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Wholesalers are using creativity and market-specific touches to help their independents outdesign the chain competition.

Retailers are likely to bag extra dollars like fallen leaves, if they capitalize on an especially rich harvest of timely fall promotions this season.

Baesler's Market in Terre Haute, Ind. is a study in single-store success.

As consumer tastes go upscale, sales of premium assortments of wine, beer, and spirits soar.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- To avoid being tomorrow's dinosaurs, retailers and their manufacturer partners must understand the voice of the consumer, the former chief marketing officer of Wal-Mart told attendees at the 2005 GMA Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing (MSM) Conference here.

NEW YORK -- Now it's not just people who are using premium shampoos, therapeutic skin care, and products featuring botanical ingredients. According to "Market Trends: Pet Grooming and Spa Products," a new report from market research publisher Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, consumers are increasingly treating their pets to similar items, but they're not going to supermarkets to purchase them.

NEW YORK -- The New York City Council yesterday overrode a veto by Mayor Mike Bloomberg of the Health Care Security Act, which requires large supermarkets and big-box stores selling groceries to pay for a portion of their employees' health care.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Tom Coughlin, the former vice chairman for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., asked a Benton County Circuit Judge yesterday to dismiss a lawsuit by his former employer, the world's largest retailer, on the basis that he had an existing agreement with the company that it would not take any punitive action against him after he retired.