Who Needs Lipstick with Masks? Products that Sold Badly in 2020

Who Needs Lipstick with Masks? Products that Sold Badly in 2020

From nippon.com

Japanese market research company Intage ranked products that had poor sales in 2020. Lipstick topped the list due to widespread use of masks, while motion sickness medicine came second, as people made less frequent trips. Cardiotonic medication in third place is popular with Chinese visitors to Japan, and sales suffered in 2020 due to their absence. table Intage compiled sales of daily consumer goods including food, beverages, and lifestyle items, for the period January to October 2020, based on retail data from approximately 4,000 stores across Japan. Lipstick fared the worst with sales down by more than half at ... (full story)

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