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December 4, 2020 Oven to Table Holiday Casseroles
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Oven to Table Holiday Casseroles
December 4, 2020
Christmas casseroles served in Calaisio`s serving basket with Pyrex oval roasters are a great way to celebrate a festive holiday without all the fuss. Set of 2, 2QT & 5QT
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November 30, 2020 Heirluminare Home Fragrances are Special Gifts for the Porcelain Lover
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Heirluminare Home Fragrances are Special Gifts for the Porcelain Lover
November 30, 2020
When the fragrance is a memory, the vessel is a treasure.
Fourteen votives fill out the assortment.
The vessel styles are our favorite well-known porcelain patterns. We use high quality wax and 100% palm free vegetable oil with a smoke free burn.  Each porcelain pattern is matched with a scent.The best votive is one that becomes a liquid pool that wafts fragrance gently over time.  We formulated these scents with the famed Vila Hermanos candle producers of Spain.  The fragrances...
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November 30, 2020 What Was Old is New- Indigo Wave
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What Was Old is New- Indigo Wave
November 30, 2020
Holidays and family meals are better with gravy, say we.  It can be a cocunut milk and curry sauce, or something to go with the poultry or beef to name a few types.  Our grandmother used to kid us and say "Please pass the grease."  This is not your grandmothers's dinnerware, however, because Indigo Wave was created by Mottahedeh in 2003 by using an antique rim soup bowl collected by Mrs. Mottahedeh as inspiration and then the various elements of the plates were adapted ...
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November 28, 2020 New Yorker Magazine: How Venture Capitalists May Be Deforming Our Industry
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New Yorker Magazine: How Venture Capitalists May Be Deforming Our Industry
November 28, 2020
In this week's New Yorker magazine, Charles Duhigg explores how venture capitalists may be harming our businesses. The article shares that instead of the best company winning, the charismatic charlatan with the most venture capital backing may be winning. In WeWork's case, the company almost won by reaching its IPO. Yet, even bottomless buckets of money couldn't save the company from the economics of office sharing--and its wildcard CEO Adam Neumann.

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November 27, 2020 Save Local
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Save Local
November 27, 2020
This is our 'Save Local' seal.  Save Local has a double meaning: one can save money by shopping locally and they can support local businesses.

Shopping online may result in shipping charges. When shopping local, one can skip the shipping charges--and receive the item instantly. 

A hallmark of indie stores is that they are often in walkable areas. For this reason, the sticker has a shoe and a bicycle. When one shops at big box stores, one often doesn't walk. They drive. Similarly,...
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November 24, 2020 Two Updated Features: Gift Alert and Gift Wrapping Promotion
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Two Updated Features: Gift Alert and Gift Wrapping Promotion
November 24, 2020
We're updated two features on your gift registry lists:
  • On a gift registry, customers buy gifts and a threshold may be met for gifts desired. When this occurs, no more gifts for the item are needed. When this occurs, the software needs to visually alert other customers to choose other gifts.  With our update, purchased items now show a gray, translucent screen over them with a blue ribbon "Gifting Completed."  Previously, we simply
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November 23, 2020 7 Steps to Prepare for Black Friday / Cyber Monday
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7 Steps to Prepare for Black Friday / Cyber Monday
November 23, 2020
It's just 3 days till Black Friday.  And on Monday, we have Cyber Monday. Online sales will reach $189 billion this holiday season--a 33% increase over last year. Is your website ready?  

I've created these 7 steps to help you get ready:

1. Place products on sale
  • Be prepared to cut prices more than normal. 
  • Clearly list end dates for sales to create urgency.
Tip: Here is how to place items on sale:
https://support.bridgecatalog.com/kb/a186/place-an-item-on-sale....
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November 23, 2020 Happy Thanksgiving Potluck
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Happy Thanksgiving Potluck
November 23, 2020
If you`re going to a Thanksgiving potluck, Calaisio`s baskets with Pillivuyt French porcelain bakers are easily transportable and reheatable. Available in 1QT, 2QT & 3QT.

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November 20, 2020 Tableware Today: What’s Your Outlook on 2021?
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Tableware Today: What’s Your Outlook on 2021?
November 20, 2020
Tableware Today magazine asked 71 industry professionals for their thoughts on 2021. I was one of those asked, and shared these answers to Editor Amy Stavis' questions:

What will be the most significant change for our industry in 2021?
J:  As the famous business leader Marc Andreessen said, software is eating the world--and it's eating our industry like never before with Covid-19. The question is whether you're eating or being eaten. We’re all in the software business now.   ...
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November 18, 2020 Retailers Bedridden by ‘Amazon-19’
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Retailers Bedridden by ‘Amazon-19’
November 18, 2020
This week, Amazon launched its online pharmacy targeting the 3.8 billion prescriptions filled in the U.S. each year. Shares of major pharmacy chains dropped about 10% on the news. Amazon honed this weapon in its Seattle lab and is eagerly unleashing it on retail chains and mom-and-pop pharmacies.

