Dept. OTC

  1. Holiday & Events

Grocerant Niche is Now Center Stage in Consumer’s Minds

  Consumers continue seeking meal solutions particularly those solutions that save time, save on planning a meal, save them from cooking, according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® who stated, “Grocery store deli departments have become innovative in what meals and meal component they are offering and how they are […]
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  1. Department: HBC

What is causing the shift in the global markets for bronchitis treatment?

Bronchitis is a common condition in which the lungs become inflamed. The name stems from the destination of the condition which exists within the bronchial tubes. Bronchitis usually is nothing to worry about and presents itself as the common cold with typical signs and symptoms being: coughing, wheezing, dyspnea, chest congestion, mucus discharge, sore throat, […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Rite Aid in Delivery Deal with Grubhub; Uber Partnership Supports Delivery from 17,000 Neighborhood Stores

Deliveries from more than 2,000 Rite Aid stores in 16 states will be powered by the Grubhub Marketplace, making thousands of the retailer’s OTC, wellness products and snacks more accessible to consumers. Rite Aid items are now available on the Grubhub+ membership program, which offers no-fee deliveries on orders of $12 or more. Additionally, National […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Post Office Cash Tracker – October: Cash withdrawals up 12% YoY

New figures reveal cash withdrawals at Post Offices dipped 1% in October with £777 million withdrawn over the counter at its 11,500 branches. Personal cash withdrawals in October were up over 12% year-on-year and come as the Post Office recently announced its renewed partnership with the Trussell Trust. From November, Post Office will again donate […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

CHPA Educational Foundation launches pilot in Dollar General

Vestcom’s shelfAdz are displayed along Dollar General’s pain management aisles, giving shoppers the option to scan a QR code, which routes them to the CHPA Foundation’s online OTC Pain Relief Interactive Quiz. WASHINGTON – The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) Educational Foundation announced on Monday an educational pilot launch to help consumers choose over-the-counter (OTC) pain […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Consumers Are Feeling The Pinch – But So Are Retailers. Can Black Friday Even Happen This Year? 

Black Friday traditionally marks the start of the festive shopping season, with big ticket promotions that seem to get bigger every year. Black Friday is now fast approaching, and many retailers are reassessing their strategies for this year’s event in light of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. The cost-of-living crisis is at its peak; families in […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

Does your Restaurant App Suck Your Customers Think So

There is no doubt that year over year customer count declines within the restaurant sector are caused by many things including the ilk of slow service, cold food not cold, hot food not hot, delivery orders going out the front door as a customer’s waits, waits, and waits at a table for their food.  Ok, […]
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  1. Agencies & Vendors

This Veteran-Owned Sauce Brand Proves to Retailers That “It’s Gon Be Good”

John Walden, Founder and Chief Quality Assurance/Quality Control Officer of J.W. Southern Sauce grew up in restaurants. His parents and family worked long careers in the service and restaurant industry, where he learned a lot about what makes a good meal. The secret? Sauce. While his love for food and delicious sauces sparked at a […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Changing Seasons: How Brands Can Ensure Their Messaging is Event-Specific

Thanksgiving and the holiday season is just around the corner. In a chaotic and ever-changing world, fixed calendar events like these provide predictable and unifying anchor points. No wonder, then, that so many marketing plans are now seasonal. Retailers are once again preparing campaigns and promotional events against a new set of seasonal tentpole events. […]
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  1. Data & Insights

On Poetry.

