We're pleased to welcome Modern Grace & Co. to Shop Local as they grow their online tabletop, gift, and newly launched Wedding & Gift Registry business.

Modern Grace & Co. was founded to be a local destination for those who appreciate beautiful design and intentional living. It brings many designer brands and thoughtfully curated pieces—once found only in Dallas or Fort Worth—a little closer to home.

The store instantly received great benefits:

• Customers and registrants can shop for 4k+

We are pleased to announce that Meriwether's Fine Gifts & Registry has joined Shop Local to grow its online tabletop, gift, and bridal registry business.  

In the absence of tabletop and giftware stores in her hometown of Jacksonville, NC, founder Erin Tallman jumped at the opportunity and recently opened her store, welcoming friends, neighbors, and loved ones. 

The store instantly received great benefits:

• Customers and registrants can shop for 10k+ products online.
• The store avoids 15

We’re delighted to welcome Nolan Family Pharmacy to the Shop Local family. Referred by Bitsy Sherlock of Werner Frank, the store joined Shop Local to launch its online tabletop and bridal registry business.  

Offering thoughtful, personalized gifts for family, friends, and home, Nolan Family Pharmacy has chosen Shop Local as its gift registry provider to meet the growing demand for gifts and registries in the Pike Road, Alabama area. 

The store instantly received great benefits:

• Customers

We evaluated Shop Local, Gift Reggie, and MyRegistry using an AI visibility grader from Algorythmic https://algorythmic.co/—an SEO and AI search consultancy focused on how brands perform across Google and AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini.

📊 The Results

• Shop Local: 82 Good Visibility
• MyRegistry.com: 78 Moderate Visibility
• Gift Reggie: 73 Moderate Visibility
• Zola: 50 Poor Visibility 

Result: Shop Local scored 10+ points higher.

🔍 What the AI Found

The biggest difference came down to how well each

Your Shop Local store has an updated feature: We’ve upgraded your SEO by adding embedded structured data. This is machine-readable data built into your website that helps AI tools and search engines better understand your content.

Structured data helps AI tools and search engines understand key details about your store, including:

• Active product listings
• Location and hours
• Associated brands
• Product collections and departments
• Top gift items
• Public registry data (registrants’ names, registrants’ gift

We’re delighted to welcome Martin Miazza Gifts to the Shop Local family! Referred by Joe Bernstein of Salisbury, Inc., one of our valued Syncing Brand partners, the store joined Shop Local to expand its online tabletop and bridal registry business and continue serving customers in new, modern ways.

Celebrating 60 years in business, this beloved independent retailer has built a longstanding reputation as the premier destination for wedding registries, fine gifts, and exceptional customer service

Today’s Wall St. Journal shares how AI tools like ChatGPT deliver results vs. traditional services like Google.  
 

Unlike Google, there is more focus on:

- FAQs

- Reviews

- Reddit and message boards

- Summaries

- Personal narratives

Read more:    

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-search-seo-ai-tactics

What good is emailing customers if your email won’t be read? It’s said that 75% of emails aren’t read, while in contrast, 95% of text messages are read—and read within minutes. Lesson: SMS text messages are the best way to communicate with customers.

Unlike other e-commerce providers, Shop Local has you covered: your Online Store account with us has built-in text messaging. You don’t need to pay more to activate it or pay to add a third-party app. Your Shop Local account sends SMS for a few

We’re delighted to welcome Betty Kelly’s Gift Shop to the Shop Local family! Referred by Janine Irwin of MacKenzie-Childs, a valued Syncing Brand partner, the store joined Shop Local to grow its online tabletop and bridal registry business.

With 48 years in the industry, this beloved independent retailer has long been known as the go-to destination for wedding registries in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The store’s story began in the home of Nettie Huffines, grandmother of current owner Frances

We are pleased to announce that Southbank Gift Company has joined Shop Local to grow its online gift and bridal registry business after being referred by MacKenzie-Childs, a Syncing Brand on the platform. Since opening over 20 years ago, they have been named the City's Best in Unique Gifts category by Jefferson City Magazine, recognized by Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce as an Outstanding Small Business, and selected as Best Gift Shop in News Tribune's Readers' Choice Awards.

