Opinion and Response
HAVING HIS SAY A Guide to Grassroots Action Chris Bradley, president of Portland, ME-based bedding cataloger Cuddledown of Maine, on acting locally to
Shipping
HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
Since the end of the boom, the U.S. economy has often seemed stuck in a kind of limbo not quite sick, yet not quite well either. It’s a condition that
Operations and Management: Seven Tips for Better Picking and Packing
According to a catalog operations maxim, when it comes to picking and packing orders, the best-handled product is the least-handled product. Simply put,
Opinion and Response
EXCLUSIVE RESEARCH REPORT Survey Says: Better Than Expected All this talk about how catalogers had slashed circulation may be just that: talk. Among the
Football Season
As this issue goes to press, we’re coming up on the two-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Although national security has increased markedly
Opinion and Response
HAVING HIS SAY Beware Divine Followers Roman Martynenko, chief financial officer of San Francisco-based Web services provider Ecofabric, on the continuing
Project Post-mortem
Here’s an all-too-familiar scenario: A project team spends six months of late nights and cold pizza working to go live with a new system. Then the go
Operations and Management: Small Catalogers, Big-Time Speed
Catalogers that receive tens or hundreds of thousands of orders a day, such as Lands’ End and L.L. Bean, have long had a dedicated Internet connection
Opinion and Response
Mourning the Late Great Kate The world was saddened by the death of legendary actress Katharine Hepburn on June 29. Geoff Batrouney, executive vice president
Opinion and Response
The winners of the 18th Annual Catalog Awards and the 4th Annual I.Merchant Awards were announced at the Annual Catalog Conference in San Francisco on