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Back-to-school report Targeting students for seasonal gains An estimated 52 million students will be enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 this year, ...
Every April, it’s travel time for the editors of Operations & Fulfillment. That’s when we scurry around the country visiting five trade shows in four ...
USPS MAY POST A LOSS Could set stage for additional rate hikes A month before the end of the USPS’s fiscal year 2001, Postmaster General William Henderson ...
From the front cover to the back, Gump’s By Mail’s home furnishings catalog “maintains its long-standing image,” to quote a judge, of appealing to upscale ...
With the number of farms in the U.S. dwindling – from more than 6 million in 1920 to less than 2 million today, according to research firm Landx – agricultural ...
As a cataloger/retailer/wholesaler/Web marketer, Patagonia is indeed a multichannel powerhouse. And, judges said, the outdoor gear and apparel marketer’s ...
Cynthia Riggs is the owner of Making It Big, a Cotati, CA-based catalog that sells plus-size natural-fiber clothing. Annual sales, $2.5 million; annual ...
Against a backdrop of supply chain disruption, the ecommerce boom and worldwide driver shortages over the last several years, many brands have faced hurdles concerning fulfillment while logging more ...
Secondhand clothing has come a long way since the days of the community thrift store as quick-acting brands have positioned themselves to capture some of the $100B global recommerce market.
Across the U.S. the economy is reopening, but what the new normal will look like is mostly unknown. Business owners are taking bold steps and making decisive decisions to determine what comes next for ...
Retailers lost $218 billion to ecommerce returns in 2021, at a rate of 20.8% of goods sold, according to a survey conducted by Apriss Retail for the National Retail Federation, up from 18.1% in 2020, ...
GXO Logistics, which calls itself the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, is acquiring third-party logistics firm PFSweb for $181 million in an all-stock deal, the companies ...