Friday, February 18, 2011

CVS/Pharmacy gets Fresh with Food!


Expanding points of distribution in retail fresh food simply highlights the success and growth of the grocerant niche. CVS/Pharmacy utilizing it new enhanced retail model, which places greater emphasis on fresh food products including Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh and prepared food. The new location is perfectly positioned for CVS to cultivate top line sales and new brand loyalist; it will be located on College Row at Franklin & Marshall College.

CVS’s enhanced retail model filled with fresh grocery products will also feature” home-style meals and produce as well as expansive refrigerated and frozen food aisles”. CVS understand that consumer want the opportunity to mix and match meal components and at times non-food items. CVS small store format empower consumer choice while meeting the “time constraints” of consumers.

Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat food is becoming the mainstay of the grocerant niche and new avenues of distribution are opening and changing the way America shops for food. What is your company doing?

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1 comment:

  1. It will fail just like the Walgreen's program. Nobody is going to say, "I'm hungry...let's go to Walgreens/CVS!" The margins these chains are demanding and the food companies'profit targets mean something has to give and it is the quality/quantity of the actual product.

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