Estée Lauder is reinventing online shopping

 

The American beauty conglomerate Estée Lauder is planning to revamp the online shopping experience for consumers to offer them a new and seamless way to shop.

The firm manufactures some of the biggest brands in the beauty industry. Some of them are Mac Cosmetics, Jo Malone, Origins and Le Labo. It said that customers are missing social interaction and the personalisation of the in-store experience. Hence, it is trying to recreate this online.

Indeed, just recently, Clinique, one of its brands, launched an e-shopping website in the UK. This allows clients to video chat with consultants, try on products using augmented reality technology and purchase items according to their preferences, skin type and personalised recommendations. Moreover, a new feature will soon allow friends in different locations to shop together online, customise their storefront and control the entire digital operation themselves. It is expected that other brands will follow Clinique.

Nicky De Simone, the regional director of enterprise marketing and transformation at Estée Lauder Companies advanced that they decided to undertake this transformation because, “One of the things shoppers love about going to the store is that social connectivity. As much as we have pivoted digitally, we were still losing the customer along the way”.


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