Greedy, Needy.

I’m part way through writing a feature for the blog on fake beauty products and another on the go about the ‘grey market’ and how it works. I kind of thought those were the probably the worst aspects of the beauty industry, but actually, no. What is absolutely disgusting me at the moment is the way big players in beauty – high street retailers and large corporations – treat the new start-ups and smaller brands trying to make their way into the beauty world. With very few exceptions, once a brand starts to do well, the beauty retail world steps into ensure that they don’t. If you don’t give a new brand space to breathe and stop strangling any profits by creaming it off for yourself, then it cannot grow and join the big players, and that’s exactly what they (the big cheeses) want. 

I’m aware of simple economics, but there comes a point where I wring my hands at the greed of some corporations. What this means to you and me, the consumers, is that our choice is less and is manipulated entirely by corporations which is then not a free market. If I could name and shame in this instance without harming the smaller brands chances, believe you me, I would.

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5 responses to “Greedy, Needy.”

  1. Hafsa

    It’s a sad fact that huge corporations are greedy and will not stop at any length to fill the pockets of their shareholders and that means exploiting labourers, damaging the environment and ruining the chances that many potential brands have of success unfortunately.

    Since becoming a blogger, I’ve come across many small and independent brands that I’ll be continuing to support. As long as bloggers are giving a platform to these smaller brands, I’m hoping things will be good for them.

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  2. dianasmakeupworld

    If you ask me, the real problem is that small companies (beauty or not) will always be bought by the larger corporations at one point. (If they are really good).
    We are living in the world of corporate mergers, which is the worst thing that can happen to us as consumers or as simple employees.

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  3. Lynda

    This is sad but true. I like to seek out and support niche products/smaller brands but it does become increasingly difficult and also the fact that in any department store, all the brands are basically owned by two companies.

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  4. Trimperley

    I was reading the article about price fixing in France on http://www.beaut.ie last week. I just wish that someone in the UK would take this issue seriously. I liked the grey market products that Superdrug and T J Hughes used to sell because they were such good value. Sadly T J Hughes have gone bust and my Local Superdrug no longer seems to sell grey market stuff. Do small beauty companies need to follow traditional routes these days. I find that I am shopping less and less on the high street and more on internet and local shops. First came across Butter in my hairdresser’s shop and my local garden centre does a roaring trade in smellies from Bronnley.

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  5. Beauty Daze

    Whar do people mean when they say #grey market’? What brands are we talking about in this context x

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