{"id":10507,"date":"2018-04-11T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/article\/\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T22:52:08","slug":"poopsies-live-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/poopsies-live-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Poopsie&#8217;s of Galena celebrating new online services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>GALENA, Illinois<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Poopsie\u2019s, a funky, fun retailer that\u2019s been an anchor of Galena\u2019s historic Main Street shopping district for more than 25 years, is holding a day-long celebration on April 20 to show off a new website and variety of online services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poopsies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poopsie\u2019s<\/a> will help Galena kick off its traditional weekend celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/ulysses-s-grant-9318285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President U.S. Grant\u2019s<\/a> birthday with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/599954660367083\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poopsie\u2019s LIVE Day<\/a>. Beginning at 10 a.m., there will be hourly giveaways both in store and online until 6 p.m., a scavenger hunt along Main Street and a series of fundraising activities for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galenaarc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Galena Art &amp; Recreation Center (ARC)<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alana Turner, owner of Poopsie\u2019s since 2010, realized that retailers have to rely on more than just being a destination stop on one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/fodors\/americas-best-main-street_b_4556756.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America\u2019s best Main Streets<\/a>. The new Poopsies.com site features:<b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10508 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Poopsies_Logo_Textured.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Poopsies_Logo_Textured.jpg 1035w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Poopsies_Logo_Textured-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Poopsies_Logo_Textured-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Poopsies_Logo_Textured-1024x428.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Poopsies_Logo_Textured-260x109.jpg 260w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Poopsies_Logo_Textured-50x21.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Poopsies_Logo_Textured-150x63.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/poopsies.com\/shopping-selector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shopping selector<\/a> that will use gender, age and interests to help visitors hone in on the perfect gift.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ability to sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/poopsies.com\/poopsies-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poopsie\u2019s LIVE<\/a>, a new service with the convenience of Amazon but with your very own personal shopper. A Poopette, a Poopsie\u2019s personal shopper, will remotely walk an online shopper through the store\u2019s unique mix of items. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve worked really hard to make Poopsie\u2019s more than just shopping, it\u2019s an experience,\u201d Turner said. \u201cIn today\u2019s retail world, you need to have more than a good destination. We wanted our website to extend the fun of actually being in our store to our online experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The continued growth of online shopping is challenging retailers large and small. As in any economic trend, brands that adapt survive. More than 92 percent of all shopping still is done at traditional \u201cbrick-and-mortor\u201d stores though. Businesses such as Poopsie\u2019s and the rest of Galena\u2019s unique Main Street shopping corridor can compete and beat online retailers by offering superior customer service and a more personal shopping service, while using technology to increase its customer base nationwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Galena\u2019s Main Street, which has been named one of America\u2019s best Main Streets by Fodor\u2019s Travel Guides and the Huffington Post, is the backbone of the JoDaviess County economy. So far, the shopping corrodor is holding up well in the new retail era. According to sales tax revenue figures from the State of Illinois, retail sales in Galena have risen six of the past seven years coming out of the Great Recession, with sales increasing by more than four percent each of the past three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe retail business is always changing, and we embrace challenges,\u201d Turner said. \u201cOur online shopping selector and Poopsie\u2019s Live feature will help us create new fans and followers. The fun in retail is trying to figure out what shoppers want and being able to deliver it to them, whether it\u2019s in the store or online.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about Poopsie\u2019s, its history and retail philosophy, contact Alana Turner at 815-777-9999 or at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"mailto:alana@poopsies.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alana@poopsies.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about Poopsie\u2019s LIVE Day and Poopsie\u2019s new online features, contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jasonatodd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Todd of Thinker Ventures<\/a> at 815-516-0500 or at Jason@thinkerventures.com.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GALENA, Illinois &#8211; Poopsie\u2019s, a funky, fun retailer that\u2019s been&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/poopsies-live-day\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}