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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. What did the relaunch entail?

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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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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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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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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. Too often, brands are wrapped around that percentage-off impact that’s going to drop the bottom line and potentially impact their profitability,” Burt concluded.

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Wholesale Christmas Holiday Gifts 2023

Independent Retailer

Health & Beauty is Growing Health and beauty products are small, affordable, easy to ship, and can be personalized to make great gifts. Positive Intent Beauty www.positiveintentbeauty.com Bluegrass Bourbon Sugar Scrub Get a taste of Kentucky with this bourbon-drenched “shugah” scrub. It has less than.3%

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Inside Dyson’s first Australian demo store

Inside Retail

Dyson opened its first permanent bricks-and-mortar location in Australia in 2019 when it opened its ‘Beauty Lab’ in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building. The tech company says these local service centres reduce the need for unnecessary shipping of machines for repairs and provide an on-shore location for spare parts.