Carol Schroeder recently shared how local shops help our communities and their environment. I liked the excerpt below from her post:
”Returns are one example of something local shopkeepers do better than Amazon and other giant web retailers. The e-commerce return rate is estimated to be two to three times that of brick & mortar stores – averaging a shocking 20%-30%. According to The Guardian, a returns platform “recently calculated that only 50% of ...
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The Beatriz Ball GARDEN Cabbage medium decorative metal bowl is great for tossing smaller servings of leafy greens, and is ideal for sides, too. A perfect bowl for your Easter prepared salads or as a centerpiece for those decorative painted eggs! Any of the Beatriz Ball GARDEN serving pieces would make a nice complement as you gather and celebrate with family and friends this weekend.
Our compact medium cabbage bowl sits nicely between its larger and smaller companions.
Enjoy this long Calaisio bread basket for celebrations, parties, and large family meals. Its stunning rustic colors, which come from organic exotic vines, will enhance the flavor of your bread and make it ideal for serving handmade sourdough bread, pastries, muffins, rolls, or bagels. Dimensions are 19.25 inches long by 9.25 inches wide. Have a great day and indulge in your locally made bread with a complimentary bread basket that has similar color tones.
The perfect bridal emergency bag for your wedding weekend. It holds over 300 items, we share a list of all items our very own Kristin used in 25 of years of wedding planning. Blue, black & navy in stock. This makes such a fun bridal shower gift & game too!
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Enjoy this long Calaisio bread basket for celebrations, parties, and large family meals. Its stunning rustic colors, which come from organic exotic vines, will enhance the flavor of your bread and make it ideal for serving handmade sourdough bread, pastries, muffins, rolls, or bagels. Dimensions are 19.25 inches long by 9.25 inches wide. Have a great day and indulge in your locally made bread with a complimentary bread basket that has similar color tones.
Put all of your buns, rolls, breadsticks, or slices of French baguette into this beautifully woven basket for an elegant display at your dinner table! Handwoven from organic forest vines, it has a rustic, golden tint that goes well with the woodsy tones of pine wood, making it ideal for the Christmas season. You can either leave the bread in alone and clean it with a damp cloth, or you can add a colored napkin of your choice. This Christmas season, indulge in breakfast all day long with this ...
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Staff at manor department stores like Saks are finding success with Instagram and social media. The Information shares this:
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Tyler Bell was encouraging all her clients to “tag your bag.” Every time Bell, a Saks Fifth Avenue stylist in Troy, Mich., closed a sale, she asked the buyer to show off their purchase on Instagram and tag her account, @tyler.saks. Bell posts Saks inventory multiple times a day on Instagram Stories. Her 27,000 followers will...
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Toast, bagels, croissants, and muffins are just a few of the delectable treats that complement this stylishly hand-woven bread basket made of durable natural vines. It tastes as nice as it looks and looks as good as it would in a fine restaurant. This holiday season, start your day with your loved ones by being grateful for everything you have, including your friends and family. Merry Christmas to everyone!
Kate Spade New York tableware and accessories has for two decades held a singular spot on retail shelves and on customers’ tables thanks to a timeless charm and chic stylings. Even after 20 years, the fun, fresh, playfully sophisticated, and refreshingly original collections from Lenox occupy a unique niche in the tableware pantheon.
Kate Spade’s contribution to fashion cannot be understated. She became synonymous with fashionistas everywhere when she started her fashion ...
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Toast, bagels, croissants, or muffins are just a few of the delectable treats that go best in this artistically hand-woven bread basket crafted from robust natural vines. It tastes as excellent as it would at a sophisticated restaurant and presents beautifully on any kitchen table. Start your day this Thanksgiving morning by giving thanks for all that you have, including your friends and family. Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving!
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natural elegance, extraordinary durability...
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We have created beautiful bundles for our customers to shop this season. Offering all price points to help meet budgets when having to shop for your groups.
Custom gift bags are available. We have a Georgia bag and Holiday treats bag ready to go.
Ask about our pet parent gift sets which include our very own brand; The Stinky Pet Co.
We are also partnering with Local Grounds Coffee pairing cookies with coffee. These are in stock and ready to go.
Amazon and third-party delivery services have setup a “warehouse” outside the Astor Place USPS office. This is not a truck parking for five minutes. This a day-long, everyday occurrence. I’ve seen this same scene on a daily basis all around the city for the last three years.
This hurts local retailers. While the local businesses pay extra taxes to operate a store in southern Manhattan, it costs Amazon much less to park a delivery truck (permanently?), put ...
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How to set interior designer pricing for your brands.
September 28, 2023
FOR BRANDS AND DISTRIBUTORS
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: Interior designers can now view interior designer pricing for your brands and make purchases. If an interior designer is approved by your business, they can log in to your account and buy items at the wholesale designer price set by your business.
In the example shown, we see an interior designer logged in to BIA Cordon Bleu's account. The interior designer can place wholesale orders at the designer pricing set by ...
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How to view key performance statistics to determine how Shop Local is helping your business.
September 11, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've added a new Performance Statistics page to your account. This page makes it easier to access your account's stats.
Previously, this page was titled "How Shop Local is Helping My Business?" Now, the page is titled "My Account's Performance Statistics."
For Retailers, the stats displayed on the Performance Statistics page include:
This chic rustic wastebasket will brighten up the bathroom or bedroom! Made from exotic natural vines, it has organic copper brown tones and is a wonderful replacement for plastic garbage bins. We advise using it solely to hold dry trash given that it is made from a natural material and without a liner. Another thought? If you want to give your room a touch of greenery, try a grown plant.
This gorgeous bread basket may be used to organize all of your buns, rolls, breadsticks, or French baguette slices to make an eye-catching display at your dinner table. It is a hand-woven item with a neutral hue that fits in nicely with both coastal and bohemian settings. It is constructed from organic, natural forest vines. Given its size and attractive appearance, this bread basket is perfect for welcoming guests.
Imagine gifting a stress-free wedding planning experience to your best friend, sister, daughter or daughter in law to be. This gift set was created by Master Wedding Planner Kristin Sullivan after 25 years in the industry. She curated these products intentionally for Brides to Be to actually enjoy the journey of their entire wedding planning process. Included in the beautifully boxed set: *A wedding journal & planning guide; a place to document the love story & planning details while ...
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It was October 2021, and I had just finished my first in-person trends seminar since the pandemic impacted all industry shows. At the end of the image-packed program, an audience member raised her hand and challenged, “Do trends even matter anymore?”
It was a valid question. The pandemic had disrupted business, upended supply chains, transformed education, revealed vulnerabilities, altered priorities, and unexpectedly claimed many lives. The question was tinged with cynicism. Pent...
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