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Prepare for 2024 Now, With These 6 WSL Retail Trends
With tighter spending everywhere around us, consumer preferences in 2023 will shape the retail in 2024 and beyond. We dove into our proprietary How America Shops® surveys of the past year and found six ways how consumer trend changes will more prominently influence retail and brand strategies in 2024 –...Learn More
Reinventing Luxury Beauty Retail on the Corner with Maly Bernstein | EP67
In this episode: Wendy Liebmann talks to Maly Bernstein, CEO, Bluemercury, the luxury specialty beauty retailer, about her vision for the future of beauty retail and how her strategy is coming to life neighborhood by neighborhood. They discuss: What makes Bluemercury shoppers unique The focus on personalized skincare – both...Learn More
Shoppers Say... It's Their Economy
Future Now Future Next — Volume 3 [ 2023 ] While economists claim the economy is better, what shoppers care about is their personal economy. In Future Not Future Next we explore how 77% of shoppers are coping with financial anxiety, the 64% who feel high prices will still go...Learn More
70% of Shoppers Face Locked-Up Goods. Here’s What They Think
Major retailers, including Target, Walmart, CVS and Walgreens, have been locking up categories of products behind theft-proof barriers. But their efforts to prevent theft might cost more than the shrink they’re trying to prevent. Our new How America Shops® research into product lock-downs, and how different generations respond, reveals the...Learn More
Walking the Talk of the New Inclusion
Just a few years ago, being inclusive in retail meant recognizing non-binary consumers and those with “differently shaped” bodies. But to be fully inclusive, retailers and brands will have to embrace a much wider spectrum of differences, some of which we can’t even see. Our scouts have been researching the...Learn More
How Women's Health Brands Are Driving the Future of the Category
By Emily Burns, OCT 06, 2023 || BeautyInc. – A Publication of WWD A look at how brands including Womaness, Kindbody and Bayer are employing products, campaigns and community to destigmatize women’s health. At the Beauty & Wellness Forum, Wendy Liebmann, chief executive officer and chief shopper at WSL Strategic...Learn More