in addition to the points already listed, Bebe had its own set of self inflicted problems. They had their name/logo plastered all over their clothing. Great when you are in trend, not so great when you are not. Kind of like Affliction shirts.
I haven't had good experience with online clothes so far. Unless there is some mac daddy 3D body scanning (there are those out there but not widely used yet) that can match clothing sizes perfectly, i still need to try things on.
Yeah onliners can make returns easy and that will help, like zappos but clothing is much more complex than shoes IMHO as far as sizes/body shapes.
I think there is consumer contraction in middle class going on as well. Either cheap low end or luxury, much less in the middle.
Theres more to this than online displacing B&M especially in clothes and other specialty retail.
I have a mfg company and looking at retail grocery space. One main distributor/retailer is planning 15 months out. 15 months!!! ( i guess its a barrier to entry because half of us wont even be around in 15months
Mostly because of their stodgy legacy bureaucracy. Retailers have to be much more responsive to consumer preferences than that. LOL.
I haven't had good experience with online clothes so far. Unless there is some mac daddy 3D body scanning (there are those out there but not widely used yet) that can match clothing sizes perfectly, i still need to try things on.
Yeah onliners can make returns easy and that will help, like zappos but clothing is much more complex than shoes IMHO as far as sizes/body shapes.
I think there is consumer contraction in middle class going on as well. Either cheap low end or luxury, much less in the middle.
Theres more to this than online displacing B&M especially in clothes and other specialty retail.
I have a mfg company and looking at retail grocery space. One main distributor/retailer is planning 15 months out. 15 months!!! ( i guess its a barrier to entry because half of us wont even be around in 15months
Mostly because of their stodgy legacy bureaucracy. Retailers have to be much more responsive to consumer preferences than that. LOL.
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