“We grew up with the Body Shop, but it didn’t grow up with us,” esthetician and beauty brand developer Alicia Lartey told Refinery29. As Lisa Whittington-Hill writes, the retailer’s failure to evolve is causing the company to lose out on millennial and Gen Z shoppers.
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The Body Shop was an early pioneer of clean beauty. But as ethically sourced ingredients and anti-waste packaging became the norm, the company failed to evolve in order to keep standing out, writes Lisa Whittington-Hill.
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