Girls, you can applaud the collapse of a sartorial gender barrier today. San Francisco-based apparel startup American Giant has (finally!) launched a collection for women. It’s welcome news that the ladies can now partake in tees, tanks and hoodies from the direct-to-consumer e-commerce label hailed as the source for “the greatest hoodie ever made” by Slate, [...]
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That a company launches gift cards would not be news that I could call serious or noteworthy with a straight face unless, no lie, I had not actually looked to see if Stitch Fix gift cards were available no fewer than three times, only to find out that, no, they weren’t (only to forget and [...]
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Shopping your favorite television shows has been something tech forecasters and commerce nerds have been talking about for years: in my early days living in the Bay Area, I even worked on a few interactive television projects for the boutique ecommerce consultancy that brought me out to California in the first place. There were lots [...]
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Here’s an innovative way to foster customer loyalty: give shoppers a 10 percent bonus for accepting store credit instead of a refund on items returned. That’s the new policy over at Singer22.com, which has drawn a solid following of young, trendy shoppers since launching in 2003 with a selection of sought-after brands such as Elizabeth [...]
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You see so many sales, deals and promotions from online-only retailers these days (the onslaught is such that sometimes I feel insanely inadequate if I even so much as think about paying full retail price – the horror!), but rarely do you see such smart, creative examples as the Amour Vert Easter Egg Hunt. They’ve [...]
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New York fashion startup Stitch Collective released the latest in its line of leather accessories this week. Dubbed The City Bag, the $465 design by Parsons alum Omar Aguirre is a gray and green tote that’s enough to hold a laptop, yet streamlined and architectural enough to look polished, even when packed full with your [...]
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