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Organic Health and Beauty: Not Quite Mainstream

by Christina Lee on January 9th, 2009

Despite the enthusiasm of their manufacturers, consumers are still not buying into organic health and beauty care products, a study says. TABS Group surveyed 1,000 consumers to find what they call a “significant gap between hype and reality of consumer purchase behavior” regarding organic products, including food as well as health and beauty care products. Less than 40 percent of them purchased from major organic categories over the last six months, according to Kurt Jetta, TABS Group’s president and founder. Consumers were most likely to purchase organic fresh fruit and vegetables. On the other hand, they were only 5 percent... Read more »

Retailing Tidbits – August 2007

by Veronica Stone on August 6th, 2007

JUST back from Toy Fair in NY and it seemed like there was some business going on the first day. One vendor hawking his products to us boasts that soon it will be in Wal-Marts. As a small independent retailer do you think that is what I want to hear? So I can take my profit margin and slice it down the instant it hits the box store. What are some vendors thinking? COLORS are important in your store. At Children’s Place stores they changed to blacks and browns. Said it was more sophisticated. Yes, of course, a sophisticated three-year-old!... Read more »