#and 10 retail locations were selling it by year-end.

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In celebration of Earth Month, we will be sharing a series of recent interviews that tie directly into the environmental mission of Down to Earth Markets. This week we are pleased to feature a recent chat with Serge Lazarev, founder of Green Tree Textiles, that we conducted during a tour of their Hunt’s Point, NY recycling warehouse last month. 

Down to Earth Markets has partnered with Green Tree Textiles since 2011 to collect textiles for reuse and recycling in green bins at many of our farmers markets. Leaders in the local textile recycling movement, Green Tree picked up and processed a whopping 6.3 million pounds of donated clothes, shoes, bags and linens between 2020-2023! Read on to learn more about this remarkable non-profit and the work they’re doing to divert unwanted, post-consumer textiles from the waste stream. 

How did the incarnation of Green Tree Textiles come about and what was your initial goal for the organization? 

Serge: Around 2008, I was working in operations for a gasoline retailer, an industry that is directly associated with creating lots of pollution. I had been on this career path for fifteen years and the longer I remained on it, the less of a future I saw for myself. At that time, newly elected President Obama was advocating for green jobs and working towards a more sustainable future for our country and the planet. I was inspired by his words and started to research solar panels as well as metal and plastic recycling business opportunities. 

I discovered that many of these recycling businesses were costly to start and there was already a steady recycling return rate on some of the waste materials. Then I stumbled upon an interesting statistic from the EPA that said 85% of unwanted textiles were not being picked up by the recycling industry and was ending up in landfills and incinerators. That’s when the light went off in my head! I realized that here I was in a job selling gasoline along a one mile stretch of road with ten other gas stations in sight, while all these materials were just out there being thrown away with no one doing anything about it. So there and then I decided to start GTT with the mission of keeping unwanted textiles out of the waste stream.

April is Earth Month, a time to raise environmental awareness about the issues and challenges facing our planet. Why is textile recycling important for the health of our environment? 

Serge: Clothing manufacturing and its products negatively affect the environment in a major way, beginning at the very outset of production. The fashion industry uses vast amounts of water, non-natural dyes, and chemically engineered materials and is estimated to be responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions – more than international flights and maritime shipping combined. It is the second largest polluting industry in the world after oil and gas.

At the end of their life, most of these textiles are thrown away and end up in landfills or incineration ovens, creating yet more pollution. To solve it this issue must be addressed on many levels, starting with the manufacturing process, consumer shopping habits, and end of life procedure. We need to move towards creating a circular economy that will save both money and the planet. The good news is that industries focused on recycling and reusing textiles are slowly emerging and getting stronger by the year.

Many of Green Tree Textiles’ drop-off locations can be found in local farmers markets? Why do farmers markets make a good spot for your green textile collection bins?

Serge: When recycling is convenient, people are more likely to do it! It’s important to make it as easy as possible, just like the convenience of recycling bottles and cans in receptacles that can be found on every street. Textile recycling should be available in places that you’re going to go to anyway, such as a farmers market. Plus, the demographic of people who shop at farmers markets intersects closely with those who are interested in the environment and making sure that their clothing doesn’t end up in the waste stream.

What kind of textiles do you accept and what should shoppers avoid putting in your collection bins? Should items be bagged or can they be tossed in loosely?

Serge: We accept clothing, shoes, sheets, towels, handbags, and fashion accessories like belts. We do not accept pillows, comforters, blankets, bathroom mats, rugs, plastic toys, books, suitcases, and kitchen gear. We prefer items to be bagged as it protects pieces that are in good condition from getting dirty during the transportation process. If bags are not available, placing loose items in the bins also works.  

What happens to the textiles that are dropped off in your collection bins in Down to Earth Farmers Markets? How are they recycled/reused/repurposed?

Serge: I and two of my associates hand-sort and process an average of 5,000 pounds of textile donations a day! The breakdown of what we receive is about 75% clothing, 15% shoes, 7% linens and 3% other. We methodically separate donations into two main categories: Reuse and Recycle. The items suited for reuse are given to our charity partners or sold to our for-profit partners. The materials for recycling are sent out to become textile insulation that's used in walls and for soundproofing. You can take a peek at that process in this short video.

The issue of unwanted and discarded textiles is a growing problem fueled by the consumption of fast fashion. What do you think the major drivers are behind this growing problem?

Serge: There are more discarded textiles than ever currently because the population is growing so more clothing is needed for everyone. In light of this, I would encourage consumers to purchase clothing made of organic materials such as cotton and wool whenever possible, to purchase pieces that will be in style for more than one season, to buy clothing from a secondhand store, and to always be mindful of which path you let your garments take next. 

What is the difference between GTT and the other collection boxes you see in public locations? 

Serge: Green Tree Textiles is committed to making sure that the clothing and other textile donations we receive do not enter the waste stream. If the item is no longer suitable for reuse in its original form, then we make sure there is a recycling option for it. We are also looking to get certified for the carbon credits we generate, which will further differentiate us from similar entities.

Thank you, Serge, for all you’re doing to ensure a brighter, greener future for people and the planet. Please visit the Green Tree Textiles website to learn more about their mission to make sustainability a stylish choice for all, where every thread tells a story of environmental stewardship.

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Muskoka Farm Pre Training

Cranberries are the main attraction at Muskoka Farm where people get a chance to plunge fresh cranberries along with a maple syrup. This is a Canadian signature experience that is very popular amongst tourists.

Boehm owns the immaculate Muskoka Farm on the Hawkesbury River, a five star facility that includes a private government compliant quarantine facility that readies horses for export to Hong Kong. He believes that a well-established pre-training program is vital to the success of Triple Crown racehorses. To know more about Pre Training, visit the Muskoka Farm website or call (02)45663106.

The horse’s body responds to conditioning programs in a number of ways. It increases heart mass, produces more red blood cells and enlarges muscle tissues. These are vital responses, as they allow the horse to perform more effectively for less effort.

Heart rate and ANS (autonomic nervous system) responses to training are also influenced by the intensity of the program and how long it lasts. A good pre-training program should last a minimum of 12 weeks, starting in April and ending in August.

The root mean square of successive differences in consecutive inter-beat intervals (rMSSD) and high frequency component of HRV (HF) data obtained after a 14-week conventional training period in the DT and UT horses were lower than their pre-training values. This decrease in rMSSD and HF may reflect the saturation of parasympathetic activity during training, similar to what has been reported in human athletes. Nevertheless, only 1 DT and 2 UT horses reached the SWC increase in rMSSD.

Due to the high pressure nature of racing and their naturally nervous constitution, race horses need regular'rest and recreation'. During this time they must gain weight, rest tired legs and return to a more natural way of life.

Surrounded by national parks and natural bushland, this one-of-a-kind equine property offers breaking, spelling, pre training and agistment. The calming environment under big country skies has proven time and again to maximize racing potential.

Located up river from Wisemans Ferry and only 1 hour and 45 minutes from Sydney, this world class horse training NSW operation offers state of the art facilities. Equine trainers Toby Pracey and Michael Kent oversee this commercial operation offering breaking in, spelling, agistment and pre training of Triple Crown racehorses.

Luke is an experienced track work rider and a very good horseman and horse breaker. He has been with Muskoka for 8 years. He is very quiet, has excellent hands and timing.

In the late 1800s, settlers lured by free land grants stuck shovels into their homesteads in Muskoka. But reclaiming the rugged landscape, which consists of boulders and dense clay, proved harder than expected.

Today, many Muskoka farmers are growing organic sprouts, microgreens and lettuce to sell in restaurants, retail stores and through CSA produce boxes at local depots throughout the region. Several of these cooperative farms are part of Eat Local Muskoka, which provides locals and visitors access to fresh local organic farm produce from mid-May until mid-December. To know more about Pre Training, visit the Muskoka Farm website or call (02)45663106.

One of the world’s leading horse training and breeding facilities has come on the market in Wisemans Ferry, New South Wales. It’s a scarcely believable offering that features a five-barn facility designed to accommodate 200 horses, a 2.4-kilometre crusher dust track and an 800-metre straight, as well as 10 large fully fenced paddocks and 63 individually fenced spelling yards. This is the type of property used by such top trainers as Gai Waterhouse, Chris Waller and Peter Snowden. 

