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Spotted this sign in the Meatpacking District at a salon.
The sign was made by this beauty brand: https://us.davines.com/
Thank you Davines and K & S Salon 🥳
Happy to see Smeg, our new brand partner, get a mention in the WSJ as a potential wedding registry gift to the rich and discerning:
https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-wedding-gifts-17b25604?st=bh7C4J&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
While riding the train to Philadelphia recently, I was drawn to this column’s prominent use of stats. We learn that this cookbook author has: 88k Instagram followers, 27k TikTok followers, and 23k Substack subscribers. People are drawn to numbers because they suggest facts and can give a quick sense of importance, and easily make comparisons. A factor’s relevance may be hard to gauge and subjective, but social media helps by giving it a numeric value. Want a
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Good news: Shop Local is hiring. We're looking for:
- Sales Managers.
- Account Managers.
If you know someone who may be interested, please contact us.
We are experiencing notable growth: 1,400+ retailers now use our platform. We're driving double-digit revenue growth for our merchants.
Qualifications
We are looking for motivated people that:
- Wish to see indie stores, brands, and reps succeed.
- Support the shop local movement.
- Are comfortable with computers, websites,
This wedding season brides are saying “Yes” to local shops. Brides are smart. They know local shops make it easy - offering gift wrapping, bridal shower pick ups, and quick exchanges. Gifts arrive in one piece. Online-only retailers may take a while to ship gifts, may deliver crumpled, wet, dirty packages, and may leave customers with higher return costs. Let’s say "I do" to local shops.
Austin Kleon’s newsletter shared a museum show’s title, “Write it down, draw it out.” Austin and I both believe in that motto.
Our team here is constantly writing down and drawing out retail business processes. This helps us understand them and improve the software to serve our customers.
While this may be the last issue of Tableware Today, it’s surely not the last of what the magazine has given us. What surrounds me and you has been touched and improved by Amy and Tableware Today in small and big ways. Over the last 19 years, thanks to Tableware Today, I’ve gained friends, grown my business, and enriched my life. In 2006, I was fresh into the tableware website scene and it was hot. I’m not talking limo rides, after-hours parties, and bottle service; I’m
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We're sad to share this is the last issue of Tableware Today. We will miss seeing our friends in the issues.
In the issue, Vista Alegre, Casa Alegre, Orrefors , and Kosta Boda promote the Shop Local platform.
- A brand displays our ShopLocal.org logo so that retailers reading the magazine know they can easily sell the products shown.
- When a brand offers our Syncing service, a retailer can instantly display the brand's entire product catalog online.
- The retailer's
Congrats to Caroline Weaver for her creativity and community service:
https://nypost.com/2025/05/15/lifestyle/shop-local-queen-beat-tariffs-with-store-of-nyc-made-goods/
We're happy to see that Portmeirion is including a Shop Local flyer in new catalogs sent to its retailers. The flyer invites the store to quickly sell what is in the catalog by instantly sharing products via Shop Local.
The flyer has a QR code that leads to a page explaining the benefits of connecting with Portmeirion on Shop Local. You're invited to view that page here:
https://portmeirion.myshoplocal.com/about-shop-local.cfm
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