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Fleeting beauty: Inside the downward spiral of BWX

Inside Retail

To say health and beauty conglomerate BWX has had a difficult few years could be an understatement. After purchasing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of successful beauty brands and platforms, the business, which was valued at $860 million five years ago, is now worth about $36 million. It’s a long story. What went wrong?

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UPDATE: Target Adds Paid Loyalty Program, Plans 300 New Stores Over Next 10 Years

Retail TouchPoints

[Update from 3/6/2024] Over the next decade, Target plans to build more than 300 new stores and upgrade the vast majority of its brick-and-mortar fleet, with projects ranging from full remodels to adding Ulta Beauty locations, upgrading fixtures and supporting same-day services.

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Holiday Shopping 2021: How SEOs Can Help Clients Inspire, Deliver and Sustain

Retail TouchPoints

Market trends indicate that a powerful three-point strategy for you to bring to the brands you promote is: Inspire, Deliver, Sustain. Your clients’ websites must clearly communicate how inventory can be delivered, arrival time frames, and what different shopping and shipping options cost.

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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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You’ll Like Us When We’re Green: How Retailers Demonstrate Sustainability Through Track and Trace

Retail TouchPoints

However, advances powering track-and-trace, such as 5G and RFID labels affixed to shipping crates, can help stores proactively promote sustainable items as well. If it’s a health and beauty or food and beverage product, were harmful chemicals used at any point in production — and were they tested on animals?

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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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Southeast Asian retailer Shopee’s long path to profit: Are we there yet?

Inside Retail

Some have lost patience and deserted the ship. Shopee has done what e-commerce players do: it has scaled up partly by acquiring market share with deep discounting and free shipping deals, going particularly hard on the promotions during monthly sales events that yield mouthwatering top lines. on 24 June.