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Inc.
March 1, 2002
Ed Engel |
The Odds Are Stacked In a city better known for bookies than for books, Gambler's Book Shop (a.k.a. Gambler's Book Club) is a literary oasis. Tucked away on a side street two miles from the Strip's neon glare, the business carries 1,000 titles, 10% of them published by GBS itself...   |
Inc.
March 1, 2002
Bo Burlingham |
How to Cure Those Mail-Order Blues There's more than one way to build a catalog business -- or to deal with an unresponsive buyer... |
Inc.
March 1, 2002
Mike Hofman |
Archive: Book Smart Booksellers Louis and Tom Borders set up shop in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1971. They knew that the store, which they called Borders, would have to turn over its inventory frequently to survive. So Louis created an inventory-tracking system, using software designed to pick winners in horse races... |
Entrepreneur
April 2002
Mark Henricks |
The Art of (Price) War Low prices sound good, but can you slice deep without hitting profit? |
Science News
February 23, 2002
Ivars Peterson |
Ice Cream Wars Deciding which items to stock is a formidable problem for retailers. A mathematical model recently developed by three business professors is just one of many current efforts aimed at helping retailers cope with a highly competitive and volatile marketplace... |
Salon.com
February 13, 2002
Christopher Dreher |
Big Brother is watching you read Increasingly, the government is demanding that bookstores reveal what books their customers have purchased. Bookstore owners and privacy advocates say that's scarier than a Stephen King novel... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Kmart's 20-Year Identity Crisis Kmart shoppers may have been surprised at the decision by the 40-year-old discount chain to file for bankruptcy-court protection on January 22. But the company's decline was anything but sudden and its future is anything but certain, say three members of Wharton's marketing department... |
Salon.com
January 28, 2002
Jennifer Farley |
Letting the shoppers win A luxury-goods department store in lower Manhattan took a beating on Sept. 11. Months later, Maine residents find themselves in Gazzarini Uomo... |
PC World
December 31, 2001 |
Happy Returns Rule Post-Holiday Shopping Tech gift recipients tend to swap, not abandon wares... |
CIO
December 1, 2001
Stephanie Overby |
What's Your Bag? Timbuk2 Designs, a San Francisco-based manufacturer and retailer of bags, eschews mass production for "mass customization"... |
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