NATICK, Mass. -- BJ's Wholesale Club here has become the first major warehouse club to accept a credit card whose fee structure is based on sales.Warehouse clubs, which specialize in offering low-priced, large-quantity items, have traditionally...
Efficient product assortment is gaining momentum in health and beauty care departments as retailers attempt to eliminate duplication and maximize variety. But some retailers claim the process is cumbersome, fails to account for promotional funding...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- In the dog-eat-dog world of pet products, high-margin novelty items -- like pet drinks -- offer supermarkets their last chance at winning back sales lost to other classes of trade, according to an official at one pet...
EDISON, N.J. -- The Foodtown Supermarket co-op is replanogramming many of its general merchandise departments by cutting out duplication and focusing on faster turning items.In a new lightbulb schematic, for example, 68 slow moving General...
Retailers and wholesalers are staking out more profitable ground on store shelves by tapping into the emerging science of...
PORT JEFFERSON STATION, N.Y. -- Advantage Stores, the new club-like supermarket here, is off to an impressive start, operating...
Soaring paper costs left many of this year's supermarket back-to-school promotions with reduced-count filler paper packs and...