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SPRING HILL, Fla., and BRONX, N.Y. -- Target expanded its pharmacy presence last month with the opening of 23 new stores nationwide, and extended a bold pricing promise to more [...]

Bentonville, Ark. -- Project Impact is proving to be an appropriate code name to describe the reinvention of how Walmart goes to market in an increasing number of stores, judging [...]

Rogers, Ark. -- Two Walmart stores in northwest Arkansas are experimenting with new technology that adds fun and excitement to the beauty department, along with the potential to increase sales. [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- With major changes looming for the nation's healthcare system, recent actions by Walmart suggest the company intends to prepare for the uncertainty of health care's future by [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- A reputation for low prices, increasingly budget-conscious consumers and a slew of operational and merchandising improvements propelled Walmart's U.S. business to new heights last year and promise [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The future of pharmacy education has arrived in West Virginia where the University of Charleston School of Pharmacy has created an innovative educational practice setting in partnership [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Mike Duke's name may be unfamiliar to those in the chain drug industry, but that will change early next year when he replaces Lee Scott as president [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- The pharmacy at Target has emerged as an important asset to drive customer traffic and build loyalty at a time when the retailer's sales and profits are the [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- When Wal-Mart held its 15th annual analyst and investor conference late last month, pharmacy and health care didn't rate a mention despite the fact that Wal-Mart is [...]

The location and merchandising strategy of Wal-Mart's newest Neighborhood Market store in the St. Petersburg, Fla., suburb of Pinellas Park says a lot about how a retail format introduced a [...]

The pharmacy at Wal-Mart is in for some major changes in the coming years as the retailer looks to upgrade its prescription drug departments in keeping with a broader strategy [...]

ORLANDO -- Walgreens' pursuit of growth in recent years has caused the company to open in-store clinics, create new health services and even pursue acquisitions. Now, the company best known [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Price long has been Wal-Mart's primary competitive advantage, so it was to be expected the company would go back to the pricing well when it came time [...]

When Sam's Club refreshed and expanded a store in Winterville, N.C., earlier this year, the key component of the project was the addition of a pharmacy. Sam's Club has been [...]

Publix Supermarkets operations are confined to the Southeastern United States, but that hasn't stopped the company from achieving a national reputation as a premier food retailer. Its 929 stores are [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It is clear that the retail industry, and the discipline of merchandising in particular, has evolved to the point where achieving success is determined by those organizations [...]

KANSAS CITY, MO. -- The future of health care at Wal-Mart will involve a heavy reliance on all things electronic as a means to improve overall efficiency, access to higher-quality [...]

The article focuses on Hormel Foods is a company is doesn't always fully understand, as it's a unique entity in the consumer products world and blended approach to serving food and foodservice retailers are a lot of layers to what Hormel is today. Topics include the company has quietly become a major global branded food company whose annual sales in 2021, and the credit for the milestone goes to the June 2021 acquisition of the Planters snacking business from the Kraft Heinz Co.

The article focuses on residents of Winchester, Tennessee, won the equivalent of the food retailing lottery in late June, when a Food City store has opened on the store features a bakery and a deli with premium Dietz & Watson meats, a large foodservice operation with a Blodgett pizza oven. Topics include the seat café with a fireplace is next to the only Starbucks in town a floral department is staffed a week with a designer, and the full-service meat and seafood department offers prime beef.

The article offers information about the Grocery Outlet as an off-price retailer of food and consumables focused on delivering value to shoppers. It mentions that approach to ownership, entrepreneurship and retail operations. It discusses that calls for new stores spread between Grocery Outlet's core West Coast markets and its newer northeastern market.

The article offers information on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the food and consumables industry in the U.S. It discusses about the degree of inflation and increased consumption amid a strong economy produced a low single-digit gain. It mentions about the displaced demand from the foodservice industry.

The article offers information that food and consumables industry has recorded sales growth in 2020 as consumer behavior shifted dramatically due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It mentions about the displaced demand that flowed to food retailers from restaurants that were shuttered or operating at reduced capacity due to social-distancing restrictions.

HIGHLAND VILLAGE, Texas -- Were it not for the sign on the front of Wal-Mart's newest store in this community northwest of Dallas, customers might think they were in another [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The prescription drug and healthcare marketplace can expect WalMart to be a disruptive force in the future as it targets what company executives characterize as inefficiency in [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- With the development of a new format or formats under way at Wal-Mart, the prospect of how the company will pursue continued growth in the United States [...]

Modest overall sales growth aside, pharmacy and the adjacent departments of health and beauty care are becoming increasingly important components of the value proposition at Sam's Club. The warehouse club [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The rollout of Wal-Mart's $4 generic drug program drove strong customer traffic to the retailer's pharmacies, but it wasn't enough to offset weakness in other areas and [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart's ability to expand its distribution network, build new stores and pile on sales volume is the stuff of legends. During the past five years, its sales [...]

PLANO, Texas -- Of all the changes evident in Wal-Mart's newest prototype located in this affluent community north of Dallas, several of the most dramatic involve the pharmacy and related [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart's pharmacy business is poised for an infusion of fresh ideas following the recent appointment of Bill Simon as executive vice president of Wal-Mart's specialty division. In [...]

It is the things that are taken for granted that suddenly matter most when people talk about getting back to normal after their lives have been disrupted by a natural [...]

ROGERS, Ark. -- Growth of Wal-Mart's Neighborhood Market remains on the back burner for 2006 as the company again accelerates expansion of its supercenter format. The addition of 270 to [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- A major reshuffling of top executives at Wal-Mart clarifies the company's succession strategy and shifts a broad slate of executives into areas of new responsibilities that will [...]

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- A major promotion under way at 5,400 CVS stores nationwide is helping the retailer's ExtraCare card holders realize substantial savings and will reward one lucky winner and [...]

Strong population growth and favorable demographics have made the Tampa Bay region one of Florida's most hotly contested markets with a half dozen of the nation's leading retailers pitted against [...]

With the addition of 1,000 new products and an expanded merchandising and marketing staff, Wal-Mart's 282-store Asda division in the United Kingdom is turning up the heat on its health [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The next major development concerning allegations of financial impropriety against former Wal-Mart vice chairman and board member Tom Coughlin appears set to take place early next month [...]

Wal-Mart vice chairman Tom Coughlin's retirement became official last month after a 27-year career in which he distinguished himself as a motivational leader and difference-maker to whom the company often [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Because Wal-Mart has been criticized for paying low wages and offering poor benefits, because it is the subject of numerous suits and because instances of community opposition [...]

Although the 2004 School, Home and Office Products Association Show was dramatically smaller than it's been in prior years, and many of the industry's major suppliers were absent from the [...]

DALLAS -- The addition of 24-hour pharmacy service at five Wal-Mart stores in Texas and Arkansas is the retailer's latest salvo in an offensive to improve its position on the [...]

The pharmacy market in the United Kingdom is undergoing massive change, and Wal-Mart's 269-store Asda division continues to position itself to take advantage of the sweeping reforms. Although Asda's 83 [...]

A turnaround strategy Eckerd implemented roughly three years earlier ran out of gas in 2003, as weak sales led to a decline in profitability and cemented parent company J.C. Penney's [...]

In a year characterized by expansion, refinement and experimentation, mass merchants continued to make pharmacy inroads during 2003, positioning themselves to capitalize on the growing prescription drug market during 2004. [...]