Costco is bringing back its full sampling program and adding back in-store food court seating at all of its stores, Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti said during the company's third-quarter ...

The threat of bioterrorism has raised food-safety issues to a new level, especially when considering product sampling. While in-store sampling might appear to be an area of high vulnerability in light ...

New research has led to a model that assesses the short- and long-term effects of in-store product sampling on sales of both the products offered on sample and competitive products. In big box stores, ...

Beyond Meat Inc. says robust in-store sampling of its plant-based meat products is coming, and with it, an expected business rebound. Chief Executive Ethan Brown reminded analysts on the company’s ...

Ulta Beauty is testing new smart vending tech from SOS that will expand the beauty retailer’s in-store sampling program and add in-store advertising capabilities to its retail media offerings for the ...

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In big box stores, supermarkets, and even smaller grocers, food manufacturers' representatives seem to lurk at the end of every aisle hawking their canape-size samples. But how effective are such ...

The physical and digital worlds continue to merge in retail, and now one retailer is moving some of that action into its stores. The Vitamin Shoppe is adding interactive, digital kiosks to add data ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — One thing missed by many during the pandemic was the opportunity for sampling food at grocery stores. On Saturday at The Market at 25th in Richmond’s East End, vendors had the ...