Nov. 21 - Certified Oil Co. last month unveiled a new look for its convenience stores.

Nov. 18 - An interactive endcap display for Fisher-Price's Smart Cycle toy won the "Best of the Times" award in the Institute's annual Design of the Times contest. The display was designed and produced by Darko Inc., Twinsburg, OH.

Pink again coated the merchandising landscape this fall as retailers and manufacturers ran cause-marketing efforts to support October's designation as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Whether awarding cash prizes or celebrity encounters, contests and sweepstakes still win loyalty from customers and retailers.

More than two-thirds of packaged goods shoppers make purchase decisions within the store, where they are influenced by a variety of marketing vehicles, according to research conducted by OgilvyAction.

Research by The Nielsen Company and the Natural Marketing Institute (NMI) finds that shoppers leading "lifestyles of health and sustainability" spend more money in warehouse club stores than in any other channel.

Steve Hoch presents an overview of common private label strategies employed by retailers and some of the ways brands have responded.

In a presentation from the In-Store Marketing Summit, Coca-Cola director of shopper marketing insights Claire Quinn explains how results from a landmark shopper study are leading the company toward a "shopper-segmented merchandising" strategy that seeks to make retail execution a store-by-store process.