Promotion

• Agencies

  Reel Deals

  Killing Mrs. Tingle (Miramax) Anticipated Release Date: Second Quarter 1999Starring: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Marisa Coughlan, Liz Stauber, Vivica

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  Convenience is Work

  Aside from obvious issues of size and selection, what distinguishes the convenience store channel from its supermarket, mass merchandise, and drug store

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Phoenix

  Phoenix grocers are big on free samples, but light on frequent-shopper deals. Only 11 percent of stores here have frequent-shopper programs. Fully 94

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  Malling Betty

  General Mills begins construction this month Betty Crocker Kitchen, a retail bakery outlet in the Mall of America. The store will open in mid-October,

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  Why 2K?

  Ask yourself: After it’s over, what are you going to have to remember it by besides the Y2K debacle?Corporate premium buyers are asking themselves that

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  Resetting the Shelf

  With Albertson’s and American Stores merged, can Kroger and Safeway be far behind? Apparently, they can be.Though rumors boomeranged about a merger between

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Atlanta

  There’s been a second march on Atlanta, and the victors this time are Publix and Wal-Mart. The two chains have captured a combined 25 share in the last

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  CBS Casts Eye On Promotion

  Promotion agencies owned by CBS Radio, including New York-based WINS Promotion Group, are changing to a single name as the CBS division positions its

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  Chain Link

  Shopping Habits Do Prepared Home Meal purchasers leave the supermarket with a couple of carts crammed to the rims with goodies? Not so, says New York

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  Reel Deals

  INSPECTOR GADGET (Buena Vista Pictures)Tentative Release Date: July 1999Anticipated Rating: PGStarring: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely FisherTop-Line: