Taiwanese-born Tiffany Hsu never set out to “shop for a living,” as she calls it. But the chief buying officer at luxury e-commerce platform Mytheresa has been living a fashion buyer’s dream since graduating from University of the Arts London’s Central Saint Martins with a degree in fashion design in 2003.

After successful stints at Lane Crawford and Selfridges, Hsu joined Mytheresa in 2016 and the rest is history. She currently leads a team of about 30 people and spends time scouting products, attending trade shows, and buying appointments.

Of course, the path to where she is today wasn’t as straightforward. Hsu’s journey started with a “small boutique” in London called Feathers—her first job out of college as she worked her way up. “I started as a shop girl,” she said.

But according to Hsu, she never set out to be a buyer in the first place.

“To be honest, it wasn’t the career path I would’ve chosen for myself, but at the time, I needed a visa, so whoever offered me a job, I took it,” she told Retail Brew.

Hsu said in the beginning, she wasn’t even sure fashion buying was a legitimate job. “Back in the day, fashion buying wasn’t even like a degree; you just study design, or maybe you do merchandising,” she said. “I think it was a very good way to apply both my love for fashion and design and also commerce together.”

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The Super Bowl is the snack food industry’s, well, Super Bowl. During last year’s Super Bowl week, consumers spent $670 million on snack food, totalling 107 million (!) pounds of snacks, according to Circana data, and they’re not expected to fumble the snack game for the Eagles vs. Chiefs showdown this Sunday, either.

Per NielsenIQ, 90% of fans will be watching from their home or at a home gathering—with 83% planning to make at least some gameday grub, so many fans will be heading to the grocery store. Consumers’ average spend on food and bevs for the big game is anticipated to be $44, up 3% from last year, according to Circana.

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All those delivery truck sounds you heard last year were likely Amazon’s fleet in action.

Amazon did 9 billion same-day or next-day deliveries in 2024 worldwide, the company said on Tuesday.

“We’ve actually delivered our fastest Prime speeds in 2023. Happy to report [in] 2024, we’ve got to be faster, and we’ve got plans for 2025,” Doug Herrington, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Stores, said at NRF in January. In 2023, Amazon delivered 7 billion items the same day or next day, including more than 4 billion in the US.

Last year, Amazon reported a 60% increase in same-day delivery locations, and now serves more than 140 metro areas in the country.

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