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Tween beauty: Are brands crossing the line?

Inside Retail

As I listened to the ongoing debate among consumers, I wondered how brands were responding. After all, good business dictates that wherever a market exists, there is potential for financial gain, especially considering that tweens are the next generation of consumers. billion from 2021 to 2026, with a steady annual growth rate of 6.5

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E-commerce sales fall as cost-of-living pressures hit consumers

Inside Retail

As inflation and rising interest rates start to bite and reduce consumers’ spending capacity and confidence, Australian e-commerce sales declined sharply in July. . This shows that consumers are researching online to find the product they are after before they head to a retail store to buy it. Representing 19.3 Search engines.

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Australians return to the malls despite a plunge in consumer confidence

Inside Retail

Australians are returning to shopping malls as Covid fears subside with Scentre Group reporting customer visitations up 12 per cent on 2021 levels during the first quarter. Scentre group’s figures came out on the same day as the latest consumer confidence data from Westpac shows a decline of 5.6 per cent to 90.4 per cent in 2022.”.

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Ikea and Sephora: Why businesses need to go beyond the bottom line

Inside Retail

Sephora CEO and president Jean-André Rougeot at this week’s National Retail Federation’s State of Retail and the Consumer conference. It also makes us more successful commercially because there is such a diverse consumer now in America. If we need to succeed in the long term, we need to be able to talk to those consumers.

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Why Asian e-commerce giant GoTo is cutting costs despite top-line growth

Inside Retail

For GoTo, the company formed in May 2021 by a merger between Tokopedia and Gojek, 2022 is shaping up to be the year that it has made serious strides toward profitability. per cent in 2021. per cent in the first 9 months of 2021. Part of the spending was aimed at poaching the best talent from other companies. per cent last year.

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Is now the time to go direct to consumer?

Inside Retail

Of all the habits consumers have established in the past two years, some are more likely to stick than others and the uptick in online shopping is certainly one of them. In 2021, co-founder Michael Dubin said: “It’s easy and affordable to spin up a DTC site right now.” DTC darlings. appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Dezeen's top 10 shop interiors of 2021

Dezeen

As part of our ongoing review of 2021 , Dezeen rounds up the top 10 most remarkable and intriguing shop interiors of the year – from a cannabis dispensary made to look like an old-fashioned grocery store to a makeup boutique arranged around a large, mossy mound. The post Dezeen's top 10 shop interiors of 2021 appeared first on Dezeen.

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