Personal care products that stake a claim on being natural are multiplying. Consumer demand for natural and organic health and beauty care items is growing, and manufacturers are answering with everything from...
Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. is testing an in-store kiosk that carries the traditionally mail-order facial care system Proactiv Solution, from Guthy-Renker, Palm Desert, Calif. Right now, five stores in Connecticut and...
The cough, cold and allergy category has had a case of the hiccups. First came the methamphetamine laws that pulled pseudoephedrine products off the shelves and put them behind the counter; then came concerns over...
Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's October recommendation that children ages 2 to 6 should not use cough and cold medicines, and the ruling that those medicines for children under the age of 2 must be...
Generic prescriptions account for more of the pharmaceutical market than ever before and will likely bring savings to retail pharmacy. Sixty-five percent of all U.S. prescriptions dispensed are filled with generics...
Even a recession won't quell the green movement, but a price reduction wouldn't hurt, industry observers told SN. The green trend is bigger than the current economic slowdown, David Lockwood, director, U.S. research...
The green trend is no longer a trend, it's a movement, and housewares is the latest product category innovating to keep up. Manufacturers are working to reduce or remove harmful chemicals and increase the use of...
In the latest salvo in medication discounting, Kmart Pharmacy is offering private-label over-the-counter products for $1 with a prescription purchase. Kmart, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corp. here...
CINCINNATI Kroger Co. here has opened flexible fuel pumps in partnership with VeraSun Energy Corp., Brookings, S.D., in 20 Kroger convenience stores in and around Dallas and Houston. VeraSun's branded E-85 fuel...
Wegmans Food Markets welcomed the over-the-counter availability of allergy medicine Zyrtec, and its generic counterpart cetirizine, late last month. When the most popular allergy medicine prescribed by allergists and...