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Electronics chain Circuit City is tuning into the catalog channel: The Richmond, VA-based retailer dropped 1 million copies of a Back

A week after announcing that it would merge and cease mailing its domestic Viking Office Products catalog, Delray Beach, FL-based office products cataloger/retailer Office Depot said on Sept. 19 that it paid a $4.75 million to settle civil claims by the U.S. government.

With Hurricane Katrina and the chief justice nominee hearings further complicating matters in Washington, postal reform is on the back burner for now.

Lake Forest, IL-based industrial maintenance, repair and operations distributor W.W. Grainger has 45 of its 400 U.S. branches located in the Gulf Coast region, including two in New Orleans.

LAS VEGAS–Online retailing is barely in its infancy and other than a few notable exceptions, such as Amazon.com and eBay, most online merchants have yet to deliver a truly compelling merchandising proposition, said Barry Diller, chairman and CEO of online media conglomerate IAC/InterActive Corp., during his keynote presentation here yesterday.

E-mail marketing saw a decline in bounce-back rates, but click-to-purchase conversion rates, and orders per e-mail delivered also slipped in the second quarter of 2005 compared with the same quarter last year, according to DoubleClick

E-commerce technology start-up Allurent introduced its first product here, a rich-media shopping cart aimed at reducing the number people who abandon purchases during checkout.