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The Color of Personal Care: Diversity in Health and Beauty Aisles

By Christine LaFave Grace on Oct. 15, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic made the lack of representation on store shelves of health and beauty products created for diverse consumers all the more apparent—and added new urgency for retailers to address the issue.

Retailers

Target Looks to Back Black-Owned Beauty Brands

By Christine LaFave Grace on Oct. 01, 2021

The Minneapolis-based retailer is working to help Black-owned beauty- and personal-care businesses develop and make products that "better support the brands’ values."

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What the Pet Adoption Boom Means for Retailers

By Kristina Hurtig on Jul. 26, 2021

The adoption of dogs and cats during the pandemic “provides retailers and brands with the opportunity to identify and provide value for the ongoing needs of their customers—and their pets,” Quotient CEO Steven Boal says.

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Natural Health, Beauty Products Gain Ground

By Amanda Baltazar on Jul. 19, 2021

Retailers and consumers are paying more attention to nontoxic wellness.

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Grocery Retailers Continue to Emphasize Sanitization

Sponsored content from our partner GOJO Industries, the inventors of the PURELL brand on Jun. 30, 2021

As more and more shoppers resume their pre-pandemic food shopping patterns, they will likely remain highly aware of the cleanliness of the stores they patronize, and are likely making this an even higher priority than before the pandemic.

Products

IRI’s Top Nonfood Products of 2020 Highlight Pandemic Trends

By Kristina Hurtig on Jun. 09, 2021

Household cleaning products had a good year as consumers cleaned more, and pet products also had a strong showing with adoptions of dogs and cats on the rise.

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