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Congress looks to give USPS $500 million to sanitize mail
House and Senate conferees on Dec. 18 agreed to include a $500 million appropriation for the U.S. Postal Service in the Department of Defense appropriations
NBTY buys Knox supplements business
Nutritional supplements manufacturer/marketer NBTY agreed to buy the Knox NutraJoint and Knox for Nails supplements business from Kraft Foods for roughly
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PetQuarters to provide third-party Web services
PetQuarters, the Little Rock, AR-based parent company of the AllPets catalog of pet supplies, will provide Website development, hosting, and fulfillment
USPS, clerks union reach accord
The U.S. Postal Service and its largest union, the American Postal Workers Union, agreed on a three-year contract on Dec. 18 through binding arbitration.
Google beta-testing catalog search site
Web search engine Google on Dec. 13 opened a beta site of its new catalog search engine, Catalogs.google.com to coincide with last-minute holiday shopping.
Red ink at Right Start
The Right Start (Nasdaq: RTST), a cataloger/retailer of children
Online spending jumped 91% in early December
Total online spending surged 91% during the first week of December compared to an average week in November, according to a report released Dec. 17 by
Survey: product information gathering top reason to browse on Web
A survey by the International Mass Retail Association (IMRA) shows that 54% of holiday shoppers turn to the Internet for to gather product information.