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      <title>Why RFID Took Over the Stockroom, and What It Replaced</title>
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      <dc:creator>Maria Garcia</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Wrinkle-Resistant Cotton Works, and What the Resin Costs the Fabric</title>
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      <dc:creator>Ida Dahl</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Item-Level RFID Tags Rewired the Apparel Stockroom</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A passive radio tag sewn into a garment now does what a barcode never could: count an entire rack without a single item leaving the shelf.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:51:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Maria Garcia</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Federal Rules Dictate Every Word on a Clothing Care Label</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A garment's care tag is not packaging copy; it is a federal disclosure governed by two separate regulations, a registration number, and a standardized symbol system, all enforceable as consumer-protection law.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Ida Dahl</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Durable Water Repellent Finishes Work, and What the PFAS Bans Change</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A DWR finish lowers a fabric's surface energy so rain beads instead of soaking in. New York's apparel restriction took effect January 1, 2025, and the fluorine chemistry that made the finish work is the part being removed.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Ida Dahl</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Retail&apos;s $849.9 Billion Returns Channel Works, and Why the Fees Arrived</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Returns now run at 15.8 percent of U.S. sales and 19.3 percent online. Mail-in fees price the reverse leg, and California's textile EPR law prices what happens after it.]]></description>
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      <title>How Lyocell Fibers Are Made, and Why the Solvent Recovery Rate Matters</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lyocell's entire commercial case rests on a closed-loop chemistry step: how mills recover and reuse the solvent that dissolves wood pulp into fiber.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:51:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Ida Dahl</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[A passive radio chip and the same product code already in a barcode explain why some retailers now count stock at 95%-plus accuracy instead of roughly 62%.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Yuna Park</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Item-Level RFID Tagging Is Rebuilding Inventory Accuracy in Apparel</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A decade-old barcode problem is being solved chip by chip, one hangtag at a time.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:51:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Ida Dahl</dc:creator>
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      <title>The $2 Wage Rise Against the $9.99 Price Floor: Summer 2026 in One Number</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cambodia's garment wage rose $2 to $210; Bangladesh held flat; the $9.99 tee didn't move. The wage-price standoff of summer 2026, in one number.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How RAIN RFID Tags Let a Stockroom Count Itself</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A passive tag with no battery, read from meters away, is why apparel retailers can now count a backroom in minutes instead of a day — and why the same chip is turning up in blockchain pilots and returns fraud checks.]]></description>
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      <title>Uniqlo&apos;s July Lounge Drop Tested the Post-Volume Basics Formula</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Uniqlo's July 2026 loungewear collection lands mid-basics spec war. What the drop says about fabric weight, replacement purchases and quality drift.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Lucia Fontaine</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How retail stores build and cover shifts: traffic-based labour plans, sales per labour hour, call-off routines, and the limits of scheduling software.]]></description>
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