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Target 3PL

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Target plans to launch a new distribution plan this autumn to improve the express speed and shorten the distribution time to 2-3 days, so as to compete with Amazon.

 Hugo learned from recent reports by foreign media that the target 3pl plan is called "available to promise", and target 3pl said it can shorten the delivery time from 7-10 days to 2-3 days. Customers can know the specific delivery date rather than an approximate time range.

 At present, consumers can purchase more than $25 at target 3pl without shipping, and the products will be delivered within 3-5 days. However, compared with other physical store retailers, target 3pl cannot provide the exact arrival time of packages. This is not only because the company's warehouse and logistics center were originally designed for the inventory of distribution malls, but also the company did not focus on the delivery speed.

 Therefore, it is difficult for target 3pl to compete with Amazon in logistics. Amazon Prime members can get the package within two days.

 In order to improve the speed, target 3pl has started to deliver goods from stores and warehouses. At present, 140 stores can deliver online orders. It is expected that the number of stores will exceed 450 by the end of the year, and target 3pl has 1800 stores.

 Detailed Guide: Shipping from China to Target FBA

Buying goods from China and selling in the United States is a profitable way for Amazon FBA merchants. This is no longer a secret (if it used to be), so if you have an American e-commerce company and want to Get involved, this guide is your ideal first stop before you start shopping.

 Maybe you have purchased from China, but want to simplify the transportation process and improve the inbound supply chain to Amazon FBA. If this is the case, this article is also prepared for you, because we will share some knowledge that will help you ship the product after you have purchased it.

 The following tips can save you money, simplify your export, import, and shipping processes, and enable you to comply with Amazon's acceptance standards for FBA fulfillment centers in the United States.

 How Do I Ship Directly to Target FBA from China?

Buying goods from China and selling in the United States is a profitable way for Amazon FBA merchants. This is no longer a secret (if it used to be), so if you have an American e-commerce company and want to Get involved, this guide is your ideal first stop before you start shopping.

 Maybe you have purchased from China, but want to simplify the transportation process and improve the inbound supply chain to Amazon FBA. If this is the case, this article is also prepared for you, because we will share some knowledge that will help you ship the product after you have purchased it.

 The following tips can save you money, simplify your export, import, and shipping processes, and enable you to comply with Amazon's acceptance standards for FBA fulfillment centers in the United States.

 Target FBA FAQs

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How do I Get My Products Shipped from China?

There are three ways to ship your items from China: air courier, air freight, and sea freight. Air courier is simple for most people to understand. UPS, FedEx, and DHL are air courier services. This is what they call a door-to-door service.

 Do Amazon's Products Come from China?

In Amazon's four core markets—the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan—three-quarters of new sellers are located in China. According to MarketPulse analysis, as of 2021, more than 40,000 sellers have joined the Amazon market. This ratio is the calculated average of these four markets.

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The top ten retail companies by market share in 2018

2018's top ten retail businesses by market share: Ten of the largest businesses are ranked 10. 9. AECON Co. Ltd. Target Corporation 7. CVS Health Corp SA Carrefour 6. The Hardware Depot, Inc. The Kroger Group Boots Alliance Inc. Walgreens Wholesale Costco Corporation 1. Amazon.com, Inc. 10. Walmart Inc. AEON Co Ltd AEON-450-340.jpg" alt="Aeon" width="450" height="340"/> AEON is the largest retailer in Japan, with its headquarters in Chiba. The strong growth in the general merchandise store (GMS) and supermarket business divisions of AEON Co Ltd was primarily responsible for the company's $75.16bn in revenue for the four trailing quarters that ended in November 2018.

Around 70% of the company's revenue comes from the GMS and supermarket business segments. Its drugstore and pharmacy, shopping mall development, services and specialty store, international business, and financial services divisions contributed the remaining 30%.

Through its group companies, AEON Co. operates supermarkets and shopping centers with its headquarters in Chiba, Japan.

Target Corp. Target-450-340.jpg" alt="Target" width="450" height="340"/> The Target Corporation owns and operates more than 1,800 retail establishments in the United States. Credit: Skinner. In 2018, Target Corp. reported revenues of $75.35 billion, an increase of 3.6% from 2017.

The greater part deals were driven by broad product, including clothing and extras, magnificence and family basics, and food and refreshment items.

Target Corp. operates more than 1,800 stores in 49 states and 37 distribution centers in 22 states.

The company has approximately 345,000 employees and has its headquarters in Minneapolis, United States.

In the United States and Brazil, CVS Health Corp., CVS Pharmacy, and CVS Health have more than 9,900 retail locations. Credit: hattiesburgmemory. In comparison to the previous year, CVS Health Corp.'s Retail/LTC segment reported revenue of $83.98 billion in 2018.

The company's revenue increased primarily as a result of rising prescription volumes and rising prices for branded drugs.

Settled in Woonsocket, US, CVS Wellbeing works in excess of 9,900 brick and mortar stores, 68,000 retail network drug stores and 1,100 stroll in clinical centers.

Carrefour SA Carrefour-450-340.jpg" alt="Carrefour" width="450" height="340"/> Carrefour owns and operates more than 12,300 retail establishments in more than 30 nations all over the world. Credit: ProjectManhattan. In 2018, Carrefour SA saw a 1.4% increase in year-over-year sales, bringing in $97 billion in total revenue. Growth in Brazil, stable sales in France, and sales on food e-commerce all contributed to the increase in revenue.

One of the largest hypermarket chains in the world, Carrefour has its headquarters in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It has over 12,300 retail locations and e-commerce websites in over 30 nations.

Through its French, European, Latin American, and Asian business divisions, the retail giant serves 104 million customer households worldwide.

The largest home improvement retailer in the United States is The Home Depot, which is owned by The Home Depot Inc. Credit: Sagdejev Ildar The Home Depot Inc. was able to achieve a year-over-year revenue growth of 7.2% in 2018 thanks to an increase in US sales. The organization procured all out income of $108bn in the year.

Home Depot is the largest home improvement retailer in the world, with more than 2,200 locations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Its headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States.

Outdoor and power tools, household cleaners, lawn and garden products, and décor products are among the more than one million items it sells online and offline.

The Kroger Co. The Kroger Co. provides services to more than nine million customers each day. Credit: Retail in Virginia. The Kroger Co.'s 2018 revenue reached $124 billion for the four quarters that ended in November, thanks to an increase in digital sales, cost controls, and alternative profit streams with higher margins.

The company owns and operates 2,765 grocery stores in a variety of formats, including warehouse stores, supermarkets, digital shopping options, multi-department stores, and more.

The company's jewelry stores and manufacturing facilities make up the rest, with sales from food stores accounting for as much as 94% of total sales.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. Walgreens The pharmaceutical wholesale and distribution network managed by Walgreens Boots Alliance spans more than 201 nations. Credit: Anthony. In 2018, Walgreens Boots Alliance's revenue increased 11.3% year-over-year. With $98.4 billion in sales, the Retail Pharmacy USA division contributed more than 74% of the $131.5 billion in total revenue.

In the United States and Europe, Walgreens Boots Alliance is the largest retail pharmacy, health, and everyday living destination. It manages wholesale and distribution networks for pharmaceuticals in more than 201 nations.

Walgreens, Duane Reade, Boots, and Alliance Healthcare are among its retail and commercial brands. While its portfolio of health and beauty brands includes No7, Soap & Glory, Sleek Makeup, and Botanics.

Costco Wholesale Corporation is a global retailer with warehouse clubs in eight nations. Costco Costco Wholesale Credit: Pendousmat, Stu. Costco Discount Enterprise acquired $141bn in income in 2018, moved by deals at new distribution centers opened in 2017 and 2018.

Over 94 million members are served by the company's 768 membership warehouses in 11 nations. In 2017 and 2018, it opened 28 and 25 brand-new warehouses, respectively.

Costco sells dry foods, packaged foods, groceries, beverages, appliances, electronics, health and beauty products, fresh foods, clothing, and small appliances from its headquarters in San Diego, United States.

Amazon.com Inc. is a multinational technology company that focuses on e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. Credit: Wonderlane. Strong sales growth in all of Amazon.com's segments, including International, North America, and AWS, contributed to the company's 31% increase in revenue to $232 billion in 2018. With $141.36 billion, the North America segment led the company in revenue, followed by the International segment with $65.86 billion.

