Photo or video booths could be the future of innovative retail concept stores that empower consumers to personalise beauty products as the trend shifts away from being expert-led (Getty Images) The personalised beauty space is morphing from expert-led to consumer-driven as people become accustomed to a do-it-yourself digital approach and this involvement is likely to stay, says an FMCG consultant.
Personalisation had long been on the beauty agenda, with many small and major brands sharpening offerings in recent months – L’Oréal, for example, launched its Perso device and Beiersdorf its O.W.N face care line – and there were many innovations on the horizon among global beauty brands in skin care, colour cosmetics and fragrance.
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Since then, bosses have moved to implement a “radical” plan to focus more on the food side of the business.
But Sir John, chairman and owner of shoe repair chain Timpson, previously stated he believed the “decline” was inevitable.
He said: “In the Seventies, M&S had the perfect unique selling point – it was the UK’s best retailer.
“We admired its quality, service, supplier relations, employee engagement and management training.
Marks and Spencer s switched to foreign suppliers (Image: GETTY)
The company was founded more than 130 years ago (Image: GETTY)
“It was the shopkeeper that we all followed, but M&S was never going to remain top dog forever.
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In the second quarter of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic kicked off in earnest and personal protective equipment grew scarce, face masks accounted for a whopping 14% of gross merchandise sales (GMS) on handmade-goods platform Etsy. By the third quarter, masks would account for 11% of GMS, and by the fourth quarter that would fall to 4% but by then millions of one-time mask buyers had already become Etsy return visitors.
On Thursday, Etsy reported fourth-quarter earnings that blew past analyst expectations, including a 129% year-over-year increase in revenue (which hit $617 million) and a 375% year-over-year increase in net income ($148.5 million). For all of 2020, Etsy’s profit more than doubled, and GMS grew by 106%. The company also said that nearly half of the 3 million customers who only bought masks on the site in the third quarter came back to Etsy in the fourth quarter to buy other items. CFO Rachel Glaser called it “a great signal” for the company’s