by Mike Duff | Sep 3, 2024 | Featured News, Retail Articles
The upcoming holiday presents challenges for retailers fighting it out through a shopping period with the fewest number of days between Thanksgiving and Christmas since 2019 and with 43% of consumers carrying more debt than they held in 2023. Data from the Salesforce...
by Mike Duff | Apr 4, 2024 | Retail Articles
Shopping mall foot traffic is nearing pre-pandemic levels, but not all dynamics of such activity are the same, according to a report from traffic tracker Placer.ai. In the paper “The Comeback of the Mall in 2024,” Placer.ai states that during 2023, visits...
by Mike Duff | Feb 12, 2024 | Retail Articles
As part of its expansion in the United States, China-based retailer Shein is opening a Seattle-area office in downtown Bellevue, WA. The office will support Shein’s U.S. fulfillment and logistic operations as the company continues to localize and support speedier...
by Mike Duff | Aug 30, 2023 | Retail Articles
Shein has struck a deal with Sparc Group Holding, a collaboration between JCPenney owner Simon Property and the Authentic Brands Group, in which it will acquire a one-third interest in Sparc, which itself takes a minority interest in Shein. Sparc includes a number of...
by Chandler Harvey | Apr 25, 2023 | Featured News, Retail Articles
Shein is an e-tailer that’s growing in the United States by growing with the Gen Z consumer, and how Shein is adapting could provide some insight into addressing this now-critical consumer group. Gen Z is a main topic of interest, but the group still is a...
