Walmart

Imports of holiday products by US retailers, including Walmart, have fallen sharply, reflecting cautious inventory management and expectations for slower sales growth during this year’s festive season.

Mass retailers like Target and Walmart have invested heavily in their beauty offerings, attracting a fresh crop of indie brands – as well as increasing their overall basket size. For brands wanting a slice of the action, scaling up is necessary.

America’s largest retailer hosted a pop-up shop in New York City over the weekend, touting its affiliation with designer Brandon Maxwell and announcing its fashion ambitions after recent seasons of promising sales in apparel.

Macy’s is betting on refreshed stores and better merchandise even as shoppers hunt for bargains. The company will give an update on its turnaround efforts with quarterly results this week.

We are crossing over into a new era where competitive advantage for major retailers which will come, not through further extraction of value from society, but through contribution of value to society, argues futurist Doug Stephens.

In a bid to take AR mainstream, L’Oréal and Snapchat have teamed with retail behemoth Walmart to bring their virtual try-on for hair colour to store shelves across the US.

The US mega-chain is continuing to build out its assortment of prestige beauty brands and services.

Growing demand for lookalike products, coupled with a pullback in spending due to inflation, is cutting in to sales of some trendy, big-name products.

The big-box retailer is revamping its apparel offering in a bid to become a style destination, a goal it’s tried — and failed — to hit multiple times before. But between a squeezed consumer and the rise of Gen-Z, this time is different, the company says.

A cadre of beauty start-ups, including Millie Bobby Brown’s makeup brand Florence by Mills, have mastered the difficult task of turning TikTok users watching clicky content into paying customers.