Is It Time to Automate Your DC?

| Stephen B. Harris

Thanks to the lingering rough economy, many merchants have experienced the pain of layoffs due to decreases in demand. After all, labor is the number-one cost in a distribution center

Former Vermont Teddy Bear CEO Buys Cycling Catalog

| Tim Parry

Elisabeth Robert, former president/CEO of the Vermont Teddy Bear Co., is getting into cycling. Robert announced April 30 that she has acquired a majority interest in sports and apparel merchant Terry Precision Cycling.

Fallow First Quarter for PC Connection

| MCM staff

First-quarter sales at Merrimack, NH-based PC Connection decreased 23%, to $326.2 million, down from 423.7 million for the same period in 2008. For the period ended March 31, the company posted a net loss of $1.6 million, compared to net income of $4.8 million last year.

Software selection smarts

| Melissa Dowling

Seeking Some New Software? There’s a lot to consider in picking a system and a vendor partner, according to consultant Susan Rider, president of Rider