Rotate your endcaps every 45 to 60 days
Welcome to our new blog series for independent pharmacies that will include ideas, tips, tools, and actions you can take to build your front-end profits. We’ll be covering the areas of merchandising, pricing, product promotion and assortment, and more to help you grow your business. Each post will include a graphic with an indication of […]
Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Eye & Ear Care
Provide your eye & ear care department customers with a better shopping experience with these tips. by Noah Rosenthal, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips The safety recalls of OTC eye care products has limited the choices of products that treat various eye conditions. The TRP Company introduced homeopathic fast-dissolving tablets to address […]
Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Incontinence and Nicotine Replacement Therapy
by Holly Ockelmann, national account analyst, and Noah Rosenthal, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips Check out our team’s ideas for cross-merchandising opportunities. Adding some of these companion products to your nicotine replacement therapy section will increase sales and make it easier for your customers to shop. If you don’t have space, consider […]
Must Have: High quality product images
From the desk of Lisa Lopez According to a report from ShipStation that surveyed 8,000 households across the US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Italy, and Spain, most consumers shop online and in-store on the same customer journey, with fewer exclusively browsing and buying online. Looking at purchase behavior across online and in-store channels for non-food […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Digestive Health
by Tara Kaifesh, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips Use the tips below to update your digestive health department to renew interest and highlight new items in the category. Digestive health is a top HBW category and adding new items helps bolster category sales. These new items from 2023 and 2024 have been chosen by […]
Provide a one-stop shop with disease-state and condition-specific endcaps
By Noah Rosenthal, category analyst Endcaps are prime selling real estate because they are in heavily trafficked areas, and, because it’s a compact area of products, are easy to shop. While they are often used for seasonal promotions, they are also perfect to assemble a varied assortment of health, beauty, and wellness (HBW) items that […]
Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Cold & Allergy
by Kyle Lentz, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips Cold and flu season is approaching. Here are some ideas of how to prepare to meet your customers’ needs. Five cold & allergy products that launched in 2023 made it onto Drug Store News’s Future 50 list, powered by HRG. UPC Product Manufacturer 03660283304 […]