An exclusive excerpt from Winning at Retail: Insights from 35 Years of Packaging & Shopper Research by Scott Young, president of Perception Research Services

Energy-efficient lighting systems, unique LCD display formats, new twists on acrylic substrates and eye-catching packaging materials garnered the strongest reader responses in 2009.

The "best of the best" in shopper marketing get better and better.

Stratacache offers best practices for adopting this emerging marketing tool.

The third edition of POPAI's The Power of Marketing at Retail, textbook is a winner.

Safeway has reprised the "Make It Tonight" meal solutions program it first ran in January 2009.

Walmart brought "Game Time" back to stores in January as the National Football League's Super Bowl approached.

Walmart is converting corrugated waste generated in its own stores into recycled material for new packaging.