Tag Archives: Shop Local

Refreshing Your Store : Part 2

Remember last month’s blog, “Refreshing Your Store Can Keep You Growing”, which you can find here: We speculated that Target’s numbers would get better as more stores were updated and the improved shopping experience spread through the chain and, in … Continue reading

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Supreme Court Decision Is In – Sales Tax for Online Purchases Coming.

With the big news about online sales tax handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court today, we thought we’d post a few early articles that may be of interest.  The actual implementation and implications for each business will be coming … Continue reading

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A Surprising Gen Z Trend

Gen Z is roughly the age group of today’s teenagers. There were a couple of surveys at the end of 2017, one by PWC and one by Piper Jaffray, that taken together showed something very interesting for retailers. The first … Continue reading

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Self-Gifting? Yes, please!

Self-gifting is a growing trend and it’s certainly one that you can have some fun with and grow sales. Many people pickup up a little something for themselves while out buying presents for a holiday, event or birthday present for their … Continue reading

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Small Business Saturday – November 25, 2017

The first Small Business Saturday was way back in 2010.  The country was trying to recover from the Great Recession and small retailers were struggling to keep the doors open. Since then, the economy has been steadily recovering and Small … Continue reading

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Want to Improve Business? Listen to Warren Buffett

Are you in a rut and trying to figure out how to improve your business?  Every so often it’s a good idea to take a breather and think about something Warren Buffett said. No he’s not perfect and he’d be … Continue reading

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What We Can Learn About Retail From Craft Beer

Let’s talk about beer.  You may or may not like beer but there are plenty of lessons in that business for all retailers. Beer has been dominated by a few large brewers and then controlled at a local level by … Continue reading

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