At the recent WWD Beauty Summit, beauty industry leaders explained how they’re going to change to adapt for the future.

At the recent WWD Beauty Summit, the industry’s leaders described how they see the changes in the beauty industry manifesting.

No one, including Amazon, has been able to make online groceries work. The need for physical stores combined with online has become clear, across retail categories — but it’s not at all clear that the online giant’s acquisition of Whole Foods will be successful.

There’s a lot of talk about millennials, what they want, what’s important to them and how they shop. How much of all that talk is real? This article gets information from a newly released study that describes how millennials behave when they’re shopping.

Nordstrom has lost the advantages of being a public company, and the Nordstrom family is aiming to leverage its ownership stake the way other people use their savings for a down payment on a house. They seem to believe they can do it without taking on a crippling level of debt.

In a time of drastic change and upheaval in retail, why don’t more retailers try radical ideas? A new kind of furniture, made of cardboard, may be an indicator of the staleness in many existing retailers’ offerings.