In addition to selling electronic devices under its own brands like the Kindle, Fire, and Echo through its online stores, Amazon offers millions of diverse products from third-party sellers.

By market share, Walmart Inc. is the largest retail company in the world. Credit: Jacob Arthur Walmart's 2018 revenue, which reached $514 billion, increased by 2.8% year-over-year, primarily due to sales from US e-commerce.

Walmart US, Walmart International, and Sam's Club are the retail company's three main divisions. Walmart US has retail locations in each of the United States' 50 states. In 2018, it contributed 64% of the company's revenue. Outside of the United States, Walmart International operates in 26 countries.

In 27 countries, Walmart oversees over 11,300 stores under 58 brands and ten e-commerce websites. The organization utilizes roughly 2.2 million partners universally.

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They got a puppy, and a nearly 200% loan

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They got a puppy, and a nearly 200% loan

Millie Hill said it was love at first sight as her husband of 50 years held a pint-size Chihuahua puppy at a Puppyland pet store last summer.

Howard Hill, 95 and dealing with vascular dementia, was worried about how quiet their home in Kent, Washington, might become when their aging dog, Mr. B, passed away.

So after hurriedly signing papers at the pet store chain, the Hills walked out with the new $4,595 puppy.

When she sat down to look at the paperwork a few days later, Millie Hill quickly realized her mistake: The bundle of high-interest loans she’d signed would eventually swell to a total cost of more than $19,000.

“I felt betrayed. You don’t expect this from people who sell animals and love animals,” said Millie Hill, 85, whose husband died in November. “This should not be allowed; it should be illegal.”

A growing chorus of state legislatures agree and are taking action to outlaw high-interest loans and leasing arrangements from brick-and-mortar and online pet stores.

The deals can leave pet owners on the hook for double or triple the cost of an animal and can cripple the credit of those who can’t pay up.

Illinois banned the high-interest loans this year and California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Monday that generally prohibits online pet stores – regardless of location – from being involved in financing the sale of dogs, cats or rabbits

Another 10 states have banned retail pet stores from offering leasing plans that are similar in cost and structure to car leases, meaning a failure to pay could result in a pet being seized.

“They are preying on people who are making an emotional decision,” said California state Rep. Brian Maienschein, a Democrat, who sponsored the bill.

“These are not reasonable loans, the terms are predatory, in some cases doubling the cost of the pet. That’s absurd.”

The founder of Puppyland, which has six stores in four states, defended the company’s practice of using finance companies that offer the high-interest loans, arguing that it gives pet owners more flexibility.

“These interest rates are not unique to Puppyland and Puppyland has no control over the interest rates our customers receive when working with 3rd parties for financing,” Kayla Kerr said in a statement, adding that the company has no plans to change its loan policies.

“If we were to suspend this option, it essentially narrows the choice for the customer and we would not want to do that.”

EasyPay Finance, a company that offers high-interest loans through pet stores across the nation, said they allow customers who might otherwise not qualify for a traditional loan to buy the pet of their choice.

The company says its loan rates can be as high as 199 percent.

“Many Americans are left behind by the traditional banking and credit system. EasyPay facilitates financing options to ensure that these consumers have a trusted and secure choice to access otherwise unavailable credit for pressing needs and discretionary purposes,” a statement from the company said.

The company also said that it offers “a range of credit tiers based on a borrower’s credit profile.”

Mike Bober, president of Pet Advocacy Network, a trade group that represents pet stores, declined to comment on the use of high-interest loans, saying: “This issue has been raised to us before, but our position is that it is outside the scope of pet care.”

Some states are going a step further, banning the sale of dogs – and sometimes cats and rabbits – from retail pet stores altogether.

Backers say in addition to costly loans, consumers often end up with pets that have myriad costly and stressful health problems.

So far, five states have enacted these pet store bans, and New York may join them if the “Puppy Mill Pipeline Bill” – passed by the legislature in June – is signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul .

Bober criticized those measures, arguing they do nothing to improve the quality of pets and hurt small businesses.

“The reality is that the impact that they have doesn’t end up where it’s purported to,” Bober said. “It’s not that these bills are affecting breeding conditions anywhere, especially with the unlicensed illegal breeders.

“Instead, what it’s doing is creating situations where small, local businesses cannot remain open.”

Pet stores that sell expensive dog breeds have offered traditional financing options to customers for decades.

However, loan companies acknowledge that the newer, high-interest loans are aimed at customers with no or poor credit.

And customers and animal rights groups say the loans are pitched by sales staff as affordable by focusing on the cost for monthly payments verses the overall price of the dog.

These practices have allowed pet stores to sell breeds that cost thousands of dollars – such as French bulldogs – at prices far higher than private breeders charge due, in part, to impulse buys as people browse pets.

The Humane Society, Animal Legal Defense Fund, National Consumer Law Center, and other groups say complaints about triple-digit loans or leasing options have risen over the past several years.

In February, the groups formed a coalition to raise public awareness and to apply pressure on government officials and agencies.

Congress has also taken action to close a loophole that enables the high-interest loans.

Last year, President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan resolution to repeal a Trump-era rule that made it easier for finance companies to make loans that exceed state interest rate caps, saying the system was set up to “allow lenders to prey on veterans, seniors, and other unsuspecting borrowers …. trapping them into a cycle of debt.”

A congressional bill was introduced in 2019 and again in 2021 that would provide a permanent, national solution by setting a 36 percent interest rate cap that covers all lenders, including banks.

The bill has stalled under intense lobbying by the financial industry.

The lending and leasing practices have persisted despite rolling back the Trump-era rule, prompting several state attorneys general to take legal action against some of the pet stores and financing companies.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey called pet leasing an “exploitive practice” when she announced a $930,000 settlement in April with a finance company that also agreed to wave consumers’ outstanding debt.

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced a settlement in August with a pet store that agreed to pay veterinary care or refund consumers who bought dogs with medical conditions.

And the Hills’ case and others in Washington have triggered an inquiry by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson .

The state attorneys general probes have limited impact, however, since the investigations tend to focus on a singular finance company or pet store and can only protect consumers within their own states.

“Right now, this is a whack-a-mole approach that goes by lender and by state,” said Rachel Gittleman, a financial services outreach manager with the Consumer Federation of America.

“Since most of these lenders operate online, it can be difficult to even find them. There’s isn’t some storefront operation that you can easily find.”

When Jennifer and Jeff Bowman spotted a brindle-colored English bulldog in a Petland pet store in Iowa City in 2019, the couple asked a sales clerk if they could meet the dog they would later name Zeke.

Zeke snorted and kissed them and the couple asked what it cost to take him home. The price tag – $4,400 – triggered immediate sticker shock.

However, the couple said a Petland employee told them financing options were available that would ensure a low monthly payment.

They would just have to fill out a loan application.

State interest rates are capped at 36% in Iowa, so the Bowmans weren’t overly concerned – until they got home and saw that the 90-day interest free loan from EasyPay had an explosive clause in it.

If they did not pay off the loan within that time, according to financial documents reviewed by The Washington Post, the interest rate would rise to 188.98%.

“We were worried about how much it would cost and, while we were talking about it, another worker took a call and said it was someone who was also interested in the dog,” Jennifer Bowman said in an interview.

“I started begging my husband for us to find a way to get him. I think they played us for fools.”

The EasyPay loan was processed through Utah-based TAB Bank in what consumer groups and political leaders, including Biden, have referred to as a “rent-a-bank” maneuver, where financing companies process loans through out-of-state banks that don’t have to abide by the state-capped interest rates.

In a statement, TAB Bank defended its practices, saying it is a better option than payday loans and helps “consumers who have no or limited credit.”

Petland, which has 22 company stores and 75 franchises, stopped offering triple-digit loan options in April 2021, said Elizabeth Kunzelman, the chain’s vice president for legislative and public affairs, calling it “the responsible thing to do.”

In the Bowmans’ case, Kunzelman argued they should have been aware of the EasyPay interest rate since they “were given documentation of the terms.”

However, records suggest that at least some other Petland stores have continued to offer loans above this rate even after the store’s policy change.

For example, one video of a Petland employee this summer at a store in Wichita captured a conversation with a Humane Society volunteer posing as a customer in which the person was advised against a triple-digit interest loan that the employee suggested the company was still offering.

“If you don’t pay it off within those 90 days, you have to start paying the interest too, and their APR is like insane, like it’s, somebody got it figured the other day, like 194%,” the employee said in a video reviewed by The Post.

Kunzelman said the Petland franchisee – which independently owns and operates the store – told her that the highest interest rate they were offering at the time the video was shot was through a company credit card at 29.99%.

Especially troubling for pet owners like the Bowmans is the anguish they experience when the dog also comes with health problems.

With Zeke, veterinary records reveal a host of physical problems that included a “chronic history of allergic skin disease, gastrointestinal disturbances and respiratory issues,” according to a necropsy report performed after he died of renal failure at 20 months of age.

The veterinarian also said Zeke’s health problems were “a direct result of his prior genetic and breeding history.”

“We would be homeless if my mother-in-law had not stepped in to help us financially,” Bowman said. “We didn’t want to give up on Zeke, we loved him, and we wanted to save him.”

Kunzelman said the store took seriously the complaints about Zeke’s health and reimbursed the Bowmans for their veterinarian bills and for the price they paid for Zeke, minus financing.

The couple say Petland repaid only a portion of the veterinary bills and that the ordeal still cost them thousands of dollars and their credit also suffered.

“The store communicated the medical issues and hardship back to the breeder who agreed to stop breeding the sire and dam. The store also stopped purchasing from that breeder,” Kunzelman said, adding that she does not believe any other Petland store has since purchased from the breeder.

In many cases, owners ultimately default on their loans.

After Zeke died, the Bowmans said they stopped paying on one of the two loans they secured through Petland.

They continue to receive monthly calls from a collection agency and, they said, their credit has been seriously damaged.

Millie Hill said once she saw the terms of the loans for her Chihuahua puppy, she secured a lower-interest loan to pay them off, but – due to late fees and other reasons – she said the finance companies told her they would not accept a lump sum.

Ultimately, Hill’s daughter, Aimee Budrow, stepped in and encouraged her mother to walk away from the loans, even though creditors continue to seek payment.

Budrow also quickly learned that her mother was unable to take care of a puppy, so it was given to a relative.

Budrow said the sales staff at Puppyland should have realized her parents would not be able to care for the dog when they were unable to secure a loan with a reasonable interest rate.

“People who sell puppies should not be selling them to people who have to take out a loan with this kind of interest rate,” Budrow said.

“If that’s the only way you can secure a loan, you are probably not in a great position to take care of the dog.”

Kerr, Puppyland’s founder, disputed the idea that her employees should have known the Hills weren’t prepared for the dog or the loan they signed, saying employees are not “in the business of determining people’s finances or any medical conditions.”

Millie Hill said she worries that people with limited income – particularly those who are older – could also end up with a high-interest pet loan, which she describes as “one of the worse experiences of my life.”

“I don’t want them cheating other people,” she said. “Especially elderly people who just want something to love.”

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Mario skat

Today, after a fifteen-year hiatus from football, we can make that three. Though he hasn’t had as many outings onto the soccer pitch as he has onto the golf course or tennis court, his track record there is unimpeachable, two for two with undeniable bangers. They plan to open by the end of this month or by next month.Of his many vocations and achievements, I’d argue that one of Mario’s most successful careers has always been in football. Even if you don’t buy anything just hang out.”Īguilar and Rivera say they are deciding on two leasing space at the Lewisville Lakepointe Crossing shopping area. “The shops goal has always been to have that community were people can be comfortable to come to our store. “Obviously it’s still a business, you still want to make a living for yourself,” Rivera says. Aguilar says he likes to get feedback from local skaters over design ideas and constantly sees sale results.Īguilar and Rivera say they are ready to operate the store and hope to attach new and old skaters from the community. Same thing with boards, we test samples out before we put an order in.”Īguilar and Rivera also say that they have the advantage of having a stronger relationship with the local skate community. “All the shirts, we go through them and pick the best quality ones we can were not going to charge a crazy amount. “I’m all about quality not quantity,” Rivera says. They know that corporate stores have a lot of merchandise but say that their product is outdated and lacks quality. “Core skate shops, the ones that are own by local people, people like us, actually know the local skaters.” – Mario Aguilar tweet this Aguilar and Rivera realize they are up against cooperate retail skate stores. “Core skate shops, the ones that are own by local people, people like us, actually know the local skaters.” “If you’re a skateboarder, then you know that there’s a difference between corporate skate shops and core shops,” Aguilar says. They sell their product for a low price because they want people to try out their brand and later sell it for a higher price. The shirts can be purchase for a $10 or more. Rivera, who designed the logo, says that Lewellyn’s Print shop, located in Deep Ellum, manufactures the T-shirts. They design and build their skateboarding decks from Clutch Distribution, a California skateboarding manufacturer, and sell them for $30. “Especially when they're unknown, they don’t really know what their getting.” “Even through people are online shopping, it's like really hard for a small business to get people to shop at their online website,” Rivera says. They understand how vital it is for a small business to have an online shop and want to let new or old customers know that they can trust their product. They started to sell their merchandise online, at local skate parks, through local destination pickups and by social media. They soon found alternatives ways to sell and advertise their merchandise and saw that they still had the potential to reopen. They never let go of their passion of owning a local skate shop. “So, we would be closed and not make money.” “There were times were we couldn’t even go ourselves,” Aguilar says. It was difficult to manage the shop because both had two side jobs. They were selling their products, but only enough to pay rent and not enough to replenish what they sold. “We should have been advertising or going out there talking to people,” Rivera says. They were living the dream of operating a skate shop, but they had too many problems.įor example, they say that they didn’t really have a plan to attract customers. We made it kind of like a family.”Īguilar, 23, and Rivera, 24, say they were young and unorganized when they first opened the shop, which sold boards they designed, along with clothing and other skate gear. “A lot of people know us from back then and know who we were. They know there is a stronger connection with local skaters there. Since then, they have learned from their mistakes and plan to reopen this summer in Lewisville - a suburban area they say attracts the skating community to the city-funded Scion Skate Park. The skate shop opened in 2014 at Farmers Branch, but because of their inexperience and low inventory, the founders were forced to close the store. For the past four years, Mario Aguilar and Miguel Rivera have been trying to reopen Incite.

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Tyler Tivis Tysdal is a lifetime local business owner who initially discovered the delights and problems of self-employment at the age of 14. Ty Tysdal was a collector and also trader of baseball cards and his budding business spirit pushed him to create Triple T's Sports Collectibles, an across the country mail-order trading card as well as mementos company that uncovered a large audience via advertisements in trade magazines. While market ineffectiveness were countless in this pre-internet age, a young Tyler Tysdal experienced his extremely initial industry win with $14,000 a month of revenue result. A great deal of money for 14. It struck him throughout a flight with his mom to the message office to mail great deals of card deliveries: He would likely be a business owner as well as sponsor the remainder of his occupation.

As a founder and managing director of Denver-based, Freedom Factory, Tyler Tysdal now helps fellow entrepreneurs throughout the United States sell their companies for max market value when they prepare to go on to their version of independence in their life. At Freedom Factory, Tyler can currently set his decades of knowledge as an operator, investment banker, SEC professional, and private equity fund financier to make use of on behalf of fellow entrepreneurs following his very same path. Possessing practical experience with more than 50 firms and their exits, Tyler is an entrepreneur's entrepreneur. He understands the difficulties company owners get rid of, the fears that always keep them up in the evening and the triumphs that bring them forward-- given that he has actually experienced them, also.

Tysdal developed his qualifications by paying his dues (and focusing) along the way. He went into investment banking after earning a degree in finance from Georgetown University. While working at Alex Brown & Sons, Tyler Tysdal mostly serviced mergers and purchases (trading companies) and raising equity and debt capital for businesses, including taking them public through the Initial Public Offering (IPO) procedure. As an investment banker, Tysdal remembers sitting across the table from owners and Chief executive officers of a few of the globe's most popular firms and wishing he were in their place. He grasped the ins and outs of economic modeling, appraisals and just how to market firms for capital. He also discovered there was typically a disconnect between investment bankers and the executives. Investment bankers very rarely experience the fear of missing payroll or other all-too-often concerns of company owner. With this skill, Tyler learned he desired to be the business owner instead of the banker.

