Seminar Dates
Throughout 2008 we will be running free seminars to demonstrate how All The Little Shops™ can work in your Town Centre by helping your independent retailers.
Condover Mews, Condover - 10th February, Starts at 6pm
Live Town Centres
July 2008
52 shops / 750 products / 17 Services
September 2008
108 shops / 1100 products / 90 Services
Pre-launch Town Centres
Chester - register your interest
Wrexham - register your interest
Bridgnorth - register your interest
Hereford - register your interest
Ludlow - register your interest
Oswestry - register your interest
Swindon - register your interest
Winchester - register your interest
Press Release
All the Little Shops on line for sales boost in 20 UK towns
A brand new e-commerce concept designed to boost sales for independent retailers and drive more footfall into town centres...
Ailing Independent Retailers get sales boost
With the announcement that inflation has reached a 10 year high, and reports of 2,000 local shops closing down each year...
Help is on the way for All the Little Shops!
Shrewsbury based BeVivid is launching an e-commerce software package to town centres across the UK.
Local MP supports All the Little Shops
At a recent meeting of representatives from independent retailers in Ludlow, local MP Phillip Dunne chaired a meeting which highlighted the importance of independent retailers in the high street.
Small traders given online shops boost
A Shropshire man has set up a website to help protect independent shops in the county by offering them free adverts and a way for people to shop online.
The website All The Little Shops has just started in Shrewsbury and Peter Riches, MD of BeVivid, the company that has designed the software, is looking to create sites for other towns in Shropshire particularly in Oswestry, Ludlow and Bridgnorth.
Mr Riches, from Condover, said it was a very difficult time for independent traders and he wanted to help them increase customer numbers as well as trade online to compete with multiple retailers.
He said: "We now have more than 50 shops online and 750 products listed.
"The bottom line is the independent retailers in Shrewsbury have been getting a raw deal. We set up ATLS with the help of Fay Easton, from Enterprise HQ centre, and Retailers United to get it off the ground.
"The roadworks have crucified many of the shop and businesses - without exaggeration I hear many will not survive.
"Having worked in retail and town centre management for many years, including setting up one of the first town centre management groups in the UK, working with Business Improvement Districts in Ealing, Hammersmith, Bristol and London, I am committed to helping theindependent retailers survive - and survival it is.
"The site was free to join for the first 50 independent retailers in Shrewsbury - but as these retailers are the soul of town centres and I do not want to see a lifeless town centre - I have extended this free offer to all independent retailers who join up to the end of June.
"This is a first for town centres - an e-commerce shop which allows the retailers to trade securely through a single payment gateway."
Philip and Margaret Andrews, from Salop Sheet Music, signed up to the website and have even managed to sell a cello to Iceland.
Mr Andrews said: "The website is very helpful. I never expected someone from Iceland to pick it up.
"It's a good idea to help businesses - particularly for the small shops."
The main site is www.allthelittleshops.co.uk
the Shrewsbury site is linked as www.shrewsburyshopping.co.uk
By Rebecca Lawrence
Shropshire Star 29th May 2008
