The Human Factor
In a merger completed just over a year ago joining two of the largest office supply product companies, Boise Office Solutions and OfficeMax, a lot of...
Pitfalls of Business Travel
These and many other expressions are used in the circles in which we travel, whether it is retail or not, whether we are young or...
Weathering the Perfect Storm
Despite consolidation and narrowing margins, retailing is healthier now than it has been in many years. It is also true that retailers are doing more...
From Retail Sales to LP Management
EDITORS NOTE: Frank Johns is vicepresident of loss prevention for OfficeDepot, a $13 billion office supplyretailer with more than 950 stores, 22 delivery centers,...
Looking into Your Own
Remember the last time you sat and listened to a member of management who was upset and embarrassed that one of their employees had stolen...
The Under-Management Epidemic
Is it the case, as so many factors seem to indicate, that a great many leaders, managers, and supervisors in today’s workplace are failing to lead,...
Home Office Research Study 292: Assessing the impact of CCTV
This study represents a major advance in our knowledge about CCTV. No previous research has examined in such detail the issues faced in ensuring...
An Academic Approach to LP
EDITOR’S NOTE: Richard C. Hollinger, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is...
Managing LP by Managing Data
Movie Gallery is the second largest and fastest growing video rental retailer in the world. Starting with one store in Dothan, Alabama, in 1985, the...
Made from Scratch
In the summer of 1969, Dan Evins came up with his old country store idea while driving his family down to the Atlanta (Georgia) Zoo. The...