinner, a charity that provides food to Asian American elders in New York City.
  • FashionPass members are answerable for items stolen or broken after supply for 80% of the listed retail price.

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How Entrepreneurs Are Combining Data and Tech to Compete With Large Retailers

By Keisha P. Crabtree 1 month ago


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With people spending more time at home over the past year, it’s not surprising that online shopping has increased exponentially. Ecommerce was up an astounding 44% year-over-year in 2020, according to estimates from Digital Commerce 360, while McKinsey reported that 10 years of ecommerce growth occurred in just 90 days in 2020. However, there’s a lot more to this story than simply the surge in online shopping habits.

Though major online marketplaces still dominate, sales for some actually declined in 2020. The beneficiaries of this trend were niche brands and small businesses, which embraced technology and saw online sales surge. This “long-tail” growth is one of the most intriguing aspects of the new COVID-influenced economy and has attracted the attention of major companies in the retail ecosystem.

Walmart, for example, has removed rules

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