Happy New Year! As we close 2017 and look forward to 2018, AIBA is focused on ways we can bring more business in your doors, programs that educate the public on the values of shopping locally and becoming an even stronger organization for our members. We begin the new year with a new marketing campaign:
You may remember last spring the City of Austin partnered with e-commerce giant Alibaba to help Austin companies get in front of Alibaba TaoBao store owners to see if there was interest in their products. The experience was a positive one by all eleven companies who participated! We are ready to do this high energy
While most independent retailers say the growth of Amazon is negatively affecting their businesses, a large share also report being better positioned than many national chains to weather the seismic shifts underway in the retail industry. A new national survey of independent retailers finds that shifts in the retail sector are playing out differently for
