Chinese Retail Players are Doing These Things to Stay Alive through the Coronavirus Crisis

This article was originally published on Fashion Capital.

Fashion apparel retailers rely heavily on offline retail for sales – more so than any other category given that apparel consists of non-standardized SKUs, with many different fits, colours, fabrics, etc. People want to try on outfits in person before they want to make a purchase.

But due to the coronavirus crisis, the near-shutdown of offline retail in China has forced them to turn to innovative measures to keep their businesses alive. While China retail has focused on e-commerce for a while now, this is the first time when businesses have been forced to divert all of their resources towards online selling.

We take a look at what fashion retailers are doing and what players in the West can do to learn from them.

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