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The latest news and insights about Local Inventory and Local SEO from the expert team at NearSt.
How Planters Garden Centre boosted sales whilst saving thousands on their advertising costs
Planters Garden Centre in Tamworth is a family-owned and run business who have been trading for over 30 years. They started off selling Christmas trees out of the back of a cart and after opening a small traditional garden centre they have continued to grow bigger and bigger each year, now offering over 15 thousand product lines. Along with their abundance of garden products and plants, clothes and homeware products they now house a 300+ seat restaurant, a play area, mini-golf, and a pet parlour!
New: Show your in-store products on your website
Over the last year, many brick and mortar retailers have learned the importance of having an online presence. Whether that’s selling online, or simply deciding to build a website. Whilst having an online presence is important, keeping a product catalogue up to date can be a time consuming task for busy retailers.
How Parkview Retail’s two Co-op Welcome stores reached 138,847 local shoppers in just 4 weeks of lockdown
Parkview Retail are the proud owner of three Co-op Welcome convenience stores situated in Southampton’s city centre. Their stores have been serving the local community and its visitors for 20 years, selling a wide selection of low cost, quality everyday products. Having won multiple convenience retail awards such as ‘Best use of technology’, they’re always keen to be at the forefront of new tech and find ways they can best serve their customers.
How Young Ideas Group used NearSt to drive local brand awareness and connect with customers
Part of the Young Ideas Group, Henmores is an award-winning country and lifestyle fashion retailer located in the Derbyshire Dales. Named after a local brook, the beautiful surrounding landscape inspires their collection of quality brands. The team pride themselves on their personal, high-level customer service and they’re always on hand to help with life’s fashion wants and needs.
How Better Food’s ethical supermarkets used NearSt to showcase their in-demand products to local shoppers
Better Food has three shops across Bristol that specialise in local, ethical and organic food and products. Originating over 25 years ago, packing veg boxes in a local kitchen, they now have an extensive range of sustainable, healthy and local, food and products and the local community remains at the forefront of what they do.
The 3x growth of local product searches most retailers are missing out on
This is Part 4 in our series of posts tracking how the pandemic is changing the way shoppers find products locally. Each month the NearLIVE platform captures over 3 billion local data points covering almost every retail vertical, which reveals a rapidly evolving set of shopping habits. See the other posts in the series at near.st/blog