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Time for drug chains to reclaim beauty category

March 19, 2018 by Chain Drug Review Amazon, beauty care, CVS Pharmacy, drug channel, drug stores, Forever 21, Glowhaus, Jefferies, Jordan Rost, Kylie Cosmetics, Larissa Jensen, mass beauty care, mass market beauty sales, mass retailers, Mintel, Nielsen, NPD Group, Riley Rose, Sarah Jindal, Sephora, Steph Wissink, Target, Ulta Beauty, Walgreens, Walmart 2018, Business, Featured Articles, Issue 03-19-2018, Issues, Leading Headlines, News, Retail News

NEW YORK — It is a pivotal juncture for the beauty care category in the drug channel. Retailers and brands need to devise a game plan to wrest the business away from prestige power players. Sales in cosmetics, skin care and grooming are firing on all cylinders — but sadly, not in the mass beauty

Mass retailers reap benefits of beauty makeover

March 24, 2017 by Chain Drug Review Alex Perez-Tenessa, beauty care sales, CVS Pharmacy, Dawn Block, Deborah Weinswig, Fung Global Retail and Technology, Jane Henderson, Jordan Rost, mass market beauty care, Mintel, Nielsen, NPD Group, Target Corp. Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Retail News

NEW YORK — Efforts that mass market retailers started last year to brush up their beauty departments and court new shoppers are starting to register. Mass market beauty care sales rose only 2% in 2016, according to NPD Group Inc. (lower than prestige at 6%), but several categories recorded impressive results. Skin care, for example,