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August 1, 2022 Round Serving / Ottoman Tray
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Round Serving / Ottoman Tray
August 1, 2022
This round woven serving and ottoman trays will instantly add a gorgeous touch to any room. This tray can also be used as a kitchen decor, accessorized with a candle, or used as a unique coffee tray table.


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraorinary durability
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July 29, 2022 The Classy Kitchen. 🤍
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The Classy Kitchen. 🤍
July 29, 2022
Elevate your kitchen by setting the table with our Sterling Check Collection. ✨🏁 View Post
July 28, 2022 WSJ: The Challenges of Buying a Town’s Beloved Small Business
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WSJ: The Challenges of Buying a Town’s Beloved Small Business
July 28, 2022
The Wall St. Journal shares a story that many indie stores may be able to relate to: the challenge of selling your business. The Journal shares issues that arise when ownership changes.  Small, brick-and-mortar stores are more likely to face a big decline in sales than, say, a large IT company. 

Excerpt:
"The revenue drop following the sale of a business can range from an expected 20% to 30% in the case of an IT-services provider to 50% in the case of a hair salon, says Sam ...
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July 26, 2022 Helping Stores Work More Efficiently
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Helping Stores Work More Efficiently
July 26, 2022
This graphic shows the situation in which many retailers find themselves. Many retailers are stuck trying to connect their digital wholesale buying and their stores’ websites.
  • On the left, we see wholesale software operators, including MarketTime, Juniper, Faire, Bridge, etc.
  • In the middle is the retailer.
  • On the right we see retail (D2C) software providers, including Bridge, Shopify, Big Commerce, etc. 
The software entities on the left should connect ...
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July 24, 2022 Tableware Today: 4 Brands Promote Bridge
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Tableware Today: 4 Brands Promote Bridge
July 24, 2022
We're happy to see four brands promote Bridge in Tableware Today's August/September 2022 issue.

In each advertisement, the brand displays Bridge’s ‘B’ logo in the lower left or right of the page.  The brands that promote Bridge include:
  • Bordhallo Pinheiro
  • Carmel Ceramica
  • Pampa Bay
  • Vista Alegre

The brands show the Bridge logo so that retailers reading the publication will know that they can easily sell the products shown. Since e-commerce makes up 30% of U...
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July 24, 2022 Bridge Client Mikasa Mentioned in the Wall St. Journal
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Bridge Client Mikasa Mentioned in the Wall St. Journal
July 24, 2022
This weekend’s WSJ shares how Bed Bath & Beyond customers preferred Mikasa over BBB’s private label brands. When BBB couldn’t give customers what they wanted, sales tanked—and the CEO, Mark Tritton, was shown the door. 

BBB is not the only major retailer questioning the recent mania to offer private labels. Amazon is walking back its private label brands, but is doing to for another reason: the Department of Justice may be investigating it for anti-competitive...
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July 20, 2022 Amazon and Facebook Have Made the Web 10,000 Times Dirtier
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Amazon and Facebook Have Made the Web 10,000 Times Dirtier
July 20, 2022
Amazon issued a press release stating that it is fighting with 10,000 Facebook groups that sell fake Amazon reviews. It’s ironic, since Amazon has been a chief promoter of the avenue allowing this behavior: Section 230. Section 230 allows tech platforms to host and indirectly promote just about any type of bad behavior, including illegal behavior (fake review services and yes, human trafficking, murder-for-hire, etc.) and then say it’s just a community space and belatedly remove the ...
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July 12, 2022 Super Subscriptions 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦹🏽‍♂️
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Super Subscriptions 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦹🏽‍♂️
July 12, 2022
This past week, Amazon announced it was adding Grubhub delivery to its Prime subscription (Read the news about Amazon and Grubhub here). The goal of Amazon Prime (and other subscription services) is to make the subscription so pervasive that it's sticky. Don’t like Prime movies? Ok, but you love free Grubhub delivery. If you don’t need feature X and want to cancel, you realize you still need feature Y and keep paying for the subscription. 

This past week, The Wall St. Journal...
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July 10, 2022 Naked truth: Amazon doesn't appear to care if it sells fakes
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Naked truth: Amazon doesn't appear to care if it sells fakes
July 10, 2022
Retail Dive reports on Amazon's lazy claims that it cares about stopping counterfeits. Counterfeiters on Amazon may steal a brand's product design, name, and product pictures. When a brand reports this to Amazon, Amazon often does: nothing.

