COVID-Crunched Cosmetics Shoppers Spending Less, Trading Down, Wary Of Stores
Executive Summary
Recent surveys from consulting, retail analytics and e-commerce logistics firms support the views of leading beauty and personal-care companies that are modifying their approaches in light of consumers’ changing means and preferences during COVID-19.
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