No frozen food department is an island, especially when it comes to promotions. Indeed, if you stuck today's most successful retail and wholesale philosophies for frozen food promotion under a microscope, you'd be likely to see them mutating...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Frozen food promotions have gained a fresh sense of importance, and urgency, at Spartan Stores here since mass merchandisers started casting for supermarket sales in the cooperative wholesaler's market area.rtan's response...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Spartan Stores will begin a drop-ship program next month to assure that its 500 retail members receive timely deliveries of key merchandise categories that are subject to fashion-trend influences.General merchandise...
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Community Cash Stores here plans to add high-margin bath shop sections chainwide after cleaning up nicely on a pilot program at 10 of its units. The 27-store retailer will use 4-foot sections in an effort to win more general...
OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. -- Food brokers who gathered here for a nonfood conference heard a "call to arms" to embrace the Efficient Consumer Response movement and its many components."Willy Loman is dead," said Bob Schwarze, president of the...
CHICAGO -- Proponents of in-store marketing expect it to gain stature in a post-mass market as improving information drives the tailoring of programs to specific retail environments."The mass market is dead," said Burt Flickinger III, a principal...
DALLAS -- Frito-Lay has begun rolling out and installing 2,000 freestanding snack merchandising fixtures in power alleys at supermarkets and mass merchants across the country.The display units, dubbed Chip City, have successfully expanded total...
CHICAGO -- It could be a long time before most independent and small-chain retailers have the technological ability to scan coupons fully and participate in a more efficient coupon processing system.That was the sobering message delivered by Brian...
CHICAGO -- Toymaker Lego Systems has found a way to obtain retail display space beyond what its market share would indicate: by offering a variety of merchandising enhancements that can be tailored to suit individual retailers."Through...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (FNS) -- Wal-Mart Stores will make its first foray into South America on the backs of its Supercenter and Sam's Club formats. At the company's annual meeting here, which provided a glowing picture of the company's U.S. and...