Retailer Standard Dose Appears To Have Closed

Standard Dose seems to have closed. The troubled beauty and wellness retailer’s website is down, and emails sent to founder Anthony Saniger from Beauty Independent have bounced back. Saniger’s LinkedIn profile has been...

Clean Market And Ora Put A Wellness Spin On The Bar Crawl Concept

In the fall and winter, New York City is crawling with bar crawls. “We wanted to create our own that is a bit more our speed,” says Lily Kunin, founder of wellness destination Clean Market. ...

How Department Stores Lost Relevancy—And What They’re Doing To Regain It

More than twenty years after American department stores started to decline, the former titans of retail haven’t regained their edge.  Strained by slumping sales, debt, mismanagement and shifting consumer sentiment, several legacy department stores...

The Story Behind CurlDaze’s TikTok-Viral Creamy Curl Styler

Robyn Atwater has lost count of how many times her haircare brand CurlDaze has gone viral. The first time was back in 2021 when she filmed a 13-second TikTok video starring her cousin Neil Bailey showing...

Beauty Independent Launches Uplink Expo To Connect Suppliers And Emerging Beauty Brands

Beauty Independent’s forthcoming Uplink...