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France begins the process to temporarily suspend Shein for "the time necessary for the platform to demonstrate" it has scrubbed its website of illegal products (Wall Street Journal)
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"Sweden’s Secondhand Shopping Mall Shows Sustainable Retail Can Be Profitable"
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Sweden's Secondhand Shopping Mall Shows Sustainable Retail Can Be Profitable | Happy Eco News
The world's first secondhand shopping mall, ReTuna Återbruksgalleria in Sweden, generated $1.3 million in sales by selling only recycled and upcycled items. Opened in 2015, the mall created over 50 jobs and hosts sustainability workshops. Residents donate unwanted items to an on-site depot where staff repair and restore them for resale.

Generative AI and Firm Productivity: Field Experiments in Online Retail
Lu Fang, Zhe Yuan, Kaifu Zhang, Dante Donati, Miklos Sarvary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12049 https://

Generative AI and Firm Productivity: Field Experiments in Online Retail
We quantify the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on firm productivity through a series of large-scale randomized field experiments involving millions of users and products at a leading cross-border online retail platform. Over six months in 2023-2024, GenAI-based enhancements were integrated into seven consumer-facing business workflows. We find that GenAI adoption significantly increases sales, with treatment effects ranging from 0\% to 16.3\%, depending on GenAI's marginal…