In Senegal, used clothing from Europe gets a new life for profit
Piles of designer stone-washed jeans and jackets and shirts vie with skirts and t-shirts — all of them pre-worn.Second-hand clothing, “feugue-diaye” in the Wolof language, is a vibrant…
Marks & Spencer to stop using alpaca wool following Peta exposé
The British department store group is the latest to phase out the material, joining Gap Inc, which owns Banana Republic, and H&M Group.It comes after facing pressure from…
On-time deliveries down as next day delivery option rises
According to the latest IMRG MetaPack UK Delivery Index, next day and specific day deliveries accounted for almost 50% of all UK orders in October, but just 87.2%…
Gant boosts employee engagement with Yoobic tech
To achieve this it has partnered with European firm Yoobic with its digital workplace solution, to engage with its frontline teams in more than 70 countries and 600…
Search and social are key for fashion e-tail says Nosto report
A study of 1.19 billion visits to ecommerce sites globally during the three busiest months of the retail calendar (from November 2018 to January 2019) found that search…
U.S. consumer prices post largest drop in five years amid coronavirus disruptions
With the country virtually at a stand-still, the economy rapidly contracting and millions unemployed as state and local governments adopt stiff measures to control the spread of COVID-19,…
U.S. senator urges criminal probe of Amazon.com ‘predatory data practices’
Hawley, a Republican who has been critical of big tech platforms like Alphabet’s Google, expressed concern about a report in the Wall Street Journal that Amazon collects data…
Transparency, digital and resilience are key trends for apparel sourcing – report
Taking a global pandemic to push much-needed changes to the forefront, it said those five key issues “are rewriting the rules on apparel sourcing”.They are: building greater resilience…
Trump to meet with China’s Xi to try to seal trade deal, progress reported
Trump, speaking at the White House during a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, said he was optimistic that the world’s two largest economies could reach “the…
Gilgo Beach Murders Case- Authorities Detail Suspect Rex Heuermann's "Concerning" Internet History
Police Call Long Island Serial Killer Suspect Rex Heuermann a "Demon" Authorities say they've unearthed chilling evidence in the case of the Long Island serial killer—including his alarming…