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CHICAGO -- Chain drug stores may look to stem the profit erosion they are suffering today in pharmacy by expanding store-brand programs far beyond health and beauty care categories. Expansion of store brands into general merchandise, snack foods...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Top supermarket chains in this metropolitan area have opted for profit over price point on the sell-through release of "The Santa Clause." There was generally a lower level of promotional and merchandising activity on this title...
BETTY RUBBLE, DEBUTANTEBetty Rubble will finally become a vitamin. In January, Bayer Corp. will begin shipping bottles of its Flintstones Vitamins that include Betty, as well as her husband Barney, their child Bamm-Bamm and other characters from...
To the editor:esting reading about Mike Wright's views on the new supply chain relationships resulting from Efficient Consumer Response in Supermarket News, Oct. 30, Page 1.As the leader of one of the largest food distribution companies in the...
NEW YORK -- A new series of Reebok fitness tapes will be priced at $9.95 and backed by a cross-promotional tie-in with Kellogg's Special K cereal. Four titles in the "Reebok Versa Training Series" from PolyGram Video, here, are available now, but...
JACKSON, Miss. -- A New York investment firm last week purchased a majority interest in Jitney Jungle Stores of America here for about $400 million.The firm, Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co., purchased the interest from members of the founding...
NEW YORK -- Ahold, Zaandam, Netherlands, outlined plans for growth that call for a doubling of net income within five years and an aggressive supply chain integration in U.S. operations.The chain is also looking to import a number of key...
Seasonal greeting cards and gift wrap will not be the only general merchandise items promoted at supermarkets this holiday season. Personalized giftware, books, cameras, toys and plush animals also will be highly visible.Such merchandise will be...
WAYNE, N.J. -- There was a time when the heads of supermarket chains didn't need to think about E. coli O157:H7, salmonella enteriditis or listeria monocytogenes.But that time has passed, probably forever.These days you can bet at least some big...
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Safeway's Seattle division here rounded up microbrew beers as part of a Western Days sales promotion.Half a page of the weekly circular was devoted to a "Micro Brew Celebration!" of six-pack bottles. Eight brands were featured...