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How Retail Can Be A Solution for Loneliness with Matthew Liebmann | EP44
In this episode: Wendy Liebmann talks with Matthew Liebmann, Chief Innovation & Data Officer at Vista Group about the role of physical experiences in addressing the increasingly disturbing societal issues of loneliness. They discuss: Loneliness and the decline of socialization prior to the pandemic, and its continuing impact across populations The opportunities...Learn More
Next-Generation Retail: Shopping Themes Re-defining 2023 & Beyond
Our scouts are continuously trotting the globe, documenting innovations that are shaping a new era of shopping. In this expansive, 41-page Retail Safari® report, we identify the themes and retailers that are re-defining the Next Frontier of Retail in 2023 and beyond. In this report, we cover: Seven key themes...Learn More
Why Gen X Could Be Beauty’s Biggest Consumer Base
By Emily Dougherty, October 21, 2022 || BeautyInc. – A Publication of WWD Women over the age of 50 have been routinely ignored by marketers for decades. Now, though, healthier and wealthier than any generation of women before them, Gen X is coming resolutely into focus. As American women age, they start...Learn More
Shoppers are Lonely, Anxious. Retail Therapy is a Solution
Despite their pursuit of wellness, more shoppers are experiencing new, and unexpected, health issues like loneliness, WSL research shows. Some retailers have been incorporating social environments in their physical stores as a way to reintroduce facetime, but is it enough for shoppers, and what is the role of brands? Shoppers...Learn More
Maesa Launches Itk Skin Care Brand With TikTok Stars Brooklyn, Bailey McKnight
By James Manso on August 19, 2022 || BeautyInc. – A Publication of WWD TikTok creators Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight’s new Gen Z skin care brand Itk is launching Monday in an exclusive partnership with Walmart as the retailer bids on younger, digitally native consumers. With Gen Z street cred on...Learn More
Shopping During Inflation: Long Slog vs. Whiplash? | EP39
In this episode: WSL’s Wendy Liebmann, CEO, and Candace Corlett, President, discuss how shoppers are dealing with spiraling price increases, how this moment is different from 2008, and how companies need to respond. They preview WSL’s upcoming Wellness study (The New Wellness Frontier). And the baseball season. (Yes, really!) They...Learn More