GMDC, Colorado Springs, which discarded its original name of General Merchandise Distributors Council two years ago in favor of the letters GMDC alone, has elaborated on the abbreviation with the name Global Market Development Center. The change...

H.E. Butt Grocery Co. has started offering its customers prepaid cell phones and service under the brand name H-E-B Mobile. Phones and calling plans are being provided by Austin-based Fusion Mobile, which buys minutes through the Nationwide Sprint...

In many supermarkets, the floral department offers shoppers the option of convenient last-minute gifts. Earning only a tiny percentage of sales in most chains, the category has maintained a presence in most stores, but has wilted under relentless...

As natural, organic or just plain healthy consumers move to the top of the shopping food chain, they are taking their pets along for the ride. Retailers should know, no matter how easygoing the pet, their tastes tend to be as fickle as the owner...

While newly implemented everyday low price programs have begun to grow sales in some categories at Stop & Shop and Giant-Landover, officials of Ahold last week said they were confident greater benefits were on the way. We continue to base or model...

Newly implemented everyday low price programs are beginning to change customer price perceptions at Stop & Shop and Giant-Landover, officials of Ahold said in a conference call yesterday.

Whole Foods’ flagship United Kingdom store, which opened in London yesterday, offers a large assortment of Fresh & Wild Everyday Value products that are the equivalent of the “365 Everyday Value” brand in the U.S.

New research to be presented yesterday at the General Merchandise Marketing Conference of Global Market Development Center, Colorado Springs, confirms the importance of interdepartmental cross-merchandising in building sales and market share...