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Apple forecasts faster sales growth, despite glum economy

Inside Retail

Apple’s loyal and relatively affluent customer base has enabled it to weather consumer spending dips better than other brands in the past, and the company’s latest quarterly results suggest a similar pattern emerging. Apple offered some caution. billion.

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As France weighs fast-fashion ban, is the circular economy the future of retail?

Inside Retail

Key measures include a ban on advertising for cheap textiles and an environmental charge on low-cost items. However, over the last 12 months, like most people, my shopping behaviours and patterns have changed a lot. This week, France announced legislation to “limit the excesses of ultra-fast fashion”.

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Un-learn to Re-learn. How the current retail environment is reconditioning consumer’s behaviours.

Retail Focus

Where customers accustomed do consumption patterns in the past decades? They relied on advertising, word of mouth and their own product experience in making purchasing decisions. Retailers use different strategies to influence customer behaviour, such as product placement, advertising, and pricing strategies.

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IN MY SHOES: This is what it’s like shopping as a veiled Muslim woman

Inside Retail

In fact, since my childhood, I loved to make clothes and accessories for dolls, and at 10, I designed and sewed clothes for a play that I directed for the children in my family. But I find a bigger problem in advertising. Imagine never seeing someone who looks like you in advertising content, like across social media.

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“We can’t afford it” and other plus-size fashion excuses designers make

Inside Retail

million women, and collectively we are spending around $6 billion each year on clothing and accessories. No advertising representation – While we applaud the many brands who have made moves to represent bodies of differing shapes and sizes in their campaigns, this still isn’t the norm. This works out to be roughly 8.5 The common theme?

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Tips from a travel retail expert on tapping into passenger demand

Inside Retail

Brands that had previously relied on bricks-and-mortar sales had to accelerate their e-commerce strategies, TikTok became an extremely effective advertising and marketing tool, and certain retail categories like travel retail saw their sales drop virtually overnight.

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China challenges drive revenue drop for Apple

Inside Retail

While striking an optimistic tone on sales of services and iPhones, CEO Tim Cook said an uncertain economy is expected to hurt categories like gaming and digital advertising. The wearables and accessories segment, which includes the Apple Watch and AirPods, fell 8 per cent to $13.5 We would have grown on a constant currency basis.”

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