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School Days
Description: How some retail employees are finding good old golden rule days via the web
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The Webogram
Description: Using the web to keep stores executing the same plans at the same time
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The RFID `SmartStore`
Description: With RFID tags on each book, Netherlands` BDG chain gives new meaning to speed-reading
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Manufacturers solve their online dilemma
Description: CPG makers overcome their doubts about selling direct on the weband retailers are no longer resisting
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Serving up the new connectivity
Description: Already supporting practical retail objectives, web services technology will support several new trends in the next few years.
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Harnessing Hot Trends
Description: How a small gift shop web-sized its market and doubled annual sales
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Enterprising Strategy
Description: Oracle makes its move in retail industry software
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Drugstore`s Vitamin Boost
Description: With top management steeped in marketing and merchandising experience, Drugstore.com is ready to push hard to become a (profitable) household word
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Store kiosks finally come of age in multi-channel strategies
Description: Staples, Office Depot and others are figuring out how to useweb-based kiosks to enhance the store experienceand make web inventory available to store shoppers.
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Tag Youre It
Description: All eyes are on Wal-Mart as it approaches January dead line for tracking of merchandise via RFID tags
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Head of the Class
Description: E-learning systems are learning new tricks for keeping up with workforce demands on retailers
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Get smart
Description: Business intelligence enables broader view of data and better handle on performance
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Flower Power
Description: Organic Bouquet uses the web to cultivate a national market for its niche product
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Crossing the Channel
Description: Signs of the times: Exploring new horizons through multi-channel marketing
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Getting It Straight
Description: Data sync: Where the same old, same old is a good thing
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Whyand howsome employers encourage online shopping at work
Description: When The Buckle Inc. wanted to extend its reach to sell its apparel fashions for young people, it went to where the money is: the wallet-wielding parents of its typical 12- to 24-year-old customers. And it reached them where commerce-supporting bandwidth is greatestat the office.
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Baby Steps
Description: Wal-Mart focuses its web strategy where it can make the most difference
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Tug of War
Description: Whose Internet is it, anyway? Online retailers and telcos face off over the future of Internet fees.
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The Latest Flash
Description: How retailers control web site rich media to increase conversion rates
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Ways to pay
Description: An old ideahouse creditplays a new role in 21st Century shopping
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Where everyone becomes an advertiser
Description: Retailers are placing their bets on social networking, the next BIG thing in online marketing.
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Bloomies woos young shoppers with social retailing
Description: Bloomingdales may be known as a fashion destination, but that doesnt mean it cant reach out more to teens and young adults. So in a recent test at its flagship 59th Street Store in New York, it offered an interactive sales-floor mirror that let shoppers view themselves in outfits as well as commentsand images of alternate garmentssent to the mirror by their online friends.
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Wheres My Package?
Description: Growing e-retailers steer through a changing delivery scene
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Move over, TV
Description: Lights, cameras, action - on the web
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A new chief has big plans for Safeways dot-coms
Description: Safeway Inc.s online grocery business is at a turning point: The company says its got an effective infrastructure and a proven business model. All it needs is a big marketing push to expand its reach and hit its goal of $1 billion or more in annual sales. Thats ambitious but not impossible, says David Kathman, an analyst who follows Safeway with investment research firm Morningstar Inc.
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Crossing Channels
Description: K&L Wine Merchants uncorks a single database as a key to multi-channel success
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Web Order, Store Delivery
Description: Retailers work out the bugs in making stores part of an online fulfillment strategy
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Breaking Out
Description: Using the web to expand beyond four walls and limited product selection
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Crossing the Channel
Description: Nordstrom undertakes mammoth infrastructure project to create seamless shopping experience
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Shrinking Shrink
Description: Chase-Pitkin engages the web to step up loss prevention
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Direct to retailers
Description: Wholesalers adopt the internet to sell to merchantsand find that the web changes everything and nothing
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Look, ma, no wires
Description: More than a fun service for coffeehouse web surfers, wireless fidelity is also making it easier for retail chains to communicate with headquarters
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Keeping Promises
Description: How Quill Corp.`s fulfillment strategy has evolved with changing market demands
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Ad Money
Description: Measuring the impact of online marketing in traditional and new venues
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Generating new sales-spiking buzz
Description: Customer reviews are supporting multiple forms of marketing as well as boosting sales, retailers find
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Banishing Doubts
Description: How the web clarifies final contract settlements for retailers and suppliers
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Whats In Store
Description: How extending a web strategy to the POS is giving some retailers an edge
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Now playing: Netflix shows how to be new-age web entrepreneur
Description: With an emerging brand, a patented business process and a rising stock price, Netflix leads the nascent online DVD rental market
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Fighting Off the e-Threats
Description: As crooks phish for consumer IDs, retailers play cybercop to protect consumer confidence
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They`re small, techie and revolutionizing pick-and-pack and warehouse operations
Description: Most direct merchants prefer nice orderly warehousesa place for everything and everything in its place. But not FigLeaves.com. The U.K.-based, fashion-driven retailer of intimate apparel prefers a jumbled system that randomly stores products in whatever bins are available.
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Web-Based Planning
Description: Putting all the pieces together in chainwide store plans
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Trying times as trading exchanges trace a path to their transformation
Description: Among the bright stars of the Internet boom a few years ago, retail industry trading exchanges shined for a while as harbingers of what was to come. Their growth formula hinged on their promise to bring large numbers of trading partners together through a central electronic marketplace. The exchanges would flourish with online auctions and e-procurement services, then progress to more sophisticated offerings in supply chain collaboration, their founders said.
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How web-enabled kiosks are adding more C to C-stores
Description: Once known as the place to shop for emergency milk and newspapers, convenience stores have evolved to become a source of cappuccino, sandwiches, gourmet cookies and other not exactly emergency fill-in purchases. Now 7-Eleven Inc. thinks c-stores can evolve further and become a one-stop shopping destination for flowers or jewelry.
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Movie madness
Description: The shape of things to come: How video on demand may restructure DVD rentals and sales.
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While hardly trying, eBay moves into the neighborhood
Description: Groups of entrepreneurs are planning to open hundreds of competing stores where consumers can drop off their cast-offs for sale on eBay.
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Big Deal
Description: By letting suppliers peek at analytics, Blinds.com gets better deals and higher profit
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The web extends a retailers reachbut not without a lot of preparation
Description: Selling to overseas customers is enough sometimes to give even the biggest retailers the willies. With their different tax laws, payment habits and even street address formats, foreign markets seem too, well, foreign to most American retailers.
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Casting a Global Net
Description: U.S. online retailers hope their e-commerce expertise translates into overseas sales
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Sourcing Sense
Description: For Gap, the web brings more science into the art of sourcing operational supplies
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High frequency buzz
Description: Amid all the hype about RFID, many retailers still are searching for the right business models
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