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By leveraging long-term partnerships, Ahold USA is integrating a new platform that will support packaged and customized applications.The company, owned by Royal Ahold, the Netherlands, is eager to provide a superior and tailored shopping experience across its U.S.-based banners, including Stop & Sh

During the past few years, retail health clinics have been opening with increasing frequency in stores across the country, including Wal-Mart, Target, CVS and HEB Co., to name a few.

Aromatherapy continues to evolve and the smell of success is becoming more diffused. Once, pine and spice scents were the core of the market, but, increasingly, vendors are offering new aromas that respond to varying tastes and moods.

Grand Entrance, Frederick, Md., nabbed the top spot in the annual Best of SPECS Awards.

Atlanta-based Vesdia Corp. announced the addition of four new merchant and service providers to its merchant-funded, multichannel rewards network.

Demand for prepaid stored-value payment cards such as gift cards or phone cards continues to escalate, and now retailers have a new avenue for distributing these payment cards through an existing infrastructure: automated teller machines (ATMs).

An already bustling bedroom community of Plano, Texas (near Dallas), will soon enjoy a dynamic new shopping project that includes the town’s first Container Store. Slated to open in June, The Container Store will anchor Phase 1 of the 550,000-sq.-ft.

If it’s true that a rising (or lowering) tide moves all boats, it appears that the waters in March were very choppy.

So your customers are buying HDTVs like they’re going out of style. Great.

When Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CBL & Associates Properties redevelops existing retail space at Laurel Park Place mall in Detroit, it will add a 34,000-sq.-ft., seven-unit upscale food court that features offerings such as Bistro X, Sbarro, Asian Too and The Great Steak & Potato Co.