Heart's Desire is HIRING!!! We are a FUN, ENERGIZING & ENCOURAGING place to work! How do we know? Our employees! And, we don't have openings very often! Ideal candidate would be available to work 20-30 hours/week. Must be available to work 2-3 Saturdays per month (we are closed on Sundays!). Stop in TODAY to pick up an application or call the store at 972-335-1800 and we will email one to you!
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April 17, 2019
April 17, 2019
Boxes and some fixtures delivered. We have some job cut out for us. Lots to unpack and merchandise. So exciting. @ The Table at Latonas
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March 27, 2019
March 27, 2019
Today we celebrate 27 years of loving our jobs!
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March 21, 2019
March 21, 2019
For Sales Reps:
Is your job in danger? Faire, an online wholesale platform, wants to cut out reps. If you hear of your brands using Faire--or retailers--I'd ask them why they don't value sales reps.
Faire is not 'fair' to reps. It cheats you out of your hard work. Let's imagine you work on a retailer to open it, then clean its shelves, stock its shelves, and help it get product quickly. Then the store orders via Faire. When it does this, you're gonna be working for free.
I didn’t know that KitchenAid mixers were built in Ohio. And I didn’t know the lengths that owner Whirlpool takes to keep employees. Good job!
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February 15, 2019
February 15, 2019
Bridge is based in the East Village—across the East River from Long Island City where Amazon planned to get $3 billion in government tax breaks to build a new office. It promised 25k “high paying” jobs. Notably, one in five store fronts in the East Village are empty. The reasons for this vacancy vary. I’m not sure if Amazon abandoning its new HQ was a win for America but a loss for the East Village or maybe a win for both. I wish to see my local community grow and America grow. I hope NYC can ...
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February 3, 2019
February 3, 2019
9 Adorable and Fun Ways to Announce Your Engagement
Today’s Times investigates commercial property valuations for the purpose of tax collection. The article suggests that brick-and-mortar retailers are gaming the system to unfairly reduce their property value and therefore pay local governments less in taxes. In Michigan, from 2013 to 2017, this may have cost local government $100 million.
While this a fair investigation to undertake, I ask the Times to investigate the harmful tax effects of millions of shoppers buying at Amazon. Should we be ...
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December 31, 2018
December 31, 2018
Amazon will boost its two-hour delivery service to customers by building more Whole Foods, reports today’s WSJ. Amazon also offers a 30 minute grocery pickup. The retail future is increasingly about showing real-time stock online and encouraging customers to order it for delivery or pick it up. When Amazon gives faster delivery to more customers, those are often the same customers as those of indie stores. With these moves, Amazon is just eating more business’ customers.
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August 30, 2018
August 30, 2018
Just in.. these great looking single initial cutting boards by Maple Leaf. I’m grabbing one to keep out on the counter for lemons and other quick slicing jobs. How about you?
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June 22, 2018
June 22, 2018
Amazon gets you to buy more iPhones, lawn mowers, power washers, and movies by: first selling you bananas. Whole Foods, owned by Amazon, ropes you in with the promise of savings. These banana sales will translate down the road to a tighter grip on all of a consumers’ purchases and result in lost sales for all or most retailers including Best Buy, Home Depot, AutoZone, Nordstrom, and more.
This will likely result in job loss and lower tax revenue. That may put downward pressure on our ability ...
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April 23, 2018
April 23, 2018
Amazon is shaping up to be the new Walmart—paying its employees the bare minimum—and on top of that kill 10x more jobs than Walmart. Today’s WSJ shares that Amazon employees on average get just a bit more than Home Depot employees. While cities touted competing for the new Amazon HQ as a way to get 1,000s of high-paying jobs, the facts are Amazon is a cheapstake employer that gives most profits back to its Wall St. investors.
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March 13, 2018
March 13, 2018
Decisions! Decisions! It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it!! New selection of Vahan bracelets will be arriving very soon.
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Are you a local shop? Then these stats here from Carol Schroeder show why you’re important to your community.
$48 of every $100 stays in the community when you shop at an indie store. $14 of every $100 stays in the community when you shop at a chain store. Indie stores contribute: 3X MORE :)
For every $10 million in sales at a brick and mortar store, they employ 47 people. For every $10 million in sales at Amazon, it employs 19 people. Indie stores contribute: 2X MORE to local employment :)
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