Following his career in investment banking, Tyler pursued a formal business education by attending Harvard Business School (HBS) to seek his MBA. As an entrepreneur to his core, Tysdal stood apart among his schoolmates. He acknowledges today that you do not require a Masters Degree from Harvard to be a prosperous business owner, however he really appreciates the ideas he received from his classmates at the university, and the education and learning aided to propel his entrepreneurial interests and build his data base to help other business people.

With his expertise in investment, his Harvard MBA in hand and his entrepreneurial spirit, Tyler Tysdal set out to place his business acumen to the test. Throughout the years he formed or funded dozens of companies that run the gamut from ingenious to ambitious, including:

A network of acute care healthcare clinics developed within Walmart retailers.

A firm focused on giving storage lots for rvs.

A sports luxury suite club that leased rooms in professional sports locations.

An organic fertilizer business that broke the technology code for organic farming and spread throughout the east United States.

A business that combined quality home bedding with a unique social objective to "end bedlessness" by giving away a bed to in-need populaces for every 10 mattresses the business sold.

Over the years, Tysdal has been an owner and managing partner of private equity and venture capital firms, and has worked as an entrepreneur raising capital for his very own companies at times. He began his career in investment banking working with Initial Public Offerings (IPO's) and mergers and acquisitions. Tyler has actually worked on the buy-side, the sell-side and as a representative in deals for businesses ranging from $100,000 to even more than $1 billion. As an investor, Ty has managed assets and financially backed several other entrepreneurs. He's handled or co-managed around $1.7 billion for ultra-wealthy families and has served to help develop hundreds of millions in wealth for his private equity investors.

In the long run, however, all of it boils down to entrepreneurship for Tysdal. He recognizes that self starters produce jobs and develop prosperity-- and they stand as the single largest generator of financial success throughout the United States and in worldwide markets. Tyler's enthusiasm in business lead to 2 primary concepts: He loves Entrepreneurs. We earn it!; and He likes supporting fellow entrepreneurs realize their financial and individual objectives by offering for sale their company for optimum market value, often for the biggest check of their life.

For Tyler Tivis Tysdal, his devotion of Tysdal entrepreneurship is as solid now as it was throughout that trip to the post office with his mother so many years back. He intends to "release the business owners" as his individual experience has definitely released him through his life. When he is not meeting entrepreneur or talking with future Tyler Tivis Tysdal business buyers, Tyler Tivis Tysdal spends time with his spouse, Natalie, and their 3 children.

Freedom Factory ® has actually radically interrupted the method high-growth, lifestyle companies are purchased and offered, which traditionally was a badly inefficient market. When Robert Hirsch sold his very first business in the 90s, Hirsch went to numerous financial investment banks and sold his company to one of less than https://tylertysdal.blob.core.windows.net 5 companies they called. Recalling, Robert see precisely just how much money he left on the table and knew that there needed to be a better method. The bottom line is that business owners do not speak banker, and lenders sure do not speak entrepreneur.

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5 Ways to Know if Your Product Concept is a Winner

Hundreds of brand-new products launch monthly. Just a fraction of those gets enough traction to be considered effective.

Naturally, there are the exemptions-- the outbreak successes that most of us become aware of: Snapchat, Uber, and certainly Pokémon Go.

Although that's not likely to be your product, you can still knock it out of the park. But how do you test market demand early to understand if your concept is a winner?

Throughout my occupation, I've assisted release a dozen effective software including GoToMeeting, AppFolio, and also ProductPlan. I have learned five effective methods that entrepreneurs make use of to find out whether their product will be successful-- before they launch their product.

These methods won't assure success, but will dramatically increase your odds. In my case, these techniques led to products that today currently create numerous countless dollars in revenue yearly. see also InventHelp gets great inventions from the mind to the market

1. Before Anything Else, Locate an Issue Worth Resolving

Before investing a cent on growth, I speak with 10-20 possible consumers to understand the problem I'm solving. This is before I tell them concerning the product features, prices, or just how it's going to change their lives.

I call these "trouble exploration" meetings. They're comprehensive conversations, often performed personally, and last in between 30-60 minutes. They're developed to not just extensively comprehend the troubles but to find out whether the trouble is worth resolving in the first place. A problem needs to be high sufficient on a consumer's top priority list to be thinking about your item.

For example, in the very early interviews for GoToMeeting we found out that other online conference items were awkward, feature puffed up, as well as difficult to budget. By extensively understanding these troubles, we established a product that was less complicated to use, with fewer features, with all-you-can-use rates. Within a short time, that product became a smash hit success.

In very early conversations with customers as well as capitalists, numerous entrepreneurs lead with the product summary and functions. I think this is a mistake-- by not understanding the problem extensively, numerous products fizzle. I assume the solitary crucial trick to item success is asking the right questions regarding their issues.

Here are some concerns you can utilize to recognize whether the issue is necessary sufficient to solve:

" Just how are you fixing that problem today?"

" What is most irritating concerning your current remedy?"

" Where is solving this trouble on your concern listing?"

" If you resolve that issue, how much money will you save/make?"

" What does an effective year for you look like?"

2. It's Not a Service Unless You Can Offer

Numerous entrepreneurs introduce their item and also after that question why their sales are anemic. Exactly how do you understand beforehand whether consumers will pay for your item?

In my experience, knowing how to sell the item in a repeatable means is more important than the product itself. In a feeling, you're verifying sales, not simply validating a product.

For every single effective item I've launched, I formerly had test-sold the item to a minimum of 20 clients. My belief is entrepreneurs do not need a totally useful item to discover whether clients will purchase. My early examination sales are frequently from a slide deck or a harsh prototype.

By test-selling, you can learn about the sales cycle, whether your target customer is the real decision-maker, whether they have a budget to purchase, as well as better fine-tune your rates. Find out more advice by check out InventHelp inventions

If you don't have sales skills or can't manage denial, get over it, and also pick up the phone.

3. Customer Purchase Prices are the Trick to Success

You have seen it before: Incredible products that release with a bang and then could not attain enough traction to make the numbers pencil out. Numerous business owners don't extensively understand just how they will certainly get customers and then how much those consumers will cost to get.

The guideline is straightforward: A customer's procurement expense needs to be dramatically less than their lifetime value. So numerous entrepreneurs go in blind on these standard metrics when introducing items. There are very easy as well as cost-effective experiments that you can utilize to test purchase prices.

At ProductPlan, before we had created any kind of line of code, we established a touchdown page. This primitive web site was designed to check whether anyone was searching for software applications like ours as well as to find out whether the messaging we had defined resonated with our target audience.

We then drove website traffic to the touchdown web page making use of Google Adwords and LinkedIn Ads. We targeted item managers with search phrases that they might make use of to look for a remedy like ours. Once they pertained to our touchdown web page they were motivated to register for an early version of our product.

The experiment was a success because we discovered a lot concerning the purchase cost-- how much it cost to bring somebody to our website, the clickthrough price on advertising and marketing, what percent of people registered for more info, as well as extra.

Via this process, we might roughly estimate the conversion rates as well as purchase prices for every step of the sales channel.

Maybe extra significantly, these potential customers gave their get in touch with information. We then reached out to them to have much deeper conversations about the problem, item attributes, as well as rates.

It was a goldmine of information, as well as we spent less than $1,000 on this straightforward experiment.

4. Know This: Your Original Product Concept is Possibly Wrong

For every single product I've created, the end product we launched was dramatically various from the original idea we began with. Through meetings as well as experiments, we were able to test our assumptions, throw out poor suggestions, reveal cutting-edge features, and tweak our prices.

When we were confirming ProductPlan, we thought our market would certainly be limited to item managers at the software application business. By talking with loads of product managers we uncovered our market was a lot wider and also included business in media, health care, retail, and extra.

Commonly business owners invest an extreme amount of time on company plans and also spreadsheets that are a work of fiction. Or worse, they release their item based on their original suggestion and afterward lose time as well as resources transforming the item and rates to much better fit their market. That's in reverse.

