For the holiday season, Birchbox will grow its brick-and-mortar partnership with Walgreens by installing Birchbox holiday fixtures in 500 Walgreens stores. This is in addition to the Birchbox boutique-like locations that are now in 11 Walgreens stores. The new holiday fixtures will be in retail locations of the pharmacy chain...
Subscription commerce encompasses such a wide variety of services, from Netflix to wardrobe curation to pet food delivery, it’s no surprise that on average, according PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker, Americans spent $2 billion per month on subscriptions in 2018. More than half (57 percent) of...
To attract millennials and increase its focus on beauty products, Walgreens is partnering with subscription service Birchbox. Walgreens will also take a minority stake in the makeup company, CNBC reported. “Beauty is a very important category for Walgreens, and we’ve been doing a huge amount of...
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories include details about Birchbox’s future and why retailers are looking to digital technologies. Additionally, Costco serves up robot-prepared pizza, PayPal wins high marks for its...
June 17, 2016
It was an alphabet soup of sizzle/fizzle this week: EMV, WWDC, PLCC, CCI, and SFBI all rocked the payments and commerce world one way or the other. Read on if you want the full translation. Sizzle EMV Certifications Yes, they are a hairball, as we have previously reported. But it turns out the months and […]
November 06, 2019
For the holiday season, Birchbox will grow its brick-and-mortar partnership with Walgreens by installing Birchbox holiday fixtures in 500 Walgreens stores. This is in addition to the Birchbox boutique-like locations that are now in 11 Walgreens stores. The new holiday fixtures will be in retail locations of the pharmacy chain in 44 states starting this Friday, and through the conclusion […]
October 04, 2018
To attract millennials and increase its focus on beauty products, Walgreens is partnering with subscription service Birchbox. Walgreens will also take a minority stake in the makeup company, CNBC reported. “Beauty...
May 02, 2018
Birchbox has found a buyer, but it won’t be QVC. Instead, hedge fund Viking Global, one of the firm’s investors, will be acquiring a majority stake in the makeup subscription...
August 10, 2017
Subscription boxes have been all the rage with millennials for the last few years. One of the initial pioneers of this sector of retail is rumored to be in acquisition...
