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February 28, 2024 Modern Reflections Rustic Woven Tray
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Modern Reflections Rustic Woven Tray
February 28, 2024
This sturdy tray with a glass bottom and woven diamond geometric pattern is ideal for the sophisticated host or hostess. Your dining room centerpiece can be readily displayed with the help of this gorgeous vanity tray. This expertly woven item will stand out no matter where you place it since it mixes a mirrored glass center with durable exotic vines.


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February 26, 2024 Enjoy Breakfast and Make Memorable Experiences
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Enjoy Breakfast and Make Memorable Experiences
February 26, 2024
It gives us great joy to craft this elegantly woven centerpiece bread basket,  which comes in two sizes, perfect for your event or breakfast nook where you may greet the morning with delectable pastries, coffee, and your preferred artisan bread. A warm and inviting way to begin the day with your loved ones.


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February 22, 2024 Basket of Fresh Artisan Bread
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Basket of Fresh Artisan Bread
February 22, 2024
Enjoy this long Calaisio bread basket for celebrations, parties, and large family meals. Its stunning rustic colors, which come from organic exotic vines, will enhance the flavor of your bread and make it ideal for serving handmade sourdough bread, pastries, muffins, rolls, or bagels.  Dimensions are 19.25 inches long by 9.25 inches wide. Have a great day and indulge in your locally made bread with a complimentary bread basket that has similar color tones.


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February 21, 2024 New Feature: Registrants Can Designate their Most Wanted Items ⭐️
How registrants can share their top registry items with family and friends.
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New Feature: Registrants Can Designate their Most Wanted Items ⭐️
How registrants can share their top registry items with family and friends.
February 21, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: Your registrants can now designate an item on their registry as a most wanted item. 

When a registrant marks an item as a most wanted item, the item is noted with a star and the text "This is a Most Wanted Item." This is displayed on the registry list and shares the registrant's top choices with family and friends. 

If you have the gift registry service active, please follow these steps to view this new feature:
  1. Log in to
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February 15, 2024 New Missoni At Feathers!
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New Missoni At Feathers!
February 15, 2024
Feathers has a new array of Missoni on display. Spread softness and color around your bedroom and living room with Pillows and Throws.  Embrace the body with the soft textures of Robes and Towels. Stop in and add some zigzag to your style!
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February 15, 2024 Glass Serving Trays For Party Entertaining
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Glass Serving Trays For Party Entertaining
February 15, 2024
Present fruit slices or other chilled appetizers that are easy for guests to grab. Made from naturally rustic-hued vines, this gorgeous rectangular glass-bottomed woven tray by Calaisio will quickly become your favorite go-to serving piece and bring an elegant yet rustic touch to your home entertaining for an eye-catching display. This is an excellent option for a housewarming or gift proposal for a hostess. Available in 2 sizes.


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natural elegance, extraordinary durability



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February 6, 2024 Sweet Treats For Valentine`s Day
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Sweet Treats For Valentine`s Day
February 6, 2024
You can serve food or chocolates on this creative snack tray with a mirror display, or you can just let the decoration do the talking. Serving in a rustic, hand-woven tray crafted from natural vines, packed with chocolates, pastries, or delectable finger food, is the epitome of fun! Enjoy your Valentine's Day!


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February 5, 2024 New Feature: More Easily Make a Gift A Surprise
A new feature lets your store tell a registrant about a gift purchase but not reveal too many details.
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New Feature: More Easily Make a Gift A Surprise
A new feature lets your store tell a registrant about a gift purchase but not reveal too many details.
February 5, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now decide what information a registrant sees in the registry purchase alert email. 

Previously, all registry purchase alert emails displayed the gift giver and gift details. With this update, the "limited information" setting allows your store to only inform them that a gift was given. This feature's purpose is to help keep the gift's details a surprise to the registrant.

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February 2, 2024 Love Is in the Making
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Love Is in the Making
February 2, 2024
Put your beautiful moments on display.
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Our Heart Collection is handcrafted and built around the simple but universal symbol of love, hope, friendship and caring. View Post
January 30, 2024 Mini Grazing Platter Makes The Perfect Gift
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Mini Grazing Platter Makes The Perfect Gift
January 30, 2024
This mini grazing woven tray with a mirror display is perfect for serving canapés, hors d`oeuvres or chocolates, or you can just let the food arrangement take center stage as it is reflected from the tray's bottom mirror. It is always wonderful to savor a treat or snack on this woven tray constructed from organic vines with lovely rustic color tones. An ideal present for the person hosting.  Approximately 14" L × 5" W x 1" H.


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January 23, 2024 New Feature: Registry Overview Page
How to view information about your registry service on one page.
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New Feature: Registry Overview Page
How to view information about your registry service on one page.
January 23, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier for your store to view an overview of your registry service. The new Registry Overview page displays information about your store's registries at a glance. 

