
CVS is more than halfway to its goal of reaching transparency in its beauty adsnearly two years ahead of schedule, the company said Thursday. The drugstore chain has made 70 percent of its beauty images compliant with its “CVS Beauty Mark” watermark, which promises a picture has not been airbrushed. Other images that have been altered are marked as such so consumers are aware.
“We are striving for transparency for the consumerif it’s altered, we want consumers to know,” says Norman de Greve, senior VP and chief marketing officer of the Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based retailer. He noted that new brands, such as Bliss and Crme Shoppe, have begun selling at CVS in recent months partially as a result of its beauty initiatives.
Exactly one year ago, CVS Pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Health, committed to new beauty standards as a way of adding authenticity to its marketing. The chain promised to provide Beauty Mark transparency to all images by the end of 2020. The initiative followed a similar measure enacted in France, which passed a law in 2017 that required brands to label digitally altered images.
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