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Sensible gifting took centre stage as consumers embraced practicality this Christmas

Retail Focus

Fewer orders, bigger baskets Although total orders were down by 15% compared to 2023, the higher AOV demonstrated consumers willingness to spend more strategically and free shipping thresholds, loyalty programmes, and bundle offers encouraged shoppers to increase basket sizes. The 2024 Christmas season provides valuable lessons for retailers.

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Fleeting beauty: Inside the downward spiral of BWX

Inside Retail

To say health and beauty conglomerate BWX has had a difficult few years could be an understatement. After purchasing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of successful beauty brands and platforms, the business, which was valued at $860 million five years ago, is now worth about $36 million. It’s a long story. What went wrong?

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You’ll Like Us When We’re Green: How Retailers Demonstrate Sustainability Through Track and Trace

Retail TouchPoints

However, advances powering track-and-trace, such as 5G and RFID labels affixed to shipping crates, can help stores proactively promote sustainable items as well. If it’s a health and beauty or food and beverage product, were harmful chemicals used at any point in production — and were they tested on animals?

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Founder of New ‘Co-Retailing’ Space in NYC’s SoHo Shares His Vision for Community-Driven Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Image courtesy The Den) APM Models hosted a paint-and-sip event complete with beauty treatments. How much brands want to promote their presence at The Den, and how they promote it, is left up to them. “We’re The brands also benefit from the halo effect of other tenants’ promotional efforts.

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5 Tips for Maintaining Subscription Momentum

Retail TouchPoints

The firm points to two categories that will have the biggest influence worldwide: food and beverage, and beauty and personal care. Instead of supplements that sit in bottles in your medicine cabinet, our belief is that health should be readily available in your pocket,” Yoshimura said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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UPDATE: Target Adds Paid Loyalty Program, Plans 300 New Stores Over Next 10 Years

Retail TouchPoints

[Update from 3/6/2024] Over the next decade, Target plans to build more than 300 new stores and upgrade the vast majority of its brick-and-mortar fleet, with projects ranging from full remodels to adding Ulta Beauty locations, upgrading fixtures and supporting same-day services.

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Southeast Asian retailer Shopee’s long path to profit: Are we there yet?

Inside Retail

Some have lost patience and deserted the ship. Shopee has done what e-commerce players do: it has scaled up partly by acquiring market share with deep discounting and free shipping deals, going particularly hard on the promotions during monthly sales events that yield mouthwatering top lines. on 24 June.