Retail Report
Pulleez Pulls Into Ulta Beauty With Its Upscale Hair Elastics
Rubber bands are basic. For ponytails destined not to be, there’s Pulleez, a high-end hair accessories brand that’s landed on Ulta Beauty’s website. “The Ulta customer is the perfect age for our product. I think every age...
Costco’s E-Commerce Business Pushes Into Prestige Beauty And Major Trends
As traditional beauty retail distribution divisions break down, Costco is picking up emerging prestige players online such as Adsorb as it extends into trendy beauty territory. The brand is part of a J-beauty initiative at the...
New Retailer Salt&Water Takes Clean Beauty To The Heartland
The coasts don’t have a monopoly on clean beauty. In Oklahoma City, makeup artist Chelsey Ann Cobbs is leading consumers into the segment at her new store Salt&Water, which has begun with a pop-up before it settles...
True Botanicals Pushes Into Retail As It Pulls Back From Wholesale
Inside True Botanicals’ 1,800-square-foot San Francisco store, customers can sniff ylang ylang, rose and sandalwood as they assemble custom scents, receive facials tailored to their skincare concerns with back-bar products not found elsewhere and check out the...
E-tailer Switch2Pure’s Pop-up Enters An Elite Retail Lineup At Houston’s River Oaks District
E-tailer Switch2Pure has joined Cartier, Dior, Tom Ford, Stella McCartney, Harry Winston and Hermès at the luxury outdoor shopping complex River Oaks District in Houston with a temporary store that’s a prelude to a permanent location. The...
Can New Supplement Store Concepts Succeed Where The Vitamin Shoppe And GNC Have Struggled?
As consumer enthusiasm for all things wellness swells, the $35.9 billion U.S. dietary supplement industry grows along with it and is projected to skyrocket to $56.7 billion in sales by 2024. With supplements soaring, longtime vitamin juggernauts...
