Are you on Pinterest?

According to an article in today’s Salon Magazine, the social community image-sharing site, Pinterest, has become the hot new social media tool. And the images-driven is perfect for showcasing great new products from your kitchenware store and website.  Its users are ready to buy--so “pin” kitchenware products that link back to your retail site to show pinners where items can be purchased. Visit Pinterest here

Displays we love: great gadget walls

Like most customers, we are drawn to gadgets.  And when we see displays and walls of great gadgets in an independent kitchenware store, we know that the store is showcasing one of the best attributes of the specialty store--the assortment.  

Here are a few that we’ve seen lately from stores around the country:

Trends from over the pond

Down the hill from Windsor Castle outside of London lies a picturesque shopping area….this sounds a bit like a fairy tale, doesn’t it?  

To see how what was trending in the UK, we visited Kitchen Kapers in Windsor to see what was happening in a kitchenware store in one of the Royals favorite towns.  

Located on a quaint cobblestone street in the middle of the shopping district, the store looked much like an independent store in the states.  A step inside revealed few differences.

Kitchen Kapers was a wonderful store and unlike many traditional tourist meccas chockablock full of ceramic teapots with portraits of the queen, there was a collection of bright and colorful contemporary teapots and mugs--and a colorful mill display that  caught our eye--as did the attractive display of Joseph Joseph products, a UK based design and manufacturer of contemporary kitchenware. Gadget walls are popular in the UK as well.

Joseph Joseph

Gadget wall