Mitch Morrison

Vice President of Retailer Relations...

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Mitch Morrison

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CSP Magazine

To Your Health?

Our CSP Daily News Poll was unambiguous. On the heels of Congress’ historic passage of national health-care reform, we asked our readers: “Do you think the new health-care legislation will be positive or negative for your business?”

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Do You Feel Secure?

First story: A young Asian man in a tan suit gives a woman a smooch. Moments later, authorities are contacted, and Newark Liberty International Airport is in lockdown.

Imagine taking a pill that lets your doctor know you are taking your medicine at the right time with the proper dosage.

The clatter of manual typewriters may have been replaced by the anticlimactic clicks of computers, but that doesn’t mean things are tranquil in the CSP newsroom.

It is often said that from the depths of desperation emerges the height of inspiration.

You know what the F means in FDA?” the man asked me.

“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.” This statement by one of my favorite statesmen, 18th century Anglo-Irish philosopher and political the...

This month’s cover story should give us pause. Our industry is standing at the footsteps of a radical transformation, one that could decide whether we become a trillion-dollar industry and buoy ourselves as the neighborhood retail choice for the 80-millionstrong millennial generation.

Shhh. Do you hear it? It’s another debit-card swipe at your POS and, indirectly, another swipe from the banks and financial institutions that have prospered handsomely from your countless transactions.

It was April 2, 1993, when Philip Morris stunned the tobacco world. In a move pundits said was marked by desperation, the tobacco giant announced it was cutting Marlboro prices by a seismic 20% in an effort to strike back against generic challengers who were eating into PM’s market share.

“It’s not pretty. It’s not happy,” says a local while in search of fresh bananas and oranges inside a disheveled inner-city store.

Imagine reading the following after the Dallas Mavericks stunned the heavily favored Miami Heat to win the NBA title.

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