DALLAS -- Many factors go into buying the right number of new releases in order to satisfy demand and maintain a store's profitability, but video executives agreed the most important consideration is understanding the...
LEICESTER, Mass. -- The new thinking at Millbrook Distribution Services here has everything to do with the urgent nonfood problem faced by supermarkets today.Conventional operators are losing nonfood sales to mass...
CAPTIVA ISLAND, Fla. -- Food brokers selling health and beauty care products were advised to look outside their main customer base -- food chains -- for future growth opportunities.In a keynote address to about 100...
DALLAS -- Ted Turner, chairman of the board and president of Turner Broadcasting System, Atlanta, who says he always pursues business with an underdog mentality, made it clear that his company was quickly becoming a...
PALM BEACH, Fla. -- With health care reform just a fading memory of a past year, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores focused on the resiliency of retail pharmacy in a transition period."The leadership of our...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- If supermarkets can maintain their current market share of health and beauty care, by the year 2000 the channel will have generated as much as the projected savings from the industry's...
NEW ORLEANS -- More periodicals distributors have become category managers rather than delivery agents. They are helping their retailers cut costs rather than inventory to become more efficient in today's competitive...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Private Label Manufacturers Association, New York, warned its members to expect more of what it called "harassing tactics" from branded health and beauty care manufacturers who challenge the...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The survival of supermarkets, especially in nonfood, depends on how well grocery chains make statements that reach the consumer's mind.Here at American Greetings, where the creation of statements is...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Private label will become a critical weapon for supermarkets to stem the flow of health and beauty care dollars and market share to mass merchants.That was the message Ray Stone, executive vice...