Value pricing is the greeting card industry's response to escalating retails. Retailers say it has somewhat helped to ease the squeeze put on shoppers' pocketbooks.The supermarket industry generally considers value...
NEW YORK -- The Magazine Publishers of America here and its Retail Advisory Council have appointed the Allen Levis Organization, Northfield, Ill., to aid their efforts in boosting magazine sales.The council appointed...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Tops Friendly Markets here has teamed with its prepaid telephone card supplier in a cause-related promotion with the American Red Cross that runs through this month.In the co-branded promotion, Tops...
HOUSTON -- Rice Epicurean Markets has debuted a new format for cookware and small appliances aimed to capture dollars from shoppers who go to department stores and specialty shops for these items.The 3,000-square-foot...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kroger's Marketing Area here is using Halloween to promote greeting cards, pharmacy and cough and cold.The chain intends to scare up incremental nonfood volume in a special promotional mailing sent...
Prepaid phone cards have become the perfect companion piece in seasonal merchandising at supermarkets. Increasingly, grocery retailers are targeting seasonal calendar events when they think about their prepaid phone...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A 20% increase in sales on selected nonfood categories indicates shoppers are responding positively to category resets made by Fleming Cos. here over the last year.The increases were registered by...
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- In time for the fall baking season, Safeway here has completed remerchandising its bakeware sections at most of its divisions.Safeway, the second-largest supermarket chain in the country, began...
SALISBURY, N.C. -- Food Lion here is in the process of setting a new planogram for its stick goods departments chainwide.The effort, which began last month, eliminates overhead skybars displaying short-handled items...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Carr Gottstein Foods here projects 10% to 15% increases in private-label nonfood sales with the chain's shift to the Springfield brand.Carr's move to Springfield for health and beauty care...