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Can Retail Pharmacies Bring Back the Magic?
Retail pharmacy is facing a massive challenge. They are expected to provide relevant, hands-on and technology-based solutions for their customers. Yet a surge in vaccine and self-care demands has caused more shoppers to crowd the pharmacy counter. The resulting wait, paired with the ease of finding wellness answers online, is...Learn More
Retail Safari® 2023 Wrapped: 5 Hot Trends to Watch for the Future
High-price workarounds, small formats that deliver big and hidden pearls of joy. These are among the five big themes our WSL scouts discovered on their Retail Safari® treasure hunts in 2023. Learn how Popshelf, Air Jordon’s World of Flight, Rouse’s Market and others took on innovation in their own ways....Learn More
Experiential Retail: 4 Innovators to Learn From
Our How America Shops® research reveals that there is a 51% increase (vs. 2014) in the channels people shop in three months: 13.3 today vs. 8.8 in 2014. With this boom, how will your brand or store differentiate itself, excite shoppers, and drive loyalty? In this Retail Safari® we reveal:...Learn More
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
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