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Building A DTC Men’s Personal Care Brand With eCommerce

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To provide men’s personal care items that feel like premium brands at accessible price points, eCommerce innovators are building product lines through the direct-to-consumer (DTC) model. Founder Matt Mullenax was inspired to start the brand after cutting his teeth in the DTC world as an early employee at Bonobos.

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More Retailers Are Checking Into Hotels In Search Of Innovation

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Luxury fitness brand Equinox is set next month to open its first hotel in New York City, “with more on the horizon in Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif.,” As well, the furnishings brand RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, plans to open RH Guesthouse in New York in the fall. and Portland, Maine.

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Target Eyes Growth, Shutters Underperforming Storefronts

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Though big-box retailer Target has been known for expansion and digital innovation of late, Tuesday (Nov. The introduction of several exclusive Target brands, such as children’s clothing line Cat & Jack, are also boosting growth. The brands will include products for babies, children, men, women and home goods.

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Digital-First Economy Redefines Retail And Consumer Behavior

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Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands drove into the pandemic and adapted to it to catch the digital shift. These are the brands that have either created new product categories, new business models or pivots on their previous business models. Adore Me, for example, was a thriving eCommerce brand before the pandemic. D2C Explodes.

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Walgreens’ Prescription For Change

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The pair-up will also see some private-label Kroger brands migrating onto Walgreens’ shelves. It’s clearly the same operating logic that drove Walgreens to recently announce its partnership with beauty brand and subscription box early innovator Birchbox. in early 2019. in early 2019.

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Behind The Drive To Bring Better Consumer Experiences To Physical Retail

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The upscale apparel brand, according to a recent report , is opening an “experiential store” in the Mall of America in Minneapolis on Wednesday (Nov. The story she told was about the importance of the consumer experience and the benefits of direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands reaching out to consumers via physical retail offerings. “It

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Turning Fashion By The Numbers Into A Billion-Dollar Business

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The Stitch Fix shopping experience melds the brand’s in-house labels with items from over 1,000 brands, many of which are pretty recognizable to the average shopper: pping. But Lake notes that those data tools are getting better, and the data sets are getting wider.