Brands & Distributors: You’re Invited 💌
Join us on Tuesday, January 27th @ 10:30 am ET or Tuesday, February 10th @ 2:00 pm ET for a live webinar. 
 

Why Join?

We’ll show you how to:

• Review your 2025 performance via your Success Summary.
• View how the Syncing service helped your Synced retailers.
• See which retailers and products drove the most sales in 2025.
• View your ranking in network sales among other brands.
• Identify growth opportunities to focus on in 2026.
   

⏰ Webinar is 30 minutes
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We are pleased to share that Jars products are ready for Syncing. 

Jars joins our network of 109 premium brands that Sync products with 1,440+ retailers.

Visit Jars' Shop Local Account:
View the 652 Jars products you can Sync with here:
https://rosenthal.myshoplocal.com/collections.cfm/Jars 


How to Sync

• ​​​Please log in to your Shop Local account.
• Please scroll up to the top. In the Top Bar's search field, please enter "Jars".
• On the search results page, where you see the brand's results,

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-orland-park-illinois-opening-13362c97?st=DYZBKJ

Brands display a Shop Local flyer in their showrooms to help their retailers sell more. When a retailer joins the brand on Shop Local, a store on average receives many benefits, including:

• Avoiding $36,000/year in labor costs.
• Avoiding losing 8% on a price changes.
• Selling 18% more.
• Gaining $72,000 in wedding registry sales. 

Today’s Wall St Journal has two articles that help explain the changing retail landscape. People used to go to stores for inspiration and direction on what to buy—but now use Instagram, TikTok, and other digital media. Once they get inspired online, they can buy online, often from the brand with a 10% off coupon and free shipping. 

To capsize a ship, you don’t need a tsunami to hit it—just poke holes in it and over time it will sink.  This ship is traditional retail.  

Our job is to

Thanks to SMEG, Jonathan Pearson, Kitchen 2 Table for this showcase highlighting products celebrating America. SMEG and K2T gave away a SMEG refrigerator worth $4,000+ to a lucky merchant that wrote an order in the showroom. 

SMEG is a Shop Local partner that helps its indie stores more easily sell its items. 

Congratulations to the following Shop Local members for being selected by readers of Mississippi Magazine for the Best of Mississippi Weddings 2026:


Best Bridal Registry

• The Finery in Jackson - Overall Winner
• Elizabeth Clair's in Jackson, Madison, Tupelo, and Oxford - M List Winner
• The Everyday Gourmet in Ridgeland - M List Winner
• Tish Gammill Home in Hattieburg - M List Winner
• Whittington Gifts & Decor in Starkville - M List Winner

Best Bridesmaids'

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now remove a collection’s name from all product names within that collection with a single click. This saves you time from editing each product manually.

By default, our software automatically outputs the collection name on a product's Details page. By default, Shop Local displays the collection name on each product’s Details page. If the collection name is also included in the product name, it appears twice. This feature helps you avoid redundancy

We’re pleased to welcome Waverly Wood to the Shop Local family! Referred by sales rep Lydia Palasota, the store has joined Shop Local to launch its online tabletop and bridal registry business. After 12 successful years as a wedding photographer, owner Meredith Benton followed her lifelong passion—trading her camera for a curated home and gift store centered on thoughtful design and meaningful wedding registries.

The store instantly received great benefits:

• Customers and registrants can shop for

Retailers: You're Invited 💌
Join us for a live webinar on Wednesday, January 28th, at 10:30 am ET or Wednesday, February 11th, at 2:00 pm ET.  

Why Join?

Discover what your Success Summary reveals about your store’s performance.

• Which customer spent the most online.
• Which registry generated the most sales.
• Which brand and product sold the best.
• How many orders you received.
• How your sales compared to other indie stores.

Using the insights above, you can create new sales opportunities in 2026. 

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can download new registry flyers for your store. These flyers can be printed for use in-store, included on mass emails to your customers, or shared on social media--just in time for the new year.

We've now added the following flyers:

• My Wedding Registry Flyer: Presents Design
• My Wedding Registry Flyer: New Years Design
• General New Years Flyers

In this example, we see Fragile's New Years Design flyer. The flyer shows the benefits and bonuses of registering

Excerpt:

“… Amazon’s automation team expects the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the United States it would otherwise need by 2027. …

Executives told Amazon’s board last year that they hoped robotic automation would allow the company to continue to avoid adding to its U.S. work force in the coming years, even though they expect to sell twice as many products by 2033. That would translate to more than 600,000 people whom Amazon didn’t need to hire.”

Full article: 

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Read the full articles: 

https://businessofhome.com/articles/food52-files-for-bankruptcy-and-courts-a-sale

https://nypost.com/2025/12/31/business/buzzy-nyc-based-food52-goes-belly-up-rival-makes-bid-to-buy-it/

Retailers: You're Invited 💌
Join us for a live wedding registry webinar on Wednesday, February 11th, at 10:30 am ET.  
 

Why Join?

Discover how built-in marketing tools will help grow your wedding registry business and capture $3,200 in potential sales per registry. 💍💰

• Learn how to turn your registrants into your best marketers.
• Uncover powerful tools that drive registry sign-ups and sales.
• Get inspired by social media campaigns.
• See what marketing emails and texts are sent to registrants.&

We're happy to see Goldsmith Cardel in Cincinnati, OH, and CMI Designs in Dalton, GA, promoting their Shop Local registry service on Facebook and Instagram. The stores used our free New Year template and shared it on their Instagrams. 

Wish to view and download your templates?  We've created 8 ready-to-use social media graphics that your store can post. You can find these graphics, along with caption examples, here: https://bridge.myshoplocal.com/news.cfm/25870/New-Year-New-Registries-

Read the full story: 

https://www.wsj.com/business/saks-stylist-scam-shail-kwatra-81cc3aba?st=GGCwVo

Read the full story:

https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/norms-hemorrhoid-cream-3666a4e8?st=5Hsiry

The Times offered a creative visual for its review of the new book Capitalism.  Since we help retailers and brands, barcodes are omnipresent for us and this barcode visual caught our eye.  (We even used a barcode in one interpretation of our logo.)