Brookstone Merges Catalogs

| Tim Parry

In advance of the pending postal rate increase, Merrimack, NH-based gifts and gadgets cataloger/retailer Brookstone has merged its Hard-to-Find Tools and Brookstone catalogs into one book

February Sales Roundup

| MCM staff

For the most part, February warmed up for the publicly traded companies
tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT. But, some companies, like Sharper Image, suffered a chill.

Show Me The Data: Put A Freshness Date On Your File

| MCM staff

Data never dies; customer records and angry blogs alike will exist on some medium somewhere for a long time. But customer data does age beyond usefulness very quickly. I was involved in an attempt to recover a form of intellectual property recently, a defunct business