ORLANDO, Fla. -- Winn-Dixie's Orlando division here has doubled its front-end candy sales by adding special merchandising baskets at the checkouts."They're attached to the top of the racks; they're right on top of the...
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Consumer backlash over recent hikes in coffee prices may be putting supermarket operators in Connecticut in some hot water.The state's consumer commissioner said she was "inundated with consumer...
ELIZABETH, N.J. -- Wakefern Food Corp. here orchestrated an in-store sampling event throughout retail member units of a dozen branded grocery items, in a joint program with Family Circle Magazine.The event, entitled ...
CHICAGO -- Helene Curtis here is making a run for a share of the baby care category with the rollout of a new line of Suave Baby Care products later this month.The line of baby products includes shampoos, powders, oil...
Supermarket profits and sales continue to slip in the baby aisle because of stiff competition from other classes of trade battling for the young parents' dollar.Important categories are hurting in the aisle, according...
There's grumbling out in the candy manufacturing community about whether the industry needs two American Wholesale Marketers Association conventions, and about the burden of exhibiting at both.David Strachan, AWMA's...
HOUSTON -- Rice Food Markets here has given its bulk candy a merchandising face-lift with new upright product fixtures.The new fixtures have replaced the use of tables for displaying bulk candy in the company's Rice...
QUINCY, Ill. -- A Supervalu retailer here sold more than 2,000 cases of E. J. Brach's Pick-a-Mix candy from a single store in a three-week period.The retailer, Niemann Foods here, sold the candy as part of E.J. Brach...
ST. LOUIS -- Schnuck Markets here is bulking up by scaling down. The chain fully redesigned its bulk foods, establishing a more compact department that is able to offer a wider variety of products -- 400 items, in...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- It's time to put the pop back in the chunk bubble gum category.Retailers have been chewing on a flat market for years, despite a constant parade of new bubble gum flavors from suppliers. But now the...