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Ernst & Young LLP has released its annual holiday sales forecast, which largely bears out the most recent figures from the National Retail Federation: Retailers can expect a 6% increase in sales over Nov./Dec. last year. The continuing rise of energy prices and stalled job creation and personal income are factors working against sales increases.

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Earlier this year, our sister e-newsletter O+F Weekly Update published a series of letters taking sides in the heated debate over whether overseas outsourcing was good or bad for the economy. Now the conservative British magazine The Economist has come out with a special series on outsourcing that definitively takes one side of that debate. According to author Ben Edwards, U.S. Business Editor of The Economist, “The global deployment of work has its critics, but it holds huge opportunities for rich and poor countries alike”.

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If lack of DC storage space overwhelms you, consider this: Are you measuring it the right way? The newsletter Distribution Digest gives us this example: A company that sells rugs was having storage difficulties. To measure the space that the rugs occupied, the company calculated cubic requirements by measuring the rugs

If you need more evidence that service is important to your business, here it is: A recent survey conducted by the Washington

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