Trade conferences often feature industry analysts, and yet an April 3 presentation from Colleen Baum, senior partner at McKinsey & Company, was nothing if not novel. That’s both because Baum was speaking at ReCon, which billed itself as “the only conference focused exclusively on resale,” and—fittingly but still unusually—she was speaking exclusively about the state of the global resale market.

The State of Fashion 2026 report by McKinsey in partnership with Business of Fashion projects that the global secondhand apparel market will grow to $317 billion in 2027, up from an estimated $256 billion in 2025. So brisk is the growth of resale that in its recent annual report, ThredUp stated that the resale industry is taking “measurable” market share from new retail.

Here are some of Baum’s insights from the ReCon stage.

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Retail media is in a liminal space.

WPP’s 2025 forecast has retail media accounting for almost a fifth of total ad revenue by 2030, and the channel has outgrown retail, with financial and travel businesses getting into the space under the broader umbrella of commerce media. Still, the exponential growth seen in recent years may be hard to maintain.

At the same time, retail media networks have expanded offerings far beyond digital display ads, and making a clear pitch to advertisers and ad buyers is top of mind. That’s a big reason Albertsons Media Collective, the retail media offering for the grocery chain, showed up at the IAB NewFronts this year as a first-time presenter.

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It may be Popeye’s source of supernatural strength, but spinach apparently can’t fight off bugs as effectively as the sailor fights off his adversaries. For the second consecutive year, spinach topped the Dirty Dozen list of conventionally grown produce with the most residual pesticides.

Published by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) annually since 2004, the list is based on data from the USDA’s Pesticide Data Program, which tests agricultural commodities. The program mimics the routine for produce in consumers’ kitchens, typically rinsing it for 15–20 seconds, before testing for pesticides.

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