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Fourth-Quarter Climate Seen Favoring Gift Card Sales
Oct 12, 2009
The gift card category is positioned to benefit during the fourth-quarter selling season in which some forecasters are predicting consumer spending to be flat, said Erin Armendinger, managing director, Baker Retailing...
Nonfood 2009 Category Excellence Award Winners
Oct 12, 2009
Nonfood merchandisers are confronting a stream of changing lifestyles as it pertains to health-wellness and the environment. The nonfood category excellence winners profiled on the following pages are at the forefront...
New Age Health Care
Sep 14, 2009
Convenience, accessibility and low cost are at the heart of retail medical care clinics' success. These clinics that rapidly grew in supermarkets, drug stores and mass merchandisers within the last few years are...
Supermarkets Await Action on Consumer Drug Waste
Sep 07, 2009
Supermarkets have been at the forefront of recycling efforts even before the first bottle-return bill was passed in Oregon in 1971. Yet, missing in retailers' consumer recycling efforts are pharmaceuticals and...
Switch Hitters
Jun 22, 2009
After a relatively quiet period in the Rx-to-OTC arena, supermarkets can prepare for the next new wave of drugs to go over the counter in the near future. Those who follow the over-the-counter segment say the current...
New Drug Class: Behind the Counter
Jun 22, 2009
The passage of the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 unofficially created a new classification of drugs those sold without prescription from behind the counter (BTC). The regulation, which passed in 2006...
Recession Boosts Pool of Available Pharmacists
Jun 08, 2009
Indications are that the recession, which officially began in December 2007, has given some relief to supermarkets in their efforts to recruit pharmacy professionals. Since 1999, there has been a severe shortage of...
Whole Foods Tests Feelgoodz
May 28, 2009
Kyle Berner, a free-spirit entrepreneur who founded Feelgoodz, a New Orleans company that produces and markets flip-flops made in Thailand, began a three-week demo tour yesterday of 14 Whole Foods stores in Louisiana...
Feeling the Heat
May 25, 2009
Jon Hauptman, a partner for Willard Bishop, Barrington, Ill., recently walked into a Roche Bros. store in New England and spotted high-end gas grills for sale with a sign offering free delivery, assembly and setup...
GMDC Looks at New Opportunities
May 25, 2009
During the Global Market Development Center's GM Marketing Conference that kicks off this week, GMDC will present research conducted by the Hartman Group, Bellevue, Wash., into shopping habits for wellness and...
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