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PHOTO OP
Apr 12, 1999
As retailers gear up for the spring and summer picture-taking season, they are hoping the millennium will spur last year's flat film sales.For the 52 weeks ended Jan. 3, 1999, film sales fell 0.6% to $1.7 billion in...
LIGHTBULB SALES BRIGHTEN FOR NASH FINCH
Apr 05, 1999
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- A combination of merchandising and promotional strategies has resulted in a 10% to 15% increase in lightbulb sales at retailers supplied by Nash Finch Distributors.The distributor, based here...
CO-OP HELPS RETAILERS FIGHT AGAINST MASS MERCHANDISERS
Apr 05, 1999
TIGARD, Ore. -- A co-op wholesale-buying consortium, formed in conjunction with Western Family Foods here to leverage the volume of several thousand independent retailers in procuring branded general merchandise...
CARR GOTTSTEIN UPGRADING ITS HOUSEWARES, ADDING ITEMS
Mar 22, 1999
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Carr Gottstein Foods is making room for greater variety and an upgraded product assortment through a chainwide remerchandising of its housewares that is expected to be complete by April 30.The...
RETAILERS POLISH HOUSEWARES AFTER BRIGHT FORECAST
Mar 15, 1999
Supermarkets are implementing new strategies in light of a positive turnaround in housewares sales.Retailers, wholesalers and market analysts generally agree with Kurt Bernard, president of the forecasting firm...
HOLDING POWER
Mar 15, 1999
Licenses are a part of the integral weave of the social-expressions mix. However, retailers caution that sales success can be a crap shoot.Greeting-card companies are investing in licenses that go beyond the latest...
IMPERIAL SUPPLYING FOODTOWN UNITS
Mar 01, 1999
AUBURN, Mass. -- Imperial Distributors here has extended its operations beyond the New England area and is now supplying nonfood to the 50 Foodtown supermarkets in New Jersey and metropolitan New York.Foodtown, a...
LOTTERY MACHINES LIGHT UP COLORADO CHECKOUT LANES
Feb 22, 1999
DENVER -- Colorado's lottery ticket sales have increased by as much as 30% in supermarkets using Player Express self-service ticket dispensers at checkout counters.The point-of-sale terminals at Cub Foods, City...
VALU MERCHANDISERS PLANS TO STOCK MORE KITCHENS SHOPS
Feb 15, 1999
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Valu Merchandisers, the nonfood subsidiary of Associated Wholesale Grocers here, plans to expand its kitchen shop format to 10 more retailers, said Dick Swain, the company's executive vice...
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