“Poetry is accelerated thinking.” “Poetry is the best words in the best order.” “Poetry is stored magic.” “Poetry restores us to what is deepest in us. It consoles us.” “The greatest poetry is written at the borders of what can be said. It makes a strong effort at expressing the unsayable.” “The meaning of poetry […]
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  1. Holiday & Events

Miller Lite sells Christmas Tree Keg Stand

Miller Lite’s “fully functioning” limited-edition Christmas Tree Keg Stand is said to be “perfect for keeping your tree fresh and beer cold.” The stand, which costs $49.99, is compatible with Christmas trees up to five feet tall. It weighs up to 150 pounds with lights and ornaments.
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  1. Media & Marketing

Your Views:  Advanced Degrees

Responding to yesterday’s mention in FaceTime about a New York Times piece about climate change, one MNB reader wrote: On the Climate Change article, what was frightening was the statistic that by 2050, 100 million Americans will experience at last one summer day of 125 degrees temps. Living in Minneapolis, we are unable to comprehend […]
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  1. Department & Category

King-Casey Can Help your Company Drive Top-Line Growth

  Do you have a convenience store that needs to break out of the past and jump into the present?  Are you looking a Customer Ahead?  If so, Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® believes you just might want to reach out too Howland Blackiston, and his team at King-Casey. Below […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Cookies Are Ruining Your Holiday Sales. Here’s Why Session-Based Personalization is the Best Alternative

It’s no secret that late autumn is e-commerce’s busiest season. For online retailers, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas shopping promise unprecedented success. Last year, the industry witnessed a record-breaking holiday season with $1.2 trillion in sales (a 16 percent year-over-year growth rate). There’s an incredible amount of potential here — but year after year, […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Friday Eye-Opener:  Business Faces Health Issues On A Variety Of Levels

by Kevin Coupe There was a confluence of stories yesterday that circled around the same issue – health – that suggest impending problems for retail businesses. First, Axios reports on a new Kaiser Family Foundation report suggesting that “employers face a brutal increase in health-insurance premiums for 2023.” The piece notes that “premiums stayed relatively […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Revlon to be delisted from New York Stock Exchange

NEW YORK — Revlon announced on Thursday that the NYSE Regulatory Oversight Committee’s Committee for Review rejected the company’s appeal and affirmed the New York Stock Exchange Staff’s decision to delist the company’s Class A common stock following the June 15, 2022 Chapter 11 filing by the company and certain of its subsidiaries in the […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Select Hy-Vee stores selling O-T-C hearing aids

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa  — Hy-Vee, Inc. announced Friday that over-the-counter hearing aids are now available at select Hy-Vee stores with no exam or prescription necessary. In an effort to make hearing aids more accessible and affordable, the FDA recently ruled that individuals ages 18 and older with mild to moderate hearing loss can purchase […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

QuikTrip Convenience Store Expanding with Health Care / Urgent Care

  There is no doubt that finding a way to drive incremental business in the convenience store space is a hard thing to do.  However, Quik Trip is edifying its brand with the ‘halo’ of better for you by adding MedWise walk-in medical clinics and many of its locations. Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

The Cheeky Panda predicts healthy winter bamboo tissues and wipes sales

The Cheeky Panda, the sustainable personal care, baby and beauty brand, is aiming to help retailers and wholesalers stand by for a busy winter of colds and flu with its products. The brand said its Cheeky Panda Facial & Pocket Tissues, Antibacterial Wipes and Handy Wipes are a must stock this coming season, following the […]
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  1. Data & Insights

NACDS-backed federal action expanding patient access to O-T-C hearing aids now in effect

(Left to right): U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Dr. Robert Califf; Walgreens pharmacist Chuckwuma ‘Chuks’ Onwuka; U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra; and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) visit a Walgreens pharmacy in Washington, D.C., on October 19, 2022, as hearing aids go over the counter for the first time. ARLINGTON, […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

New pediatric COVID-19 boosters available at select Hy-Vee Pharmacies

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — A limited supply of the new pediatric COVID-19 boosters are now available at select Hy-Vee Pharmacy locations by appointment. Also known as “bivalent boosters,” the new COVID-19 boosters are reformulated to target versions of the latest Omicron subvariants including BA.4 and BA.5, along with the original COVID-19 virus strain. Individuals […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

