About Face: The juggling act of bricks and clicks
The following is from my column "About Face" - a regular series about the Beauty Bliss journey from clicks to bricks. Written for NZ Retail magazine, it is also published on The Register. Image by Kerryn Smith.
In a regular series about Beauty Bliss' journey from an ecommerce store to a bricks-and-mortar store, owner Toni Cox shares the latest developments from Beauty Bliss land. This time, it's about learning how to juggle inventory, POS presentation and theft and security.
About Face: From digital to physical
The following is from my column "About Face" - a regular series about the Beauty Bliss journey from clicks to bricks. Written for NZ Retail magazine, it is also published on The Register. Image by Kerryn Smith.
Expanding into bricks and mortar involves a bit of making it up along the way. Toni Cox, owner of Wellington cosmetics start-up Beauty Bliss, takes us on her store's journey from clicks to bricks.
Beauty Bliss Press
We got a little bit of press today which is pretty rad. I look a little weirded-out in the photo but oh well, it’s bloody nice to be able to get the word out about what we’re doing in our Willis Street Store.
Words from my face
I'm speaking at a few events this year...
What it’s like importing goods with NZ Post
Spoiler alert: It sucks.
Often I purchase stock for Beauty Bliss from suppliers that use a local postal service. Once entering New Zealand, these parcels are passed on to New Zealand Post and then sometimes, depending on the service selected, onto Courier Post.
Forcing my style onto input type=search
I’m currently working on the UI design for system to be used by a big New Zealand Government Department.