Kamhi World Kamhi World offers a variety of talking pens in the character’s voice, with favorite lines from teen-classic movies and shows such as Napoleon Dynamite, Jack Black from Nacho Libre and Stewie and Brian from Family Guy. Targeted specifically to teens ages 13 to 19 and tweens ages 8 to 12, these pens serve [...]
Walls + Forms Inc. Walls + Forms Inc. now offers its largest variety ever of point of sale displays. Styles include slatwall and pegboard units. The line includes wall-mounted point-of-purchase; countertop cube, multi-tier cube, pinwheel, triangle, spinner, "H" and "A" frame units, gondolas, shelf displays, and more. Eighteen models are available for immediate UPS and [...]
Mountain View/nascar Mountain View Marketing is teaming up with NASCAR for an exciting Christmas promotion featuring the hottest, trendiest and most popular NASCAR items. Most of the fan favorites are highlighted in the array of unique licensed products. Custom painted cars emblazoned with the numbers, names and logos of the best drivers, action figures and [...]
Merit Industries Merit Industries introduces fragrant 5" x 7" sachet packets filled with all-natural potpourri and fragrance, which are ideal for impulse sales for women. Just place in car, in a drawer, on a counter or in a suitcase to make any place smell better. The long-lasting natural fragrance will last for many months. SRP [...]
The general merchandise/novelty category provides retailers with a unique opportunity to capture customers’ personal interests in a high-margin item. Novelty has evolved into a core category because retailers can anticipate 30-60% margins on novelty products. With such strong profit potential, chains in major markets can earn about $35,000 a year per store from the novelty [...]
According to Nielsen’s Gas Monitor Report, when gas prices rose, consumers reacted by limiting the amount of fuel they bought during each visit to the pump. But this trend encouraged more trips to the fuel island. Additionally, higher fuel prices encouraged consumers to shop more at c-stores rather than travel to additional destinations. The economy [...]
Pep Up Store Sales DMD Pharmaceuticals introduces the new Xtreme Peptime Mini-White Liquid Sport Pack. This 12ml Sport Pack provides an easy to open rip top for those on-the-go consumers. This dietary supplement contains vitamin B, caffeine, and taurine. This convenient blend of vitamins and energizers is formulated for an instant energy rush lasting for [...]
The line between grocery and convenience channels in the U.S. continues to blur, especially with the addition of mega retailers like the UK-based Tesco (Fresh & Easy) and Japan’s FamilyMart (Famima). Though neither of these retailers sell gas, both consider themselves members of the c-store channel in growing, upscale markets, such as Los Angeles, Phoenix [...]
General merchandise rounded out the top 10 in-store categories by gross profit contribution, according to the National Association of Convenience Store’s (NACS) State of the Industry (SOI) report. Finishing 10th, just behind cold dispensed beverages, on a per-store, per-month basis, stores averaged $2,373 in merchandise sales with a gross profit contribution of $873. The bad [...]
espite the much-ballyhooed growth of chains like Walgreens, Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts and Wal-Mart, it is convenience stores that remain an important daily stop for the nation’s busy consumers. As a result, convenience stores represent a powerful sales opportunity for product and service supplier companies. CSD set out to find the industry’s top performers as identified [...]
More. That’s what convenience store customers can expect to see of private-label brands–and what convenience store operators need to do in order to make those brands successful. The costs are too low, opportunities to build brand equity and loyalty too high, quality is rising too quickly and the benefits are too numerous for retailers with [...]
Driving business with new products is hardly a novel idea, but it’s also one that convenience store retailers rarely use to their advantage, said David Bishop, a partner with research and consulting firm Willard Bishop in Barrington, Ill. When retailers actively participate in the process of bringing a new product to the marketplace by helping [...]
“In a business like cigars, where unit volume is growing 10% plus year-over-year, emerging strategic thinking in convenience retail suggests that retailers can grow even faster by employing a “price-for-volume” strategy for key products.” David Bishop, partner, Willard Bishop This summer, we examined how convenience retailers could manage the cigar category differently to realize above-market [...]
Between Black Friday, Green Monday and Red Alert ("Oh my gosh, I’m out of time!) Christmas Eve, millions of American shoppers realize their days… and dollars are numbered. Heading into the homestretch, time is at a premium and every convenience helps. Enter 7-Eleven. Created 80 years ago as a quick in-and-out shopping alternative for time-crunched [...]
New holiday brew flavors include Cherry and Chocolate in the Michelob line. Retailers hoping to gain a boost in holiday beer sales will get a boost from two special seasonal beers from Anheuser-Busch — Michelob Celebrate Cherry and Michelob Celebrate Chocolate, a duo of richly aromatic, smooth, complex and balanced lagers now available in most [...]