Retail Report

With an eye toward profit, Grooming Lounge is dropping third-party brands to focus on in-house products and franchise location expansion. The moves will enable the e-tailer and barbershop to claw back margin it’s been giving to vendors...

The Detox Market has partnered with European carbon management platform Vaayu to provide customers breakdowns of the carbon, water and plastic footprints of 1,500 products in its selection. The partnership is part of long-running sustainability efforts...

Sephora is exercising its vaunted curation powers by enlarging its stable of influencer, buzzy K-Beauty and expert-led makeup, skincare and haircare brands.  The beauty specialty chain is refining its assortment from a...

Pushing into categories beyond traditional beauty, Credo wants to be a one-stop shop for clean living devotees. At the end of 2024, the San Francisco-based NextWorld Evergreen-owned retailer launched a home vertical by adding candle and...

Ulta Beauty’s assortment building shows the beauty specialty retailer playing offense and defense to keep pace with competitors such as Sephora, Amazon and TikTok Shop and establish leadership in certain categories, notably wellness. Starting in 2021,...

As Target, Walmart and Amazon pull back from diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Ulta Beauty, Sephora and Sally Beauty have reaffirmed commitments to them. The beauty retailers embarked on several efforts following the murder of George Floyd...