SEATTLE -- A serious case of Husky Fever is raging through supermarkets in the Pacific Northwest as operators and their vendors team up to raise funds for the University of Washington scholarship endowment.In an...
DALLAS -- New Line Home Video, Los Angeles, is offering rental titles through the supermarket-oriented shared transaction fee program of SuperComm here on a test basis, a New Line executive confirmed.Retailers had...
Supermarkets are using a variety of methods to aggressively merchandise Walt Disney's "Aladdin and the King of Thieves."Retailers' promotional efforts, coupled with the $70 million in marketing clout that Buena Vista...
LANDOVER, Md. -- Giant Food here took the heat from the summer air, put it in the beverage aisle and called it Beverage Bonanza.The promotion, which ran for one week last month, featured hot prices on over 30 beverage...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Fred Meyer Inc. here has restructured its pet food aisle to create a super premium section, along with a new line of "breeder quality" super premium dog and cat food."We redesigned the stores to put...
Where to merchandise the booming body wash segment has become somewhat of a slippery subject in supermarket circles.Though some retailers are moving the increasingly popular products to health and beauty care...
WEST SENECA, N.Y. -- At four U.S. supermarket chains, President's Choice International here has introduced the "Insider's Report," a booklet that features new additions and improvements to the President's Choice...
Center Store is becoming a melting pot for spicy specialty products.Such foods, along with ethnic sauces and beverages from the Mexican, Latin American, Indian, Jamaican and Thai cultures, are quickly gaining in...
Like their microbrewed counterparts, premium beers sell better refrigerated, especially during the summer months, retailers told SN."Whether the consumer wants it for immediate consumption or not, he just wants it...
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Salty snack sales at The Kroger Co.'s Columbus KMA were above par from a joint golf tournament promotion with Frito-Lay that raised funds for a local children's hospital.The promotion was dubbed ...