Shop Local E-Commerce and Gift Registry Platform ~ The Retail Industry's Leading Provider of Online Store Services, Gift Registry Services, Wholesale Services, Business Networking Services, Product Syncing, Image Libraries, and Data Sharing (2024)

Your New
E-commerce & Gift Registry Platform

Bridge's Shop Local service helps businesses in the retail industry sell and buy products. We accomplish this by providing a cloud-based e-commerce platform to leading brands, local retailers, and sales reps. They use our platform to run online stores, offer online gift registries, share products, and perform wholesale operations.

We started this platform to solve a problem.

In 2007, I was managing websites for retail stores and brands. Each week, I would add products to clients' websites. This process was complicated, took a lot of time, and was costly to clients. (I also found it boring.)

One weekend, I was thinking about this problem while at Moran's pub in New York City. I drew the process on a napkin.

• I realized that many of my clients were asking me to add the same products to their websites.
• I noticed that Karen, who owned a retail shop in New York, paid me to add the same products to her website as Sallie, who owned a store in Missouri.
• I wondered: What if I could load a product once and have it appear on all the applicable websites?

No software or service existed to do what I had in mind. I was familiar with Excel and file-sharing services. They weren't designed to share products between retail websites.

I sensed an opportunity. I sketched on a bar napkin a new process:

• The retailers could team up with a brand and all receive the same product data.
• I could ask the brand to input and maintain their data.
• These products could appear on the retailer's respective website.
• This 'bridging' of data would drastically simplify the process, reduce the labor, and speed products to retailers' websites.

I called my tech friend to get his input. He said my plan wouldn't work. I decided to push ahead. The next day, I started putting my plan in place. Within a few months, I had two stores and eight brands in a beta trial.

Today, we help 1,402 retailers share 72,676 products from 115 partner brands. We help retailers and brands sell tens of millions of dollars in products from 3,275 brands. Our software has powered 70,000+ gift registries for indie shops.

At the heart of our company is that sketch on the napkin.

Shopping Local
We embraced the shop local movement and named our shopping platform after it. We believe in local businesses and their benefits to the community. (We were early adopters of community projects like The High Line park and OHNY.)

My team and I are building an online shopping experience where local stores have great software and massive selection like the big, online players. Our goal is to help America's best indie stores offer a great shopping experience with the best items, great prices, and quick delivery.

You're invited to join us.

P.S. ~ You're invited to learn more about my motivation for Shop Local here.

Thank you.

Shop local,

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We Give Your
Business
A Free Account

You sign up online. You choose the services you'd like and we give your business an account. If applicable, your account may include a free, public website on our platform.

Your website address
may be your business name:
yourbusiness.myshoplocal.com

View live retailer example:
babco*ckgifts.myshoplocal.com

View live brand example:
juliska.myshoplocal.com

View live sales rep example:
rosse.myshoplocal.com

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Start
Growing Your
Business

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Attract Customers
&
Sell More

» I'm an Indie Retailer » I'm a Brand » I'm a Sales Rep

Online Store
Service

Gift Registry
Service

Syncing
Service

Wholesale
Service

Businesses report selling 18% more due to Shop Local.

Join a retail platform used by 1,402 of America's best indie stores.

Grow your registry and wishlist business. We've handled more than 81,104 gift & wedding registries.

Join for free. All business types can open a free account.

Persnickety in Madison, MS

Number of Retailers Using Shop Local's Online Store Service

1,402 retailers use our Online Store, including:

• 829 Gift shops
• 633 Home goods stores
• 123 Jewelry stores
• 116 Tableware stores
• 81 Women's clothing stores
• 72 Interior design studios
• 68 Kitchen stores
• 60 Furniture stores

We believe there is strength in numbers. Each member helps others leverage the collective power and knowledge of indie stores.

Alicia
Live With It by Lora Hobbs
Peckville, PA

Mary-Baldwin Albriton
Oxford Floral Co.
Oxford, MS

Brooke Hollingsworth
Persnickety
Madison, MS

Kristin Sullivan
Plum Southern
LaGrange, GA

Carmen Bond
Social Memphis
Memphis, TN

Lois MacRitchie
The Boutique Charleston
Charleston, SC

Julie
The Cook's Station
Greenville, SC

Howard Hurst
Tipton Hurst
Little Rock, AR

“By moving to Shop Local, we cut our website maintenance costs by 86%.”

“Shop Local helped us double the number of registries at our store and double our registry sales.”

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Solution A

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Solution C

Our services are compatible with all third-party providers.

Don't have a website? Wish to move to a new platform? No problem. We can help.

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Shop Local by the Numbers

$124m+
Sold for Indie
Merchants

3,275
Brands In Our
Directory for
Retailers