Why Zappos.com is A Service Star

| Jeff Morris

If you build a company on the basis of service, you can branch into other areas, says Alfred Lin, chief operating officer/chief financial officer of the $850 million shoes merchant Zappos.com.

A slow finish in 2007

| Jim Tierney

The fourth quarter wasn’t great for retail sales, and it wasn’t robust for industry mergers and acquisitions either. The volume of deals in the fourth

Redcats USA prefers plus sizes

| Jim Tierney

According to parent company PPR’s fourth-quarter and full-year sales results, the conglomerate’s Redcats Group has decided to discontinue the activities

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| MCM staff

Game not on for BN.com A Multichannel Merchant staffer recently ordered the board game Blokus Trigon from BN.com, the Website of bookseller Barnes & Noble.

It’s NCOF Time Once Again!

| MCM staff

In a tough economy with rising costs of doing business everywhere you turn, smart retailers look to their colleagues and industry experts for that nugget of information

Tips on Warehouse Design

| MCM staff

If your company is not reviewing every possible way to streamline operations, then you

Operations is the Hub of Optimization

| MCM staff

Randy Strang, Vice President, UPS Customer Solutions, shares his view on the challenges facing today’s operations personnel, the role of third-party logistics providers (3PLs), and other critical topics that affect the supply chain.

Bypassing the Warehouse Keeps Inventory Moving…Even Globally

| MCM staff

Inventory is cash on pallets for companies, and if the inventory is not in motion, it is doing the company no good. In a perfect world, inventory is non-existent. If supply and demand are in sync, there is no reason to inventory any product. Alas, that is only in a perfect world.