Resale and Circular Fashion - ThredUp’s 2025 Holiday Shopping Report
From The Retail Razor Show by Ricardo Belmar | Top Retail Expert
November 10, 2025 · 1h 1m · Season 5 · Episode 11
About this episode
This episode discusses ThredUp's 2025 Holiday Shopping Report and the rise of resale in holiday shopping.
S5E11 ThredUp’s Resale Revolution: Holiday Shopping & Gift Giving Trends with Alon Rotem The holidays are here and resale is at the center of this year’s shopping story! In this timely episode of The Retail Razor Show, Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden sit down with Alon Rotem, Chief Strategy Officer at ThredUp, to unpack the company’s 2025 Holiday Shopping Report. From surprising insights on resale gift giving to how shoppers are embracing sustainable fashion and circular economy models, this conversation reveals why resale is becoming a mainstream holiday shopping strategy. We also explore ThredUp’s evolution from a secondhand marketplace to a Resale as a Service (RaaS) leader, powering branded resale programs for fashion retailers. Alon shares how ThredUp’s AI-powered innovations — including image search, natural language search, and personalized curation — are transforming the secondhand shopping experience and driving conversion. If you want to understand how resale, sustainability, and AI are reshaping holiday shopping in 2025, this episode delivers insights every retailer, brand, and shopper needs. Subscribe to the Retail Razor Podcast Network: https://retailrazor.com/…
People in this episode
Host: Ricardo Belmar
Guest: Alon Rotem
Topics covered
- resale fashion
- holiday shopping
- sustainable fashion
- circular economy
- AI in retail
Keywords
- resale
- ThredUp
- holiday shopping
- sustainable fashion
- AI innovations
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Organizations: ThredUp
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