Hosting Thanksgiving this year? MacKenzie-Childs is here to help! From Kitchen to Table, we have all the essentials to make your Thanksgiving Shine!
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Enjoy hot cocoa and a holiday sing-along by the fire with our Patience Brewster Dash Away Reindeer Mug Set.🦌 Adorned with our beloved Dash Away Reindeer, these are the perfect gift for yourself or someone else this holiday season.👏
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We love this elevated alternative to the traditional holiday color palette.✨ Our soft silver and white accessories add an element of sophistication that feels as elegant as it looks.
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Be cozy this Winter with an Yves Delorme promotion/sale at Feathers, from now through November 5th. All Pillows and selected Comforters and Blankets are 20% off one item or 25% off two or more items. Stop in at 5408 Walnut St. in Shadyside to see the selection or place an order.
Bringing together the elegant fun of flower arranging with the classic allure of MacKenzie-Childs Courtly Check Enamel Tea Kettles 🌺 Perfect for brewing an afternoon tea or simply enhancing the charm of your kitchen decor.🍵
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Celebrating 40 years of handcrafted glassware: since 1983, AnnieGlass has been handcrafting exquisite glass tableware, home décor, and sculpture with passion and precision. Glassworks just got a shipment in: all pieces are chip-resistant, handmade in the USA, and with a hand-painted 24 kt gold or genuine platinum rim. Stop in at the Shadyside store to see the selection.
Simple and modern, the Ensemble collection fuses elements of great design and sustainable accessories like Portuguese cork and wood to create a must-have oven-to-table collection for the contemporary home.
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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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Marion Samuel, who manages Babcock Gifts, a Tennessee-based gift shop, pens Tableware Today’s Last Word column in this month’s issue. She shares how they have grown over the last 50 years and run their store.
I was pleased to see her tout the store’s Bridge software. Babcock Gifts, which has been a client for 10 years, uses Bridge’s Shop Local gift registry service and Brand Syncing service. Using our service, they showcase 400+ couples’ gift registries online ...
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Brands may consider using Shopify for their online operations. It’s important to note that brands can’t do many things with Shopify. A key Shopify problem for a brand is that the brand has to have separate “stores” for retail and wholesale customers. The reason is that Shopify doesn’t know what to charge the customer because it doesn’t know if it’s a general public shopper (that pays retail) or a retailer (that pays the wholesale price). &...
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How to set price floors for each brand you sell to remain profitable and meet minimum reorder amounts.
September 26, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now adjust the price floors for your brands. The price floor feature helps your business avoid making a sale to a general public customer that is not profitable and/or that does not meet minimum reorder amounts from the brand.
Previously, all Syncing Brands had the same price floor level, and all non-Syncing Brands had the same price floor level. With this update, your store can update an individual price floor level for each brand you ...
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What universal standards can teach us about simplicity regarding e-commerce platforms.
September 25, 2023
When Apple launched its new iPhones this month, one of its most noteworthy updates was replacing its Lightning charging cable with a USB-C. This was not a voluntary move or extension of Steve Jobs’s love of simplicity. Apple changed it because the European Union required them to, according to Ben Cohen in The Wall St. Journal. Now, just about every mobile phone in the world (forget just little ol’ Europe) will have one charging solution (USB-C).
We are thrilled to introduce our brand-new vegan leather placemats and coasters. The Tanner collection has the feel and look of real leather, while maintaining the practicality of our easy-care vinyl mats!
Available in 3 faux-tatic colors, placemats available in 3 shapes!
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What the retail industry can learn from Google and Amazon teaming up on technology standards.
September 19, 2023
Google, Amazon, and an array of home appliance companies are teaming up to make it easier for you to dim your home’s lights and lock your front doors. They are adopting a standard called Matter that allows devices to communicate and work together, shares The Wall St. Journal. This allows a giant like Amazon, creator of Alexa devices and Ring doorbells, and Tuo, a small home device tech creator, to use the same platform yet keep their internal, proprietary code base. This standard is like a...
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