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.

Weaklings Need Not Apply

| Rama Ramaswami

Stuck with a wimpy logistics manager? Your business is as good as dead if you can’t deliver products properly, warns William Conroy, president of Tyler

Big Shot

| D. Douglas Graham

MIDWAYUSA INC. of Columbia, MO, is a mega-player in the shooting business. The company serves a worldwide customer base, offering a menu of more than

Nouveau Niche

| Jeff Siegel

When Barnes & Noble, the national book chain, decided to offer same-day delivery in Manhattan for customers who ordered through its e-commerce site, it

Cyber Shopping Spree

| MCM staff

TO THOSE WHO POOH-POOHED the Internet, there’s new proof that like it or not, the darned thing is an effective information tool. After surveying 3,000

All Things Electronic

| D. Douglas Graham

MidwayUSA built its own warehousing management system from scratch, and tweaks it constantly to accommodate growth and the corresponding requirements

RFID Adoption

| Jeff Morris

IS THERE A METHOD to the madness in the way RFID technology is being purchased and deployed? Apparently so, says a recent report from Forrester Research

PC Connection Plays Catch Up

| Mark Del Franco

Merrimack, NH-based computer reseller PC Connection suffered a decline in government sales during the past year, but not because of the Iraq war: The

Rule of Three

| MCM staff

The title of a recent best-selling thriller, The Rule of Four, refers to a riddle that unlocks the mystery of a Renaissance manuscript. But there’s nothing