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Keeping up with the latest fashions is hard for any retailer, and major players have often been left with unsold inventory that is no longer trendy. But Choosy founder and CEO Jessie Zeng hopes to have the latest celebrity and influencer items manufactured and delivered to customers within weeks, well before they go out of style. Is it the next frontier of fast fashion? Read More...

Finding clothes that fit is hard, even when there’s a fitting room in which shoppers can try things on. That challenge is even greater in eCommerce, leading to a 20 percent return rate as well as high cart abandonment. Here’s how one cheerleading uniform maker set out to solve this problem for itself — and how the resulting AR sizing app, Fit Freedom, could find a place in retail at large. Read More...

In an era in which the race is to be the most disruptive, it can be difficult to appreciate that every innovation carries within it a seed of preservation. That might embody lingering loyalty to credit unions, or an idea that automation is great but shouldn’t wholly supplant the human eye. Sometimes building upon what came before is better than just clearing the field and starting over. Read More...