Something struck me while reading this news: Does Amazon remind you of Covid-19? The similarities:
  • Amazons kills many businesses in industries it touches. Pharmacies are now worried
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November 16, 2020 The Four Forces Eating Indie Retailers
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The Four Forces Eating Indie Retailers
November 16, 2020
Our indie retailers are being hunted by four major forces:
  1. Amazon
  2. Big-box stores
  3. Brands (selling direct)
  4. Zola
While we've known about Amazon and big-box stores for some time, they are becoming more sophisticated. Amazon is so powerful now that it's the focus of anti-trust inquiries by the government. Big-box stores are spending millions on their digital operations.

Bridge's goal is to give indie stores great software that reverses the gains being made by these forces. 
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November 16, 2020 Managing a website: the admin side and public side should be ‘sisters’ and not ‘distant cousins’
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Managing a website: the admin side and public side should be ‘sisters’ and not ‘distant cousins’
November 16, 2020
This drawing shows how Bridge's design makes it quicker to administer your online business. Other platforms like Shopify have two 'sides': a back-end that clients use to manage their site and a front-end that shoppers experience. Bridge takes a different approach: we try to make the front-end and the back-end very similar. We believe they should look similar to make the experience consistent and easy to navigate. When a member is logged in as an administrator, we output edit links where needed.
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November 14, 2020 Thanksgiving Casserole
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Thanksgiving Casserole
November 14, 2020
Thanksgiving casseroles would make an excellent addition to your feast! ·

What better way to celebrate the Thanksgiving bounty paired with Calaisio`s classic Kitchen Collection with matching Pyrex bakeware.

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November 11, 2020 Thanksgiving Potluck 
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Thanksgiving Potluck 
November 11, 2020

Potluck ideas that work perfect for holiday entertaining occasions. This meal is incredibly easy, but you have the opportunity to really wow on presentation in Calaisio`s classic Kitchen Collection with matching Pyrex bakeware. 

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November 6, 2020 RetailDive: Amazon misleads buyers about the seller and copies other companies' products
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RetailDive: Amazon misleads buyers about the seller and copies other companies' products
November 6, 2020
Amazon may be misleading shoppers about who is selling item on Amazon, shares RetailDive. RetailDive covers a lawsuit settlement between Williams-Sonoma and Amazon. In the lawsuit, it appears that Amazon was suggesting that Williams-Sonoma was selling on Amazon when it's wasn't..  Excerpt:

"In its complaint, Williams-Sonoma said that "at the top of product pages for purported Williams-Sonoma products for sale on the platform and 'Fulfilled by Amazon,' the phrase 'by Williams-...
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November 6, 2020 Amazon Puts Up a Wall Between You and Your Customers
Amazon Puts Up a Wall Between You and Your Customers
November 6, 2020
Have you considered selling on Amazon?  If you do, you'll never know your customer.   Modern Retail did a story on subscription boxes and shared this about a seller's experience on Amazon:

"...one concern is the limited data that Amazon shares with its sellers. When Speach fulfills a customer order on Amazon, he sees the order number, the type of item purchased, the delivery location and the deadline for sending out a shipment. He can’t see any personal details about...
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November 5, 2020 Smart Products Service Breaks From the Old Habit of Breaking Up a Website
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Smart Products Service Breaks From the Old Habit of Breaking Up a Website
November 5, 2020
This drawing shows how the Smart Products service speeds products to a retailer’s website. A brand traditionally has to 'break' its website contents down into pieces (product data and images), and then share this with the store piecemeal via Dropbox or another file-sharing service. Bridge's service helps brands and stores skip these time-consuming and expensive steps. 

In the example shown, the retailer Cook's Station wishes to add Joseph Joseph products to its website. Without ...
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November 5, 2020 Thanksgiving Entertaining Essentials
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Thanksgiving Entertaining Essentials
November 5, 2020
Calaisio hand woven serving pieces with Pyrex and classic porcelain inserts will hold it all, and keep it warm too!


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November 3, 2020 13 Reasons Why 600 Indie Stores Beat Saks Fifth Avenue
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13 Reasons Why 600 Indie Stores Beat Saks Fifth Avenue
November 3, 2020
Saks Fifth Avenue just launched a new website. Since more than 600 stores rely on Bridge Store to power their websites, I decided to compare the new site, which likely cost millions of dollars, to an indie retailer's Bridge Store software. An indie store pays pennies compared to Saks' millions, so the Saks site must be a million times better, right?

After a careful review, I'm happy to share that our indie stores have the better website. And, it sort of 'saks' for Saks that it spent millions ...
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October 27, 2020 Sacred Bird & Butterfly is All Year Round, but Expresses the Brilliant Fall Colors
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Sacred Bird & Butterfly is All Year Round, but Expresses the Brilliant Fall Colors
October 27, 2020
How do you celebrate Halloween without getting all ugly and scary? Serve up orange and black.  Here we present orange and white and gold reflecting the changing colors of nature. Sacred Bird and Butterfly, in transparent oranges and sparkling gold accents, is a licensed product of Historic Charleston Foundation and can be seen in the famed Nathaniel Russel House.  While it arrived in America when America was colonial, it has endured for more than 200 years.  Serve a hot soup or ...
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