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Makers Tout Green on Shelves Health and beauty aids marketing promises to become even more competitive as manufacturers claim credit for making their products and packaging more earth friendly. Manufacturers [...]

New Hair Care Makes Waves Two-In-Ones Add Volume to Shampoo Sales A wave of new, two-in-one shampoo and conditioner preparations is breaking over the health and beauty aids market, and [...]

Brand Switching Adds Gloss to Flat Paint Sales Brand switching was the main merchandising strategy used by discount chains last year in an attempt to squeeze more dollars out of [...]

Convenience & Color Mark L&G Consumers Favor Flowering Plants, Easy-to-Use Products as Rainfall Reverses 1988's Sales Drought Convenience and color are cropping up throughout the lawn and garden market. Ready-to-use [...]

Caldor Refining Store Prototype LEOMINSTER, Mass. - Caldor continues to fine tune its prototype look, as the entryway of the Caldor that opened here Oct. 31 graphically illustrates. 'It's like [...]

Wal-Mart Plants Discount Store in the Garden State TURNERSVILLE, N.J. - Wal-Mart proceeded apace with its expansion into the Northeast by opening here the first of at least three stores [...]

New Grasses Sprout Roots Responding to environmental concerns, such as spraying pesticides where kids and pets play, conserving water and obeying new local ordinances that bar grass clippings from landfills, [...]

In-line skates, the new fitness phenomenon that has burst on the scene over the past two years, are on a roll. 'You can sell anything you can get your hands [...]

Meijer to Re-Enter Cincy After Hills, Ames Exit CINCINNATI - Capitalizing on the departure of Ames and Hills from the Greater Cincinnati market, Meijer is planning to re-enter a market [...]

Shedding New Light on Bulbs Compact Fluorescents Promise Both Long-Term Cost and Energy Savings Energy-saving light bulbs have become the object of an environmental marketing thrust that could reflect renewed [...]

New Clover Prototype Ideal for Smaller Areas LANSDALE, Pa. -- Clover has opened a new smaller prototype store designed for less populated markets. At 70,000 square feet, the prototype, which [...]

Kmart May Claim BJ's, HomeClub NEW YORK -- Unexplained spurts in the stock price of Waban, parent of BJ's Wholesale Club and HomeClub, have renewed speculation that it, too, will [...]

Stevens Resigns From Top Post at Fred Meyer PORTLAND, Ore. - The consensus among West Coast analysts is that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the leveraged buyout firm that controls the Fred [...]

Motor Oil Prices Skyrocket 34% CHICAGO -- When motorists buy motor oil next month, they're apt to get the same kind of sticker price shock they've experienced at the gas [...]

Wal-Mart Enters Northeast; Opens 1st Pennsylvania Store YORK, Pa. - Wal-Mart has opened its first store in the Northeast - which it calls its 'pioneer market' - and the first [...]

The State of Wisconsin Helps Finance Prange Way's LBO GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Prange Way turned to a novel source to help finance the leveraged buyout its management led last [...]

Target Builds a Winning Image When the new, $90 million basketball arena of the Minneapolis Timberwolves opens Oct. 13, with a benefit for the American Cancer Society, it will bear [...]

`Green' Products Dominate Hardware Show Vendors Discover Price Resistance To Some Products CHICAGO--Judging from offerings at the National Hardware Show, the industry expects American consumers to fall all over themselves [...]

Suppliers See Kinder, Gentler Fertilizers, Pesticides in Future For an indication of how the pesticides and fertilizer markets are marching to the beat of an environmental drum, look no further [...]

Sears Rolls Out the Power to East Coast FREEHOLD, N.J. - Sears Roebuck & Co. opened a new Sears of the '90s store here Aug. 1, its first unit in [...]

Bradlees Bounces Back; Offers Prototype Format BORDENTOWN, N.J. - After languishing for two years in the aftermath of a leveraged buyout, Bradlees has come out fighting with the reopening of [...]

`Green' Labeling Program Debuts NEW YORK - Move over Green Aisle and Green Cross. Make room for Green Seal. In yet another move to flag products that are less harmful [...]

