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Products meant to last, like coats and jewelry, or with high name brand recognition, like Nike, are less popular as dupes. What it means for 2025: Gen Z鈥檚 embrace of dupes reflects their desire for affordable alternatives in beauty and fashion. In 2025, brands may face increased pressure to balance affordability with quality to compete with dupe culture.

Net sales fell 8.8% YoY in Q3 due to weak demand during the back-to-school season, softer private label sales, and the retailer鈥檚 inability to capitalize on demand for categories like fine jewelry, petites, intimate apparel, and legacy home products.

Sales rose 0.8% YoY in the 50 Macy鈥檚 stores that featured fresh products, revamped displays, and boosted staffing in areas like fitting rooms and jewelry counters. That was the second consecutive quarter of positive growth since the plan began (although Q2 sales decelerated from 3.3% growth in Q1). Our take:.

In addition to appealing to a younger audience, this fragrance line helps Claire鈥檚 continue to expand its portfolio beyond jewelry. 鈥淗ow many people are going to the mall to go to Claire's?鈥� said our analyst Suzy Davidkhanian. 鈥淗ow many times are you going to get your ears pierced and how many pairs of earrings are you going to buy? In this case, product extension is a really good idea.鈥�. 6. CeraVe.

Accessories includes all accessories for personal adornment, such as belts, costume jewelry, fine jewelry, handbags, hats, nonprescription sunglasses, scarves, and watches; it excludes footwear. Jewelry includes new fine jewelry and watches; it excludes costume jewelry. Apparel, footwear, and accessories will be one of retail鈥檚 most resilient categories in 2024.

Consumers are opting for either entry-level items like eyewear and fragrances or top-shelf luxury goods like jewelry, yachts, and cars鈥攁 sign of the bifurcation in the market as wealthy shoppers continue to spend and aspirational customers pull back. Shoppers are also spending less time in brands鈥� flagship stores and more time in outlets to take advantage of lower prices.

The most expensive categories鈥攆or items like sofas鈥攚ill have a maximum eligible price of $20, while prices for items like jewelry and bedding sets are capped at $8 and $9, respectively. Product listings that exceed those price points will be deactivated, and sellers directed to sell on Amazon鈥檚 regular marketplace instead.

Despite these challenges, we expect worldwide personal luxury retail sales to grow 3.2% this year, thanks to healthy demand from affluent consumers who, as Herm猫s鈥� Q3 performance shows, are happy to spend on everything from ready-to-wear to expensive handbags to jewelry.

But something that's free is maybe a jewelry store that does repairs, if it's nothing super expensive. Or polishing, you can take your things to many jewelry stores, including Kay's or Tiffany. If it's Tiffany branded, you can get your silver polished. It used to be free, I don't know if it's still free. (04:54):. There's lots of different ways.

This is due to the lingering effects of inflation and elevated interest rates giving consumers鈥攅specially aspirational shoppers鈥攑ause before splurging on a high-end bag or jewelry, as well as the Chinese economy, which drove growth for years, facing stiff headwinds.

The nominees for the Small Stuff Worth Sweating award are Mejuri for innovating in jewelry, POP MART for innovating in toy buying, Sweaty Betty, which is innovating and active wear, and Flamingo Estate, which is innovating in household goods. And the winner of the Small Stuff Worth Sweating award is POP MART, which was actually completely off my radar until we made the short list.

Among eight categories, luxury and jewelry had the highest cart abandonment rate, at 81.4%, and consistently experienced the highest rates, averaging around 80% in the 12 months ending July 2024. Given the high price points and longer consideration times of luxury purchases, it鈥檚 not surprising the category has the highest cart abandonment rates.

Let's say you are a big jewelry purchaser. Maria, do you like jewelry? Are you a jewelry fan? Maria Elm:. To a degree. I don't know, medium. Let's say medium. Could take it or leave it. David Morris:. Let's say Chase knows where you've got your jewelry or I got my jewelry, they have a brand partner who isn't on the list.

It's going to sell boots, hats, jeans, and of course jewelry like the line they created in partnership with Paramount, the TV show Yellowstone. And we saw it happen with Beyonce, with Taylor Swift, the Cowboy thing. It might be a little late on capturing the cowboy trend, but I do think that it's got such brand affinity from its customers that I think it's going to do pretty well. Sara Lebow (08:46):.

For jewelry company Ring Concierge, someone purchasing an engagement ring is more likely to buy another piece as a gift in the future than someone buying more casual jewelry, so Ring targets those consumers as gifters rather than wearers of jewelry. Spanx uses segmentation similarly, targeting existing customers differently than first-time ones.

Retail includes mail order/catalog, restaurants/fast food, drug stores, retail stores, cosmetics stores, and merchants of apparel, home furnishings/textiles, toys, pet food/supplies, appliances, jewelry, and general merchandise. Apparel and accessories includes clothing such as sportswear and workwear, luggage, watches and jewelry, handbags, eyewear, and footwear.

Engagement and bridal jewelry accounts for roughly 50% of Signet鈥檚 sales, making the parent company of Kay Jewelers, Blue Nile, and Zales vulnerable to slowdowns in the wedding industry鈥攂ut also positioning it to benefit once engagements normalize. Unlike David鈥檚 Bridal, Signet鈥檚 brands have other product lines they can lean on for growth.

Fashion brand Revolve used AI to design a series of collections, while Sephora debuted a tool that allows shoppers to upload a photo of an item鈥攍ike jewelry鈥攁nd recommends makeup shades and products that match it.

US demand softens: While the US continues to be LVMH鈥檚 second largest region by revenues, business is beginning to slow as shoppers opt for more affordable products, like fragrances and makeup, over jewelry and designer bags.