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This weekend's Wall Street Journal features a Philippe Deshoulieres Arcades bread & butter plate in its Rock of Lamb article.
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Today's Wall St. Journal shares the steps that Best Buy is taking to ward off 'showrooming,' the trend where consumers use phystical stores to browse, but buy the item online.
Suggestions:
+ Start loyalty programs.
+ Offer free shipping on all orders.
+ Offer a price-match gaurantee.
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This weekend's Wall St. Journal profiles the popularity of orchids and mentions Anna Weatherley's fine china orchid plates.
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This weekend's Wall St. Journal profiles the popularity of orchids and mentions Anna Weatherley's fine china orchid plates.
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In this weekend's Wall St. Journal interview with chef Sang Yoon, the chef shares his fondness for Thomas Keller's Raynaud Hommage tableware. The specific item shown is the Hommage spoon.
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This weekend's Wall St. Journal profiles the popularity of orchids and mentions Anna Weatherley's fine china orchid plates.
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In this weekend's Wall St. Journal interview with chef Sang Yoon, the chef shares his fondness for Thomas Keller's Raynaud Hommage tableware. The specific item shown is the Hommage spoon.
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The Wall St. Journal profile's Thomas Keller, and mentions Keller's Raynaud hospitality tableware.
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WSJ predicts...Bridge?
This article from today's WSJ caught my eye. If you read the highlighted areas in yellow, what business comes to mind as a solution to both trends? :)
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We enjoyed this article by Deborah Needleman which appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Our store is known for crafting many of the trends mentioned in this aricle, including tips 1 and 9. The porcelain monkeys she praises are by Mottahedeh ($145).
10 Odd, Yet Essential, Elements of Style
Decorating today may be more relaxed, but that means it's up to you to give your home spirit and charm
The era of the perfect home has passed. This is
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This article from today's Wall St. Journal shares marketing techniques used by Whole Foods and others to market goods. I think retailers, brands, and sales reps. may use it for inspiration about how they may market their items.
Beginning of article:
By MARTIN LINDSTROM
As someone who's been on the frontlines of the branding wars, I've spent countless hours with CEOs, advertising executives and marketing mavens at some of the biggest companies in...
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The Wall St. Journal profiled che Anne-Sopphie Pic in today's paper. Mrs. Pic created a line of tableware with Raynaud that is sold by DeVine Corporation in the United States.
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Buy tableware designed by Chef Anne-Sopphie Pic and made by Raynaud
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The Wall Street Journal spoke with Thomas Keller about food in today's paper. Mr. Keller uses Raynaud porcelain tableware to produce his Checks tableware that he uses in his restaurants.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo is creating a publishing platform called LIvestand.
This brought to mind a new term that I think is fitting for the Bridge: product publishing. The Bridge is a product publishing platform that allows brands and retailers to easily distribute 'content', which in this case is products. View Post
The Wall St. Journal magazine interviewed the founder of the online store Net-a-Porter. I think her views may be able to help Bridge partners sell more. Some excerpts are below:
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People have attributed the site’s success to the black box. I think it’s because everyone had such low expectations of what online shopping would be—that it had to be no-frills, discounted goods picked from a shelf and shoved into an ordinary cardboard box. We’...
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This article below from the Wall St. Journal last week explains a new tool from Mint.com (owned by the giant Intuit). The tool lets people set savings and spending goals on the website mint.com, a massively powerful and widely used online financial site.
What if the same could be done for brands and retailers, so a store could set sales goals for their physical store on a brand's website? The brand's website would give the ...
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As Stores Sputter, Sales Sizzle Online
Dec. 15 Sets Record for Web-Site Revenue; Sears, Macy's,Other Big Retailers Lure Internet Shoppers
By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
A holiday season of Web price wars and aggressive online promotions by store-based retailers is leaving e-commerce a larger force in American retail.
While sales conducted at brick-and mortar stores are about flat this season compared with 2008, online retailing grew 4% from the ...
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