Emblazoned with an American bison, our WESTERN Buffalo Brooklyn Large Oval Platter brings beauty and function to your table with its generous oval surface, textured by sand-casting and polished by hand to a brilliant finish. Great for serving your favorite foods at gatherings, but equally useful throughout the house. Our SOHO Brooklyn Buffalo Square Medium Platter makes a great companion.
The WESTERN Antler Wreath Medium Platter is another handy serving piece,...
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The Times ran a massive 8-page section of Wilkes-Barre, PA’s downtown. The insert, one continuous piece (4-full pages each side), showed a Main Street in flux. Even with rent averaging $9/square foot, many stores are teetering on survival.
The only entities that seem to be growing in the area are universities and government agencies.
Trivia: Planters Peanuts was started here and used to have its office on this strip.
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Brands share their products with stores via the Smart Products marketing platform. Wouldn't it be helpful to see how those products are performing? Now you can. We added a new feature to help Smart Brands see how their products are performing. When a Smart Brand partner browses to a product in its Bridge account, it will now see a 'Product Performance' area. If you use Instagram, this feature may feel familiar. Instagram lets you view performance statistics for posts. We have brought ...
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Market Irvine is lifestyle, living, kitchen and tabletop goods shop dedicated to providing high-quality, beautiful, and unique goods to our customers. We currently carry premium brands including Chilewich, Jean Dubost Laguiole, Sabre Paris, Mepra, Berard, Eva Solo,Kuhn Keramik, Carron Paris, Alessi, Fellow, Arne Jacobsen, Braun, &tradition, Le Klint, Kinto, Baggu, Areaware, Notneutral, Falcon Enamelware, Reiss, Riedel, Spiegelau, Forge de Laguiole and more.
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The fabulous SIERRA MODERN Pedestal Cake Plate (Gold) boasts a richly textured, fabric-inspired top surface with a generous serving area, contrasting with a smoothly polished tapered base. Designed to hold a cake, but also perfect for serving a variety of foods in high style. The elevated gold-tone piece adds a modern new dimension to Beatriz Ball’s award-winning designs.
Mix and match SIERRA MODERN shapes, textures and finishes for an inspired and inspiring ...
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I’m excited to share a new, free service for our stores. Bridge is offering a wholesale ordering service where you can place wholesale orders via your Bridge account. More than 100 brands are participating.
Martin Garding, owner of Lawren's in Huntsville, shared this about Bridge's new wholesale service:
Bridge Wholesale is by far the easiest way to order from our suppliers. It cuts down on mistakes that could occur ordering through other channels. I like that the images and item ...
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All the splendor of Summer!
Beatriz Ball's newly expanded palette of metals will add color to your Summertime table in scrumptious tones of gold, rose gold, gunmetal and silver.
Shown above, the sensational GIFTABLES Sierra Modern Ocean Conch Salt Cellar with Spoon (Gold) features contrasting surfaces made unique and fresh with a proprietary champagne gold-tone metallic finish and a contrasting silvery hue. Small but beautifully formed, it brings a sense of luxe to any environment--from
Business leader Scott Galloway said this past week on his podcast Pivot that "complexity is a tax on the poor." I'd expand on that and posit that: complexity is a tax on indie businesses.
What if indie businesses could reduce the complexity and costs of running an online business? I believe we can. Bridge is reducing the costs of running an online business for more than a thousand businesses.
How do we reduce the 'tax'? Bridge often helps a retailer set up an online store ...
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The SIERRA MODERN Plano Long Oval Platter (Gold) in a brilliant champagne tone boasts a richly textured, fabric-inspired surface and generous serving area. With its distinctive shape and notched handle, it is reminiscent of an artist's palette. Perfectly flat and designed for serving cheese and charcuterie, it will add a modern touch to your home. One of the designer’s favorite new items, it is sure to be one of yours, too. Dishwasher safe!
All the splendor of Spring!
Beatriz Ball's newly expanded palette of metals will add color to your Springtime table in scrumptious tones of gold, rose gold, gunmetal and silver.
The multifunctional SIERRA MODERN Onyx Double Dip (Gold) is a perfectly elegant solution for many serving needs. Presented in a brushed gold finish, the cleverly designed piece separates and harmonizes your favorite foods.
The SIERRA MODERN Plano Long Oval Platter (Rose Gold) in a warm rosy
Your Bridge has a new feature. You can now more easily share products.
We have added a "Copy link" feature. This feature saves you time by allowing you to quickly copy the page's URL (website address) and share it to email or social media. We have even added this feature to the registry software. You can share links to specific items on a registry.
On each item's Details page, there is a "Share" area. In that Share area, you'll see a "Copy link" ...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Future Bridge Spokesperson?
Today's Wall St. Journal shares that Target stores saw a 20% increase in revenue--more than the chain had seen in the last 11 years combined. How did it do it? Target converted many of its physical stores into 'mini-warehouses,' where they can ship goods or have customers do curbside pick up.
What does this mean for indie stores? Stores will have to become more efficient in receiving online orders, which make up 40% of retail these ...
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Your Bridge has a new feature: you can choose if you wish to allow customers to order products that are out of stock. In the past, if the item was on your Bridge Store, it was assumed that the item was in stock. This made managing stock simple. On site: in stock. Not on site: out of stock.
This updated stock sharing system is helpful for brands and indie stores because it allows them show and control behavior based upon real-time stock information--a feature that with ...
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Using your Bridge, you can easily see how much tax you've collected on 2020 orders.
On the Tax Collection page, you can set a date range and view taxes collected. This makes it easier to do your 2020 taxes.
How to visit your Tax page:
1. On your Bridge account, at the very top, click on “Management.”
2. On the Management home page, under “Order Reporting,” please click on “Tax Collection.”
3. On the Tax Collection page, in the date range area, please ...
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New feature: you can now control expected delivery dates for products.
On your Details pages, your software outputs a date by which a customer can expect a product. Showing this date is a compelling strategy to get customers to order. As a reference, Amazon offers these expected delivery dates.
You can now change that date. For example, if today's date is May 1st, you can set the date to May 5th or May 15th.
You can edit this setting on the "General Settings" page under &...
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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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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.
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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