Happy New Year! (Yes, in August!)

For me, August always feels like the start of a new year. It’s weird, I know. But my shop is in a college town, and August is when all of the new students arrive for the year. The town comes back to life, things are fresh, and attitudes are positively hopeful....
Overflowing

Overflowing

I’m traveling today, headed home after an amazing week in Vegas at the Retail Shippers Expo. I’ll have a formal follow-up article on Expo in the next issue of MBC Today, but have to share my overwhelm with you now. Perhaps “overwhelm”...

A Few Hints for Expo

As you head to Las Vegas for this week’s epic Retail Shippers Expo, please remember a few things: Keep an open mind. What you plan to learn at Expo might not be what you need to learn. You’ll see and hear things that will make you go, “Ah-ha!”...