Business owners can obtain closer to the truth-- and construct a better product-- by examining their assumptions before introducing them. Several misuses the "Lean Start-up" technique to throw pasta against a wall surface and also after that wish that people buy. And also when people do not buy (or buy in low numbers) the business owner wastes beneficial time.

Rotating your item ideas throughout this very early validation as opposed to after you have built the product is considerably more affordable.

The method entrepreneurs can test their presumptions: create them down and then go out to check them to see if they resonate with potential consumers specialists (for example, analysts for the industry, individuals who have been employed by the industry, experts, and so on). A healthy and balanced dosage of suspicion goes a long way.

5. Perfect is the Enemy of Great-- Simply Launch Your Item Concept

I'm a believer that business owners should embark on the cliff. This implies, especially for software, that you must introduce as early as feasible.

Reid Hoffman, the creator of LinkedIn, notoriously stated, "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you have introduced far too late."

I'm not stating that you don't have a terrific first-time client experience. Commonly individuals do not offer you a 2nd opportunity if your product simply does not work. Yet if you are addressing an issue that allows enough, consumers will certainly forgive you if the experience isn't excellent.

With software, in particular, it's feasible to introduce swiftly with a marginal function set if the product supplies adequate worth. If a handful of clients are willing to pay, it suffices and you can enhance gradually.

Launching very early gives you no much better method to determine if you are on the right track. Many entrepreneurs waste time by attempting to assume every situation, please every consumer, as well as make sure every function is included.

A business owner I understand was passionate regarding launching a new mobile application he was certain would certainly be popular. He spent months developing it. He spent countless dollars on mobile programmers and also ultimately took out a second mortgage on his residence to place the finishing touches on the application before releasing. As soon as he ultimately introduced, he was shocked he had so a couple of downloads. It was a depressing, expensive lesson.

Entrepreneurs need to invest even more of their time at the front end-- discovering the troubles out there and validating whether someone will certainly purchase the product-- before they build as well as launch. If you do a reliable task at this front end, the building and introducing the product comes to be so much easier. You're also acquiring evidence for prospective financiers.

There is no other way to methodically recognize with assurance whether you'll succeed. By using these techniques and also launching early you can enhance your probabilities drastically.

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How to start your own sanitary napkin business?

We are very close to an inflection point as a society when it comes to menstruation. While there are millions of women in many developing countries who still do not have access to pads, there are a growing number of organizations focusing on increasing awareness around menstrual hygiene management and creating sustainable distribution channels to increase product access.

Last year, two Bollywood movies were made named “Phullu” and “Padman” which talked about local sanitary pad production in India. These movies of course may not be blockbuster hits, but now a majority of men and women both know about the basics of menstrual hygiene. From rural Maharashtra to semi-urban Kathmandu, our research shows that more than 70% of girls have received some form of awareness session on menstrual hygiene. Non-profits and large multinationals, social enterprises are relentlessly reaching remote areas to remove taboos around menstruation.

At the same time, there exists a gap. There are either the well known multinational brands that produce

centrally using high speed machine lines or there is very small scale manually run manufacturing units run by NGOs.

How to decide what’s the best machine for you?

Large scale centralized production:

Large scale production units are very expensive to set up (costing anywhere between INR 5crore to 100 crores) and need to rely on a very strong distribution network and advertising budgets to be able to sell close to a million pads every day.

Also, since the distribution chain is long, the distributor margins and logistics increase the cost of the sanitary pad by almost 60%.

Small scale manual production:

Small scale manual/semi-automatic pad machines are low cost (INR 2-5Lac) but due to low speeds and manual intervention the cost of production is very high which makes these units financially nonviable. Also, the quality of the sanitary pad is usually poor and inconsistent. This makes it very difficult for NGOs and Self Help Groups to keep the production units functional once their initial funds are exhausted.

Mid-scale decentralized production:

To keep the production costs low, product quality consistent and comparable to multinational brands, there is a need for automation and speeds. Production speeds between 5-30 pads per minute are ideal for keeping production costs low as well as it doesn’t need the entrepreneur / NGO to have a huge distribution network. Medium range speeds help to keep the cost of the machine low (between INR 8.5Lac to 35Lac) and also allow serve the demand of 10,000 to 50,000 women. We, at Saral Designs, have a range of these machines with varying speeds, options of customizing the sanitary pad as per the local requirements.

Process:

Raising Funds:

If you are looking to raise funds for your business, then there are loan schemes in India like the Stand-up India loan scheme, Pradhan Mantri Employment Generation Scheme that allows you to take loans between INR 35Lac to 1 crore from Nationalized Banks and also have certain subsidies depending on your location (rural/urban) or based on your caste and gender. These schemes can take anywhere between 1 month to 6 months depending on the bank you are applying the loan to.

There are also small loans like Mudra loans up to INR 10Lac where the process is a little faster. This can be used to either partly fund your machines or as working capital for production.

Approvals:

Sanitary napkins fall under the technical textiles category in India so do not need FDA approvals. The sanitary pads produced need to comply with BIS standards so make sure that the raw materials used in the pads and hygiene conditions in the production unit meet the requirements. Once your sanitary pad is made, you can send samples to any NABL accredited lab to give you a certificate of compliance against the BIS standards.

For setting up production, licenses may depend on your local government. Shops and Establishment license, electricity and fire safety compliances need to be met. Since 1 production unit doesn’t require more than 6-9 people per shift, single shift production will not fall under factory act or ESIC compliances which are required for staff strength more than 10 workers. As your production shifts increase or you plan to set up more than 1 machine, you can apply for other licenses. This government website is a good resource for finding more details.

Infrastructure:

Depending on the type of mid-scale machine you choose, you will need 1000-3000 square feet for the area. The production area typically needs less than 500 square feet, but sanitary pad raw materials are bulky so need clean, dry and large storage spaces.

For pneumatically run machines, air compressors, air dryers will be required. Voltage stabilizer, generator/inverter are good to have in areas where electricity is irregular.

Raw Materials:

For the past 6 months, almost all raw materials are now manufactured in India which reduces the lead time significantly. Typically, raw materials like air-laid paper or wood pulp, Tissue with SAP, PE films, glues and release papers are used for making sanitary napkins. There are oxo-biodegradable raw material replacements for the plastic components also available in India and some compostable materials like PLA which are imported which can be used as the barrier sheet in the sanitary pad as well. Depending on your target price for the end customer, you can choose from a variety of raw material options. We, at Saral Designs, also keep an inventory of some types of raw materials and provide it to our machine buyers so that they do not need to coordinate with 5 different suppliers and can source much lesser quantities at one time, helping them with their cash flows.

Sales & Distribution:

Identifying your target audience is the first step. Depending on the age group and location of where your target beneficiaries/ customers are, one can develop communication, sales and distribution strategy. In urban areas, one can look at retail distribution through medical shops and general stores, online sales and modern retail. For rural areas, utilizing existing women groups like Self Help Groups, health workers, schools and hospitals can be a great way to reach out to women who do not have retail stores in their vicinity. Women’s networks also play an important role in driving conversations around menstrual health and increase awareness about hygiene products.

Before you start your sales, do register your brand name for a trademark. Packaging requirements are also specified under BIS standards so make sure your design is appropriate. You may also register yourself for Barcode in case you plan to sell in modern retail stores.

Also, be sure to research trade terms in your target geography which not only include retailer/ distributor margins but also credit terms, offers and schemes for similar products. Credit terms are important for planning your cash flows, also there is a high default rate in certain geographies. So, do explore options like cash and carry with your distributor/ retailers.

With that, you are all set to start your sanitary napkin business!

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Can you bring your own frames to Walmart?

As long as the frame is in good condition then yes. Today most frames aren't manufactured the way they were in past so many don't hold up for long. Part of this is because frame companies want to sell you more frames. Best bet is to stop in Walmart and show the optician the frame you want to use.

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The training programme is structured into a 3 year-diploma program. The diploma program replaced the 2-year certification program.

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Our listening device feature a substantial aftercare bundle that consist of many advantages and we are extremely certain that you will be greater than pleased with our solution and also competitive pricing. Call your local Care Optician today to schedule your next consultation at a time and also day that finest fits you. Treatment Opticians have neighborhood eye doctors offering thorough eye examinations throughout the UK. Call us today and publication a house eye examination with your neighborhood Treatment Optician at day and time that finest suits you. In Ghana, opticians are educated at the Optical Technician Training Institute at Oyoko in the Ashanti Area.

