The news: Starting this fall, buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Afterpay will let US customers make purchases at 13 popular retailers—including Target, Nike, and Sephora—that the firm isn’t partnered with, per PYMNTS. Customers will be able to use Afterpay’s app to shop at these retailers. This comes shortly after Afterpay announced plans to open its North American headquarters in San Francisco.

The social platforms have had no trouble getting brands to buy in to their live shopping ambitions—Facebook’s Live Shopping Fridays, for example, boasts many big-name brands from Sephora to Abercrombie & Fitch. The networks’ enthusiasm for live shopping comes directly from China, where livestream shopping is already big business for brands.

Through years of work with companies that include Apple, BlackBerry, Schwab, eBay and Sephora, Chris has had the opportunity to innovate technical solutions at an enterprise platform level, with an eye on creating integrity between the overall technical strategy and business plan. Piotr Urbanski is associate director of marketing science at Ayzenberg.

For example, if you look at our beauty category, our top three brands are not sold in Sephora. What’s on your road map for 2020? People are looking for quality, selection, convenience and price, and we want to provide each of those four pillars of ecommerce. We're going to continue to push the boundaries in those areas.

Elizabeth held various marketing practitioner and thought leadership roles focused on innovation and digital marketing for over 20 years at leading companies including Sephora, Forrester, Constellation Brands, Gartner & Omnicom Group.

After a Wall Street Journal article surfaced The Retail Equation’s retail returns scoring tool used by retailers like Best Buy and Sephora, The Retail Equation became the subject of a lawsuit that claims its customer scores should be made available to consumers and ought to be subject to the FCRA rules for access and contestation. Tenant and Job Screening.

Ikea Place app, Sephora Virtual Artist); navigation (e.g., via head-up displays); object interactions; 3D product demos and projections via headsets (e.g., enterprise applications). Mixed Reality (MR): Like AR, MR involves superimposing or projecting virtual images onto the real world.

January 2020: Launched Try on for lipstick, allowing users to test products from Estée Lauder, Sephora, Neutrogena, L'Oréal and others. Pinterest users test an average of six lipstick shades while using the feature, said Cindy Zhang, technical lead for Try on at Pinterest. “Trying products on virtually helps Pinners evaluate them before making the decision to purchase," Zhang said.