Best of Thymes, an indie store in Iowa, just closed (https://bestofthymes.bridgecatalog.com/news.cfm?id=20645). Hopefully, they’ll continue to operate online and keep using Bridge. Best of Thymes is part of an industry-wide series of closures that is affecting large and small retailers. Due to this, brands are increasing their efforts to go D2C. Brands justify this by saying that there are fewer stores to show their wares. While this is true, surely they are motivated by: 2x the margins. ...
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Online advertising is great for brands. It's bad for: indie stores.
Why? Before the Internet, there were few ways for brands to cut out stores. They may have an annual warehouse sale, but that was about it. Today, a customer visits a retailer website and looks at brand X. Or it visits brand X's site to do some research. The issue for indie stores: thanks to online advertising, now I'm being marketed to across the web. I'm reading news on the New York Post website and being encouraged to...
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Busch beer is having a bit of fun with the havoc Covid is wrecking. Busch's contest:
Busch is picking 250 winners to share how they are dealing with their canceled weddings.
Affected couples need to post a photo of themselves to Instagram or Twitter with an explanation of how they plan to celebrate given the circumstances, and use the hashtags #BuschWeddingGift and #Sweepstakes.
Think that your business should be making big bucks selling online? Wrong. Most businesses lose money online and have unprofitable online operations. Walmart’s online operations and Wayfair both lose money, and thousands of other businesses do, too.
There is a popular myth that online sellers are casino-like winners with the winning slot machine bells sounding with each order—generating buckets of quarters (profit) for the business. Casinos often produce losers, and most ...
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Also please note how easy it is to REGISTER AT THE BEST --- IN-STORE (whenever you want) --- to BROWSE AROUND, PEEK and PICK what is JUST RIGHT FOR YOU !!! ... or ONLINE on this beautiful website !!!
CNBC shares that "by the end of this year, 12,000 stores are projected to close, and Amazon stands to benefit."
Bridge's Product Share page echoes this prediction and attributes it to how hard data is to deal with:
"In the last 20 years, there has been little change in how stores add items to their website....This has produced a clear winner: Amazon. Amazon has cornered 47% of the e-commerce market by adopting different techniques and business models to add hundreds of millions of items to its ...
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July 29, 2019
July 29, 2019
Meet Venita D'Angelo. Her company, Light Essentials, is our longest running YEA competition winner. Each year winners from the Young Entrepreneurs Academy are given a limited time to sell at Parkleigh. Her candles were such a hit we continue to sell them years after the original contract. We even had her create a signature scent Parkleigh candle. With profits going toward college, and a bright future ahead, we asked her to share how she’s achieving her success.
And the Winner is.....DOGS 35 to Cats 7 But we ❤️ all fur babies! Will draw the winner this afternoon. Our Fur Babies! JR and our Angel Daffodil! We miss her everyday ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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April 2, 2019
April 2, 2019
Congratulations to the First Place winners of the 2019 St. Barths Bucket Regatta! We were honored to provide our engraved Chelsea Ship’s Bell Clocks as the first place trophies. Check out the final results and more pictures from this exciting invitational regatta below. https://buff.ly/2ucIkH7
Photo Credit: Bucket Regatta / Ed Gudenas
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February 22, 2019
February 22, 2019
? WHO WANTS $1,000 CASH?!
I have teamed up with several Spartanburg businesses to give away $1,000 to one lucky winner. ?Please follow the rules listed below to enter to win: 1️⃣ Like this photo on facebook 2️⃣ Follow everyone that @spartanburggiveaway is following 3️⃣ Tag 3 friends and comment “Done” when you are finished!
?BONUS ENTRIES: you get 5 entries if you post this on your story and tag me and @spartanburggiveaway (make sure we are tagged so that we can see it and make sure you get your ...
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January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019
Want to win one $100 gift card to ELY's Restaurant & Bar ? All you have to do is purchase our Ely's seasoning at the store and enter this giveaway at checkout! *winner will be chosen on 2/11.
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January 22, 2019
January 22, 2019
We had an amazing 40th anniversary celebration Saturday, surrounded by our loyal customers, our raffle's lucky winner took home the beautiful Tuscan handmade biscotti jar. Thank you for all the participants, wishing them best of luck for our next drawing event!
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January 18, 2019
January 18, 2019
We had an amazing 40th anniversary celebration Saturday, surrounded by our loyal customers, our raffle's lucky winner took home a beautiful Tuscan handmade biscotti jar. Thank you for all the participants wishing them best of luck at our next event!
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December 14, 2018
December 14, 2018
Congrats to Kimberly Avant Foskey, winner of the $100 gift certificate in the SEC Championship score contest.
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Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 -
Saturday,
Dec. 1, 2018
Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 - Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018
It'll always be a house divided with these two at Brown's Jewelry. Contest time!! We're giving away a $100 gift certificate to the person that predicts the exact or closest score of the SEC Championship. Comment your score & winner. Contest ends at 4pm Saturday. Good Luck!
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November 5, 2018
November 5, 2018
How much did you pay the feds in 2017? Amazon paid $0 in effective federal income taxes in 2017, shares Scott Galloway in his weekly business newscast.
Congrats to Mary Woodruff of Waycross for being the winner of the case of BIOLYTE!!
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July 17, 2018
July 17, 2018
We wanted to share these beautiful tiles, YES, tiles, from Michael Aram.
Winner of Interior Design's 2017 Best of Year Award, Orchid Dimensional radiates with the graceful charm of delicate orchid flowers. Realistic crystalline white Thassos flowers dance across a smooth background of polished white or honed black marble. The pattern is drawn from homeware and jewelry designer Michael Aram's Orchid Collection and is crafted through a variety of techniques to achieve a product that's ...
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