Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Pain Relief and Weight Management & Nutritional Foods
by Cat Renwick, category analyst, and Kyle Lentz, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips Set aside time to update these two departments and incorporate cross-merchandising where space allows. Pain Relief is the number two category in community pharmacy based on unit sales and there are three new pain relief items you should […]
HRG and Medipim Announce the Medipim Platform, Adapted for the United States, is Now Available
Waukesha, Wisconsin – October 28, 2024 – HRG’s collaboration with Medipim to provide pharmacies, developers, wholesalers, and manufacturers comprehensive health, beauty, and wellness (HBW) product content in an information management application for the United States is now available. The Medipim platform is powered by HRG’s robust HBW product content — which is continuously updated and […]
Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Diabetes Management and Home Diagnostics & Patient Aids for Daily Living
by Cat Renwick, category analyst, and Noah Rosenthal, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips Increase the market baskets of customers shopping these departments with the following easy-to-implement tips. We recently updated our infographic series, Ideas for Cross-selling Merchandise, and you can find ideas for companion items from other categories that you can add […]
HRG Presents at CHPA’s Marketing Forum
Waukesha, Wisconsin – October 8, 2024 – Dave Wendland, HRG vice president strategic relations and member of the owner group, and Angela Nicloy, HRG director of marketing, will be presenting the session, “Delving into Data,” at 1:15 p.m. at Consumer Healthcare Products Association’s (CHPA) Marketing Forum on November 14, 2024, in Philadelphia, PA. The presentation […]
HRG Supports Independent Pharmacies in a Variety of Ways at NCPA Annual Convention
Waukesha, Wisconsin – October 1, 2024 – HRG will be supporting independent pharmacies in multiple ways at the National Community Pharmacy Association’s (NCPA) Annual Conference in Columbus, OH, October 25-27. Additionally, HRG will be exhibiting at NCPA Annual, demonstrating their merchandising tools and branding services designed to aid the success of independent pharmacies, including […]
Custom Cosmetics Planograms
From the desk of Colleen Volheim, category research and analysis manager, for the Focus on Fixtures blog series As part of our fixture coordination services, we offer fixture planograms, however, we can also offer support even earlier in the reset process by providing retailers or cosmetics brands with custom cosmetic planograms. Many brands and retailers perform their […]
Sḵwálwen Botanicals celebrates ancestral plant knowledge
by Megan Moyer, corporate marketing manager, as appeared in Inside Beauty for Drug Store News Leigh Joseph, Indigenous ethnobotanist and founder of Sḵwálwen Botanicals, has been drawn to connecting with the natural world and her community throughout her whole life. Joseph said she pursued a degree in biology and botany because she wanted to understand more […]
Data is new cornerstone of assortments, planograms
by Colleen Volheim, category research & analysis manager, as seen in Chain Drug Review Assortment planning and the planogram development process have evolved, thanks to the availability of more robust data and feature-rich software platforms. At the same time, consumers’ heightened expectations of their shopping experience have shifted over the past five years, with more ways […]
The role of a data repository
by Dave Wendland, vice president strategic relations, for Drug Store News According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of repository suggests that it is a place, building, or receptacle where things are or may be stored. However, when it comes to product information and data assets, the repository must not only provide storage and access […]
Perseve aims to provide luxury hair care formulas at affordable prices
by Megan Moyer, corporate marketing manager, as appeared in Inside Beauty for Drug Store News Perseve co-founder and CEO, Olivia Bae, dove into entrepreneurship at the tail end of the pandemic. After experiencing health issues that caused her to experience hair loss, she started to pay attention to the ingredients in the products she was using. “For […]