Rethinking Beauty Retail in UAE & KSA: Sub-2-Hour Delivery Impacts

~55% of beauty shoppers in UAE & KSA have used sub-2-hour delivery for buying beauty.

That is the number that should make q-commerce players reconsider beauty as a low-priority vertical.

BPC is a ~$25B market in the two countries. Online penetration is around 20% and still growing. And the category is splitting by mission: replenishment moves fast, discovery stays experiential, trust-based purchases still need a different model.

The brands and platforms that map their offer to the right mission will compound. The ones treating beauty as one channel, one journey, will not.

SEPHORA, NICE ONE | نايس ون, noon, Amazon, L'Oréal, and the q-commerce players are all running different experiments right now. The results will tell us a lot about where durable digital retail advantage actually sits in the GCC.

Akshay Jayaprakasan Abhishek Rajput Redseer Middle East

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