ShopSmart magazine, a production of Consumer Reports, reports in its June issue that shoppers can save 40 percent on beauty products with private label items rather than national brands.

Well at Walgreens Wal-Sleep Z Sleep Aid is used for the relief of occasional sleeplessness, and helps to reduces time to fall asleep.

More than two-thirds of retailers followed by Chicago-based market research firm Market Track exclusively for PLBuyer’s eReport showed increases in private label promotions last week from a year ago.

Drugstore retailers have come a long way. Today's drugstore is a total shopping destination that includes an array of private label products from premium food and beauty care to environmentally friendly merchandise and pharmacy services backed by OTC products.

Healthcare is, and should be, one of the nation’s top issues. In 2007, illness or medical bills contributed to 62.1 percent of all bankruptcies in 2007, according to the American Journal of Medicine.

So what does your schedule look like in mid-June? If you don’t have the dates for our PLB360 Conference circled in red, take a look at that calendar again and see if there’s something you have going on that’s more important than our annual get-together.

Six of the 11 retailers followed by Chicago-based market research firm Market Track had fewer private label promotions last week than a year ago, the group said in a study exclusively for PLBuyer’s eReport.

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Walgreen Co.'s bid to sell its private label version of the allergy drug Zyrtec under the name Wal-Zyr, according to Law360, rejecting the retailer's survey evidence showing minimal confusion between the two brands.

Six days after being promoted to executive vice president at Walgreens, Joseph Magnacca was named CEO of RadioShack effective Feb. 11.

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