Customer Service

| Rama Ramaswami

There’s very little the world can throw at U.S. consumers to keep them from spending money, a reporter for CNN/Money wrote in February 2003. Consumers

The POS connection

| MCM staff

When multichannel merchants add retail locations to their mix, one item topping their to-do lists is choosing a point-of-sale, or POS, system. This is

Old Glory Founder Buys Back Catalog Business

| Mark Del Franco

You can go home again: The founder of rock-and-roll merchandise marketer Old Glory once again owns the catalog and Website. Last month Glenn Morelli, who had sold the direct division of Old Glory to Alloy in December 2002, bought the properties

In-Store Pickup Pitfalls and Payoffs

| Paul Miller

Multichannel marketers that allow catalog and online customers to pick up their orders in one of their stores find the service hugely popular among shoppers.

Return to Retailer

| Paul Miller

Many more multichannel merchants accept in-store returns than offer in-store pickup, in large part because handling returns is simpler than implementing

Nike Launches Nike Women Book

| MCM staff

What do you think the reaction was when the marketing executives at Beavertown, OR-based footwear giant Nike wanted to introduce a print catalog for women?

Rejuvenation Offers Build-to-Order Web Tool

| Paul Miller

To give customers a chance to see its lighting fixtures in any of the 130 styles and options offered, Rejuvenation in September installed a build-to-order

Live from Shop.org: Learning To Put the Customer First

| Heather Retzlaff

Anaheim, CA–After noting that it has a small portion of highly profitable customers and a small portion of destructive customers, St. Paul, MN-based Best Buy is beginning to use segmentation to boost its online and in-store sales.