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Rise in US Retail Sales Highlights Resilient Consumer
Sales rose by the most in five months in a broad advance, showing consumers continued to spend despite rising gasoline prices.

A Decade After Mercury Ban, Toxic Skin Bleachers Still Abound
More than 20 banned skin-bleaching products containing mercury are available on Amazon, Temu and TikTok Shop in several countries, despite decades of efforts to prevent their sale.

The 5 Reasons Why Beauty Has Never Been Tougher
This week, Priya Rao contemplates beauty’s latest disruptions.

YouTube Inks Amazon Partnership to Boost Online Shopping Bet
YouTube creators can now tag Amazon products in their videos and livestreams, driving more business directly to the enormous global marketplace while taking a cut from sales.

Are There Too Many Beauty Sales?
As Prime Day stretches into Prime Week, and retailers crowd the calendar with overlapping promotions, beauty brands are rethinking how to discount without eroding their long-term value.

Beauty Brands Want to Own Their Space. It’ll Cost Them.
As department stores wane in popularity and specialty and e-commerce becomes more saturated, beauty brands are looking to open their own stores to regain ground and control the customer experience. Becoming a retailer, however, is very different to being a wholesaler.

Ahead of the Met Gala, a ‘Ball Without Billionaires’
A fashion show co-organised by labour unions served as a protest against this year’s Met Gala. The theme? ‘Labour is art.’

Inside Amazon Beauty’s Bid to Become a Discovery-Led Destination
As competition intensifies across the beauty category, Amazon Beauty is leveraging AI, entertainment, premiumisation and frictionless checkout to help brands turn browsing into purchase.

What Stops Beauty Shoppers From Buying More
Beauty brands must rethink upselling with smarter value plays, from curated bundles to jumbo sizes and subscriptions, to keep their customers from switching to the competition.

Exclusive: Shein Wants Brands to Use Its Supply Chain. Should They?
The fast-fashion giant is offering to let smaller labels plug directly into its famed on-demand manufacturing and global logistics network. But is the boost in speed worth the risk of putting operations in a competitor’s hands?