Systems Integration

| Rama Ramaswami

Three times a year, while conducting our benchmark surveys, we ask our readers how many sales channels they operate and each time, their lists grow longer.

Cabin Fever

| MCM staff

THE WOOLLY SHEEP is no mammoth retailer, but from its little corner of Weed, CA, an historic lumber town (pop. 3,100) on the western slopes of Mt. Shasta,

Keep a Cool Head

| D. Douglas Graham

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, Walt Disney was not put in deep-freeze postmortem but planted in the soil like nearly everyone else. Disney died in 1966,

Web-Based RFID: Hype and Glitz?

| MCM staff

TRUE OR FALSE: Like the Mesozoic, the Paleolithic, and the Industrial Era, the Age of the Bar Code has come and gone. The answer: Partially true. You

Big Spenders (Sort Of)

| Rama Ramaswami

Retailers are more frugal with their IT money than firms in other industries are, but they do splurge on some things, according to Forrester Research

Brand-New Bag

| Jeff Siegel

THREE YEARS AGO, Crate & Barrel executives knew they had to find a better way to pack the items they shipped to their distribution centers and to customers.

Vital Signs

| PHILIP GODDEN

Numbers are a significant part of prevention these days after all, people change their entire lifestyles on the basis of numbers such as blood pressure