Our company believe our combination of the current technology, experienced personnel as well as excellent client service, permits us to offer our individuals with a genuinely professional as well as individual solution. Wacky distinct designing satisfies handcrafted quality, for an eye amazing that mixes and also matches bold colours as well as patterns to produce exceptional, specific glasses. VDU view testing at corporate prices-- we have assembled a package for neighborhood companies as well as their workers that will certainly make certain conformity with health and safety regulations for VDU customers in a cost-efficient method. Vital-- information about coronavirus if you are intending to book or attend a consultation.

Developed in 1989, the Opticians Organization of Canada is a nationwide organization of all provincial Opticianry Associations in Canada. The duty of the OAC is to support for the numerous passions of opticians on a national basis. Each Canadian district has its own regulative University or Board that gives enrollment or licensure to its opticians.

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How do you put a lens back in half rim glasses?

Semi-Rimless Frames 1. Find the groove which runs along the metal bar at the top of your frames and position the lens into it. 2. Hold it firmly in place and feed your tear-proof strip of paper between the clear wire and the lens. 3. Fold https://brownteller3.werite.net/post/2020/10/25/Blankstone-Opticians over the wire and gently pull it down. More items•

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I was called in to help her select some frames the other day and also overwhelmed by the professionalism and reliability and also kindness of Mike and Mark. We have actually invested in the globe's leading new eye treatment screening modern technology, so our clients understand they have full peace of mind. Naturally, we're additionally assisting clients wanting to acquire sunglasses and spectacles from our unrivalled option of developer brands as well as would motivate you to make a consultation to do so. We're already taking visits for eye examinations from individuals with an overdue eye test for which we apologise.

This is the winning group of Independent Opticians Of The Year 2019. Whatever your personal design, spending plan as well as way of life requirements, our staff are dedicated to assisting our clients discover their excellent frame. We stock Globe renowned frames from developers such as Cartier, Lindberg, Oliver Peoples, Starck, Jacques Marie Mage, DITA Eyewear, Ray Ban, Face a Face, Celine, Tom Ford as well as Porsche Layout. The only trouble you might have is settling on one pair of glasses.

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If you are uncertain whether you are entitled to an NHS sight examination please contact us and we'll respond to any one of your questions. Covid-19 has emphasised the requirement for space and one-to-one treatment so leave the group and come and also see us. We have rigorous hygiene control - you should put on a mask and hand sanitise within the retail location of our practices. If you have any kind of concerns or want to schedule an appointment.

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To get the get in touch with details for individual stores just most likely to our web page called stores and click on the logo design of the store you intend to call. Just to say a huge thanks for being there for me today and ironing out the problem with my eyeglasses. It is heartfelt to recognize that in this pandemic people like you are willing to take threats to help others. For your very own security, please use a face mask before going into the technique. The practice has been reconfigured to assist maintain social distancing, all staff wear personal safety devices as well as we have strict infection control actions to keep you risk-free.

So please surf our web site brochure and also check out our superb frames-- as well as if you have any kind of questions in all, please call us-- our friendly group of experts get on hand to aid. We carry out the D502 sight test which is now necessary for provisionary driver license applicants. Our experienced partners are at hand to help you pick your frames as well as use useful advice as well as specialist aftercare. We utilize just the really newest in eye exam technology and our thorough eye examinations will provide you with a full analysis of your vision. My sweetheart mosts likely to Blankstone due to the fact that they have a much better choice than the large chains.

Can you put new lenses in old frames?

You can put old lenses in new frames in most cases, as long as the new frames are the same ones you used to have. An eye care professional will just need to make sure your prescription doesn't restrict the type of eyewear you use so that you don't have issues down the line.

Grownups need no special prep work for the examination; nonetheless kids may need some prep work, depending upon age, previous experiences, and also degree of count on. The parameters appraised by a lensometer are the sphere, cylinder, axis, include, as well as in some cases, prism. The lensometer is also made use of to inspect the precision of modern lenses, as well as is typically with the ability of marking the lens center as well as numerous other measurements important to proper efficiency of the lens. In between 1781 and also 1789, silver spectacles with moving expansion temples were being fabricated in France; however it was not up until the 19th century that they obtained considerable appeal. John McAllister of Philadelphia started producing spectacles with gliding temples containing looped ends which were much easier to make use of with the then-popular wigs.

Other signed up or accredited opticians make lenses to their own specifications as well as style as well as manufacture phenomenon frames and also other devices.

Opticians determine the requirements of various sensory appliances that will certainly offer the essential correction to an individual's sight.

We know that a good experience at your optician goes additionally than simply a view test.

Some signed up or licensed opticians also layout and also fit special appliances to correct cosmetic, terrible or physiological issues.

Mac Nally Opticians on the Eco-friendly lies just a couple of doors below the Shelbourne Resort on St. Stephen's Green in Dublin city.

An optician, or giving optician, is a technological professional that designs, fits and also dispenses corrective lenses for the modification of a person's vision.

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You likewise have access to our huge series of designer glasses as well as sunglasses including RayBan, Prada, Oakley, Etnia Barcelona, Chloe, Moscot, Neu Bau as well as Tom Ford to name just a couple of-- all at outstanding value. You are qualified to a complimentary eye test if you get approved for PRSI therapy advantage or if you are a clinical card owner. Pupils get a 10% discount rate when they present their cards in shop. We specialise out of commission job and also have a glazing research laboratory on the premises guaranteeing your glasses prepare to grab as quickly as feasible. My appointnent not just went smoothly yet I should say I did not feel rushed or uncomfortable in asking inquiries also there very experienced optician.

Check out our Design Guide for handy tips on picking the best frames for you. We have made some modifications in regard to exactly how we operate around the branch to make sure that we are COVID protected.

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Can I bring my own frames to Lenscrafters?

Yes for the most part. If the frame is not in good enough condition or is to cheaply made they may refuse to use them - because it will be impossible to do a good quality job with them. Lenscrafters will not make lenses for your drill mount frame unless it is a model they sell.

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In the new 3-year diploma program, one semester each of period of around 4 months, is invested out on attachment every academic year. Presently, setups are being made for an affiliation to be built with the Division of Optometry, KNUST. Currently there are about 100 opticians in the country. As a requirement for registration in any type of province of Canada opticians are called for to finish a program at one of the NACOR certified training establishments. Individuals from a global jurisdiction might put on a rural regulative company for an analysis of similarity of their education and learning.

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Muha Disposables

A couple of channel locks/Slip joint forceps. A level head screw driver A #2 Phillips head screw driver. Little flexible wrench. Another removal/disposer. Handymen clay or caulking.

The main activity is ensure that your old one isn't simply stuck. Each removal accompanies a wrench, on the off chance that you can't discover yours they are accessible at home improvement  muha disposables  shops like Home Depot. There is normally an electrical switch on the base of the removal. Try not to expect your removal/disposer is broken basically on the grounds that it quits working. You should check inside for whatever may be held up in the openings of the drum.

Expel any impediment with needle-nose pliers.If you can not see anything inside the removal, embed the wrench into the base of the unit, and curve both ways. On the off chance that the engine turns uninhibitedly, ensure that the electrical switch hasn't stumbled by pressing the reset button, normally a little dark or red catch on the base of the unit. In the event that these two things don't work, and your guarantee has lapsed, it's an ideal opportunity to supplant it.

I suggest that you search around before purchasing, removals/disposers generally sell for somewhere in the range of $50.00 and $300.00, they are for the most part really great. At the point when I fix up a rental I utilize the most economical one I can get, generally a badger in light of the fact that the inhabitants couldn't care less what they put in it. Under typical utilize a 1/3 hp will normally last 10 - 15 years and most accompany at any rate a 1 year guarantee. Since they all have diverse snare ups I suggest taking the former one with you to ensure the enhanced one will work for your specific application.

