Think Big by Going Small

Creating a Wishlist or Gift Registry that is exclusive can be a tricky business. Building a Wishlist or Gift Registry which is unique and has your essence can be very satisfying. However, the difficulty and challenge lies in finding the vendors for the items in your wishlist. This is where a local neighbourhood store or a small business comes into picture.

One may argue that shopping today is as simple as clicking a mouse button. True there is a torrent of huge online stores with millions of options, but browsing through all the items becomes tiring. Also the most irritating trait of giant stores is that most of the stuff they sell is same with different packaging, many a time they don’t even bother to change the packaging. And god forbid if your wish for something unconventional, rich and diverse.

Going local by using small businesses or neighbourhood stores is the best way to find the vendors or shops to service your quirky and distinctive Wishlist or Gift Registry. When you love what you do, it reflects. And that is why the big businesses can never compete with the passion that Small business owners have. The personalized and customer centric experience from shopping at the local and small stores is second to none. For them you are not one of the thousands of customers, your patronage matters and they go out of their way to make a real and personal connection with you. The small businesses have created a niche for themselves among the customers looking for innovative and personalized experience. In fact, the gifts that are not available in giant chains can be easily customized or handmade to your likings at that small around the corner shop. Encouraging small and independent businesses is also need of the hour and you can help bring a better change to your community by supporting them.

Think small and we guarantee, you will be pleasantly surprised.

Kimberly Atwood’s books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. Kimberly lives in the Rocky Mountains with her husband, an exceptionally perfect dog, and an attack cat. Before she started writing historical research, Kimberly got a graduate degree in theoretical physical chemistry from Ohio State University. After that, just to shake things up, she went to law school at the University of London and graduated summa cum laude. Then she did a handful of clerkships with some really important people who are way too dignified to be named here. She was a law professor for a while. She now writes full-time.

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