Will Shortages Of Hot Beauty Products And Gifts Prevail This Christmas?
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
n 1983 Cabbage Patch Kids set off a major Christmas shopping frenzy with Holiday shoppers scouring malls with many motivated shoppers coming up empty handed and extremely frustrated.
Other hotly sought after Christmas gifts included select Beanie Babies in the 1990s, Tickle Me Elmo in 1998, Pokemon in 1999 and PlayStation 2 in 2000. In 2002 the hot product was Nike Air Force 1 and 2004 saw a buying frenzy for the iPod mini and Nintendo DS. 2005 launched frenzied searching for Xbox 360 and iPods.
(Image of Jessica Simpson wearing the newly released Clip-in Bangs from HairDo - HairBoutique.com - All Rights Reserved).
The beauty and hair industry has had their own list of desirable fragrances, gift sets and even accessories like Conair’s past braider tools and HairDo’s Jessica Simpson clip-in hair extensions.
Contrary to popular knowledge, product scarcity, whether in the hair, beauty, toy or electronics industries is a deliberate marketing ploy utilized by savvy product companies who understand the mystique of desirability. (more…)












