As the nation moves into implementing health care reform, supermarkets are concentrating on a strong health and wellness platform that links food consumption to good health as well as a host of other health-oriented...
KIOSKS HAVE ADVANCED to networked-wireless information outlets that are now being used in diagnostic health testing. As such, kiosks have the potential to drive new customer traffic to supermarket pharmacies for free...
A sleeping retail giant in health and wellness has emerged with Walgreens flexing its core muscles in attempting to reinvent itself. Some might say it was the loss of Longs Drug Stores to CVS Caremark Corp. in 2008...
MUNDELEIN, Ill. Those who follow retailing say Walgreens was in need of an upgraded store base after years of stamping out new stores in the same mold. Colin Watts, Walgreens' chief innovation officer, who joined the...
Whole Foods and Safeway/Vons gift cards are the first food retailers to be added this week to the roster of brand name retail gift cards sold on biddees.com, an online reverse auction site, based here.
Value, convenience and product uniqueness are familiar criteria for supermarket buyers scanning the exhibit floor for new products during the final days this week of the 2010 International Housewares Show in Chicago...
Of all the demographic types of those who have returned to the kitchen to cook, children, aged 4 and up, have been the most overlooked and underserved group up until now. Mintel, a research company, lists kids...
