GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Duthler's Family Food is testing a service that is relatively new to retail stores: professional document shredding. The four-store chain signed with ShredStation, Bensalem, Pa., which installed a...
MATTHEWS, N.C. Harris Teeter is adding Western Union Money Transfer services to its over 150 stores throughout North and South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. The rollout began late last month and...
ALLEGAN, Mich. Over 100 retailers and wholesalers, more than 25 of which are supermarkets, were affected by the massive recall of store-brand acetaminophen earlier this month. The voluntary recall initiated by generic...
Specialized health and beauty care products for African American consumers is a category few retailers can afford to be without.While many retailers are now focusing on ethnic products, especially for the burgeoning...
RAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Within days of Wal-Mart Stores' surprise announcement that it would expand its $4 generic prescription drug program to 14 states, supermarkets and other retailers were looking for ways to respond...
PITTSBURGH - In what many see as an industry first, Giant Eagle will own, brand and operate the pharmacies in four stores of another retail banner, Dave's Supermarkets, Cleveland, in an market area where Giant Eagle...
Generic drugs are the strongest remedy for shrinking pharmacy margins at supermarkets.Despite competitive pressures and receding reimbursement rates, the low-priced alternatives to brand drugs still provide a boost to...
NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores sees positive sales growth for high-priced toys this holiday season, Scott McCall, vice president/divisional merchandise manager, toys, told SN during the Toy Wishes Holiday Preview here...
HASTINGS, Mich. - As part of a remodeling, Felpausch Food Centers here is installing a full-service, 9,000-square-foot Ace hardware store within its 34,000-square-foot Jackson, Mich., supermarket.The chain hopes to...
COMPTON, Calif. - Ralphs Grocery Co. here, a division of Kroger Co., Cincinnati, will launch a promotional program in partnership with Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine later this month.The program, called ...