Health And Beauty news and trends

Gen Z’s Shower Routine Obsession Boosts L’Occitane’s Sol de Janeiro 
Retail // October 24, 2023

What’s in your “everything shower” routine?    For those who aren’t in the know, on TikTok, content creators are describing it as a multistep shower experience each week. In their videos, they describe their routines with various products, such as exfoliators, hair masks, shampoos, conditioners,...

Amazon Poised to Overtake Walmart in Health and Beauty Spending
Retail // August 25, 2023

Amazon’s strategy of overtaking Walmart in key retail categories may finally come to fruition. The competition between the world’s top two retailers for shares of consumer spend is fierce. Walmart currently dominates in the food and beverage category with an 18% share of consumer spend....

Grocers Losing Share of Health and Beauty Sales to eCommerce 
Retail // June 12, 2023

Where once consumers picked up their personal care products along with their food and beverages at the supermarket, they are increasingly shifting to digital channels to get their health and beauty needs met, leaving grocers in the lurch. By the Numbers Findings from PYMNTS’ study...

Giving Health And Beauty Merchants A POS Makeover
Retail // February 06, 2019

Consumers have thousands of health and beauty brands to choose from, and that pool has only grown larger as the global economy expands. To keep up with the competition, merchants recognize the need to innovate both online and in their physical stores. What’s more, 61...

Interviews & Exclusives
Pressures on Lower-Income Consumers Signal Pain for Beauty and Apparel Merchants

July 22, 2024
T.S. Eliot wrote that the world would end not with a bang but a whimper. It may be the case that the unstoppable wave of consumer spending may end that way too, and not with a full-fledged slamming on the brakes — a wallop that hits merchants all at once. We may see a pulling […]

Amazon Poised to Overtake Walmart in Health and Beauty Spending

August 25, 2023
Amazon’s strategy of overtaking Walmart in key retail categories may finally come to fruition. The competition between the world’s top two retailers for shares of consumer spend is fierce. Walmart...

Quick Reads
Walgreens Partners With Alibaba To Offer Beauty Brands On Tmall Global

September 21, 2018
Walgreens Boots Alliance and Alibaba Group Holding have announced the launch of a Boots flagship store on Tmall Global, Alibaba’s B2C platform for international brands and retailers. The partnership will offer Boots beauty brands to more than half a billion consumers in China, including No7, Soap & Glory and Boots Cucumber. Launched in 2014, Alibaba’s […]