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  • As America changes, the best brands change with it

    In April, Drug Store News and Mack Elevation will host the third annual New General Market Forum in Minneapolis. The exclusive thought-leadership platform brings together leading CPG companies that share a common purpose — to connect on an emotional level, building community and advocacy with an ever-more diverse consumer.

  • Newfangled Collaboration
    As you know, the Drug Store News editorial staff has allowed me to imagine a bit in these posts and offer ideas that haven’t been thought of yet. In this post I decided to think of unlikely partners that could bring value to consumers’ health and wellness efforts through unique, collaborative efforts. 
     

  • Supermarket Wellness Watch: 5 Key Health Trends For 2017
    A new year typically leads food retailers to mull what’s ahead. No one wants to be blindsided by new forces. However, the bigger risk involves underestimating how existing trends will grow in importance. Here’s a look at five developments that will mean more in 2017. 
     
    1. Consumers Demand ‘See-Through’ Products
     

  • Pokémon? Go figure … Gamifying engagement

    It probably won’t surprise anyone that I was NOT one of the hundreds of millions of people who got swept away in the whole Pokémon Go thing last summer. If you would have told me a year ago that you were looking for Pikachu, I probably would have said, “God bless you.… Now what are you looking for?”

  • The 2020 Sales Leader

    “Sales reps prioritize a sales agenda over solving a customer’s problem. If organizations don’t change, 1 million business-to-business salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.”
    —Forester Research

  • Be prepared for a tough OTC world in Germany

    Germany is the largest and one of the most challenging OTC markets in Europe, writes Ed Rowland. Any market where one of the leading chains, dm, actually marks on shelf, “price not changed since (year)” is seriously tough. The German trade can be tougher than the German National Soccer team. You can score an OTC goal but it’s not easy.

  • Supermarket Wellness Watch: Retailers spotlight healthier kids’ choices

    Focusing on kids’ health isn’t child’s play to food retailers.

    More than ever, it demands lots of adult brainpower because the stakes are higher.

    For supermarkets, children’s health is the focus of their most prized customer base, millennial parents, who are deluged with media stories about childhood obesity. Yet finding solutions that interest kids while meeting the health expectations of parents is no easy task.

    Supermarkets know that success will help bolster their efforts in the battle with other food retail competitors.

  • View from the Summit

    As we ship this issue to the printer, it has been less than 24 hours since Drug Store News hosted its 18th annual Industry Issues Summit. What began almost two decades ago as a closed-door discussion between a handful of retail merchandising executives and a few vendors in a small hotel meeting room has since evolved to become one of the signature thought leadership and networking events on the industry calendar.

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