TO FIND THOUGHTFUL high-quality gifts, consumers needed look no further than the nearest supermarket this year. Nonfood gift options gained wide acceptance. A number of drivers, including convenience, the need to...
Supermarkets added kiosks of all types this year, most notably DVD rental machines. Giant Eagle kicked off the year by testing DVD rental kiosks from Redbox Automated Retail, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., at five Pittsburgh...
SUPERMARKETS ENTERED the financial-service arena this year in ways as varied as the retailers themselves. Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., began the year by seeing its application to start an industrial loan...
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...
Nonfood supermarket executives were attuned to the varied necessities of their customers this year and responded appropriately with both more and sometimes less personal service. For example, in-store financial...
DISAPPOINTED WITH slow and low reimbursement rates for Medicare Part D, cuts to Medicaid and legislation requiring medicine containing pseudoephedrine to be sold from behind the counter, retail pharmacy focused on...
In what retailers identified as a big victory, pharmacists were given permanent billing codes for reporting medication therapy management services in October. This gives an unofficial green light for MTM programs to...
After a long and steady expansion of its gift card offering, Winn-Dixie Stores has launched a major promotion in time for this year's holiday season, the retailer reported this month. Through its partner InComm...
The Food and Drug Administration held a public hearing last month to gather industry views on the merits of increasing behind-the-counter access to drugs. Representatives from the retail pharmacy industry presented...
The importance of natural HBC can be swiftly gauged by the November decision of Clorox Co., Oakland, Calif., to buy iconic natural personal care brand Burt's Bees, Morrisville, N.C. With the $925 million purchase...