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Beauty Seeks Role in Future of Drugstores
By Faye Brookman | WWD Article – April 20, 2018 Pharmacy, in-store clinics and other health-care initiatives are altering the drugstore retailing landscape. What role will beauty play as drugstores evolve to a more health care-centric format? The question is whether CVS’ $69 billion acquisition of health insurance giant Aetna;...Learn More
Bloomingdale's Bets Big on Millennials Beauty with Glowhaus Concept
By Ellen Thomas on August 17, 2017 | WWD Article Eight-hundred products from 30 brands are going into a Millennial-targeted beauty department, located on the retailer’s contemporary floor. Does Bloomingdale’s hold the master plan to bring Millennials back to department store beauty counters? Not quite — instead, the retailer is...Learn More
The Store as Beauty Hub – A CEW Service from WSL Strategic Retail
In this issue WSL Strategic Retail takes you a tour of 4 retailers that have acknowledged that the store is still the hub of beauty discovery. On this tour you will discover: Online beauty retailer Tira first physical store in Mumbai The reimagined Sephora flagship in Paris H&M Beauty in...Learn More
Forget Channels. The Shopper Is the Center of Distribution
Retailers and brands are talking more about the demise of channels as shoppers get whatever they want, when and wherever they want. This behavior is not new, but its imprint is beginning to show profoundly, with many retailers struggling to remain relevant. Is the power of the consumer, as in...Learn More
Driving Retail Innovation -- Retail Safari®-ing with NielsenIQ | EP95
In this episode: Wendy Liebmann talks to Anna Mayo, NielsenIQ VP Beauty Vertical, and WSL Strategic Retail’s Elia Auchane and Katie Hornsby about the importance of collaboration to drive innovation at retail. Episode Highlights: In challenging retail times, how critical it is to inspire new thinking The power of bringing...Learn More
How Retail Flagships Can Defy Tariff Uncertainty, Through Trust
Thanks to our Retail Safari® global innovation team, we’ve discovered three inventive flagships that illustrate how retailers can attract spending-cautious shoppers not by selling “stuff,” but by bringing their brands to life through trust and connection. We’re sharing ideas on how these examples can be applied in lower-cost, innovative strategies....Learn More