The Growth Of The Beauty Salon And Spa Trade Thought
January 24, 2012 by Kitty Jenkins
Filed under spa salons
With the explosion of the multi-billion dollar beauty industry there seems to be a trend developing. Businesses are starting to blur the lines between a salon and spa.
What used to be sub specialties of both the salon and spa businesses, are now being seen in so called one stop shopping locations for lovers of pampering and beauty services in general.
Some of the beauty product retailers have full hair salons and nail salons inside their stores. I’m sure it won’t be long before they start to add the spa services as well. It reminds me a lot of what happened in the automotive maintenance industry.
In order to survive in this economy, the ever present 30 minute oil change business model has changed to include auto repair at these locations. This happened out of necessity due to the very slim profit margins on oil.
The beauty industry is following along the same lines. Simple nail salons have started to realize that as both the cost of living and the cost of running a business go up they need more revenue.
The obvious choice is to offer expanded services once only exclusive to either the spa or the salon. Already well under way are beauty mega stores that offer everything from nail services and hair cuts, to massages and facials. And also beauty product shopping all in one store.
I don’t think we’ll go as far as offering drive through services at these mega centers, but who knows! And some of the smaller beauty shop businesses will have to start diversifying into certain niches to survive, because most of these smaller outfits are the owner-operator types of stores.
These are the small business owners who love what they do and the services they provide, and would rather not have to worry with growing a larger business from what has worked well for them so far. Definately there will be smaller shops filling certain niches in the future that the big stores can’t.
Transformation Of The Beauty Salon And Spa Business Concept styling stations Change Of The Nail Salon And Spa Business Thought Soon these businesses were offering full fledged auto repair.
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Originally posted 2010-11-04 22:20:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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