Perimeter

With the FDA's scrutiny of produce-handling practices bound to heighten, retailers can play a more active role than ever in keeping their products and sales safe and secure.

An extra week of Super Bowl merchandising gives retailers the chance to score extra sales.

Smart operators such as Supervalu are heeding the call from trade groups to protect the supermarket's core grocery business.

Cub Foods uses agility and precision to compete in the tough home entertainment category.

FRANKLIN, Tenn. - North American consumers transacted nearly $128 billion in sales using self-checkout lanes, ticketing kiosks, and other self-service machines in 2003 -- but for some retailers, high-touch is still the way to go.

CAMDEN, N.J. - The Campbell Soup Co. here has joined forces with Scholastic and NBC's "American Dreams" series for a novel promotion that will tie in an essay contest sponsored by Campbell's with a storyline on the show.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - On the heels of last week's unveiling of its first Collierville, Tenn. store built from the ground up, Schnuck Markets, Inc. is aggressively embarking on Phase II of its Mid-South expansion plans.

BELLEVUE, Wash. and SAN MATEO, Calif. - drugstore.com, inc., an online provider of health, beauty, vision, and pharmacy products, and WageWorks, Inc., a provider of consumer-friendly employee spending accounts for health care and dependent care, have joined to enable automatic verification of flexible spending account (FSA)-eligible purchases made using the WageWorks Health Care Card at the drugstore.com online store.