From the desk of Colleen Volheim, category and research analysis manager Heat mapping is a great tool to help build your case for deserving shelf space. Using sales data (in units or dollars), heat mapping highlights the top-selling products in a section or department. It’s a vibrant, visual way to depict the products that are … Read More
Waukesha, Wisconsin — August 20, 2020 — Hamacher Resource Group, Inc. (HRG) is lending their assortment planning and placement expertise to International Paper’s (IP) Retail division to enhance their existing Multi-Vendor Program (MVP) and offer retailers the Shopper Solution Center. These free-standing retail displays are available in a variety of sizes and feature a curated … Read More
Waukesha, Wisconsin – March 10, 2020 – Hamacher Resource Group, Inc.’s (HRG’s) New Item Review team, in its ongoing evaluation of products suitable for the independent pharmacy channel, evaluated 3,045 new health, beauty, and wellness items in 2019. This number is an increase of roughly 17.7% from the 2,587 products reviewed in 2018. The number of items reviewed … Read More
By Dave Wendland, vice president strategic relations, as seen in Drug Store News Before I started my series focused on curated solutions, I enrolled to become part of the Stitch Fix craze. For those unfamiliar with this Wall Street darling, Stitch Fix was inspired by the new vision of a client-first, client-centric way to approach retail. … Read More
From the desk of Julie Bonnell, vice president operations “We landed a huge opportunity” are the words every brand’s space management team is anticipating with both excitement and apprehension. The sales team has it in the bag, and now everyone is looking at you to make it happen. Whether changes to planograms, also known as … Read More
By Dave Wendland, vice president strategic relations, as seen in Drug Store News New parents face a number of experiences that they have not yet encountered. Among them is the challenge of making informed choices of what types of products they may need to not only care for their little one, but also prepare their home … Read More
Written by and published in Elements magazine, June 17, 2019 In 2018, Hamacher Resource Group (HRG) evaluated a whopping 2,587 new products to determine which were most suitable for independent pharmacies. The result of the company’s rigorous review process is a surefire list of top-performing products independent pharmacies can’t afford to miss out on. “These are items … Read More
By Dave Wendland, vice president strategic relations, as seen in Drug Store News If your family is anything like mine, you often used to pile the entire family into the automobile for long road trips. With four siblings in my family, our attention spans were not great, and one way we passed the time was to … Read More
Written by and published in Elements magazine, March 15, 2019 As margins behind the counter continue to decline, independent pharmacies are looking to remedy their profit pains. And pharmacy retail experts are prescribing a simple front-end treatment: cross merchandising. “Cross merchandising is a tactic that can increase sales, if pharmacies do it right and are consistent and committed … Read More
By Dave Wendland for Drug Store News June 19, 2017 My daughter and I were experimenting in the kitchen the other evening — cooking up what was sure to be a masterpiece. Reaching into the lazy Susan in the spice cabinet, I had a eureka moment. To be honest, this is not the first … Read More