Word: reorders
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...Procter & Gamble in 1997, it was popular--too popular. "Four in 10 stores couldn't keep the item on the shelf," says Ashton, "and we were losing money because of it." He needed to track this item and others through the supply chain so clerks would know when to reorder and replenish the shelves. It took Ashton a year to identify RFID as a technology that would solve his problem and to hook up with two M.I.T. professors who could help him. The profs, Sanjay Sarma and David Brock, had their own obsession: getting a robot to recognize anything, whether...
...execs there was big money to be made marketing to the nearly 39 million Latinos who represent the U.S.'s single largest minority group. This year Chica's sales are projected to reach $2 million--double last year's. Similarly, the Vato line of Latin tops is in "constant reorder mode," according to Carl Dias, the women's buyer for L.A.'s Traffic boutique...
...recession seems to have had few ill effects. Bekins says the store's sales in its first month were "phenomenal," and they have only improved, with June being her "best month ever." T shirts retailing for $20 and dresses for $100 are being snapped up faster than Bekins can reorder them. She says one customer purchased a mink-edged sweater and skirt for $170 and then returned to buy a matching outfit for her younger child...
Only the United States with its unmatched legions can undertake the obvious need to “reorder this world around us,” as Prime Minister Tony Blair phrased the task after September 11, 2001. To do so, though, American leaders must move beyond the historical resistance to empire. As Harvard scholar Michael Ignatieff wrote in a January New York Times article, the U.S. has acquired its empire “in a state of deep denial.” President George Bush last summer told graduating students at West Point that “America...
...increasingly shrill warnings against a U.S. attack while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains dangerously volatile. Jordan's King Abdullah, en route to Washington on Tuesday, called the idea of attacking Iraq under present circumstances "ludicrous." Although they may have convinced themselves that ousting Saddam would allow the U.S. to reorder the Middle East on its own terms, the Bush team's hawks may yet find themselves compelled to reconsider their reluctance to cross swords with Ariel Sharon...