THAT’S AN ORDER
Did you ever notice that the declaration It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile any more turned out to be false? It was your father’s Oldsmobile. No one believed
Operations & Fulfillment
KEVIN WOOLCOTT
How did you get into this line of work? I think it’s one of those things where you just fall into a career path. Years ago, I started working in a catalog
*Hot Properties
With a reasonably constructed ten-year lease, a fulfillment operation can expect to attain an equity-underwritten rate of three dollars a square foot
Forerunner’s IF/SO
Users say that IF/SO is straightforward and easy to learn In the direct-to-customer business, efficient inventory management is the key to customer satisfaction,
ALL IN THE FAMILY
When the holiday season draws near, magazines dispense healthy doses of advice on how to survive family gatherings. Clearly, these are hugely stressful
PRIVATE EYES
When a supervisor at one of WearGuard-Crest’s two U.S. call centers asked an employee why she had been e-mailing computer games back and forth with several
PC Connection Lays Off 125, Launches Book
PC Connection, a $1.45 billion computer cataloger, announced on March 28 that it was eliminating 125 jobs, or 7.5% of its work force, taking a one-time
talking heads
Everybody’s going to go wireless. Wires are expensive, and so are the infrastructure, the support personnel, and the office space. Wireless technology
Other Financial Reports
Aurora, IL-based motivational products marketer Successories (Nasdaq:SCES) reported net income of $430,000 for its fiscal year ended Feb. 3, compared
Alloy Acquires Carnegie Communications
New York–Teen apparel and accessories cataloger Alloy has acquired Carnegie Communications, a publisher of college admissions resources. Under the terms