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Jason Solarek: 2,821 News Posts

January 20, 2025 Cara from Tipton Hurst shares their store’s experience on Shop Local
Cara from Tipton Hurst shares their store’s experience on Shop Local
January 20, 2025
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January 20, 2025 Vista Alegre and Orrefors Promote Their Shop Local Service
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Vista Alegre and Orrefors Promote Their Shop Local Service
January 20, 2025
We're happy to see Vista Alegre and Orrefors promote the Shop Local platform in Tableware Today's February/March 2025 issue.
  • A brand displays our ShopLocal.org logo so that retailers reading the magazine know they can easily sell the products shown.
  • When a brand offers our Syncing service, a retailer can instantly display the brand's entire product catalog online.
  • The retailer's customers can buy the products and add them to gift registries. 
  • The retailer doesn't need to add
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January 20, 2025 Tableware Today February/March 2025 Issue: Catch the Registry Wave Column 🏄‍♀️ and November Leaderboard Rankings
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Tableware Today February/March 2025 Issue: Catch the Registry Wave Column 🏄‍♀️ and November Leaderboard Rankings
January 20, 2025
This article, which appears in the February/March 2025 issue of Tableware Today, reveals when registrants open wedding registries.

What are most brides-to-be doing in January on a Monday at 3 p.m.? If you answered, opening a wedding registry, you’re right. January is the most popular month to start a registry, Monday the most popular day, and most registries are opened between 3 and 4 p.m. (Side note: While most twenty somethings have internet access 24/7 on their mobile phones, it...
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January 20, 2025 Automation Is the Future of Retail
How automation helps our indie retailers avoid $36,898/year on labor costs and empowers them to sell 18% more
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Automation Is the Future of Retail
How automation helps our indie retailers avoid $36,898/year on labor costs and empowers them to sell 18% more
January 20, 2025
Today’s The Wall St. Journal shares that Walmart seeks to automate much of its business. Automation reduces costs and often makes customers happier because it lowers prices and speeds up processes.

Try to Automate Everything
Indie stores need to follow in Walmart’s footsteps ASAP and automate as much as they can, including:
  • Product information, pricing, pictures, and more (including website listings). (Inventory.)
  • Stock.
  • Marketing offers.
  • Communications to customers (
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January 12, 2025 6 Ways Brands Can Help Their Stores and Get a Bonus
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6 Ways Brands Can Help Their Stores and Get a Bonus
January 12, 2025
We're excited to offer these bonuses to Syncing Brands. View Post
January 12, 2025 Help a Friend and Get a $500 Finder's Fee
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Help a Friend and Get a $500 Finder's Fee
January 12, 2025
Get a $500 Finder’s Fee When You Sign Up a Retailer for a Shop Local Online Store ~ Plus Your Retailer Receives $500.

Please send your referral to Shop Local.

Terms:
  • Merchant must be new to Shop Local.
  • Merchant must have a brick-and-mortar store location.
  • Merchant must Sync with two Syncing Brands.
  • Merchant must have the Online Store and Registry active. 
  • Merchant must log in to their account.
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January 12, 2025 3 Brands Promote the Shop Local Service in Their Price Lists
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3 Brands Promote the Shop Local Service in Their Price Lists
January 12, 2025
Thanks to premium French tableware brands Deshoulieres, Capdeco, and Royal Limoges for presenting information about Shop Local in their price lists.  The last pages of their price lists display the Shop Local logo and this text:

“Wish to quickly and easily sell the products in this catalog? You can. Join us for free on the Shop Local e-commerce platform. Please learn more and join at: biacordonbleu.myshoplocal.com. Product Syncing via Shop Local is only available to authorized, ...
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January 11, 2025 WSJ: Making Bicycles in America
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WSJ: Making Bicycles in America
January 11, 2025
We track efforts to build products and software in America.  The WSJ did a piece on Guardian Bikes trying to make children's bikes in America.  Currently, just 10% of the cost of a bike's parts are made in America.  Guardian seeks to increase that to 80% within a year.

Article highlights:
  • Tariffs can very based on whether the bicycle is assembled or not. 
  • During Trumps first time, tariffs in 2018 increased by 25% from 11% on Chinese assembled bikes to 36%--up 25%.
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January 6, 2025 Nice to see Juliska’s cake pedestal in Garden & Gun magazine
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Nice to see Juliska’s cake pedestal in Garden & Gun magazine
January 6, 2025
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January 5, 2025 NYT: Five Generations Carry On a Fine China Tradition with Haviland
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NYT: Five Generations Carry On a Fine China Tradition with Haviland
January 5, 2025
I was happy to learn about the history of fine china in today’s Times—and even more so when discovering the 1910s pattern featured was made by our current day client Haviland.  

The article also mentions Lenox, another client we’re happy to work with. 

