‘Speed Up or Die’ Is the New Reality for U.S. Apparel Retailers
- Beleaguered U.S. retailers vow to implement fast-fashion model
- Kohl’s sees promising signs after accelerating supply chain
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In the spring of 2009, Kohl’s Corp. executives gathered six apparel vendors into a hotel near Los Angeles and threw down the gauntlet.
Their request: Make 12,000 apparel items in six weeks or less from two samples. For context, similar-sized orders at the time generally took four times longer.