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  • QuickChek celebrates golden anniversary

    WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. — QuickChek, operator of 10 New Jersey pharmacies, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with 10 weeks of special offers that began on Feb. 20.  Deals and savings include free coffee and fountain drinks to buy-one-get-one offers from QuickChek's menu of breakfast sandwiches, handcrafted subs and smoothies to freshly-made hot snacks and packaged goods.

  • Accenture finds shift in shopper expectations for loyalty programs

    NEW YORK — Organizations are throwing away billions of dollars annually on customer loyalty programs that just don’t work like they used to.
     
    This was revealed in the Accenture report, “Seeing Beyond the Loyalty Illusion: It’s Time You Invest More Wisely.” The study gauges the experiences and attitudes of 25,426 consumers around the world about their current loyalty relationship with brands and organizations.
     

  • Majority of consumers see bright future ahead, so they're willing to spend more now

    CHICAGO — The majority of consumers see a brighter future for 2017, according the latest IRI Consumer Connect survey released Wednesday. The Q4 2016 findings reveal that 70% of consumers feel their household finances will improve in the next six months, and they are willing to pay a premium for higher quality and highly differentiated packaged goods products as well as for the convenience of shopping online.

  • Walgreens, Rite Aid, Walmart and Target oppose Border Adjustment Tax

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 100 retailers and trade associations, including Walgreens Boots Alliance, Rite Aid, Walmart and Target, have joined the Americans for Affordable Products coalition in an effort to stop the Border Adjustment Tax, otherwise known as BAT, which is a component of the U.S. House Republican tax reform proposal.

  • Walgreens taps key blog influencers to promote mobile app functionality

    DEERFIELD, Ill.  — Walgreens recently unveiled a three-pronged strategy to better engage its customers and patients through digital, including the marketing of user-generated content through hyper-local news outlets (both print and digital) and amplifying that original content through additional VIPs and social boosting.

    And the results have been promising, Walgreens shared with Drug Store News.

  • Quest for the perfect smile helps lift oral care category

    America’s selfie-, Instagram- and overall social media-obsessed habits are propelling growth of oral care products promising instant fixes.

    (To view the full Category Review, click here.)

  • Nasal corticosteroids see high growth

    While the C/A/S tablet and liquid subcategories have seen little change in sales versus year-ago sales, the UR nasal subcategory saw impressive growth in the channels studied, due in large part to the recent Rx-OTC switch products in the nasal corticosteroid segment, driving sales up 15% in the food industry and up to10% in drug. (see Figure 1).

    (To view the full report, click here.)

  • NRF: Valentine’s Day sales will not be as sweet for first time in decade

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Valentine’s Day 2017 will not be as sweet for retailers. U.S. consumers are expected to spend an average of $136.57 this year, compared to last year’s record high of $146.84, according to a survey released by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. This would be the first such decline on Valentine’s Day spending in a decade.

    Total U.S. spending for Feb. 14 is also expected to drop from last year’s record of $19.7 billion to $18.2 billion this year.

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