Target Makes non-GMO, Organic Goals
June 18, 2013 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, GMO News, Nutri-Life, Sustainable Business & CSR, The Healthy Lunchbox
Send to KindleTweet A few years ago every big box brand wanted a piece of the breakfast market pie. Now everyone wants in on the grocery store market. Target Greatlands and the introduction of grocery options at many Target stores is apparently just the beginning. The midwestern retailer announced it will soon introduce a new [...]
Weekly Links: Meggings, Fashion News, Beauty Buys, & Target Binges
December 2, 2012 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
Send to KindleTweet What’s worse then men in skinny jeans? Men in leggings. According to the NYMag, men are wearing leggings, shorts with leggings, and more. Don’t take this commentary as disdain – I was pleased to see Marc Jacobs in a skirt but leggings are somehow different. And yet on the models it looks [...]
Target: The Next Designer Spotlight
November 6, 2012 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
Send to KindleTweet Target Corporation recently revealed its next fashion for the masses partnership will be with Prabal Gurung. Now one of the biggest rising stars in fashion, Gurung won the Ecco Domani Fashion Fund Award in 2010 and was runner up for the 2010 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. He was also a finalist of the Cooper-Hewitt National [...]
Weekly Links: Target Openings, Jimmy Choo, the Beauty Box Biz, & Celeb Endorsements
November 3, 2012 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions, Sample Sales
Send to KindleTweet What happens when a woman follows her gut, borrows some money and builds one of the biggest luxury shoe brands ever – without a college degree? In this case Jimmy Choo happens. After the sale of Jimmy Choo, Tamara Mellon is a multi-millionaire planning her next move. This New York Times piece [...]
Three Things I Learned While Quarantined in Bed
September 19, 2012 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions, The Daily Bitch
Send to KindleTweet It’s the Jewish New Year and already I’m a bad bad girl. Woman. I decided this year I would try to gossip less and be less judgmental. Already on day one I’ve nearly failed. But I have a few things to blame for my less than stellar willpower and self-control: 1) I’ve [...]
The Ultimate High-Low Fashion Collaboration
August 1, 2012 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
Send to KindleTweet Uptown fashion retailer Neiman Marcus and every mom’s favorite 20-minute vacation spot, Target, have teamed up with CFDA and 24 designers to create a holiday gift collection. The collaboration will see the retailers introduce upwards of 50 limited-edition gift products and will result in a $1 million donation to the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). [...]
Beauty Wars: A Look at the Major Players
July 23, 2012 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions
Send to KindleTweet There is a retail war going on right now to compete for your beauty budget. I’ll start with a few confessions. I’m a beauty junkie. I have a bestie and we both once lived in The City, New York that is. When were equally miserable at our underpaid jobs in Manhattan offices, [...]
Embracing Cosmetic Oils
July 12, 2012 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Ethnic Beauty, Featured, Paints & Potions
Send to KindleTweet Summer seems an unlikely time of year to recommend hair oils, hell any oils, but sometimes the heat calls for extra moisture. Whether used as a leave-in or a conditioner, this carefully selected choice of oils will suit all consumers. Plus, we’ve added a home grown oil from a mom-and-pop shop out [...]
Big Data: Walmart, Consultancy Ink Deal
March 4, 2012 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Nutri-Life, Smartphones & Gadgets
Send to KindleTweet If you are among the group of Americans that was outraged to hear that an American man learned about his teenage daughter’s pregnancy from Target, get prepared to be even more outraged about privacy issues and big data. Consumer and retail market research firm The NPD Group has inked an agreement with [...]
Target: Kid Hipster Looks For Less
November 10, 2011 by Andrea Toochin
Filed under Featured, Paints & Potions, Sample Sales
Send to KindleTweet Jobs are like relationships– both start with a honeymoon period, the rush of the new. The honeymoon ends at about three months at which point the job becomes real with overnight responsibility and the relationship is real. After that, the next six months are OK, the lust or love develops and you [...]


