Catalog Critique: A Look at the February 2012 J.C. Penney Look Book

| MCM staff

Is it a well-executed store-driver, or a poorly-produced web-driver? And is it digitally-friendly, or an iPad eyesore? Everyone has an opinion about the new J.C. Penney look book that hit 14 million mailboxes right after the merchant announced its new brand identity last month. So here’s seven critiques from Multichannel Merchant’s staff and its contributing writers.

Lessons You Can Learn From Zappos’ Data Breach

| Ulf Mattsson

This is a warning for other merchants that choose to focus only on customer payment card information (PCI) data by encrypting or tokenizing their credit cards. Do not ignore the hackers’ next easy target: personally identifiable information (PII) data. Here’s what you can learn from Zappos’ recent data breach.