The Price of discounting

| MCM staff

Simplicity clearly has its benefits. Consider the days before the term multichannel retailing existed. A merchant running a brick-and-mortar store who

Win the Best Freight Rates

| MCM staff

That carriers’ shipping rates will go up every year is almost as inevitable as the proverbial death and taxes. This year, though, companies aren’t just

HISTORY LESSON

| Jeff Siegel

THE STATISTICS seem to bear out the headlines. Capital spending has increased after two years of recession, and companies up and down the supply chain

TEN STEPS TO ACCURATE SKU PROFILING

| MCM staff

SINCE THE EARLIEST DAYS of warehousing, operators have searched for the most efficient method to store and retrieve inventory. For a long time, finding

Eziba forced to liquidate

| Mark Del Franco

Aseries of marketing mishaps forced North Adams, MA-based global goods cataloger Eziba to shut operations in January. On Jan. 14 it laid off 12 of its

Beyond the Press Release

| Lisa C. Hahn

How many times have you seen a competitor’s company or product featured in a newspaper or magazine article and said, Why can’t my company get coverage

Global Conquest

| D. Douglas Graham

GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL of Port Washington, NY (a division of Systemax Inc.), is a leading provider of industrial equipment. In business for half a century,