What’s in? Upcycling, customizing, reusing, and reselling. Why? Gen Zs are values-oriented consumers who are looking for more responsible ways to consume.
How can your product, service, or content be consumed more responsibly? That’s the key to relevancy with Zs, the next generation of consumers.
The pandemic is accelerating what had already been in motion in fashion (e.g., prior to the coronavirus pandemic we were following the shift to thrift – in a Front Row Insights & Strategy study we found that 43% of zs age 13-24 shopped thrift, 39% bought a used or second-hand item and 1 in 5 told us they made fewer purchases in order to reduce waste in the last 6 months of 2019).
Meanwhile, shopping through online resale sites such as poshmark, grailed, vestiaire collective and clothing rental sites all have seen a sales boost during lockdown.