This is an issue for American brands.  For example:
  • A brands creates a product. The brand pays for research and development.
  • Brand may pay to have it made in America.
  • Brand takes professional pictures of the finished product.
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July 8, 2022 PYP: Primp Your Porch ✨
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PYP: Primp Your Porch ✨
July 8, 2022
During the summer months while you’re in and out of the home, use your necessities as decor. 🌞
You can leave the garden boots, tools, and watering cans out when they are dressed in your favorite MC patterns. ❤️🏁 View Post
July 6, 2022 'Dem Apps 🍎
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'Dem Apps 🍎
July 6, 2022
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon, who plays a handsome MIT janitor moonlighting as a math savant (can one say, “Hollywood career vehicle”?), woos a young lady (played by the actress Minnie Driver) by outmaneuvering a few competing, obnoxious cads. When Damon’s character gets the girl's telephone number, he proudly shows it to the other guys and boasts, with his South Boston access, “How 'bout ‘dem apples?”  I imagine Tim Cook imitating this...
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July 1, 2022 Happy Independence Day!
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Happy Independence Day!
July 1, 2022
When you think of the Fourth of July, a few things probably come to mind: fireworks, hot dogs, and American flag fashion statements being among them. Who could blame you? July 4th is one of the most festive holidays of the year. The weather is warm, calendars are full of fun events, and everyone seems to be in a sunny state of mind—and for good reason. We have a lot to celebrate. View Post
June 30, 2022 Showtime 🎪
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Showtime 🎪
June 30, 2022
The next book our Bridge team may read is John List’s book The Voltage Effect.  List, who is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, shares a variety of suggestions to grow a business. He warns us about false positives, such as what the “Just Say No” drug campaign experienced. He suggests we look for businesses with scalable ingredients. (People are not scalable, but good news for Bridge: software is!)

I'd add to List's advice this simple maxim: show ...
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June 29, 2022 He never promised her a "Rose Garden" so for her wedding .....
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He never promised her a "Rose Garden" so for her wedding .....
June 29, 2022
She decided to celebrate with roses....hundreds of them!
A wedding is the perfect time to go all out and when a bride loves roses as much as Amber does it just made sense to treat her guest to a rose garden wedding.
What was unexpected was the temperature of nearly 100 degrees. Bliss Fleurs knew just how to keep those roses looking their best - with plenty of hydration!
We just had to share photos of this beautiful wedding with you..
https://blissfleurs.com
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June 27, 2022 WSJ: If your porch has a lot of Amazon packages, maybe take down the American flag
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WSJ: If your porch has a lot of Amazon packages, maybe take down the American flag
June 27, 2022
If someone has an American flag flying on their porch and Amazon boxes often at their doorstep, maybe they should take the flag down and put up a Chinese flag. Amazon appears to be profiting by cutting out much our domestic retail community and instead helping Chinese businesses.  And don’t expect Amazon to pay much in local taxes either. 

This past weekend’s WSJ shares how third-party sellers, many of them from China, have flooded Amazon with spurious listings, leaving ...
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June 21, 2022 Help Your Stores and Receive $500
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Help Your Stores and Receive $500
June 21, 2022
FOR SALES REPS

Promotion:
  • I'll send you $500 for each retailer that you sign up for Bridge Store.
  • Stores that use Bridge sell 18% more. When you sign up a store for Bridge, you increase your commissions year-round.

What the store receives:
  • An online store.
  • Award-winning, best-in-class gift registry software.
  • Product data from Product Syncing Brands. (Please note: the store must be an authorized dealer to sync products.)
  • The ability to add an unlimited
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June 20, 2022 Rescued Kennel Puppies Love Bridge 🐶
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Rescued Kennel Puppies Love Bridge 🐶
June 20, 2022
My friend works at the Swiss running shoemaker ON. She recently texted me and suggested I try their running shoes.  Three weeks later, I was handling two boxes of their Swiss engineered shoes.   On one ON shoe, there is a little Swiss flag and the words “Swiss Engineering” printed. When I get a pair of Nike’s, they don’t say "Beaverton-engineering" or "US-engineering." Nor do Adidas shoes proclaim “German engineering.”  ...
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June 19, 2022 Swimsuits help reveal the costs behind retail goods
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Swimsuits help reveal the costs behind retail goods
June 19, 2022
Do you love a great deal on a t-shirt or TV? Sure, we all do. Yet, sometimes when we shop, the lower the price we pay, the less we pay: people.  People that make the goods (factory workers) and people that sell the goods (aka indie store owners) are the victims in the discount-pricing rush. 

Today’s Times shares that making a bathing suit in Sir Lanka costs about $4 per unit while in Portugal it may cost $16. In NYC, the minimum wage is $15/hour—making production in NYC ...
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June 19, 2022 Happy Fathers Day!
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Happy Fathers Day!
June 19, 2022
Being a great dad can mean so many things. From offering advice when the going gets tough, to giving the perfect hug or lightening up the mood with a cheesy yet aptly timed joke, fathers are simply the best. That being said, happy Fathers Day! View Post
June 15, 2022 Building the Horizon 🌄
Building the Horizon 🌄
June 15, 2022
The Brick report helps our company track our past and current progress. Our team can easily look back at the last 78 weeks and know what we did. (Most companies would be hard pressed to do this easily.) The Brick brings us together and keeps us on the same (web)page.  Its success leads to me ask: “Could we have an approach that helps us look at our future?" I’ve sometimes thought about crafting a weekly 'Horizon Report' that would share what’s next for us.  

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