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18 Nov

How Pharmacy Closures Will Impact Consumers and Personal Care

As pharmacies across the country close and pharmacists strike for higher working conditions, industry experts are analyzing the implications for consumers.  It wasn’t so way back that major drugstore chains were committed to expansion, with the intention to be on every corner making health services widely accessible — this approach proved successful throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the strategy is now going downhill with many major retailers announcing closures.  In October, Rite Aid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Meanwhile, earlier this yr, in June, Walgreens announced it might close 150 doors, following 200 store closures in 2019. In 2021, CVS said it might close 900 doors over the subsequent three years. Experts attribute these closures to the sheer amount of pharmacies, the...
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30 Jun

Consumers Dressing Up Again, but Often With a Twist,

As summer gets underway, men and women are stepping out with dressier wardrobes. U.S. sales for adult tailored clothing and other dress clothing increased by 5 percent from January through April, led by men’s dress shirts, men’s suits and girls’s skirts. In truth, the dress clothing market is larger than it was pre-pandemic, with sales revenue 8 percent higher than 2019 levels, in keeping with Circana, formerly IRI and The NPD Group. “Hybrid work can be hybrid play,” said Maria Rugolo, apparel industry analyst at Circana. “Dressier trends, coinciding with the return to offices, events, travel and other activities, have consumers mixing and matching how they're wearing their wardrobes as a mirrored image of the hybrid lifestyle that has grow to...
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20 Jun

Inside The Unmet Needs of Type 4 Curly-haired Consumers

Even with the natural hair movement that has swept the web and curly-haired communities lately, type 4 hair — which comprises the densest and tightest curl patterns of all hair types — still hasn’t had its time within the highlight. Along with her inaugural “The Texture Gap” report, Carra founder Winnie Awa goals to vary that. “It’s not as area of interest a market as people think — there are billions of individuals with this hair texture,” said the Net-a-porter and Ernst & Young alum, who founded beauty-tech platform Carra in 2021 to supply personalized advice for those with tight-textured hair. Fueled by nearly 10 million textured-hair-specific data points from across the web, the report identifies key needs and pain points...
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13 Jun

Charlotte Tilbury’s Latest App Allows Consumers a Look Into

Charlotte Tilbury’s first mobile app, which goals to assist consumers find the precise products and learn how one can apply them while they shop, is here. Called Charlotte Tilbury: Easy Beauty For You, the app serves as a hub for makeup tutorials, red carpet look breakdowns and the brand’s shade matching and skin evaluation tools. Consumers can even use the app to book one-on-one virtual consultations with the brand’s skilled makeup artists. “That is where artistry plus technology really involves life,” said Corinne Suchy, the brand’s chief growth officer, adding the experience is supposed to be personalized “to the extent as when you were sitting in Charlotte’s makeup chair in-person, and he or she was supplying you with that advice.” User...
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