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Some 22% of beauty retail sales worldwide will take place online this year, the most of any sales channel, per McKinsey. Physical specialty stores, such as Sephora and Ulta Beauty, will come in a close second (20%), while department stores will rank last (8%).

7-Eleven plans to open 115 larger-store formats by year-end, offering customers an expanded assortment of food options. The retailer also plans to add 51 new fresh food SKUs by the end of 2025.

Social media users in select countries (US, UK, Australia, France, and Saudi Arabia) trust brands over influencers when it comes to finance, apparel, and skincare, per an October study from Snap Inc. and IPG Magna. Finance is where this trend is most pronounced.

As the share of US ecommerce sales on marketplaces continues to expand, our latest survey examines consumer buying habits and expectations across leading platforms.

They want to be the brand, whether the product is content or consumer goods鈥攐r both. For example, Jimmy 鈥淢rBeast鈥� Donaldson has parlayed his YouTube fame to a product line (Feastables chocolate) and a high-profile reality show deal with Amazon Prime Video.

T-Mobile sees a $600 million opportunity in Digital OOH: The mobile provider will acquire Vistar Media in a deal hinting at the format鈥檚 future.

I will say the one difference right now is that Spectacles is not a consumer product, and Snap hasn't given a firm timeline into when they will be released to the public. Right now they're available to developers.

Wonder buys Grubhub for $650 million: The Marc Lore-owned company snapped up the delivery service at a steep discount, seeking to develop a meal-time super app.

There's no shortage of lessons for retailers, advertisers, and brands to learn from an eventful 2024, where many sectors of retail thrived even as economic anxiety affected consumer habits.

Luxury ecommerce gets a boost from wealthy shoppers: Our Industry KPIs data shows that spending from top-tier consumers offset softening aspirational demand.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant delays across the world, affecting the supply of common consumer goods like cars.

In January, our 蘑菇AV Daily newsletter team made some advertising and marketing predictions for 2024 on everything from AI to attention metrics.

Google wants to be a retail hub: Less than a month after rolling out a rebuilt Google Shopping, the tech giant launched a host of in-store and local shopping features.

The news: MrBeast (real name James Donaldson), the most popular creator on YouTube and a children鈥檚 consumer goods entrepreneur, has spent the last few months dealing with wave after wave of controversy. Most recently, Donaldson and Amazon were named in a class-action lawsuit from contestants on the upcoming game show 鈥淏east Games,鈥� set to launch on Prime Video later this year.

Gen Z struggles to manage health and wellness: They understand the importance of taking health into their own hands but fail to deliver good results. We explore how healthcare marketers, providers, and insurers can arm this generation with the necessary support.

So if I start to think about hyper personalization and offering consumers products, services, or even advice, if you don't want to creep customers out, you have to be able to be transparent in terms of the way that you use information and that you deliver something that is of value to consumers when you do so.