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Five Ways AI Is Being Used in Beauty Retail

How is AI (artificial intelligence) transforming retail? As part of a five-report series, we present five key applications of AI in the beauty sector, covering regulatory compliance, skin diagnosis, virtual makeup try-on and more.

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Five Ways AI Is Being Used in Luxury Retail

How is AI (artificial intelligence) transforming retail? Launching a five-part report series, we present five key applications of AI in the luxury sector, covering generative AI art, customer service applications, anti-counterfeiting measures and more.

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Research Preview: The Future of Malls

We offer an early look at research from our forthcoming report, The Future of Malls: Analyzing Mall Retail Dynamics Through 2030. In that report, we will provide quantitative predictions and analyze sector dynamics for US malls through 2030.

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Wellness as a Luxury, Part 3—Eating Well

This is the third in our Wellness as a Luxury series of reports, where we examine wellness as the new status symbol: this “wellthness” is fast replacing more traditional signifiers of affluence as a luxury to be enjoyed and flaunted.

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Deep Dive: Wellness as a Luxury: Part 1— Living Well

Fitness classes: Young consumers in particular are seeking aspirational, social experiences in their fitness regimes. This is prompting a premiumization of workouts and classes at fitness centers, growth of collegiate workout clubs (many of which take the form of park-based boot camps), and the development of the fitness events industry.

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