Serve up seasonal charcuterie with our serveware. 🍁✨ Add a touch of charm to your autumn gatherings by pairing them with small decor pieces like acorns, pumpkins or mushrooms.🍂 Perfect for creating a stylish and festive presentation at your table.
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A fresh complement to the rich, vibrant colors of the existing and widely-loved Autunno collection, these new serving pieces showcase the splendor of fall with detailed relief work. A marvel of Italian craftsmanship, the depictions of leaves and mushrooms will bring autumnal delight to your table for years to come.
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If we were renaming these pumpkins, they would be "Miss Mocha in the Morning", "The Twisty Little Spook" and "The All in One" (a pumpkin with acorns attached? Say less.) 🎃
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Our most loved best-sellers are an easy pick for wedding gifts, hostess gifts or a personal treat for your own home. So many gatherings in the fall, College games, NFL parties, Halloween porch parties, that have us celebrating and enjoying the warmth and coziness of this time of year.
Stock up on Beatriz Ball at your favorite local specialty store.
Absolutely, fall gatherings are all about warmth and nostalgia!🍁 To set the perfect table for a fall meal, try these tips:
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🍂Seasonal Decor: Think rich, earthy tones like burnt orange, deep reds, and golden yellows. Incorporate natural elements like mini pumpkins, pinecones, and autumn leaves. A cozy table runner or placemats in these colors can tie the look together.
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🖤Courtly Check: Add this pattern for a charming harvest motif, available in dinnerware, napkins, or even as a part of ...
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Transform your dining table into an autumn wonderland! Our napkin rings, made from 100% natural vines, showcase the rich textures and earthy tones of the season. Perfect for every gathering!
Ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote in the Dialogue Republic, “A need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem.” This statement led to the phrase “Necessity is the mother of Invention." These words could very well describe Shop Local and how we came to exist. Over time, some have suggested the phrase could be tweaked to read “necessity is the mother of reinvention." This phrase also parallels Shop Local's ethos of supporting...
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Great news: Tableware Today, the bi-monthly print magazine dedicated to our industry, will be publishing our Leaderboard results on the last page of each coming issue.
This article below will appear in the October/November 2024 issue of Tableware Today and explains our inspiration for the Leaderboard.
FOR BRANDS AND RETAILERS
Your Shop Local Store has an updated feature: You can now easily view the whereabouts of a wholesale order. A member can view if the order has shipped, the carrier (e.g. UPS, FedEx, etc.), and the expected delivery date.
If you're a retailer, you can view the status of multiple shipments from different brands on one page. Without this feature, you'd need to visit, say, five different brand websites or carrier websites, log in, and search for this information.
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Embrace the coziness of fall with Mocha Check Pumpkins, the understated sibling of our beloved Courtly Check. Explore our newest autumn-inspired styles today. 🍂🎃
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With echoes of caryatids, the draped female figures used as columns in ancient Greek architecture, Herend's sculptor has created a compote supported by three elegant seahorses with draping as well - albeit with a pattern alluding to the intricate armored plates that cover their bodies. Once this piece was given to the painting studio, the artists added to the story by decorating each seahorse in a slightly different fishnet color palette reflecting their maritime home. To complete the beautiful ...
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We're taking a bit of a break for most of the month of August. You might see a few social posts from us, but we hope to be fairly quiet. The warehouse will be inactive. However, we're always somehow plugged in and available via email if you have a question and the website is ALWAYS open for wholesale orders. Plan to visit the wholesale website platformand get your holiday order to us. With our low minimums and streamlined ordering process, it is easy to create your...
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Why only 30% of wedding gift givers will come into a store in 2030--and how we can help prepare for that
July 23, 2024
Tableware Today’s Editor Amy Stavis invited me to pen the Last Word column for the August / September issue. I start by comparing e-commerce trends for selling automobiles to selling dinner plates. Online sales in both industries have swelled in the last 25 years. (I entered the e-commerce business at the right time—in 2001.)
I predict that 70% of wedding registry gift givers will never set foot in a physical store by 2030. Currently, that number is at about 50%. If we do in fact ...
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How Shop Local's software quickly added cookware and kitchen accessories to the online store for a popular Duluth kitchen store.
June 7, 2024
Shop Local welcomes Duluth Kitchen Company in Duluth, MN. Duluth Kitchen Company has joined the Shop Local software platform to grow its online business. This locally owned store offers a wide assortment of kitchen tools, gadgets, and gourmet food items.
The Duluth Kitchen Company brings specialty kitchen to Duluth. Located on the shore of Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota, Duluth is a favorite destination. Visitors come to enjoy the beautiful scenery, shop, dine, and soak in the history of...
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Brand strategy is one of the most powerful initiatives an organization can undergo. It’s an opportunity to evolve a company’s mission and value proposition based on current and future customer needs with the result being a purpose-led, customer-centric road map to create enhanced value for customers. ANDMORE recently completed this process as we rebranded from International Market Centers (IMC) last year. ANDMORE is more than just a new name and logo, it’s a framework for how ...
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Capturing the essence of nature and drawing inspiration from Moroccan landscapes, Marrakesh adds a sense of purity and authenticity to any table setting.
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Have you ever encountered a space so breathtaking that you find yourself pausing to admire its sheer artistry? Casa Azul, nestled amidst the desert-like surroundings of Grândola, Alentejo in Portugal, is precisely such a place.
With its ochre-tinted walls carefully designed not to clash against the sandy landscape, Casa Azul provided the perfect backdrop for our Marrakesh collection photoshoot. Inspired by the vibrant colors of Morocco, from sandy shades to ochre hues, soft greens to ...
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