SUPER MODEL

| Jeff Behn

Oh, to sashay down a catwalk affecting an attitude of supercilious cool as the paparazzi gape in hushed reverence at your warehouse, which is absolutely

Short Takes: Bargain Aisle

| Rama Ramaswami

Low-cost, low-tech, and conservative are still the watchwords in most distribution centers when it comes to investing in material handling equipment.

Attack Aftermath: Back to Business

| MCM staff

Last year at this time, catalogers were basing their plans and projections on how business had been 12 months prior. But following the Sept. 11 terrorist

Profile: BILL MONK

| Rama Ramaswami

Director of Logistics Nordstrom.com How long have you been in logistics? I didn’t go to school for it. I was a paperboy for nine years, and I always tried

It’s in There

| Ernie Schell

Dream on, about the warehouse infrastructure that you’d love to have but can’t afford, about the new systems that you’ve been told will save you money

Doctors Foster & Smith’s New Pet Warehouse

| Moira Cotlier

The economy may have gone to the dogs for some marketers, but pet supplies cataloger Doctors Foster & Smith has grown its business 20% overnight. The

NOW WHAT?

| David Pluviose

The impact of the World Trade Center disaster hits you as soon as you step out of the subway car at the City Hall/Brooklyn Bridge stop in lower Manhattan.

Attack Aftermath: Catalogers Lend a Hand

| MCM staff

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks resulted in massive destruction, but the tragic events also produced a massive, perhaps even unprecedented, outpouring

Answer Me This

| Sherry Chiger

A recent New Yorker cartoon showed a woman saying to her husband, Let’s do our civic duty and see a Broadway show. Immediately following the Sept. 11