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How cult US beauty brand Il Makiage is disrupting the beauty industry

Inside Retail

For decades, global beauty giants like L’Oréal and Estée Lauder have followed the same playbook: team up with movie stars and models and leverage their fame and desirability to drive sales. But cult US beauty brand Il Makiage has taken a different approach.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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How Retailers Can Make Effective Changes for Better Logistics Operations

Retail TouchPoints

This massive increase put significant strains on the supply chain as well as shipping and delivery. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, items that consumers shopped for reflected the stay-at-home sentiment, such as household essentials, electronics and entertainment and health, beauty and wellness products.

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Subscription Commerce Snapshot: Discounts are Out, Content and Community Are In

Retail TouchPoints

“Subscription commerce” was all the rage as companies like Stitch Fix and Blue Apron were riding their rocket ships to unicorn status. In the early days, it was very much the innovative, direct-to-consumer players using subscriptions,” Burt explained. Do they consume a lot of how-to content or product hacks?

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Have we reached peak Christmas advent calendar?

Retail Gazette

These days shoppers expect more than just a square of chocolate inside, with some spending hundreds on calendars that house everything from beauty products to toys and books behind their daily windows. Department store Liberty even called out its record beauty calendar sales as factor behind its growing profits last year.

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Wholesale Christmas Holiday Gifts 2023

Independent Retailer

The holiday season of 2023 is sure to be an exciting time for retailers, as consumers continue to look for the latest trends in wholesale products. The overall retail market is expecting consumers to cut back on spending and get more for their money. Review your sales funnel for anything that might be a snag for mobile shoppers.

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Your Full Guide on Partnering With a Subscription Retailer, Part 2

Rangeme

These days, it seems like you can order monthly subscription boxes for just about anything from pet products, health and beauty products, clothing, to food and beverage products. Getting your products into a subscription box is a great way to promote them to new and different consumer markets. Source: Kustomer.