Here at Shop Local, we’ve seen brands try to cut out indie stores. We’ve seen big-name companies close accounts in good standing and raise minimum annual purchase amounts in the toughest of times in order to cut out indie stores. Well, now some of these brands are back with hat in hand.
Retail Dive reports on Amazon's lazy claims that it cares about stopping counterfeits. Counterfeiters on Amazon may steal a brand's product design, name, and product pictures. When a brand reports this to Amazon, Amazon often does: nothing.
This is an issue for American brands. For example:
A brands creates a product. The brand pays for research and development.
Brand may pay to have it made in America.
Brand takes professional pictures of the finished product.
If someone has an American flag flying on their porch and Amazon boxes often at their doorstep, maybe they should take the flag down and put up a Chinese flag. Amazon appears to be profiting by cutting out much our domestic retail community and instead helping Chinese businesses. And don’t expect Amazon to pay much in local taxes either.
This past weekend’s WSJ shares how third-party sellers, many of them from China, have flooded Amazon with spurious listings, leaving ...
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November 12, 2019
November 12, 2019
Amazon has opened an instant portal between our kids and Chinese goods that fail U.S. safety and environmental standards. Today's Wall St. Journal shares that Amazon is helping Chinese sellers upload a new item every 1/50th of a secondβresulting in a tsunami of questionable products flooding our homes.
Excessive lead in your kidβs dinner plate? A motorcycle helmet for your son that cracks easily? Get it on Amazon.
One may ask: how could a Chinese-speaking person be expected to know U.S. laws? ...
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September 2, 2017
September 2, 2017
Help The Flood Victims With Glassworks And Cheeks! Support the hurricane victims by shopping at Glassworks and Cheeks this holiday weekend! 10% of all sales in-store and online from Friday to Monday will be donated to a hurricane relief organization. Both locations will be open on Labor Day from 12 - 4 pm. Help Glassworks and Cheeks help the victims and their families.
Glassworks and Cheeks offer free gift wrapping!
You are on our Glassworks website, so shop here or come in to the store!
Help The Flood Victims With Glassworks And Cheeks! Support the hurricane victims by shopping at Glassworks and Cheeks this holiday weekend! 10% of all sales in-store and online from Friday to Monday will be donated to a hurricane relief organization. Both locations will be open on Labor Day from 12 - 4 pm. Help Glassworks and Cheeks help the victims and their families.
Glassworks and Cheeks offer free gift wrapping!
You are on our Glassworks website, so shop here or come in to the store!
Help The Flood Victims With Glassworks And Cheeks!
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May 15, 2010
May 15, 2010
Bridge analogy: sell gallons vs. ounces of luxury products
When explaining the Bridge, sometimes an analogy works well. Currently, the marketplace is using individual water bottles to manage it's inventory. There is a lot of waste in this approach. The Bridge lets brands create a 'tap' through which retailers can 'pour' the brand's product into the retailer's website. The more water that retailers have, the better it is for retailers and brands. The retailers can in turn sell the product in ...
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