Taking private label into the crossover realm of proprietary brands is a strategy paying big dividends to mass merchandisers.This is where the excitement resides in nonfood private label development. Celebrity...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Today's grocery shoppers rate whole health as increasingly important to the way they live, and an area where supermarkets can do much more.That is among some key findings from a new consumer study...
Targeting shoppers with the right reading matter and product mix at the point of sale is common retail practice, but not in the highly-charged magazine category.When it comes to allocation and placement of magazine...
LAS VEGAS -- The state of the home video industry is "good," Bo Andersen, president of the Video Software Dealers Association, Encino, Calif., told retailers gathered here for the organization's 19th annual VSDA...
NEW ORLEANS -- Chain drug stores looked inward in devising 10 strategies to improve customer satisfaction.Test results to improve inventory management, internal communication, the shopping experience and the...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J. -- Four Independents in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have broken ranks with traditional grocery retailers in testing a women's fashion-accessory concept under the name Sera.Supplied by Vector...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Ingles Markets, Asheville, N.C.; Price Chopper Supermarkets, Schenectady, N.Y. and R&G Felpausch Co., Hastings, Mich., will be among several chains to test merchandising concepts suggested in the...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The General Merchandise Distributors Council, Colorado Springs, Colo., began its 30th-anniversary year with a birthday party here during the GM Marketing Conference, which ends tomorrow evening, June...
CHICAGO -- It was proclaimed here last week, during the 2000 Food Marketing Institute Convention, that whole-health is not a trend. With someone in the U.S. turning age 50 every seven seconds, whole health is a...
CHICAGO -- It should come as no surprise to nonfood buyers that color is a powerful stimulator in the purchasing decision.Stated simply, "color sells if you select the right one," said Lee Eiseman, a color expert, who...