The store

We’re pleased to welcome Gingers to the Shop Local family! Referred by sales rep Denise Rotenberry of Werner-Frank, the store joined Shop Local to grow its online tabletop and bridal registry business.  

With 38 years in the industry, this beloved indie retailer is well known as the go-to place to register for weddings and babies in Corinth, Mississippi, and the surrounding areas.  Their motto says it best: “Come experience Southern hospitality and discover an array of choices—whether

Shop Local, an e-commerce platform for indie retailers, reported that it's helping indie stores rank on page one of Google in 56% of states for wedding gift purchases. The findings are based on a recent study that Shop Local conducted regarding wedding registry purchasing. 

Study Findings:

• For 28 state searches, Shop Local Stores appeared on page one of Google. This represents 56% of all states. When just calculating the states in which Shop Local has clients (48), the percentage grows

NEW YORK, NY — March 9, 2026 – Shop Local, the leading wedding registry platform for indie retailers, announced the 2026 Best Wedding Gifts award winners this week.  The honor is presented to the top 100 retailers and top 100 brands in America.  

The top 100 brand finalists included Juliska, Herend, VIETRI, and Costa Nova-Casafina.  The top 100 retail finalists were led by The Ivy House in Dallas, TX; Babcock Gifts in Memphis, TN; P.S. the Letter in Fort Worth, TX; and Friend

Are you a member at Costco? If so, what was your logic when joining?  You likely estimated how long it will take to recoup your annual membership fee investment.

Your math may resemble this:

• When you join Costco for $99/year, you may save 10%.
• You’ll get your fee back after spending $900, which would cost $1,000 elsewhere.
• Anything spent above that, and you’re getting a ‘free’ 10% off.

We do similar ROI math in other parts of our lives. A movie ticket now costs nearly $20. When I pay Netflix $20

We’re pleased to welcome i Leoni to the Shop Local family! Referred by sales rep Kimberly Wester-Brady, the store has joined Shop Local to grow its online tabletop and bridal registry business. With 22 years in the industry, this indie retailer relies on its core belief: everyone can and should cook, entertaining should be as easy and accessible as it is beautiful and gracious, and a home should reflect one's personal style.

The store instantly received great benefits:

• Customers and registrants

Brands are increasingly hiring “storytellers,” shares the Wall St. Journal. These storytellers are using social media, podcasts, and other novel marketing approaches to share a business’s story. Ironically, earned media, such as the WSJ newspaper (where I read about this trend), is not seen as a leading medium. Print newspaper subscriptions have fallen by 70% since 2005. (I'm a lone holdout: I still get the Times and WSJ each week; I used to get four print papers each day. My poor newspaper

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

We are pleased to announce that In High Cotton has joined Shop Local to grow its online tabletop and bridal registry business after being referred by sales rep Debbie Spurlock. Celebrating over 20 years of serving its community, In High Cotton is renowned for its high-quality furniture, newly added tableware, quick pick-up gifts, and an ever-evolving selection of home finds.

The store instantly received great benefits:

• Customers and registrants can shop for 7k+ products online.
• The store

Read the full article: 

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/shop-with-ai-how-to-start-bc19c27f?st=vFSeEh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

We’ve probably all had one of Taco Bell’s crazy inventions, including a Cheesy Street Chalupa, Doritos Locos Taco, Nacho Fries, or Baja Blast. A recent Wall St. Journal article shares that Taco Bell’s Chief Food Innovation Officer, Liz Matthews, often spends years creating a single new item for the menu. (Read the full WSJ article here.) Sometimes these items are available for a brief time only, aka they’re a limited-time offer (LTO). 

This article made me wonder, “What are Shop Local’s LTOs