Successful Seasonal Hiring HELP WANTED

| Penny Reynolds

A mere 275 shopping days until Christmas! While you may have a while before you need to address your holiday cards, the time is approaching rapidly for

Temporary Insanity

| MCM staff

MOST OF THE YEAR, life is pretty calm at Cherrydale Farms, an Allentown, PA-based manufacturer of private-label confections for retailers such as JC Penney,

Care Package

| Bennett Voyles

Unless you ship jewelry or pharmaceuticals, package security probably doesn’t rank too high on your list of worries. Maybe once in a while a packer gets

Live from NEMOA: Of Pricing and Men (and Women)

| Margery Weinstein

Catalogers need to pay more attention to the effects of inventory management, mailing drops, and pricing strategy beyond the immediate response curve, retail researcher Dr. Duncan Simester said during his session at the New England Mail Order Association spring conference.

Out of Order

| MCM staff

Steve Dethlefs, DC ManagerPendleton Woolen MillsPortland, OR Our fashion merchandise is basically perishable, so our planning is tight. We don’t want

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

An exercise in humility

| MCM staff

The Cybercritic generally makes a resolution not to make a New Year’s resolution, but overindulging this past holiday season has added 10 lbs. to the

Ringing in with resolutions

| MCM staff

After the last champagne cork has been popped, the final chorus of Auld Lang Syne has trailed off, and the horns and noisemakers have fallen silent, the