Vietri, a premium designer of Italian home goods and a member of Bridge, was featured in ‘Garden & Gun’ magazine. Using our service, Vietri syncs 1,000+ products with its retailers’ online stores in real-time.
In an advertisement the designer ran in the issue, we were happy to see that forty-seven percent of the indie stores it highlighted use Bridge. Of the 30 stores listed, 14 use Bridge Store to more easily sell Vietri.
Check out our new catalog for Fall/Holiday 2021! This catalog combines our 2 brands and showcases our holiday favorites. From Thanksgiving to New Years there is a table set to inspire!
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I enjoyed today’s WSJ article about stores teaming up to take on Amazon. Since Bridge has collectivized 800 indie shops to push back against Amazon, we can relate to efforts to help stores team up and boost their communities.
The article mentions Shopify and its popularity among indie shops. Shopify, along with BigComerce, Big Cartel, Wix, and Magento, are platforms that have helped indies to grow online independent of Amazon.
While we appreciate any platform that helps indies...
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The pineapple--the symbol of hospitality--makes a welcome appearance as two-chambered design by Beatriz Ball. With its sculptural form and richly detailed surface, the GARDEN Pineapple Chip & Dip is both an eye-catching representation of the popular tropical fruit, and a practical serving piece.
With its built-in dip bowl, this versatile item is ideal for serving fresh fruit, veggies, and crackers with your favorite dips and spreads. Perfect ...
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Companies with deep pockets and big connections to Wall St. have teamed up to make the Internet a dirtier place. Legislation is pending to make large sellers of new goods have to reveal the true seller of the good. The goal of the federal bill is to curtail the sale of fake and stolen goods through online marketplaces. This sounds logical. But not to: eBay, Poshmark, Mercari, and Etsy.
These businesses have hundreds of millions of dollars at stake from banks, investors, and rich people. They ...
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Getting ready for Easter? Explore all the shades and decorations of the Richard Ginori Uova (Italian for Eggs) Collection and find your own way to style them into your home. The Uova collection evokes the ancestral symbol of life, rebirth and fertility. Perfect furnishing accessories, sophisticated, and eclectic. Lose yourself in primordial beauty, which is born and regenerates, only to be admired. To see a sampling of the many colors of the Ginori 1735 Eggs, stop in at our Shadyside store.
Introducing you to Arte Italica Linens, by Crown Linen Designs! See how these stunning linens complement our dinnerware patterns and create a beautiful table! Crown Linen Designs was founded in 2014. Based in Kirkland, WA, they work with linen producers and embroidery artists in Eastern Europe in creating exquisite linen pieces for the table, kitchen, bed and bath. Unique and beautiful, their pieces are also very affordable, allowing everyone the opportunity to bring ...
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Be sure to check out all the new products from Arte Italica! Their spring collection has something for everyone, from dinnerware to home decor!
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The Times' John Herrman covers what it takes to go without Amazon.
Amazon has appeared to upset people across the spectrum, as "anticapitalist liberal college student[s] and...uber-capitalist conservative grandparents are both boycotting Amazon.”
Yet, Amazon is now so large that it's hard to escape its reach. Even the The New York Times' website is hosted by Amazon AWS services.
Stop in for your last-minute Christmas gift needs!
We have what you need, from seasonal items like
plates, platters, frames, mugs, candles, ornaments
to our usual inventory of Michael Aram, Waterford, Simon Pearce,
Nora Fleming, Baccarat, Arte Italica, Lladro, and more...
and of course the Alioto’s chocolate covered almonds and raisins!
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Natale is the perfect collection for the holiday's as well as the entire winter season. Snowy evergreens are centered around winter berries making it the perfect winter collection. Mix in solid chargers or playful plaid and create a look that is yours!
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Paint like an Italian master!
The Lastra Holiday DIY Gift Set allows you to paint a Vietri Salad Plate (10" diameter) in the comfort of your own home while viewing a painting demonstration by maestro artisan, Stefano Barbieri. The DIY Gift set provides exclusive access to the virtual tutorial.
Glassworks has the DIY Set in Stock. Stop in before they are gone!
This unique Gift Set includes: 1 Lastra Salad Plate bisque, 1 Lastra Holiday Mug, 3 Paints, 2 Paintbrushes, a FLO Red Bird ...
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Yiren Lu shares her experience of setting up a Shopify store in the New York Times magazine. Ms. Lu reports the setup process was easy, but her online Shopify store failed because it lacked marketing, aka eyeballs and orders. In her next article, I hope Ms. Lu tries Bridge. Bridge Store helps members fill the marketing component that Shopify is missing. When a store joins Bridge, Bridge instantly points hundreds of links to the store from other Bridge members, which Google sees and ...
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Alec MacGillis shares in the Times how online shopping and Amazon in particular are wrecking havoc on retail.
Highlights:
Nationwide, 9,800 stores shuttered in 2019, among them 220 Sears stores.
Analysts predict that brick-and-mortar store closures could reach 25,000 by year’s end.
J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus and J. Crew filed for bankruptcy, Macy’s furloughed nearly all of its 125,000 workers for months, and countless independent businesses have closed for good.
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.
We have a few businesses in our retail ...
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Our indie retailers are being hunted by four major forces:
Amazon
Big-box stores
Brands (selling direct)
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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