Wal-Mart Stores has found a way to enter the pharmacy benefit management sector without officially becoming a pharmacy benefit manager. Its move sets the stage for supermarket pharmacies hoping to gain a portion of...
Supervalu's latest pharmacy strategy is focused on making traditional drug stores irrelevant to its customers. Our goal is to create a pharmacy within our supermarkets that customers really feel can be their primary...
An older technology, single-use film cameras, is still relevant in the face of digital photography, according to industry sources. One-time-use cameras have carved out a niche as a complement to digital cameras. They...
Supermarkets with digital photo gift options on their websites offer a wide array of choices. Among the offerings SN found in a check of the websites of a dozen major chains: puzzles; teddy bears with photo...
Kroger Co. has teamed with Premier HealthNet, Dayton, Ohio, a network of more than 100 primary care physicians, to open in-store, nurse-staffed Premier ExpressCare clinics in two Ohio Kroger stores this month. The...
Although supermarkets have mostly watched digital photography dominate over film many of them shuttering their traditional photo labs in the wake of film's demise digital printing technology continues to improve. With...
With one swift stroke this month, the Blu-ray Disc format appears poised to win the long-running high-definition format battle to succeed DVD. Whether or when rival HD DVD will withdraw from the race, or whether the...
The high-definition format of DVD faces challenges from old and new delivery methods: standard DVD and growing online offerings. If retailers don't support high-definition movies on disc, the industry stands the...
At this year's International Home & Housewares Show, supermarket buyers can expect two trends to infuse products at every price point: style and sustainability. The show branded with the tag line Hi. Style. will run...
WHILE RETAIL HEALTH clinics seemed to flow freely into stores in 2006 culminating with CVS/pharmacy's purchase of clinic provider MinuteClinic 2007 proved that the trend is continuing, but at a steady trickle in...
