Ideas for Cross-selling Merchandise: Foot Care
Part of the Ideas for Cross-selling Merchandise infographics series
Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Pain Relief and Weight Management & Nutritional Foods
Between new products to consider adding to your assortment, to keeping on top of trends affecting the pain relief and weight management & nutritional foods categories, there are ample opportunities to update these departments and offer your customers new options for relief. There are a number of products launching to support side effects of GLP-1 […]
Put smiles in the aisles
By Megan Moyer, corporate marketing manager, for the “Profits in the front end” blog series There are many practical things you can do to provide a pleasant shopping experience – right products at the right price in the right place – merchandising principles that we live and breathe. But the truth is, a shopping trip can […]
HRG Makes Significant Update to Industry-standard Fine Line Classification System
Waukesha, Wisconsin — September 17, 2025 — HRG has completed its semiannual update of its Fine Line Classification System for health, beauty, and wellness (HBW), home health care (HHC), and general merchandise (GM) products with notable adjustments to reflect industry changes. The September 2025 updates include additions to address wearable wellness devices and pharmacy services. […]
Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Digestive Health
by Tara Kaifesh, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips Check that your digestive health department is well stocked with products designed to help patients suffering side effects from medications and to spotlight innovative new items in the category like those listed in the table below. The gut is the largest immune system organ, containing up […]
You must make shoppers’ online experience as close as possible to being in-store
You want to give online shoppers as crisp, clear, accurate, and up-to-date an image to peruse as possible, with every content-rich panel or side available
Brick-and-mortar retailing is far from its death bed
by Dave Wendland, as seen in Chain Drug Review During the height of the pandemic, it was not uncommon to hear predictions that brick-and-mortar retail could only exist in the rear-view mirror. Storefronts were shuttered, e-commerce was booming, and convenience was winning out over experience. In fact, some naysayers were proclaiming the demise of physical […]
Invite your staff to implement their ideas
By Megan Moyer, corporate marketing manager, for the “Profits in the front end” blog series Getting your staff involved in generating and implementing ideas for your store is a great way to get them invested in the success of the store and empower them to think creatively to find ways to build the business, […]
Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Cold & Allergy
Prepare for the upcoming cold & allergy season with these ideas and tips to improve the shopping experience and make the most of sales opportunities. The 2024-2025 flu season was classified as high severity, for all age groups, the first time since 2017-2018. While predictions about the upcoming season vary, it’s best to be prepared. […]
Ideas for Cross-selling Merchandise: Cold & Allergy
Part of the Ideas for Cross-selling Merchandise infographics series