Product Sourcing
American Apparel has called Los Angeles home for 27 years, but that may be coming to an end in 2019. The clothing retailerโs downtown L.A. headquartersโ lease is up in 2019 โ one year before Californiaโs minimum wage is set to rise to $15 per hour. States on the East Coast, like North Carolina and Tennessee,โฆ
Amazon Launchpad announced last week the creation of a Kickstarter Collection, featuring more than 300 Kickstarter products available for purchase on Amazon.com. Startups featured include Piper, Zivix, Prynt, MudWatt, among others. Consumers shopping the Kickstarter Collection can browse categories such as electronics, wireless accessories, home and kitchen, books, movies and TV, and toys and games,โฆ
Birkenstock will stop supplying products to Amazon in the U.S. and will no longer authorize third-party merchants to sell on the site.
This week, Truth In Advertising (TINA) reported Wal-Mart is still misusing the โMade in the USA" label. In a letter to the FTC, the advertising watchdog group urged the group to look into Wal-Martโs continuous practice of mislabeling products as Made in the USA. The group currently believes over 100 products are mislabeled on Wal-Martโsโฆ
After years of rumors and innuendo, Amazon.com finally seems poised to launch a large-scale push into its own lines of consumables.
Signet Jewelers Ltd., owner of the Kay, Zales and Jared chains, denied systematically switching customersโ gems for lower-quality stones after reports alleged the company repeatedly engaged in the practice. "We strongly object to recent allegations on social media, republished and grossly amplified, that our team members systematically mishandle customersโ jewelry repairs or engage in โdiamond swapping,โ"โฆ
Don and Jin Sook Chang, the billionaire owners of Forever 21, seemed to have it all in recent years โ a happy marriage and one of the hottest retail chains in the country. Now both may be on the rocks. The fast-fashion retailer, which for years was busy opening ever-larger stores around the globe, is late payingโฆ
Gap Inc. is pulling T-shirts displaying the names of two indie rock bands from store shelves after the musicians accused the retailer of selling the items without their permission. The two groups, Cold War Kids and The Shins, discovered the items last month and notified fans that the apparel chain wasnโt authorized to sell the shirts.โฆ
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