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  • New items resonate with consumers

    A number of recent product offerings in the VMS space may represent white-space opportunities — or products that help create a marketing or merchandising niche that resonates with today’s consumer.

  • Nature’s Bounty unveils new lineup

    Nature’s Bounty launched a line of aromatherapy products under the Nature’s Origin banner. The line includes an essential oils kit designed to attract new shoppers, as well as a “Travel with Scents” that has four scents packaged in a branded tin and diffused in easy-to-carry inhalers. The lineup features three diffusers, including one that can be in continuous operation for up to eight hours and fill a room of up to 400 sq. ft. with the optimal scent. A second diffuser can be in continuous operation for up to four hours for a suggested room size of 50 sq. ft.

  • Former Walmart chief merchant named Family Dollar COO

    CHESAPEAKE, Va.  — Dollar Tree and its Family Dollar subsidiary on Thursday added former Walmart chief merchant Duncan Mac Naughton to the team and promoted Dollar Tree president and COO Gary Philbin to the role of enterprise president.

  • Survey: More millennials turning to retail clinics for their health needs

    NEW YORK — A recent Harris Poll commissioned by Nielsen that was released Thursday found that nearly one in five U.S. adults (19%) say they have visited a retail health clinic in the last 12 months, either for themselves or a member of their family.

  • Meijer prescription program surpasses $500M customer savings milestone

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Meijer pharmacies’ prescription program this month surpassed the $500 million milestone in savings for customers. The program, launched in Oct. 2006, has filled nearly 40 million free prescriptions in the past 10-plus years.

  • Multivitamins still provide plenty of opportunities via gummies, probiotics

    Overall, sales of multivitamins are relatively flat — 0.2% annual growth toward a $1.8 billion base. But according to the latest consumer survey from the Council for Responsible Nutrition, 3-in-4 adults use a multivitamin. So, have sales of multivitamins plateaued, or are there pockets of opportunity out there?

  • Aromatherapy is piping hot

    The proof a category is hot can be measured not only by the number of players looking to participate in that category, but also by the heft of new entrants. Such is the case with aromatherapy, and this year, a major player in the VMS space is “getting their sniff on.”

  • Jean Coutu Group sales up 1.9% despite generic pressures

    VARENNES, Québec  — The Jean Coutu Group on Friday posted a 1.9% increase in revenues to $576.8 million for the quarter ended Nov. 26.

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