When Beyonce made her way to Philadelphia, search traffic for beauty services like nail salons soared 193% higher than normal. Searches for hair stylists rose 73%.
Following Taylor Swift's visit to Chicago, businesses learned a thing or two.At Goldplated, they've started buying boutique merchandise specific to the style of the concert coming to town.
"With Taylor Swift, we weren't as ready as we could have been with boutique buying," Strong said."There were a lot of different eras going on and people had different aesthetics they were going for, and so we had something but maybe not as much as we could have had. We kind of remedied that on the next buying trip because of Beyonce, we knew it was coming up.
This business is by no means alone. CBS 2 spoke to restaurants bussing fans to the concert itself. There are events before and after Beyonce performs all weekend:
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