SALT LAKE CITY -- Associated Food Stores here has wrapped up a project that expanded general merchandise to better position its retailers against Wal-Mart and other mass merchandisers.The campaign was completed...
Old movies are becoming a good business for supermarkets.With low price points, high margins and a vast selection of well-known titles, catalog videos selling for less than $10 are surprising retailers with their...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Spartan Stores is targeting approximately 150 of the 400 stores it supplies with a new 8-foot small kitchen and personal-care appliance program.The appliance mix was assembled with items that...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Piggly Wiggly has begun offering its retailers a new private-label, prepaid phone card that emphasizes the stores' close ties to their local communities.The new cards feature the Piggly Wiggly pig...
The discounters and specialty stores have laid claim to lightbulbs as a loss-leader traffic builder.These trade channels have become category dominant with their massive aisle space stocked with big variety. For the...
As the back-to-school season heats up this month, supermarket buyers are proceeding cautiously in promoting licensed goods, focusing instead on value-added items."Licensed items aren't what they once were," said John...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Kiosks staffed by a local telephone carrier are boosting cellular telephone sales and store traffic at Carr Gottstein Foods here.Although the chain has sold cellular phones for two years from a...
It's time for renewal in the magazine distribution business. But the question remains, what's it going to cost?Four tumultuous years after supermarkets led the charge for greater efficiencies within the periodical...
ELIZABETH, N.J. -- ShopRite, the retail cooperative of Wakefern Food Corp. here, strongly emphasized general merchandise and health and beauty care in a summer promotion running from late last month through the Fourth...
Single-use cameras have moved into the supermarket summer promotion spotlight.As chains have seen the popularity of single-use cameras grow, they have widened product variety and expanded the number of display...