It has been 18 months since Facebook first allowed us to “Like” websites or products on other sites and broadcast that vote to our...

The quest for a unique wine item number for use throughout the industry has been a recurring theme in this column. So much so that I was...

Helping customers and sourcing product is the daily work of running a store and you tend to take for granted the conditions of your local...

If Charles Dickens were in the wine business today, perhaps he would agree that these are the best of times and the worst of times. The...

In the early 1980's Walmart famously introduced barcode scanners in their stores to speed up the checkout process. Back then only 45% of...

As consumers have embraced the Internet and incorporated it into their lives a funny thing has happened: shopping at local stores is more...