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  • Target continues its private-label healthy snacking effort

    MINNEAPOLIS — Today, more than 75% of Target’s own brand kids’ snacks — from Simply Balanced fruit snacks and granola bars to Market Pantry fruit squeezers — are already free of artificial flavors, preservatives, sweeteners and colors, as well as artificial trans fats and high fructose corn syrup.

  • Target CEO notes dip in Hispanic shopping, outlines retailer’s strengths at tech conference

    ASPEN, Colo. — At Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech Conference here, Target CEO Brian Cornell sat down to discuss the company’s strategy to reach its consumers and where it sees itself in the retail landscape — touting the key role its store base plays in its business even as it builds up its digital infrastructure. He also emphasized the company’s connection with its shoppers — and noted a sizeable dip in shopping activity among Hispanic consumers in the United States in the past several months.

  • Target gets unexpected sales boost

    MINNEAPOLIS — Target on Thursday surprised the industry and investors with some good news.
     
    The discounter updated its guidance and said that as a result of improved traffic and sales trends through the first two months of the quarter, it expects to report a modest increase in its second quarter same-store sales. Target previously said it expected a decline. 
     

  • What’s influencing how moms shop

    Having a baby changes everything — including shopping behavior, according to new insights from pregnancy and parenting resource BabyCenter, a Johnson & Johnson company. The company’s “2017 Skincare and Bathtime Study,” shared exclusively with Drug Store News, points to lasting changes that new parents undergo in terms of what they look for from their personal care products once they have children, as well as the top factors influencing their buying decisions.

  • Consumers encouraged to buy, apply more sunscreen

    After years of ignoring warnings that sun exposure poses a health risk and hastens aging, consumers are starting to see the light. In fact, overall category sales rose 6.7% for the 52-week period ended May 14 across multi-outlets, according to IRI. Lotions and oils advanced almost 7%, and sunscreens and bug repellants jumped 3.5%.

    But retailers and marketers said much more needs to be done. A recent Marist Institute for Public Opinion Poll said only 1-in-10 people apply sunscreen regularly.

  • Therapeutic, purpose-driven products drive bath boom

    Adult bath products offering a Zen-like experience are bubbling to the surface in mass stores and helping to perk up sales, along with Epsom salt soaks. Consumers are favoring products with a purpose over simply fragrant bath additives. That explains the 26% climb in volume of Dr. Teal’s, which offers a Pure Epsom Salt Soak, along with body wash and foaming bath. It is the No.1 selling SKU in the bath category.

  • Target launches next-day delivery in Twin Cities

    MINNEAPOLIS — Target has entered the fast-growing next-day grocery delivery market. 
     
    The discounter on Tuesday launched a pilot for Target Restock, a next-day delivery service for household essentials and dry grocery items ordered online, in its hometown market of Minneapolis-St. Paul. The service, available only to Target REDcard holders, comes with a flat fee of $4.99 per box. 
     

  • CVS emerges as top drug chain for food shopping on 2017 Love List

    NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs and Condé Nast on Tuesday released the 2017 Love List: Food, which took a applies their Love List Brand Affinity Index to the food category and the retailers shoppers prefer.

    The study found that millennials are looking for healthy snacks, with 75% of snack brands on the list having a health focus. They also are one-stop shoppers, with their preferred food shopping locations also having purchasing options outside the food category.

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