4 Ways Retailers Are Transforming Business With Edge Computing

For many retailers, the customer experience is about much more than customer satisfaction scores. More than anything, today’s customers want a personalized, quick and easy shopping experience, a frictionless experience. These expectations are heavily shaped by online retail experiences, challenging brick-and-mortar retailers to transform their physical stores into engaging, personalized experience centers powered by real-time intelligence. Whereas e-commerce sites […]
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  1. Channel: Drug

Rite Aid offers point-of-care testing in Michigan

PHILADELPHIA — With flu and respiratory illnesses expected to increase during fall and winter months, Rite Aid is making diagnostic testing easier for Michigan customers with rapid point-of-care testing now available at all stores throughout the state. Point-of-care testing provides customers with rapid turnaround of test results combined with onsite prescriptions for those who test […]
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  1. Owned Brands (Private Label)

Nonfoods to be big part of PLMA show

NEW YORK  — PLMA’s sold-out 2022 Private Label Trade Show, Nov. 13-15 in Chicago, will have a strong exhibitor presence of nonfood suppliers of everyday essentials, such as OTC medicine, baby care, personal care, health and wellness, pet care and household goods, among others. More than 500 booths devoted to nonfoods will be on display at […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Industry Day focuses on health, partnerships

PHILADELPHIA — High inflation and the fear that the only way to fix it is to start a recession are among the concerns facing mass retailers and consumer packaged goods manufacturers in the coming months, according to speakers at The Emerson Group’s recent Industry Day event here. But while the challenges are real, participants in […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Walmart offering over-the-counter hearing aids

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart is now selling over-the-counter hearing aids at Walmart.com and in Walmart Vision Centers in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas. The hearing aids will also be available soon at additional Walmart Vision Centers nationwide. For the first time, hearing aids will be available in the U.S. to customers who […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

FDA rule change clears way for Walmart to sell over-the-counter hearing aids

Walmart is now able to sell hearing aids without the need for a doctor’s prescription due to a rule change made by the Food and Drug Administration. “Offering easy access to OTC hearing aids, something that seems quite small, is a solution that can improve our customers’ health outcomes and their ability to live better […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Walmart Now Offers Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids To Help Customers Hear and Feel Their Best

Starting October 17, Walmart will offer over the counter (OTC) hearing aids to help our customers live better and healthier lives at affordable prices they can count on. For the first time, hearing aids will be available in the U.S. to customers who are 18 years and older with perceived mild-to-moderate hearing loss without a […]
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Retail Media is Here in a Big Way: Should Search be Worried?

By John Spiropoulos Media is filled with evolutionary step-change transitions which permanently alter the marketplace. Each evolutionary event, seen in terms of advertiser outlays – the media mix – is driven by incremental change during economic uncertainty. This is particularly true – and trackable – in modern times. Some of these events were covered in […]
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  11. Holiday & Events

U.S. SMI Core Release Note – October 2022

SMI Core data captures the actual spend data from the SMI Pool partners of major holding companies and large independent agencies, representing up to 95% of all US national brand ad spending, to provide a complete monthly view of the SMI Pool market size, investment share and category performance. Core Data delivers detailed ad intelligence across all media […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces
  2. Channel: Grocery
  3. Department: HBC
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  8. Merchandising

Kroger Health Center marks first anniversary

CINCINNATI — The Kroger Health Center for Advanced Community Care, a joint project of Kroger Health and the University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. The Center employs pharmacists, technicians, nurse practitioners, and dietitians to provide an interprofessional model of care. It also provides practical experiences for students […]
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  1. Channel: Dollar/Value
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Dollar Tree sales up 8.1% in third quarter

CHESAPEAKE, Va.— Dollar Tree executives said the retailer’s new pricing strategy lifted operating income nearly 23% to $381 million in the third quarter ended October 29. Top-line sales rose 8.1% to $6.94 billion. Comparable-store sales at its Dollar Tree stores increased 8.6% from a year earlier, while comps at its Family Dollar stores were up […]
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