May to Raise Seed Money To Hasten Sale of Venture ST. LOUIS - To ease the birth of Venture as an independent chain, its parent plans to administer a dose [...]

Fred Meyer Invades California's Heartland CHICO, Calif. - Fred Meyer has ventured out of its home territory, where shoppers know what 'Freddy' means, and is challenging Target and K mart [...]

Euro-Style IKEA Hits Metro N.Y. Market ELIZABETH, N.J. - With the opening of its first store in metro New York, IKEA has again demonstrated how to transplant a retail concept [...]

McNulty's Role in Takeover Try Of Pic `N' Save Closeout Chain LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Robert J. McNulty, founder of warehouse retail chains such as HomeClub, HQ Office Supplies and [...]

K mart Opens 2nd Hypermarket Hopes to Fare Better with Scaled-Down Charlotte Unit CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- K mart has opened its second--and much smaller--American Fare hypermarket here and hopes to [...]

Retailers Should Fight New Solid Waste Bills, Bag Makers Assert Environmental laws that regulate plastic carryout bags already are costing retailers money in Maine and Florida. And the price could [...]

Recycling Motor Oil Proves Costly But Chief's Recycling Effort Yields Gusher of Positive PR Discounters have enough trouble as it is trying to make a profit on motor oil. Soon [...]

The Sports Authority To Sport New Owner FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- K mart has purchased The Sports Authority, the first retailer to venture into the warehouse-size sporting goods concept, which [...]

Target Launches Program For Improving Child Care MINNEAPOLIS - As a means of tackling the retail labor shortage, Target is joining sister chain Mervyn's in a program to teach women [...]

Glosser to Exit Ch. 11? Buyout Hinges on Creditor Approval JOHNSTOWN, Pa. --Glosser Bros. could emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy by mid-April, with a new owner, Schottenstein Stores, if .... [...]

Apparel Off-Pricers Benefit From Campeau Fiscal Woes The financial woes of the Campeau department store empire have cut both ways within the off-price apparel sector. As Campeau struggled to raise [...]

Profusion of Degradable Bags Tests Retailers' Wits Nationwide DSN Report Life for chain buyers who purchase trash bags--and customers who buy them at retail--is about to get a lot more [...]

State Recycling Laws Send Shockwaves Out to Discounters Mounting concern about the environment is forcing many retailers to establish automotive battery recycling programs that will disrupt their usual way of [...]

Drought Sets Back Lawn & Garden For the lawn and garden industry, 1988 is going down as the Year of the Drought. Water rationing began as early as mid-May in [...]

Shoppers Air Mixed Feelings About Carrefour Hypermarket Customer reaction at the opening of Carrefour's hypermarket here last month ranged all the way from 'it'll be a hit,' to, 'they won't [...]

Industry Grows Amidst Consolidation Retail analysts agree on at least one trend in discounting: a wave of consolidation is getting ready to crash over the industry as weaker, regional chains [...]

Factory Outlet Malls: The Ultimate Discounters Hypermart U.S.A., Wal-Mart's new hypermarket outside Dallas, boasts of its low prices, offering for example, a pair of Leemen's acid-wash jeans for $24.98, compared [...]

Pep Boys Heads Out From Atlanta Expansion Hub: To Re-Enter N.C. PHILADELPHIA--In a major expansion move for 1988, Pep Boys--Manny, Moe & Jack, plans to re-enter the North Carolina market [...]

APAA Show: Waxes, Polishes, Little Innovation CHICAGO - New products at the Automotive Parts and Accessories Association show leaned toward those that further slice the static waxes and polishes market, [...]

Convertibles a Hot Ticket for Mower Buyers LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Power mower makers are banking on convertibles for 1992, judging from the offerings at Expo '91, the Outdoor Power Equipment [...]

Wal-Mart: `Customer Comfort' Key in Redesign Discounter Plans 165 New Units By End of Year BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart, as it builds new stores and relocates and renovates existing units, [...]

Finding the Right Combination Padlocks and outdoor security floodlights controlled by motion detectors aren't exactly flying out the doors of discounters. Yet, properly managed, they can inject life into static [...]