VitaminEmporium.com is the retailer's latest niche offering, joining AllergySuperStore.com and VisionDirect.com, among other narrowly focused "microsites." Drugstore.com announced July 26 VitaminEmporium.com features savings of up to 70 percent on supplements, herbals, homeopathics and other nutritionals, along with a flat $4.99 shipping rate. The Bellevue, Wash.-based firm touts the low price points and differentiated products on its microsites, which have low incremental set-up costs (1"The Tan Sheet" May 31, 2010)
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The US FTC’s contention that ‘notice and choice’ has failed as the cornerstone of consumer privacy regulation and must be abandoned in favor of data minimization and other more stringent measures does not adequately account for the complexity of business practices and consumer behavior, FTC commissioner Melissa Holyoak asserted at the NAD’s 2024 Annual Conference.
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Three weeks into his appointment as interim CEO, Kirk Perry sets priorities including “reduce organizational complexity,” “reinforce a consumer-centric mindset” and “refocus on household penetration.”
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