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INDEPENDENT RETAILER magazine is now the official news outlet for Wholesale Central visitors. Each monthly issue is packed with new product ideas, supplier profiles, retailing news, and business strategies to help you succeed.

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10/14/2016 - Seattle Gift Show Kicks Off Winter 2017 Buying Season
The Seattle Gift Show promises to bring a versatile selection of products built around the Pacific Northwest lifestyle January 6-9, 2017

10/13/2016 - Los Angeles Show Venues Join Forces
The LA MART and Urban Expositions have joined to reorganize the Winter 2017 edition of Los Angeles Gift and Home Market Week.

02/01/2010 - Knockout Adds Personality & Profits
Just a few short years ago, PameLA SLAughter of Knockout Decals had to educate potential buyers as to what exactly a hitch cover was.

01/01/2010 - Trademark Global's Shark Line Of Value Priced Appliances
TRADEMARK GLOBAL is the exclusive distributor of the Shark and Euro-Pro factory service line of appliances.

10/01/2009 - CloseoutCentral.com Named Official Wholesale Directory of The Transworld Merchandise Cente
Closeout Capital of America and Top Internet Closeout Directory strike dynamic cross promotional marketing deal.

04/01/2009 - Future Retail Formats
Not surprisingly, the economic downturn will be a big influence on which retail store formats will prosper and which will fade over the next few years.

09/01/2008 - Wal-MART Updates Logo
Already one of the more straightforward logos in the retail world, and certainly one of the best recognized worldwide, the Wal-MART Stores' logo is getting a makeover.

09/01/2008 - Product Preview: Small Electronics & E-Games
Welcome to September, the time when the hunt for the hottest holiday electronics gifts starts to rev up.

09/01/2008 - Gifts & Housewares Spell Holiday Sales
New product introductions provide impulse attention to gift and housewares categories. It is carefully selected price points, however, that make it easy for consumers to buy on impulse with accessible cash.

08/01/2008 - Toys & Novelties for Fun & Profits
Fun is never out of style. It reaches across all geographic regions and every demographic, and people pay for it, regardless of the economy.

08/01/2008 - Great Selection at BLAnket Depot
George Merling, President of BLAnket Depot, could be called a "BLAnket Barron." Though it is only a five-year-old company, BLAnket Depot has close to 2,500 bLAnket designs on their website.

08/01/2008 - Easy DVD Profits
Those who equate low priced DVDs with poor quality have never purchased from SuperDVDMART.com, a company which manufactures about 100,000 DVDs on-site every day using professional, digitized, high-definition printing.

04/01/2008 - Selling By Instinct At OBI
Tim Choklett, President of Opportunity Buys, Inc. (OBI), instinctively understands what people want. In grade school, he removed the centers of books to sell pieces of bubblegum he had purchased in bags.

04/01/2008 - Rhino MART Charges Ahead
Like the principles in Rhinoceros Success, the book that inspired him, Drawlon Tsang, owner of Rhino MART, is a focused, take charge person who has always accomplished his goals.

04/01/2008 - Redbox Expands In Walgreen's
Redbox, a DVD rental kiosk company based in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, has struck a deal to expand to approximately 2,000 Walgreen's drug stores

04/01/2008 - DolLAr Stores Thrive In Tough Times
Discussions of whether, technically, the nation is or is not in recession, and how long and how deep it might be, are irrelevant, suggests Jeff Green.

03/01/2008 - Wal-MART Food Fight
Wal-MART Stores Inc. is making deeper inroads into the grocery arena with a particuLAr aim at competing against newcomer, Tesco PLC.

03/01/2008 - Halloween & Party Items Spell Fun
Halloween items and party supply products are certainly not always simiLAr by nature.

02/01/2008 - Toy Wonders: Titans of Toys
Toy Wonders, the family owned and operated company, began in Taiwan four generations ago as a toy exporting business.

01/01/2008 - CA Sues Toy Co's
Jerry Brown, California's attorney general, has leveled a LAwsuit against 20 companies, cLAiming they sold toys containing unLAwful quantities of lead.

12/01/2007 - Amazon.com Ranked #1
Though customers have infinite options for shopping online, a few companies stand out as favorites, according to an inaugural Favorite 50 survey, conducted by BIGresearch.

11/01/2007 - Night Lite Aroma LAmps
L&V Creations offers a brand new line of exclusive products.

11/01/2007 - Lighter Leash Catches Fire
When John McCall discovered his wife was expecting their second child, he was a pick and pack fulfillment worker for Barproducts.com.

10/01/2007 - Stores Within Stores
Whether multiple retailers join forces in one location, or one retailer segregates a department into a boutique, the store within a store concept proliferates.

10/01/2007 - Five Business Burdens
There are very few entrepreneurs who would trade owning their own business for anything in the world.

09/01/2007 - Shoe Stores Consolidate
The Finish Line Inc.'s agreement to buy Genesco Inc. for $1.5 billion brings 2,850 shoe stores under single ownership

09/01/2007 - Private LAbel Booms
The nation's top retailers are differentiating by using private brands that customers can't find elsewhere.

09/01/2007 - Plus Sizes Growing
Demand for fashion by overweight people is expected to create a $107 billion market by 2012, according to a new report.

08/01/2007 - Wal-MART MoneyCenters
By the end of 2008, Wal-MART pLAns to open 1,000 MoneyCenters, which is approximately one quarter of its U.S. stores.

08/01/2007 - Stores Catching Up Online
Retailers that only sell online are rated higher in customer satisfaction than websites operated by brick and mortar retailers. But the LAtter group is catching up.

08/01/2007 - PayPal's Mobile Checkout
To reach small retailers that want to sell goods through mobile phones, PayPal has expanded its Mobile Checkout capability. The new service is also designed to be easy for consumers to use.

04/01/2007 - Web Re-Design For Success
Most experts advise web marketers to do a fairly complete overhaul of their site designs once every two or three years. Some say that you should redesign every single year, in order to stay ahead or at least level with the competition.

04/01/2007 - Wealthy Love Bargains
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that the rich are different from the rest of us.

03/01/2007 - PC Costly for Big Boxes
Political correctness at some of the country's big box chains may expLAin why Best Buy and others underperformed over the 2006 holidays, and why some independents thrived.

03/01/2007 - Minimum Wage Debate
As the House and Senate try to come to a meeting of the minds on minimum wage legisLAtion, retailers, small business owners and others weigh in on the consequences of adding an extra $2.10 an hour.

03/01/2007 - Cosmetics Sales Up
The cosmetics and toiletries market climbed four percent in 2006. Consumers are not only buying more of these products, they are also going for more upscale units.

02/01/2007 - Walgreens Adds Jewelry & More
Walgreens, the nation's LArgest drugstore chain, is reaching well beyond traditional drug store products with the addition of fashion jewelry, apparel and other lifestyle products.

02/01/2007 - Solid Year For Online Toy Sales
A survey of online toy wholesalers and retailers reveals a good but not great year in 2006, and promising prospects for '07.

01/01/2007 - Private LAbel Revolution
No longer just cheap alternatives, private LAbels represent 20 percent of U.S. retail sales. JC Penney, Target and Wal-MART are just some of the retailers that have recently announced increased emphasis on private LAbel merchandise.

01/01/2007 - How the Small Survive Online
While the Amazons, Dells and Sears of the Internet LAndscape dominate online commerce, it is the small wholesalers and retailers who make the web hum. Statistics on the exact number of mom and pop websites are tough to come by, but needless to say that without the millions of small online storefronts dotting the web, ecommerce would not be the bustling, diverse selling alternative that it is.