Tag: Shop

For creators, the launch of TikTok’s new e-commerce product is a welcome addition to the popular social platform’s features. TikTok Shop is the newest commercial feature which is now available for its 150 million users in the U.S. The new features include, live video shopping, shop ad...

We have found ourselves amongst the bustle and clamour of the Albert Cuyp market. I can smell flowers and coffee, leather, and incense. A cacophony of voices, languages mingling until I can isolate only the occasional word and pluck it from the chaos. We had left the hotel and crossed the bridge ...

I’ve been calling Amsterdam my home for eight years now, and there’s still nothing quite like it. After 3.5 years at The Next Web, I recently switched to a freelance lifestyle — which means I’m often hanging out in a cafe. Amsterdam has a great coffee cultur...

As we all know, e-commerce has become a critical avenue for businesses to expand their reach and thrive. In this case study, I’ll share how my team and I took on an e-commerce project for a local flower shop called “T&C Blumen.” The project aimed to create a vibrant online pres...

My father was a shoemaker. He had a small shop in the historical center of Istanbul where he sold ready-made shoes for children to fund his real craft: making hand-made shoes for some select clients. He had a special bond with every shoe he made and every client he worked for. He had the most beauti...

As a child, I was obsessed with puppet making. My idols didn’t come much bigger than Jim Henson. So in 2003, when I had the opportunity to visit The Creature Shop in London, I jumped at the chance. Getting to the studio was a challenge. I live in Cornwall, nearly five hours away by train an...

Six months since I started volunteering in an op shop in a Melbourne suburb. What’s an “op shop?” It’s short for “opportunity shop.” Same thing as a charity shop in the UK or thrift store in the US. Selling second-hand donated (and some new) clothes and househo...

What is it that makes a jar of pickles best before a certain date? Should a date really dictate the fate of gherkins? Or chocolate? Or even, dare I say, cheese? In a world swelling with food waste, items even just close to their date are thrown out, unsellable. It’s the result of a system that...

Idon’t know how to begin this story except with stark, terrible, simple facts. A 66-year-old woman is dead, gunned down for hanging a Pride flag outside her boutique clothing shop in Cedar Glen, a rural Southern California town known as queer friendly and welcoming. According to w...