RETAIL NEWS

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — Wipe technology has made big waves in facial cleansers. Simple Wipes were a big part of that growth. Now Unilever’s Simple has upped its game.

GSK Consumer Healthcare’s Flonase allergy remedy was the single greatest generator of incremental dollars for the 52 weeks ended May 15 across total U.S. multi-outlets, according to IRI data, with $345.2 million in sales on 209.9% growth. The question headed into its second year on OTC shelves is can it maintain its momentum now that private-label competition for Flonase has reached store shelves.

The vitamins and dietary supplement category continues to perform well in retail pharmacy and represents a good companion category for those operators seeking to help their patients live healthier and achieve better outcomes.

DUBLIN, Ohio - Cardinal Health on Tuesday closed out its fiscal year 2016 on quarterly revenues of $31.4 billion, representing an increase of 14%. For the year, Cardinal Health posted revenues of $121.5 billion, an increase of 19%.

Wearables are beginning to gain purchase consideration and traction among all millennials, but especially with white non-Hispanics, according to the latest installment of the Hispanic Millennial Project, published by Sensis and ThinkNow Research in June.

GSK Consumer Healthcare is challenging the common misconception that migraines are just a “bad headache” by creating the world’s first augmented reality migraine simulator.

Retailers are asking for fewer — but bigger and bolder — new products and fewer flankers.

So what’s hot — and why?

As millennials have cemented themselves as the largest generation by population at 75.4 million, outnumbering baby boomers for the first time, the retail industry has been inundated with insights about their shopping habits.

According to Kantar Retail’s Nicole Santosuosso, the uptick in information and insights about millennials has obfuscated the ways millennials are ushering in fundamental changes in how all consumers shop.