Buy Now, Pay Later
Retailers may pride themselves on being but not, alas, when it comes to online payment options. Thus far in cyber space, there has been only one way to
Warehouse
The Family That E-Checks Together
Hate licking envelopes? So do I. I used to hate licking stamps, but since they became self-stick I no longer have that excuse. Still, I find the whole
Battling Today’s Economic Doldrums
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC conditions seem bleak. Unemployment levels are near all-time highs. Small-parcel delivery costs are rising faster than anyone’s
Born Again
Can it really be only five years since online consumers were first identified? Forrester Research Inc. claims first to have defined this creature in a
Systems Integration
Three times a year, while conducting our benchmark surveys, we ask our readers how many sales channels they operate and each time, their lists grow longer.
Keep a Cool Head
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, Walt Disney was not put in deep-freeze postmortem but planted in the soil like nearly everyone else. Disney died in 1966,
Technophobia?
Talk to Gus Pagonis, the Sears logistics chief, about the biggest issue in supply chain management, and you might well expect the retired general to tout
Brand-New Bag
THREE YEARS AGO, Crate & Barrel executives knew they had to find a better way to pack the items they shipped to their distribution centers and to customers.
Point Firmly in No Particular Direction
YOU CAN SENSE that things are getting out of hand when the legal disclosure forms now required of stock analysts are longer than the analysis itself.
Cabin Fever
THE WOOLLY SHEEP is no mammoth retailer, but from its little corner of Weed, CA, an historic lumber town (pop. 3,100) on the western slopes of Mt. Shasta,