Alibaba Brings Digital Retail Model to Restrooms
The company developed what it is calling the first-ever “Smart Ladies Room,” featuring an augmented-reality-powered digital screen that lets shoppers virtually try on color cosmetics.
The company developed what it is calling the first-ever “Smart Ladies Room,” featuring an augmented-reality-powered digital screen that lets shoppers virtually try on color cosmetics.
Forever 21’s new beauty and lifestyle destination, which can already be experienced in multiple malls across the country, just unveiled an e-commerce site.
Hardest hit looks to be skin care. Sales at brick-and-mortar are down 4 percent year-to-date through May. E-commerce, however, is helping out as online sales grew 21 percent during this time, leading to a 1 percent gain for the category overall.
Urban Decay, It Cosmetics, Nyx, Redken, Too Faced, Tarte, Clinique, Lancôme, Benefit and the Ulta Beauty Collection were among the best performing brands for the quarter.
Mariya Nurislamova, the founder of online subscription fragrance service, Scentbird, explains why her sampling concept is just what the industry needs to drive sales of scent.
Fabrizio Freda, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., highlighted the beauty firm’s global fiscal 2015 performance at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference in Boston on Thursday, September 10. Some highlights from the presentation included insights into the company’s digital, emerging markets and travel retail strategies based on a year that ended with $10.78 billion in sales.
Kline & Co. has put together a fact sheet outlining the beauty retailing landscape based on 2014 trends, and the various opportunities and changes that lie ahead.
Kline & Co. has put together a fact sheet outlining the beauty retailing landscape based on 2014 trends, and the various opportunities and changes that lie ahead.
Conor Begley, the Co-Founder and President of Tribe Dynamics, uncovers two shifts that are affecting the digital marketing realm.
A new website is aiming to disrupt online beauty retailing and change the way consumers shop for beauty online by incorporating a unique fundraising platform.
One of the hottest shopping websites is quickly building big buzz: wanelo.com. Standing for “WAnt, NEed, LOve” the site, founded in 2010 by Deena Varshavskaya, is a community platform where people can post, find and collect their favorite products from anywhere online.
E-commerce might be a small fraction of total retail sales, writes WSL Strategic Retail, but for certain categories, online shopping has reached a level that has retailers rethinking the space allocated in stores. (We’ve all seen what happened to books, music and electronics, and more recently with shoes and fragrance.) In a recent Pulse report, WSL examined what shoppers are buying online now, and what categories have the most potential to shift online in the near future.