It may have been a hot outside, but July proved rather chilly, fiscally speaking, for Sharper Image Corp., as its sales continued to slide. For the other publicly traded companies tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT, however, July was much kinder.
Itasca, IL-based cataloger/retailer OfficeMax had a mixed bag of financial news for the second quarter ended July 1.
FirstStreet, a Colonial Heights, VA-based cataloger of home and electronic items, is counting on a new partnership program with U.S. newspaper publishers to grow its business and expand its reach into the baby boomer and active seniors markets.
MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT has learned that Doug Platt is leaving Minneapolis, MN-based database solution provider CMS Direct, effective Aug. 4.
To make it easier for customers to shop for its automotive parts and accessories, Chicago-based merchant J.C. Whitney & Co. in June unveiled its new and improved Website.
Sales look up for multichannel merchant Guitar Center, online jeweler Blue Nile, and cataloger Red Envelope
Early manufacturers and retailers would barely recognize today’s complex, fluid distribution centers. Although the basic functions remain the same–receiving and storing products; picking, packing, and shipping orders–distribution centers have evolved along with customer demands.
Most companies strive for good customer service, but that doesn’t seem to be enough any more. Customers seem to expect more, better, faster service. How do we put the wow factor back in service?
A company recently completed an analysis of its pick location sizes and estimated that it could dramatically cut its labor costs.
Integrated order fulfillment systems are the result of careful planning and countless hours of analysis and design. A major step in this process is understanding your universe of SKUs in terms of the frequency of hits and the associated cubic velocity. How often an item is picked and replenished is a key factor influencing the performance of your overall system.