Previously, you would need to visit different registry-related pages to view many of these links. This feature reduces the number of clicks needed to access pages.

The Registry Overview page displays the following information:
  • Your Registry
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January 11, 2024 Thanks, Neil ☺️
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Thanks, Neil ☺️
January 11, 2024
Greetings from Dallas. Good to see our brand partners promoting their Shop Local Syncing service in their showrooms.  Here we see Neil Peters, national sales director for Carmel Ceramica, holding a Shop Local display.  A merchant can scan the QR code and get all Carmel’s products online instantly. 

You’re invited to download a PDF of the showroom flyer here: 
https://bridge.myshoplocal.com/docs/BRC/Showroom-flyer---one-pager---get-our-products-online-v3.pdf

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January 11, 2024 New Feature: View an Order’s Real-Time Shipping Status
How to track packages in real-time in order to save time and make customers happier.
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New Feature: View an Order’s Real-Time Shipping Status
How to track packages in real-time in order to save time and make customers happier.
January 11, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You (and your customers) can now easily see real-time shipping status for an order. Your Store displays the current shipping status (in transit, delivered, etc.) and the complete tracking history for the order.
 
Before this update, one had to view the shipping service’s website (e.g FedEx.com) to view its status. Now, you or shoppers can view all orders' real-time status on your Shop Local Store and in emails. 
 
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January 10, 2024 Enjoy This Mini Grazing Platter
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Enjoy This Mini Grazing Platter
January 10, 2024
The Extra Small Grazing Board feeds two to three people for grazing and is the ideal size for carrying to potlucks, office parties, and a variety of other events. The extra-small tray features a glass bottom that lets you display your treasured goodies while highlighting the tray's exquisite weaving details. Its organic, exotic vines' natural, golden-brown hues enhance any food presentation and make it look even more delicious. Approximately 14" L × 5" W x 1" H, with ...
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January 9, 2024 Help Your Stores & Get $70
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Help Your Stores & Get $70
January 9, 2024
FOR BRANDS AND AGENCIES

We've made a showroom flyer for you.   This flyer can be put in an upright display as well as printed and given to retailers. 

You are invited to print the attached PDF.

Bonus:
  • We'll send you $50 for displaying the flyer in an upright display. 
  • We'll send you $20 for printing these materials in order to hand them out in the showroom.
  • Your total compensation: $70.
  • For redemption of this offer, please email [email protected]
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January 9, 2024 You'll Love This Mirrored Vanity Tray
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You'll Love This Mirrored Vanity Tray
January 9, 2024
Present eco-modern design with this mirrored vanity tray. It features a frame made of exotic vines for an artistic vibe. This 14-inch-long by 5-inch-wide tray includes a mirror at the bottom that reflects whatever you place on it to make a statement. This multipurpose mini vanity tray can be used to store jewelry on your dresser or as an amusing display. 


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December 27, 2023 5 Reasons Laura May Uses the Wholesale Service
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5 Reasons Laura May Uses the Wholesale Service
December 27, 2023
Your Shop Local account offers a built-in solution to shop thousands of products. The Wholesale service combines the best features from wholesale marketplaces and buying on a brand’s site into a new service. Shop Local retailers can save time and money by using the Wholesale service. 

The Ivy House, an indie retailer in Texas that has used our e-commerce software since 2015, uses the Wholesale service to save time and money. Laura May, the owner of The Ivy House, easily places...
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December 19, 2023 Calaisio Holiday Dining & Entertaining: Christmas Breakfast Bread Basket
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Calaisio Holiday Dining & Entertaining: Christmas Breakfast Bread Basket
December 19, 2023
Put all of your buns, rolls, breadsticks, or slices of French baguette into this beautifully woven basket for an elegant display at your dinner table! Handwoven from organic forest vines, it has a rustic, golden tint that goes well with the woodsy tones of pine wood, making it ideal for the Christmas season. You can either leave the bread in alone and clean it with a damp cloth, or you can add a colored napkin of your choice. This Christmas season, indulge in breakfast all day long with this ...
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December 17, 2023 The new threat: Chinese apps backed with Chinese factories
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The new threat: Chinese apps backed with Chinese factories
December 17, 2023
The Atlantic shares how Chinese factories have found a new way around U.S. retailers and into our homes: Chinese apps. SHEIN and other Chinese apps are bypassing Amazon to be a new leader in Chinese goods.  In addition to Amazon, Target, Walmart, and indie shops now have a new group of digital competitors embedded in customers’ pockets. 

Except from The Atlantic article: 

MATERIAL WORLD
IS THIS HOW AMAZON ENDS?
An open embrace of cheap foreign products has helped ...
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December 15, 2023 Showroom Flyer to Promote Your Syncing Service
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Showroom Flyer to Promote Your Syncing Service
December 15, 2023
This showroom flyer can be used in two ways:
  • Placed in an upright display in a showroom.
  • Given to retailers. 

You are invited to print the attached PDF.
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