Danger fulfillment person!

| Bennett Voyles

ONE OF THESE DAYS, not too many years from now, someone from the central office will come down to visit your operation. He’ll admire the RFID holographic

HELP DESK

| MCM staff

The worldwide market for offshore IT services will grow from nearly $7 billion in revenue in 2003 to $17 billion by 2008, reports IDC.

The POS connection

| MCM staff

When multichannel merchants add retail locations to their mix, one item topping their to-do lists is choosing a point-of-sale, or POS, system. This is

Customer Service

| Rama Ramaswami

There’s very little the world can throw at U.S. consumers to keep them from spending money, a reporter for CNN/Money wrote in February 2003. Consumers

Alsto’s joins HSN catalog stable

| MCM staff

Highland Park, IL-based Dick Blick Holdings wasn’t seeking to divest its Alsto’s catalog and Web business. But it nonetheless decided in November to sell

Waaay Beyond the Call

| MCM staff

IT’S BEEN YEARS since your call center morphed from a simple phone-based organization into a multichannel, multimedia, multitasking behemoth. And you’re

Piece by Piece

| Kenneth B. Ackerman

In nearly every distribution center in the United States, workers are paid by the hour. While their productivity is (or should be) measured in units,

Alloy Ends 3Q in the Black

| MCM staff

New York-based cataloger and marketing firm Alloy reported a third-quarter profit thanks largely to lower operational and legal expenses and higher net merchandise sales

opinion & response

| MCM staff

Rosy Deal for Shriver The latest celebrity to have a rose named after her is none other than California’s first lady, Maria Shriver. The daughter of the

Penney Catalog Head Resigns

| MCM staff

Two weeks after being passed over for the position of chairman/CEO of J.C. Penney Corp., Vanessa Castagna, chairman/CEO of the company’s stores, catalog, and Internet, resigned.