Article in the Gruniad about buying clothes and how we’re bad people for it. I don’t recall hearing shoppers say “Shut up your stores. We don’t want to look at clothes on the rail and try them immediately” yet somehow this isn’t the problem…comment is not free
I feel dirtier wandering around this place than I do Zerohedge…
Interesting how the writer uses the example of a student who won’t wear the same outfit twice in her Instagram updates. Particularly when, later in the piece, she castigates the stereotype of the halls-of-residence as carousels of parcels in and out by suggesting that, actually, it’s people in their 40’s and older who do a lot of the buy-try-return stuff.
As you say Loke, the death of bricks and mortar shops is a big driver. The last time I went clothes shopping was a branch of Primark that had one-way arrows everywhere, a socially distanced 15-minute queue all around the perimeter, and a substantial array of racks in an area reserved for clothes that had been tried on but rejected.
The only sizeable clothes shop in the town I live is holding its closing-down sale as I type. You have to travel 4-8 miles in some direction to find another, or of course, use an online retailer and hope for the best. (Decent selection of charity shops if you don’t mind people thinking you’re a povvo.)
Linking to your post about AI, there are quite certainly apps in development that will input the customer’s vital stats, and a photo, to demonstrate exactly how you’ll look wearing the size 14 in red. Probably at slightly the wrong aspect ratio so you look slimmer. With thumbnails of the next size up, and various other permutations, arrayed alongside. Another bot is working on the code right now. All you have to do is register using your email address and it will work every time, and harvest another massive crop of Big Data and probably just as many parcels back to Motherwell.
As a fashion victim and generally scruffy bastard I’m not sure what to say about this, except that when I sit down on a public bench people tend to throw coins at me.
I shouldn’t LOL Rob but did. At least at the moment we can sit on park benches without being questioned/cautioned.