21 ways Gift Reggie is making it difficult for gift givers, registrants, and merchants
April 3, 2024
Our registry service handles 80,000 gift and wedding registries. We often come across other registry software and can see how it's affecting the merchant that is using it.
While eating breakfast and browsing the web via my phone, I recently came across RFD, a merchant in Albany, NY, that uses Gift Reggie (an app that is added to a Shopify Store).
I observed 21 problems while reviewing the merchant's registry service. I initially wrote the issues down on a paper tablecloth...
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We believe in offering a great online shopping experience through our platform. Below are excerpts from three reviews from shoppers who bought a gift using our software:
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"Easy website to use. Great communication. Visually satisfying to be able to see the gift you are giving. Easy peasy! And I do love easy!"
~ Kelly Buck in AL
Ms. Buck made a purchase at Fincher & Ozment Jewelers, an indie retailer in Alabama that has used our e-commerce software since ...
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We support the shop local ecosystem, and an ingredient in that is local jobs. Marc Levinson in The Wall St. Journal reviews two books that address made-in-the-U.S.A. ventures.
Spoiler alert: Doing the right thing often costs more. These all likely cost more: Shopping local, using local labor, and running local manufacturing. If you’re involved in one of these area, we hope you’ll appreciate those in the others. I’ve met local shop owners that outsource their ...
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We believe in offering a great online shopping experience through our platform. Below are excerpts from three reviews from shoppers who bought a gift using our software:
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"Love your website. Made shopping a breeze and was easy to navigate from start to finish..."
~ Anne Ragsdale in VA
Ms. Ragsdale made a purchase at Schiffman's, an indie retailer in North Carolina that has used our e-commerce software since 2011.
How to view information about your registry service on one page.
January 23, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier for your store to view an overview of your registry service. The new Registry Overview page displays information about your store's registries at a glance.
Previously, you would need to visit different registry-related pages to view many of these links. This feature reduces the number of clicks needed to access pages.
The Registry Overview page displays the following information:
You can determine the quality of a shopping platform by looking at reviews from customers who have used it. Below are excerpts from three reviews from shoppers who bought a gift using our software:
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"Your online site is the easiest way to shop for wedding gifts..."
~ Tracy Mcbride in FL
Ms. Mcbride made a purchase at Occasions Tampa, an indie retailer in Florida that has used our e-commerce software since 2018.
The Atlantic shares how Chinese factories have found a new way around U.S. retailers and into our homes: Chinese apps. SHEIN and other Chinese apps are bypassing Amazon to be a new leader in Chinese goods. In addition to Amazon, Target, Walmart, and indie shops now have a new group of digital competitors embedded in customers’ pockets.
Except from The Atlantic article:
MATERIAL WORLD
IS THIS HOW AMAZON ENDS?
An open embrace of cheap foreign products has helped ...
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Part of my job is to review registry software. I ensure it works well for retailers, registrants, and gift-givers (family and friends). I also assess whether it offers good value (price vs. results).
When looking for registry software, some retailers consider MyRegistry.com for their registry service. I reviewed a retailer's site using MyRegistry.com and assessed how a customer would make a registry purchase. For privacy purposes, I blurred the store's name in the screenshots shown.
You can determine the quality of a shopping platform by looking at reviews from customers who have used it. Below are excerpts from three reviews from shoppers who bought a gift using our software:
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"I wanted to take care of this online and the website was easy to navigate…always a plus!"
~ Jerri Ann Fitts in TX
Ms. Fitts made a purchase at The Ivy House, an indie retailer in Texas that has used our e-commerce software since 2015.
You can determine the quality of a shopping platform by looking at reviews from customers who have used it. Below are excerpts from three reviews from shoppers who bought a gift using our software:
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"Thanks for making shopping fast, simple and convenient!!! Your website is easy and very manageable!"
~ Sue Maners in MO
Ms. Maners made a purchase at Babcock Gifts, an indie retailer in Tennessee that has used our e-commerce software since 2016.
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:
You can determine the quality of a shopping platform by looking at reviews from customers that used it. Below are excerpts from three reviews from shoppers that bought a gift using our software:
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"Easy to view and choose from the registry..."
~ Blake Gustafson in OH
Mr. Gustafson made a purchase at White Peacock, an indie retailer that has used our e-commerce software since 2019.
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"Wedding registry was quick, convenient...
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A shopper, Laura Armistead, shared this review regarding her experience on our Shop Local platform:
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“My online shopping experience at Elizabeth Clair’s was wonderful! The site was easy to navigate, and it took no time at all! As always, the customer service was excellent and pleasant! Thank you so much!”
Ms. Armistead made a purchase at Elizabeth Clair's, an indie retailer that has used our e-commerce software since 2018 and has two locations in ...
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How to view private messages left by your customers.
June 5, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: a customer can share a private message with your business when leaving a review on your Shop Local Store.
Previously, a customer could not share a private message when leaving a public review. The private message is only visible to your business.
In the example shown, we see a review notification email sent to a retailer. In the email, the store can see the customer's public review and private message. On the store's Reviews page, only the ...
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A shopper, Lisa Minor, shared this review regarding her experience on our Shop Local platform:
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“The website was easy to use, and I was thrilled to be be able to shop online with a local store. I wish more businesses offered this kind of service.”
Ms. Minor made a purchase on Babcock Gifts, an indie retailer that has used our e-commerce software since 2015.
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Read 1,500+ reviews from Babcock Gifts customers: https://...
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I was at the East Village restaurant Evil Katsu tonight and spotted this clever promotion. I think gift shops should have a sign like this, too, and offer free gift wrapping if the customer leaves a review.
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New York magazine reports that shopping on Amazon is a mess. It’s got an antiquated interface and lots of spam results and reviews. It’s not a nice experience and you’re not sure what you’re buying.
Excerpt:
“There was the ’90s-retro e-commerce interface, which conceals a marketplace of literally millions of sellers, each scrapping for relevance, using Amazon as a sales channel for their own semi-independent businesses. It subjected ...
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Your Bridge has a new feature: We've made it easier to navigate to different pages of your Bridge site with search shortcuts. Searching for a keyword in the gray search bar at the top of your account populates a shortcut button that is linked to a page related to that keyword.
Previously, one would have browsed the site's navigation to find what they wished to view. With this update, one can use the search field to get to the desired content more quickly.
Scott Galloway, the NYU business professor and firebrand, pens a weekly, attention-grabbing article about business trends. In last week’s post, he noted the rise of the attention economy. (...Yes, my post is an attention-seeker writing about an attention-seeker writing about attention.) Comparing our current economy to those of the past, Mr. Galloway notes that today’s oil is time. He tracks the growth of digital companies like Netflix, Microsoft, Facebook, and TikTok that...
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