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A guest post from Double X writer Erika Kawalek:
Rarely is the public let in on how clothes actually get made—the
gritty world of sourcing, manufacturing, cross-ocean container
shipping, distribution and slick marketing that goes into supplying
that perpetually regenerating stock of textile novelties we call
fashion.
That may change. On June 7, the New York Times ran a story about the new barcode sticker called GS1 DataBars.
DataBars store information that is useful to retailers, the kind of
tidings that are meaningless to shoppers: inventory stats and sales
data. I marveled at the possibilities of an enhanced version. What if
we could...(To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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