ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- While this year's sun care selling season is in full swing, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores here has teamed with retailers and manufacturers to make next year's summer season a safer...
In the late 1950s, supermarket health-and-beauty-care sections had few cosmetics, a thin stock of hair care and personal care products, and over-the-counter remedies were virtually nonexistent. In fact, drug remedies...
With the advent of pharmacy in supermarkets in the 1960s, supermarkets have worked to change the perception of the department from a mere customer convenience to a respected whole-health professional service.The...
EDINA, Minn. -- Byerly's, a banner of Lund Food Holdings here, is getting creative with cross merchandising its culinary products.The retailer is putting its expansive culinary product displays in related grocery...
Despite the thriving box-office receipts this year, retailers are hesitant to give second chances to licensed entertainment properties that disappointed them in the past.While retailers polled by SN said they have cut...
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Martin's Super Markets officially gets into the pharmacy business this month.The retailer debuted its first five pharmacies in two separate soft openings in Michigan and Indiana last month, said...
NEW YORK -- Trends evoking nostalgic times and blockbuster-entertainment character properties like Spider-Man dominated the 22nd annual Licensing 2002 International trade show held here recently.Icons from the 1980s...
Are supermarket pharmacies ready to offer emergency contraception (EC) services? Ethical issues aside, a California law went into effect at the beginning of the year that allows specially trained pharmacists operating...
LANDOVER, Md. -- After a successful initial test of four store-within-a-store sections with Giant Food here, Toys "R" Us, Paramus, N.J., has big plans for the rest of the Ahold chains in the U.S., said John Eyler...
PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Forty retailers, including Safeway here, have embarked on a program of diabetes clinical assessment tests as part of a diabetes educational program targeted toward women.Pharmacists will conduct...
