Paths to Beauty: Eyes Everywhere…

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This Retail Safari® brings you innovators, both brands and retailers, who are delivering what the next generation of shoppers expect: convenience, personalization, and discovery. Will it stop with beauty? Is your category next? In this Retail Safari®, we identify: Convenient solutions like dual-purpose cosmetics for everyone and channels to discover the best in beauty Innovators ... Read more

From TikTok to Retail – Here’s How it’s Done

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This Retail Safari® is a quick, thirteen-page snapshot of what is breaking the internet in TikTok’s Beauty and Wellness space in the beginning of 2023. What opportunities might these trends have for your category? In this report, we cover: Four viral Beauty and Wellness trends from TikTok that are catching shoppers' attentions Examples of wellness ... Read more

Smart Space: Next-Gen Department Stores & Brand Pop-Up Shops

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As retailers and brands downsize and use their space more creatively, what categories, themes, and experiences are making the cut? In this Retail Safari®, we identify the key themes that brands and retailers are using to make these hard decisions. Each is creating emotional platforms that respond to what shoppers want: fast shopping mixed with ... Read more

Breaking Barriers In Apparel: What Does It Mean For You?

What starts in one category extends to other unexpected areas. Apparel is one category known for leading disruption with a futuristic approach to retail. The innovations that we are seeing today in fashion will transform shoppers’ expectations of shopping next. In this Retail Safari®, we tour four Apparel stores, Amazon Style in Los Angeles, CA, ... Read more

The New Age of Dollar Channel Retail

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As prices rise nationwide, dollar channel retailers have an opportunity to entice more visits to their stores. On this Retail Safari®, there is lots of innovation from Dollar General, including digital and health innovations, its smaller DGX concept for busy urban Millennials, and pOpshelf – the “younger sister” of a traditional Dollar General (that looks ... Read more

Livestream Retail: The Future Of

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The launch of Alibaba’s Taobao Live in 2016 marked the beginning of a new era of shopping in China – livestream (live commerce) shopping. Taobao Live’s seamless and convenient shoppable technology, and the influence of Chinese powerhouses skilled in selling products, has helped make live commerce a success in China. In the US, retailers across ... Read more

Victoria’s Secret: From Aspirational to Inclusive

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For much of its history, Victoria’s Secret represented an aspirational definition of femininity and sexy. Now, it is on a mission to expand its definition of sexy – and become every woman’s biggest advocate. The transformation from aspirational to inclusive started with a makeover of imagery in its brick-and-mortar stores, including its Fifth Avenue flagship. ... Read more

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