Smart Choices Program helps shoppers identify food and beverage choices
This summer, the Smart Choices Program TM will appear on hundreds of products in supermarkets and other retail outlets across the country. This first-ever uniform front-of-pack nutrition labeling program, developed by a diverse coalition of scientists, nutritionists, consumer organizations and foo...Consumer Reports: Hearing Aid Shoppers Pay High Prices, Get Mediocre Fittings
Comprehensive guide to purchasing and owning a hearing aid YONKERS, N.Y., June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Consumer Reports investigation into hearing aids has found that consumers pay high prices and get mediocre fittings. The new report -- the first such report on hearing aids...Gap Inc., The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Encourage Shoppers to Support Cancer-Fighting Programs
Gap Inc. donating portion of spring promotion WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) today announced a partnership with Gap Inc. through its Give & Get program, to raise funds for LLS's blood cancer research, patient education and support i...CVS/pharmacy Offers Shoppers More Than $69 Million in 'Extra Bucks'
ExtraCare cardholders earned record amounts in "CVS/pharmacy dollars" throughout the last quarter of 2008; nation's largest retail rewards program makes it easy for consumers to save money WOONSOCKET, R.I., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS/pharmacy, America's largest retail pharmacy, today announc...In Wake of Omaha Shooting, Mental Health America Provides Tips to Holiday Shoppers to Ease Anxieties
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mental Health America expresses its deepest sympathies to the victims, family and friends of the Omaha, Nebraska mall shootings. As details surrounding the shootings continue to unfold, Mental Health America recognizes that this tragedy affect...Whole Foods Market(R) Helps Shoppers Understand the Benefits of Natural Cosmetics
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its "Be Good to Your Whole Body" campaign in its Whole Body departments, Whole Foods Market, the world's leading natural and organic foods supermarket, will focus on natural makeup during the month of October to help educate consumers about th...Photo: Tanger Outlet Center Shoppers Nationwide can Choose Pink to Fight Breast Cancer
New 25% Pink Savings Cards Give Tanger Shoppers the Chance to Help Make a Difference & Join the Fight While Saving Money on Their Purchases GREENSBORO, N.C., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- This fall, Pink is the color of savings and hope at Tanger Outlet Centers. Tanger is celebrating its 14th anni...Real-time gene monitoring developed
...ith GeneVision, military commanders could compare gene expression in victorious and defeated troops. Retailers could track genes related to craving as shoppers moved about a store. "The Bachelor" would enjoy yet one more secret advantage over his love-struck dates. Frightening? Perhaps. Ethically suspect? ...OrbitalPay, LLC Implements Zecure's Acquirer SAFE Solution to Stop Fraudulent E-Commerce Merchants
...l transactions disguised as legitimate ones. Acquirer SAFE enables acquirers and PSPs to identify a transaction's true origin based on the behavior of shoppers on the merchant's website. "As a PSP, OrbitalPay, LLC performs a thorough due diligence of each and every merchant, but in the high-risk segment, fu...TGen investigators devise faster, cheaper way of analyzing the human genome
...Gen) today announced a faster and less expensive way for scientists to find which genes might affect human health. Using bar-codes, not unlike what shoppers find in grocery stores, TGen researchers found a way to index portions of the nearly 3-billion-base human genetic code, making it easier for scientist...Solidus Networks, Inc. Seats New Board of Directors
...metric authentication, personalized marketing and payment solutions. To date, patented Pay By Touch(TM) biometric services have enabled over 4 million shoppers in the U.S., Europe and Asia to quickly and securely use a finger scan to access personalized offers, make purchases, and cash checks at more than 2,6...Better Nutrition Launches 2008 Summer Nutrition Tour
.... Throughout May, June, and July, the magazine will offer health food store shoppers from New Jersey to California the opportunity to sample many of the finest ...Better Nutrition's mission has been to responsibly inform health-food-store shoppers about breakthroughs in nutritional approaches to health and wellness, as we...Cooked ham with a 39 day shelf life
...from 3-6 September 2007. Traditional cooked ham has a maximum shelf life of three to four weeks (21-28 days), including the time from processing to shoppers buying the sliced meat in a supermarket. Currently cooked ham has 55% of the UK cooked meat market, and to maintain and expand this market processors ...Lands End Debuts Updated Virtual Model
...the right size and whether it fits right all over your body. Real-life measurements of the shopper are used to create an online model, and once the shoppers size is determined and recommended, the My Fit link shows, in graph form, how a garment fits over certain parts of the users body. More than 1,000...Checking out or getting out? Reasons for shopping cart abandonment
...each vendor before determining where to make the sale. By knowing that shoppers use their cart for comparison, online retailers can serve customers better:...your shopping cart. Providing telephone and email contact information puts shoppers at ease, and allows them to contact you easily if they print out informatio...Text ads deliver what you pay for - and more
...gle, ING, Lycos Search and Overture, shows that sponsored text advertising in the search environment works on two levels: paid click-thrus from active shoppers and increased unaided brand awareness among other Web surfers. The study included advertising for leading health, auto, beverage, electronics, retail ...Creating thousands of jobs, Chicagos biotech space to triple
...ple of this second type). In either case, what makes a mall work is the presence of key anchor stores that will not only attract the multitude of shoppers but help defray a good part of the costs of operating the mall. Most successful malls have a food court with a variety of fast foods and some upscale ...Are you a citizen of the "Google Nation?"
...r of Wal-Mart's board, in a recent New York Times article , that described how the company is concerned that Google's technology might drive Wal-Mart shoppers to find better bargains nearby. In mid- September Google added billions of dollars to its war chest when it issued 14 million additional shares of...Cub Foods installs biometric payment system
... Cub Foods' three stores in the Madison area installed fingerprint scanners last week so shoppers can pay with a swipe of the finger and at lower cost to the supermarket. Scanning a finger calls up a stored profile in the supermarket's computer...Online retailer Jellyfish.com lands $5M in funding
...k, prospective customers sign up to establish an account with Jellyfish. The initial goal of the four-month-old company is to reach one million active shoppers within the first year, but thus far it has not actively marketed the service. "The viral components, the interestingness, the name, and people tell...