SALT LAKE CITY -- American Stores here has signed a three-year exclusive agreement with SmarTalk Teleservices, Los Angeles, to sell prepaid phone cards in its supermarket divisions.Approximately 600 stores of Acme...
DALLAS -- An informal test on Albertson's books and magazines indicates positioning, not size, is everything.The test, run over a six-month period at eight Albertson's units in Houston, compared sales of a 24-foot L...
Standard lightbulbs have become the milk of supermarkets' lighting departments.Standard four-packs are being used as loss leaders by grocery retailers around the country to draw shoppers to their expanded lightbulb...
Greeting cards have become the heart and, in some cases, the soul of supermarkets' nonfood departments.As suppliers introduce new strategies -- Hallmark's Expressions, Gibson Greetings' theme park and American...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- This month Wegmans Food Markets plans to place Image Magic sticker prints kiosks from Eastman Kodak in all 55 stores chainwide. Both companies are based here.The photo sticker kiosks, introduced by...
DAYTON, Ohio -- Dorothy Lane Market here has started a spring "vitamin club" to boost sales and traffic at its DLM Spa Store, which adjoins a standard Dorothy Lane store in Washington Square.Dorothy Lane has targeted...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Supermarkets are welcoming efforts by Hallmark here to change consumer perceptions that greeting cards are priced too high with its new $10 million ad campaign.Over the last several years greeting...
For Valentine's Day, supermarkets offered various incentives from contests to free merchandise to pull shoppers into their greeting-card departments and nonfood aisles.American Greetings, Cleveland, Ohio, estimates...
Entertainment-related licensed products can tie in with popular children's videos to create in-store excitement while increasing sales and customer loyalty.Making the investment in licensed apparel, toy figures, plush...
In the era of solution selling, there is more than one solution when it comes to merchandising the synergistic categories film and batteries.Placing film, cameras and batteries together on a one-stop island display...