Retail Report
Is There A Role For Traditional Retail In The Post-Pandemic World?
Nearly a decade ago, in an article entitled Why Bricks and Clicks Don’t Always Mix, The New York Times columnist Randall Stross wrote, “Blockbuster’s experience shows that executing a bricks-and-clicks strategy entails a high degree of difficulty,...
The Travails Of Department Stores—And How Indie Beauty Brands Can Still Succeed At Them
The pandemic didn’t cause department stores’ struggles. It did, however, speed up the consequences of those struggles. Nordstrom is closing 19 stores, including three Jeffrey shops and 16 full-line locations. Macy’s is shuttering 125 stores. J.C....
Credo Creates Mineral Sunscreens With Venus Williams’ Activewear Line EleVen And The Sunscreen Company
Credo hits an ace with its latest partnership. In its first foray into creating an exclusive product line, the clean beauty retailer has partnered with The Sunscreen Company and Venus Williams’ activewear line EleVen on two...
Can Curbside Pickup Be Impactful For Credo, Cos Bar And Bluemercury?
As states across the United States slowly start reopening for business, beauty retail chains are adopting curbside order pickup programs to bring in much-needed brick-and-mortar revenue. Ulta Beauty launched curbside...
“The Green Sephora”: New E-Tailer Serenade Wants To Take Zero-Waste Beauty Mainstream
Maya Luong was a loyal Sephora shopper until she woke up to environmental consequences of the plastic beauty products she was buying at the retailer. According to data supplied by Euromonitor to Teen Vogue, the beauty industry...
Four Retail Experts On The Extremely Uncertain Future Of Beauty Shopping
There’s no roadmap for operating beauty stores during a pandemic. As the strictest shelter-in-place restrictions begin to lift in many jurisdictions across the United States, retailers are sorting through how to allow and urge shopping while keeping their...
