Supermarkets are enriching their total-store performance and raising their image as category destinations by tailoring magazine assortments to individual stores.In addition, retailers are continuing to outpost titles...
When it comes to selling general merchandise, as it is with real estate, location and timing is everything.Association executives who oversee big volume general merchandise categories sold in mass retail channels...
DAYTON, Ohio -- When it comes down to getting new customers and retaining the faithful, Dorothy Lane Markets here goes beyond the discount incentive.Retailers and industry executives told SN the essence of effective...
Two camps have emerged within the grocery channel for those involved in marketing home entertainment these days -- the risk takers and those that have become disenchanted with Hollywood's glitz.It may be true that in...
Retailers at last are beginning to mine the infinite potential of cross-merchandising magazines throughout the store.While efforts are young, they already touch perishables, center-store and nonfoods areas. Measures...
Retailers are not passing go when it comes to the high stakes front-end these days. Instead, supermarkets are testing the impulse successes of more products in checklanes to see how they stack up against magazines...
DALLAS -- The classic pastime of "dinner and a movie" is coming home -- in a huge way.A new home delivery pact between Blockbuster, based here, Food.com, San Francisco, and Takeout Taxi Holdings, Herndon, Va., gives...
What is that whoosh supermarkets are hearing?It is drug chains and mass merchants racing past them in a whole-hearted bid to court health consumers on-line.While supermarket giants remain glued to the starting block...
Here's a real page turner for food retailers.The magazine industry's two largest single-copy wholesalers -- Anderson News Co. and The News Group, LP -- are advancing programs that streamline the number of titles they...
No general merchandise department is as integrally tied to lifestyle trends as housewares, so it's little surprise that the sea change in how people will use their homes in the 21st Century is already spawning massive...