Today, we look back at our top posts, profiles, events and videos of the year across Alabama Retail’s website and social media accounts. Enjoy the look back as we say hello to 2023! TOP FACEBOOK/WEBSITE POST AND CONTEST of 2022 Our…
Plan to spend your holiday shopping, dining and leisure dollars locally throughout this holiday season. When you shop Alabama, you support your friends and neighbors, you strengthen your local economy AND you invest in the vibrancy of your community. Help…
All Alabama Retail Association members received a 17 x 22 4-in-1 state workers’ rights poster with the November issue of Alabama Retailer magazine. The updated poster contains a July 1 change to the Alabama Child Labor Law portion of the…
OPP – Joe and Kelli Richburg know that if you want people to shop with your business, you must offer them service that they can’t get anywhere else. “Taking care of customers is what sets us apart,” Joe Richburg said…
ENTERPRISE – “Our goal is simple: Make the best possible body products but deliver them with an unprecedented retail experience,” said Chad Wester, who with his wife, Kendra, own Boll Weevil Soap Company on Main Street in downtown Enterprise, just…
HOMEWOOD – Babbie Styslinger, owner of At Home Furnishings, a furniture, home décor, clothing and accessory retailer in Homewood, is Alabama’s Bronze Retailer of the Year in the Annual Sales $5 Million to $20 Million category. At Home Furnishings is…
HOMEWOOD – S.G. Shaia, a Lebanese immigrant, began peddling notions and household goods in 1905 in Jefferson, Shelby and Walker counties. In 1922, he moved his family from the southside of Birmingham to lots he purchased on a dirt road…
HOMEWOOD, CAHABA HEIGHTS and HUNTSVILLE – Amy Jason, founder and owner of Cookie Fix, is Alabama’s Gold Retailer of the Year in the Annual Sales $1 Million to $5 Million category. Cookie Fix is one of 11 businesses honored as…
FOLEY – Foley Fish Company, Baldwin County’s longest operating fresh seafood market, was founded in downtown Foley in 1921 by John Hesse. Today it’s owned by Tracy Ward, who purchased the company in 1999 from the second owners, Eddie and…
MOBILE – Jaclyn Robinson, founder and owner of Mobile-based Mo’Bay Beignet Co., has been named Alabama’s 2022 Gee Emerging Retailer of the Year. “I still have to pinch myself when I think about the success Mo’Bay Beignet Co. has seen…