SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. -- Fedco Foods here has become the latest supermarket to embrace the idea of an automated pharmacy, installing a prescription-dispensing machine at its Colorado Street store in Pasadena.The...
LANHAM, Md. -- Safeway's Eastern division here has made a free mobile health clinic a regular feature at two of its Washington stores.As of Jan. 20, the Maternity Outreach Mobile, or MOM, will be visiting Safeway...
CHICAGO -- More supermarkets are being sold on the sales-building potential of continuity programs, while marketing firms are developing more offbeat promotions to appeal to them, said buyers and exhibitors at the...
MELROSE PARK, Ill. -- Jewel-Osco here is now developing an asthma-care program based on a successful diabetes program launched late last year.The chain has identified 17 Chicago-area stores that will participate in...
NEW YORK -- As supermarkets here go, so go the rest of the country's -- at least where vitamins and nutritional supplements, specifically the rapid growth of the category, are concerned.According to Information...
Brand-switching consumers and growing numbers of ever more specialized products make the hair care category a hectic one, even as sales continue to underwhelm.But the outlook for supermarkets is positive, according to...
NORTHLAKE, Ill. -- Dominick's Finer Foods here has completed a chainwide stick-goods reset, upgrading the section in a bid for higher profits.During the last few weeks, three teams from Libman Co., Arcola, Ill., have...
Supermarket sales of sun care products are on the rise, and health and beauty care managers have fear to thank for it.More than any merchandising strategy, say HBC buyers now plotting next season's assortments, a...
BOULDER, Colo. -- As the market for natural products has expanded in the United States, so has Wild Oats Markets here, now the second-largest natural-food supermarket chain in the country.An important part of Wild...
ELIZABETH, N.J. -- ShopRite is giving significant in-store support to the Great American Smokeout, an annual campaign sponsored by Pittsburgh-based SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare and the American Cancer...
