
A round-up of everything you might have missed in relevant fashion, retail and tech industry news over the past week.
TOP STORIES
- Inside Target’s top secret test store [Co.Design]
- How algorithms are threatening fashion’s white-collar jobs [BoF]
- L’Occitane boosts mobile conversions by 159% with AI-powered personalization [Mobile Marketing]
TECHNOLOGY
- What blockchain can’t do [HBR]
- Think you know how disruptive artificial intelligence is? Think again [Forbes]
- Top Japan fashion site bets big on custom-fit fast fashion [BoF]
- Baidu’s self-driving buses will hit Japan’s streets next year [TNW]
- How SK-II disrupted the beauty industry in Japan with emerging technology [TheDrum]
- Watch MIT’s blind robot run, jump, and climb stairs [TNW]
SUSTAINABILITY
- Factory Tour: Eileen Fisher helps make the eco-fashion dream of circularity come true [Fashionista]
- Wrangler and MyFarms talk ‘field-level’ sustainability in new report [WWD]
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
- 27% of apparel sales are now online [RetailDive]
- Why virtual reality won’t revolutionize retail, but scan-and-go will [RetailDive]
- Sophia Webster puts her spin on experiential retail with second London boutique [WWD]
- Reporter’s notebook: A quest for experiential retail [RetailDive]
- Walmart.com launches 3-D virtual reality tour [WWD]
- Amazon claims it doesn’t want to take on UPS and FedEx. So why is it introducing tons of its own Amazon delivery vans? [Recode]
- Samsung brand experience opens its doors in the heart of Paris [BrandChannel]
- Kirsten Green’s survival guide for the ‘retail reckoning’ [BoF]
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Inside Instagram’s social shopping masterclass [BoF]
- Hilfiger’s next TommyNow runway show to touch down in Shanghai [WWD]
- Are influencers really worth the money? [BoF]
- Roger Federer signs $300 million sponsorship deal with Uniqlo [BoF]
PRODUCT
- These people with disabilities have ideas for making shopping more accessible [TeenVogue]
- Tiffany & Co. will now let you personalize with custom symbols and monograms [Town & Country]
- What FDA approval of CBD could mean for the beauty industry [Racked]
- Walmart pulls “Impeach 45” t-shirts after Trump supporters threaten boycott [FastCompany]
BUSINESS
- Paris Fashion Week’s front rows speak to fashion’s complicated stance on #MeToo [TheFashionLaw]
- Chanel’s digital strategy takes shape amid executive shuffle [BoF]
- Subscription box market fights fatigue [AdAge]
- How Revolve has built a billion-dollar fashion company for millennial women [Inc]
- Fans of ModCloth and Bonobos were aghast when Walmart bought the brands. But they’re still shopping [Quartzy]