CARLISLE, Pa. -- Giant Food Stores here slashed prices throughout its health and beauty care departments last month and has been running weekly newspaper advertisements to reinforce its new HBC price image.The 58...
WASHINGTON -- Supermarket retailers may be welcoming Tagamet, a popular prescription medication, to their over-the-counter shelves as early as August.Tagamet, manufactured by SmithKline Beecham, Pittsburgh, took a big...
CONCORDIA, Kan. -- In an effort to draw traffic to its health and beauty care departments, a Fleming retail division here has begun running in-ad coupons from major HBC manufacturers on a regular basis.According to a...
NEW YORK -- Supermarkets can anticipate a bright future selling new prescription to over-the-counter drugs, although the Food and Drug Administration may ultimately slow the flow of those products onto retail shelves...
CHICAGO -- The show, as they say, will go on.The 1995 Exclusively HBA Trade Show runs here March 22 to 24 for its sixth incarnation, and supermarket retailers planning to attend said they will be scoping for new...
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Fresh Fields here has enlarged its homeopathy section in an effort to capitalize on growing consumer demand for natural, over-the-counter medicines.The 14-store chain is a natural foods retailer and...
The unusually mild winter across the United States has left many supermarket retailers pondering, "What happened to the cough and cold season?"For January 1995, supermarket sales of cough and cold products dipped to ...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. -- To boost its beauty care sales and image, Pathmark Stores here will begin merchandising a customized beauty magazine in its supermarkets this summer.The magazine, Beauty Handbook, published by...
WASHINGTON -- Retailers and wholesalers applauded the recently announced changes in the Food Marketing Institute's annual GM/HBC Conference, but said the show's fate could hinge on the success of its 1995 edition...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Attempting to boost attendance for its annual GM/HBC Conference, the Food Marketing Institute, Washington, has decided to modify the show's layout, format and registration process.The changes were...