Why retailing is dead in America and the best quality brands and products offer direct to consumer distribution business models. No longer can the local merchant offer any value beyond convenience with the majority of their products imported an American manufacture can not get any representation in a retail store. They can not compete with imported products if they allow the typical 100% retail mark up on their cost to manufacture.
In 2022 McClure Tables remodeled the offices and the new shuffleboard showroom is now open. The owner of McClure Tables Todd McClure is taking a more absentee role and the company day to day [...]
Handcrafted Shuffleboard Tables Sold Direct and On-Line made one at a time in Grand Rapids, Michigan. McClure Tables has been handcrafting shuffleboards for over ten years, and recently, they [...]
The general concept behind on-demand manufacturing is that a product isn’t made until a customer orders it. There are some slight disadvantageous to this for the customer such as longer [...]
What’s the secret behind hiring and keeping high-quality team of woodworkers? Raises. Bonuses. Things that prove you mean it when you say “thanks for all of your hard work” after those longer [...]
Direct-to-Consumer business occurs when the maker of a product sells it directly to customers (typically through e-commerce) without using wholesalers, distributors, and other resellers. This [...]