No. 28: Beauty consolidation and Chinese retail expansion redraw global commerce maps simultaneously
Culture Pulse: 78. Beauty consolidates whilst Chinese retail colonises Western high streets. Both landgrabs exploit the same truth: algorithms drive discovery, physical space controls margins. Read the full edition: https://thepattern.media/editions/2026-03-24.html
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