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July 14, 2022 New Vietri Campagna Cane At Glassworks!
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New Vietri Campagna Cane At Glassworks!
July 14, 2022
Color is calling! From the famed Amalfi Coast, Campagna, Vietri's flagship dinnerware, offers endless possibilities for artistic entertaining with colorful patterns that capture the vitality of the Italian countryside. The newest design, Cane (Dog), features whimsical hand-painted pups playfully running through a seaside garden in Positano Village (light green plate in lower middle of pic). Campagna is made of dishwasher and microwave safe Terra Cotta, and is available in 7 color/animal ...
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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 12, 2022 The Knot is 'knot' good for indie stores
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The Knot is 'knot' good for indie stores
July 12, 2022
Bridge helps 1,000 indie stores offer gift registries.  We've handled 70,000 registries. One trend we've noticed over the year is The Knot, a leading wedding website provider, is minimizing sales opportunities for indie stores. The Knot has created partnerships with big-box players, including Crate & Barrel, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Amazon, and relegated the indie stores to the bottom of the bride's page. 

In this example, we see the indie stores displayed at the very bottom ...
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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 Amazon’s secret deal with the Port Authority canceled
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Amazon’s secret deal with the Port Authority canceled
July 8, 2022
Excerpts:
- A report produced by groups seeking to block it pointed out that the number of Amazon facilities in New Jersey grew to 49 from one between 2013 and 2020, helping to nearly triple the number of warehouse workers in the state, to about 70,000.

- The Port Authority revealed the proposed lease with Amazon in August, the day its board voted to authorize the deal.

- Under the proposed deal, Amazon tentatively committed to investing $125 million in renovating two buildings ...
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July 7, 2022 New Limited Edition Baobab Vezo Candles At Glassworks!
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New Limited Edition Baobab Vezo Candles At Glassworks!
July 7, 2022
Seaside getaway!
Thanks to the scents of sea salt and wild flowers, feel the sea spray as if you were there with Baobab's Betany and Anosy scented candles.
Top: the ocean scented Betany candle is named for a little fishing village in the south west of the island of Madagascar. The patterned candle holder of this sea salt scented candle has been hand-crocheted in raffia, with blue and turquoise fish motifs. This perfumed, amber candle will transport the freshness of sea spray to your home.
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July 6, 2022 $200 Off Your Atlanta Order
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$200 Off Your Atlanta Order
July 6, 2022
Bridge has teamed up with 23 premium brands to offer an exciting promotion. A retailer can place an order at the Atlanta show and get $200 off its wholesale order.  The store will receive a free Bridge account. The account will contain the products the store ordered.  With this solution, a store can quickly promote and sell what it just bought at the show.  The store's Bridge account will also contain other products that the brand offers. With this approach, the stores can quickly...
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July 6, 2022 WSJ: European Union challenges Amazon’s abuses
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WSJ: European Union challenges Amazon’s abuses
July 6, 2022
The EU has passed a law that will affect Amazon and other big tech companies. The law will likely make it harder for Amazon to promote its own private label products on its website at the expense of others. 

While this is welcome news to many, this is a small victory as Amazon’s ambitions are grand as well as its ability to outpace laws. For the first 25 years of the Internet, Amazon, founded in 1994, rode on the rails of the government being too slow to enforce online tax ...
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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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June 30, 2022 Happy 4th Of July With MacKenzie-Childs & More At Glassworks!
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Happy 4th Of July With MacKenzie-Childs & More At Glassworks!
June 30, 2022
Glassworks can help you get ready for those picnics, parties, and gatherings. We have serving pieces, alfresco melamine dinnerware, and red, white, & blue decor. Pictured: MacKenzie-Childs Royal Check items. Stop at the Shadyside store to see the full gambit of options. Have a Happy 4th of July!

Click here to shop for MacKenzie-Childs on this website.

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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 23, 2022 Vietri Rustic Garden Planters At Glassworks!
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Vietri Rustic Garden Planters At Glassworks!
June 23, 2022
Rustic Garden Planters and Cachepots are a beautiful and unique way to bring Italian style into your home and garden. Made of intricately handsculpted Terra Cotta, Vietri Garden pieces also make great gifts. See the selection of pieces at the Shadyside store.

Click here to shop for Vietri Rustic Garden on this website.
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June 21, 2022 $200 Off Your Wholesale Order
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$200 Off Your Wholesale Order
June 21, 2022
FOR RETAILERS

Bridge has teamed up with four brands to offer an exciting promotion. Stores can place an order at the Dallas or Atlanta shows and get $200 off their wholesale order.  The store will receive a free Bridge account. The account will contain the products the store ordered.  With this solution, a store can quickly promote and sell what it just bought at the show.  The Bridge account will also contain other products that the brand offers. With this approach, the stores...
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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 16, 2022 MacKenzie-Childs Rainbow Fish At Glassworks!
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MacKenzie-Childs Rainbow Fish At Glassworks!
June 16, 2022
We're serving up MacKenzie-Childs rainbows! 🌈 Bring much-needed color to the table this summer, while hosting gatherings with your friends and family, with Rainbow Fish platters and dishes.  🍽️❤️🐟
Also, it's nearly last call for Father's Day gifts. Stop at the Shadyside store for a selection of gift ideas.

Click here to shop for MacKenzie-Childs Rainbow on this website.
 
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June 16, 2022 Nice to see a major brand like Lego building a factory in the U.S.A.
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Nice to see a major brand like Lego building a factory in the U.S.A.
June 16, 2022
Today's Wall St. Journal shares Lego is building a factory in Virginia. Article highlights: 
  • Lego has 100 stores in the US. 
  • Lego closed its Connecticut factory in 2006, and moved a lot of production to Mexico.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lego-to-spend-1-billion-on-new-u-s-factory-11655307229 View Post

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