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Kohl鈥檚 plans to have 200 Babies R Us shop-in-shops by the end of September, which will allow it to expand its selection of baby merchandise beyond clothing. How we got here: Department stores are trying to find their niches to avoid losing sales to mass merchants and specialty retailers鈥攚ith varying results.

Motor vehicle and parts dealer sales; furniture sales; electronics and appliance sales; building material and garden equipment sales; food and beverage sales; health and personal care sales; gasoline sales; clothing and clothing accessories sales; sporting goods, hobby, book and physical music sales; general merchandise sales; miscellaneous sales; nonstore sales (i.e., pure-play ecommerce platform sales

Explore ways to boost traffic across lower-trafficked retailers like fast-fashion or bookstores. Emphasize the importance of value during back-to-school season. More like this:. 5 key stats on back-to-school 2024 for retailers: Location, timing, and pricing. Back-to-school retail spending slips after record high.

Fashion and luxury executives are most bullish on the Middle East. McKinsey and the Business of Fashion (BoF) reported 88% of fashion executives anticipated the region鈥檚 prospects to be the same or better in 2023 than in 2022, 10 percentage points higher than in North America.

Walmart鈥檚 campaign targets Gen Alpha by incorporating kids鈥� slang and fashion trends, and features Taylen Briggs, an elementary school-aged TikToker. Viewers can shop the 250 back-to-school products featured via a YouTube link or Roku鈥檚 text-to-shop feature. Pinterest also played a significant role this back-to-school season.

How fashion brands are using Discord, Substack, and Facebook Groups. Apparel companies thredUP, Stitch Fix lean into AI and optimized marketing mix to jumpstart growth. Note: Retail formats vary by digital platform and include peer-to-peer, consignment, and direct sales.

Shein seeks expansion beyond its brand鈥檚 fast-fashion dominance. Shein is betting future growth will come from partnerships with more brands, such as its recent investment in Forever 21 to design, produce, and sell apparel for the label. The deal will also bring Shein goods into Forever 21 stores, yielding an advantage over its online-only competition.

Visits to apparel retailers are also up, a positive sign consumers may seek deals on clothing, shoes, and accessories. The price must be right: Consumers this year have been holding out on nonessential purchases at pet, office supply, and home improvement stores, meaning retailers may need to lean into deals to inspire discretionary purchases, per Placer.ai.

Slow growth: One reason we expect modest growth is that two of the primary back-to-school categories, consumer electronics and apparel, have had middling results this year. Through the first five months of the year, electronics and appliance store sales are down 2.7%, while clothing and clothing accessories stores are up just 1.0%.

In the past year, it has shuttered its tech-forward Amazon Style clothing stores and struggled to find the right format for Amazon Fresh grocery stores. Amazon can鈥檛 make shopping fun. Despite Amazon鈥檚 massive customer base, our research shows that shoppers are still more likely to discover new brands and products when shopping in stores. Amazon can鈥檛 meet the customer everywhere.

When it introduced the Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% shoe, which uses carbon-fiber plates to propel runners forward, helping them run faster and save energy, the shoe (and following iterations) have become standard fare at any race, Canaves said. Nike fosters its running community in a few ways. It uses its stores as an event space to host local running clubs, fashion shows, and meetups for runners.

Japan-based online resale marketplace Mercari opened its first physical store in the US, offering a curated collection of Japanese items including men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 fashion, sneakers, designer handbags, toys, electronics, and collectibles. Daiso, a Japanese discount retailer, plans to expand its presence in the US after receiving numerous requests on social media to open more stores, per Fast Company.

When analyzing the performance of MNTN advertisers across multiple verticals, including fashion and apparel, home and garden, and travel, we found that all saw increased performance metrics within the past year.

A) Electronics and gadgets B) Furniture and home decor C) Clothing and fashion D) Home appliances. Some 42% of BNPL users have purchased clothing and fashion products with BNPL services, according to Numerator. Nearly a third (32%) have purchased electronics and gadgets, 26% have bought furniture and home decor, and 22% have purchased home appliances. February 18, 2025.

These experiences, and the backlog of special events such as weddings, are also bolstering spending in apparel, footwear, and accessories. This was originally featured in the Retail Daily newsletter. For more retail insights, statistics, and trends, subscribe here.

While Gen Z edges them out by less than a percentage point in the health and wellness app category, millennials are more likely than any other generation to rely on telehealth or a wearable digital health accessory. Millennials are the largest population on WhatsApp. They make up 36.4% of platform users in the US, while Gen Z and Gen X both hover around 23%.

The number of US buyers on fashion resale sites like Depop and Poshmark will rise to nearly 40 million in 2023, per our forecast鈥攖hanks in large part to Gen Z customers. Many seek out vintage or second-hand clothing and accessories because they align with their sustainability values while also delivering deals, including on more expensive luxury goods.

Health & personal care and apparel & accessories: Both categories saw solid gains with consumers spending heavily on new clothes and cosmetics as they returned to their offices, ventured out on trips, and engaged in other experiences such as dining out. That helped the health and personal care category鈥檚 sales rise an estimated 9.1% and apparel and accessories grow 5.6%.

Fashion brand Revolve used AI to design a series of collections, while Sephora debuted a tool that allows shoppers to upload a photo of an item鈥攍ike jewelry鈥攁nd recommends makeup shades and products that match it.

High-end fashion brand Christian Louboutin partnered with Italian eyewear manufacturer Marcolin to enter the eyewear market, per Women鈥檚 Wear Daily. The move, which dovetails with the brand moving into beauty in 2014 and its launch of pet and kids categories in 2022, is the latest step in its bid to become a 鈥渃omplete lifestyle luxury accessories player,鈥� CEO Alexis Mourot told WWD.

Key stat: The top three categories offering Prime Day discounts were clothing, computer and electronics, and home and garden, according to RetailMeNot. What it means: Home furnishings retail sales will increase 1.7% in the US this year, the smallest growth of any other category we track, according to our July 2024 forecast.

I think it's been best utilized in apparel or clothing type of store scenarios. So UNIQLO has really gained a lot of traction with its boxes that you just put your clothing in and get it scanned and pay for it without having to scan each individual item. And Amazon has integrated RFID as part of its, Just Walk Out offering.

The ability to try on and physically evaluate products is likely what has kept stores relevant in categories like furniture and home goods, beauty, and clothing. A digital channel drives the same level of discovery as physical stores in only two categories: consumer electronics and accessories. In these areas, stores and retail websites were equally relevant.

Lululemon: The athletic wear brand beat expectations in its last reported quarter, and remains successful even as it mulls a Mirror sale and returns to its roots in apparel. Success for lululemon came from beating US brands to market.