Trivia:
In the late 1960s, the bridal market made up 64% of the fine china sales. (While fewer brides register for china these days, I wonder if this  number is higher or lower today.  Bridal may be the...
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December 30, 2024 WSJ: Made in America T-Shirts for $12.98
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WSJ: Made in America T-Shirts for $12.98
December 30, 2024
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December 30, 2024 WSJ: Retailers Adding Fees to Cover Stolen Goods
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WSJ: Retailers Adding Fees to Cover Stolen Goods
December 30, 2024
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December 23, 2024 NYT: What do people want from the mall, er, “village”? 🛍️
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NYT: What do people want from the mall, er, “village”? 🛍️
December 23, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/style/what-do-we-want-from-the-mall.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk4.8hut.7NdGTXR2FHBR&smid=url-share View Post
December 16, 2024 “I want to add 1,000 products to my website…”
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“I want to add 1,000 products to my website…”
December 16, 2024
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December 15, 2024 Ginori 1735 at ABC Carpet in NYC 🇮🇹 🍽️ 🗽
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Ginori 1735 at ABC Carpet in NYC 🇮🇹 🍽️ 🗽
December 15, 2024
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See You in Atlanta for the Show: January 14 - 16 Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 - Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025
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See You in Atlanta for the Show: January 14 - 16 Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 - Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025
Location: AmericasMart in Atlanta, GA

We’ll be at the AmericasMart Tuesday, January 14 - Thursday, January 16, 2025. 

We'd love to meet and hear about your sales goals for 2025.

Are you a brand or sales rep that uses Shop Local?
If so, we put together the following materials for you to share with your retailers. Please print these for use during the show:

1. Explanation Materials
  1. A flyer explaining the benefits of the Shop Local service: View explanation PDF here
  2. Flyer explaining the service for use
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See You in Dallas for the Show: January 8 & 9 Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025 - Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025
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See You in Dallas for the Show: January 8 & 9 Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025 - Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025
We’ll be there Wednesday, January 8th and Thursday, January 9th. 

We'd love to meet and hear about your sales goals for 2025.

Are you a brand or sales rep that uses Shop Local?
If so, we put together the following materials for you to share with your retailers. Please print these for use during the show:

1. Explanation Materials
  1. A flyer explaining the benefits of the Shop Local service: View explanation PDF here
  2. Flyer explaining the service for use in showroom:&
...
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December 13, 2024 Where Software Begins…with Paper & Pen
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Where Software Begins…with Paper & Pen
December 13, 2024
Like many products and services, software often begins with a sketch. I often bring a pen, notebook, and a book to breakfast. I read, consider our clients' goals, and sketch solutions.  View Post
December 13, 2024 Catch the Registry Wave 🏄‍♀️
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Catch the Registry Wave 🏄‍♀️
December 13, 2024
This article, which will appear in the February/March 2025 issue of Tableware Today, reveals when registrants open wedding registries.

What are most brides-to-be doing in January on a Monday at 3 p.m.? If you answered, opening a wedding registry, you’re right. January is the most popular month to start a registry, Monday the most popular day, and most registries are opened between 3 and 4 p.m. (Side note: While most twentysomethings have internet access 24/7 on their mobile phones,...
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November 30, 2024 Brick-and-mortar stores forced to adapt to online world
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Brick-and-mortar stores forced to adapt to online world
November 30, 2024
The Wall St. Journal shares how retailers are adapting to growing online purchasing.  Some big-box stores have been able to resist adapting to online selling, including T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, but their business model is unique. They buy massive amounts of goods, often in China, at massive discounts, then display them barely unboxed in warehouse-size spaces.  

I wrote an article for Tableware Today this past summer that encourages indie stores to jump on growing their e-...
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Press: Shop Local & Bridge in the News
Shop Local Helps Indie Stores Rank on Page 1 of Google in 62% of States
Shop Local Helps Indie Stores Rank on Page 1 of Google in 62% of States
December 2024

Tableware Today Column: Saying I Do To Registries
Tableware Today Column: Saying I Do To Registries
November 2024

Tableware Today: New Leaderboard Column from Shop Local
Tableware Today: New Leaderboard Column from Shop Local
August 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Florida Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Florida Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Tennessee Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Tennessee Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Louisiana Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Louisiana Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Delaware Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Delaware Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Pennsylvania Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Pennsylvania Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
March 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get Sales Leads in Mississippi
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get Sales Leads in Mississippi
March 2024

Shop Local Merchants Are 60% of Google Page 1 Results in South Carolina
Shop Local Merchants Are 60% of Google Page 1 Results in South Carolina
March 2024

Shop Local Merchants Are 50% of Google Page 1 Results in Georgia
Shop Local Merchants Are 50% of Google Page 1 Results in Georgia
March 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get More Sales Leads than Big-Box Stores Using Google
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get More Sales Leads than Big-Box Stores Using Google
February 2024

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