Party Store

FTLComm - Tisdale - Tuesday, November 6, 2001

Each year several independent home based business merchants get together to hold a pre-Christmas store front sale. These businesses operate house party sales where they present their wares to party guests as their means of conducting commerce. This year four operators have set up temporary shop in the former Northland Agencies office and will be open today and perhaps a couple more days. Avon products are outstanding and agencies for

this huge marketing firm have steady business where ever they operate. Their display at this store is remarkable as the whole line is available. The Pampered Chef is a line of kitchenware that up until now I had not seen and here is one of their impressive table layouts with a wide range of clever home marketed products.

The merchants also have some baked goods and some crochet work offered for sale. The jewelry line is more extensive than displayed in this picture. Tupperware, the remarkable almost indestructible no home can be without occupies four large tables and we have compressed this display below into a composite. There have been Tupperware parties since

there was television, clearly this is an amazing durable good sold since I was a kid at home parties. Definitely worth dropping in and checking out this store that will be open for a very limited time. Operating a home based business is hard work and it takes a lot of stamina and determination to launch home party sales campaigns so this is a nice change for these independent business people and gives the customer a chance to see all these specialty products at once.