RETAIL NEWS

OXON HILL, Md. — Albertsons and Wegmans Food Markets were named by the Environmental Protection Agency as Safer Choice Partners of the Year for 2017, which honors outstanding achievement in the design, manufacture, promotion, and use of Safer Choice-labeled products over the past year. The awards were presented at National Harbor in Oxon Hill on May 15.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Meijer on Thursday opened new supercenters in Escanaba and Sault Ste.

DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens will present the findings of five recently completed clinical studies at the 22nd Annual International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Annual International Meeting, May 20-24 in Boston. Clinical abstracts from the studies being presented focus primarily on Walgreens efforts to improve medication adherence and patient outcomes through various pharmacy initiatives.
 

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — Fruth Pharmacy announced the babies chosen to represent the company for 2017 as a Mister and Miss Fruth: Allison Egnor of Winfield, W.Va., daughter of Amanda Egnor; Leland Fugett of Parkersburg, W.Va., son of Mark & Christina Fugett; Cooper Wright of Nelsonville, Ohio, son of Tiffani Deffenbaugh and Josh Wright; and Novaleigh Taylor of Buffalo, W.Va., daughter of Tabitha Taylor.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Improving patient care is constantly on the mind of CVS Health. In fact, this has been constantly on the mind of Stephen Gold, who has served as the retailer’s EVP and CIO since 2012.

Mass market doors might not be the prime destination for all beauty products, but there are market wedges the channel dominates. An example is color cosmetics, where brows and lashes are leading the charge to attract shoppers. Bath sales are also bubbling again as drug stores wrest customers away from mall-based specialty stores, while also nabbing licensed hits that score big with parents. IRI tracked double-digit increases in the category over the past year.

MINNEAPOLIS — Target’s 2017 fiscal first-quarter comparable-store sales suffered a 1.3% year-over-year decrease, driven by small declines in both traffic and basket size. First quarter sales for the period ended April 29 also dipped slightly from $16.2 billion to $16 billion.

Adjusted earnings per share also slipped by 6.3% versus the prior year to $1.21 per share, but this far surpassed company guidance, which had been between 80 cents and $1 per share.