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  • Albertsons Aims To Turn the Dining Room LIghts Back On

    Jim Smits has been touring restaurant kitchens and developing recipes, but he has no aspirations to be a chef. Smits is a 20-year veteran of the grocery

  • The Doctor Is In

    Another humdrum night? Maybe it’s time to go out and hear some live jazz in a garden conservatory setting. But where? How about the hospital? It wouldn’t

  • Data Love

    Vendors, take note: Direct marketers will spend an average of nearly $250,000 for database upgrades this year. And they’re confident these expenditures

  • Ready for More

    DIRECT TALKED recently with consultant Kurt Medina, who specializes in the 50-plus market. He shared his thoughts about targeting boomers and seniors.

  • All I Really Need to Know About CRM I Learned in Kindergarten

    Robert Fulghum was right: Life’s essential lessons can be gleaned from truths learned in kindergarten. The next few decades of academia are commentary

  • Signature Event

    According to Tuff Stuff sports memorabilia magazine, the most-popular sports collectible is the trading card. The second-most popular type of collectible

  • AOL to Customers and Mailers: And You Are?

    IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING April the most recent period for which figures are available AOL lost subscribers at a clip of 258,000 a month. That’s twomonth.

  • Subway Freshens Kids Marketing

    Subway is extending its reach to tweens by way of a summer tie-in with Vans. The QSR is building out its kids marketing under new management that took

  • Somebody Gets It

    AS AN OBSERVER OF THE direct marketing world, I often have experiences where I slap my head and say, Yea! They get it! There also are times when I shake

  • TIMELINE

    June 16, 2006 HORMEL FOODS CORP., the maker of Spam, agreed to a lawsuit settlement that would allow NetBop Technologies, a small Welsh technology firm,