Lets begin evacuating the old removal/disposer. Clean everything from under the sink. A few establishments have the force rope connected to a divider outlet and some are immediate wired. The following thing you have to do is disengage the force. On the off chance that the unit is connected to the divider simply unplug it from the divider. On the off chance that it is immediate wired you should close off the force at the breaker box. At the point when you have the force off, expel the board from the base of the removal/disposer, the single screw in the little board close to where the wire goes in. Evacuate the ground screw and the 2 wire connectors (Note the wire hues and areas). Expel all the hoses and channels from the removal/disposer, there are regularly 2 associations, one for the dishwasher, and 1 for the release.

Since everything is separated, there is an enormous mounting ring at the head of the removal/disposer with 3 tabs on it bolster the removal/disposer from the base and turn this ring counter clockwise until the removal/disposer comes free from the sink. (Note: This ring my be really close, you may need to tap it with a mallet or put a screw driver through one of the tabs and turn the ring counterclockwise). Be cautious as a portion of these units are a little substantial when you are on your back under a sink. Dump any abundance water out and take the unit to the store with you to get the new waste disposal/disposer. Attempt to get one with comparative channel position to make it simpler to introduce later.

Since you have your new waste disposal/disposer allows finish to up. Lets evacuate the sink spine gather, relax the 3 mounting fasteners, enough to get to the holding ring under the lower mounting ring, slide the lower mounting ring up and pry off the retainer ring with a screw driver. Slide the lower mounting ring off and push the sink rib up through the sink. Clear off the entirety of the clay and additionally caulking from the sink.

Presently locate the new parts for the sink spine gather, you ought to have another sink rib, elastic washer, cardboard washer, metal sponsorship ring, lower mounting ring, and a retainer ring. Take some of you handymen clay and fold it into a snake (as you did with your play mixture when you were a child), around 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch and around 10 - 12 inches in length. Press it all around the under side of the sink spine, from the head of the sink immovably press it into place, attempting to keep it as focused as could reasonably be expected. Next from the base of the sink, slide the elastic washer, cardboard washer, and metal mounting ring into place. Next comes the lower mounting ring, the one with the jolts. Slide it as far as possible up, enough to get the holding ring into place, when the holding ring is set up fix the jolts equitably just until a tad bit of the clay is pressed out from the head of the sink rib.

It's an ideal opportunity to put the new waste disposal/disposer into place. It is a lot simpler to append the wires while the removal/disposer is out so lets do it that way. In the event that your new removal/disposer accompanied a fitting previously appended and you have an outlet under the sink all the better, if not you should connect the old wire you expelled during dismantle, to the new waste disposal/disposer. Expel the spread from the base of the new removal/disposer and interface the dark wire to the dark lead originating from the new waste disposal/disposer and the white wire to the white lead with wire nuts, they should accompany the new removal/disposer. Next interface the green ground wire to the green ground screw on the new removal/disposer, and supplant the spread.

The new waste disposal/disposer accompanies an areola to associate with the release hose originating from your dishwasher, normally stopped. In the event that you are going to utilize this areola you should jab out the fitting with a screw driver and recover it from within the new removal/disposer. Presently lift the new removal/disposer up to the sink rib and push the mounting ring up and go clockwise to connect with the lower mounting ring (The one with the jolts) keep turning until it is tight. Fix the jolts sufficiently only to hold it set up, we may even now need to turn the removal/disposer some to get the channel gatherings to arrange.

To interface the removal/disposer channel outlet, slide the new elastic washer over the funnel and onto the flanged end of the plastic crosspiece, at that point slide the metal rib on from the opposite end. Tip the base of the metal spine into its opening in the removal/disposer and fix the attaching jolt through the head of the rib. Make the remainder of the channel associations. At the point when all the association are made, fix the three jolts on the rib uniformly until a large portion of the clay is pressed out, and the sink spine is tight and focused. Wipe off the overabundance clay. Congrats once you set back all that stuff you took free from the sink when we began your done! I trust this was useful and good karma.

Patrick St. Charles has been in the home fix and redesign business for more than 30 years, and an enthusiastic cook for additional years than he can tally, preparing great nourishment for his family is his preferred side interest. During this time I have consistently been worried about getting the most ideal cost for anything I bought, in my business or for my own utilization. Lately the economy has taken a crash, making it more significant than any other time in recent memory for us to get the best an incentive for our dollars. That is the reason I chose to begin a web administration to do only that. Best case scenario Retail Bargains we search the web day by day to find the best qualities on the things we purchase each day.

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Best Leather Handbags Of 2020

Da Milano With more than six decades of experience in manufacturing leather goods, Da Milano is one of the best handbag brands in India today, offering products that include state-of-the-art technology, creativity, and enduring sophistication. Apart from handbags, the company also offers travel bags, portfolio bags, wallets, and other accessories. In India, Da Milano presently operates 44 self-operated retail stores in 10 cities across the country and has plans to grow to 100 retail outlets across more than 34 cities in India in the next five years. The company is also aiming to expand its reach in the global market with plans to open stores in Europe, Singapore, and Dubai.

Hidesign From a two-man workshop to one of the leading handbag manufacturers that is most recognized for its quality products, and personalized service, Hidesign has become one of the top handbag brands in the world with more than 84 exclusive retail outlets and a distribution network across 23 countries. Apart from the Indian market, the leading handbags brand is present in the UK, the US, and a few European countries. The company aims to expand its presence in India and in emerging global markets. Hidesign is planning to establish 20 retail stores by the end of this year including 10 outlets at airports and another 10 in malls.

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Baggit Founded in 1990 by Nina Lekhi, Baggit is one of the most recognized handbag brands in India that manufacturers high-quality handbags for women at affordable prices. The company also manufactures and designs belts, caps, multi-utility pouches, wallets, and other related products. The brand first appeared at INXS, Mumbai and now has retail outlets in more than 61 cities across the country including Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore. Currently, Baggit has a net worth of more than INR 60 crores. Baggit also has a presence on e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, and Jabong.

Caprese VIP Industries, the company which dominates the luggage industry with a 52% market share, has been striving to make its iconic handbag brand Caprese a major growth driver for the organization. Caprese is positioned as a mass premium brand in India and is today one of the top brands in the ladies’ handbags market. Caprese’s handbags are offered at more than 800 points of sale across the nation, including company-owned stores, multi-brand dealers, franchisee stores, and some of the largest department store chains such as Pantaloons, Lifestyle, Shoppers Stop, and Central.

Lavie (Bagzone Lifestyles) Lavie is one of the leading lifestyle brands in India. It unveiled its first bag collection in 2010, followed by a wide range of product launches to cater to the growing demand from its consumers. Bagzone, which manufactures and sells bags, is the parent company behind Lavie, which was introduced to target the ladies’ handbags market. The company sells its products through Bagzone stores, Lifestyle, Pantaloons, Shoppers Stop, Central, and many other leading retail stores along with online retailers such as Amazon, Jabong, Flipkart, Myntra, and the company-owned Bagzone.com. Lavie recently signed Anushka Sharma, a popular Bollywood actress, as its brand ambassador.

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Ladida Ladida is touted as one of the most ethical handbags brands that eliminates the use of animal leather and instead utilizes synthetic leather and faux leather to make its bags. Founded in 2001, Ladida has shown consistent growth in India and other emerging countries with products that reflect idiosyncratic designs, usage of faux materials, and appropriate color combinations. Ladida is now one of the top 10 ladies’ handbags brands in India, dominating the industry with quality products and a good price tag. The company’s handbags products are available on some of the top e-commerce websites including Paytm, Amazon, Jabong, Myntra, and other retailers.

The House of Tara Founded in 2012 in Delhi, The House of Tara has grown into one of the leading handbags brands in India thanks to its unique approach to break the cliché of traditional handbag designs and make casual, stylish bags. The House of Tara has become one of the most recognized brands among college students and teens who look for funky and innovatively designed handbags at affordable prices. The brand’s handbags are touted as an ideal choice for gifting purposes.

Lino Perros (Sumitsu Apparel) Established in the year 1999, Lino Perros has come a long way to become one of the leading handbag brands in India. The company’s products were well received by the Indian market from its beginning, owing to its high-quality and attractive designs. Lino Perros is a subsidiary brand of Sumitsu Apparel, which is well known for its quality products in India. Lino Perros has its own manufacturing facility, which helps the company make handbags available for customers at a very affordable price.

Esbeda (Intouch Leather House) Esbeda, a leading ladies’ handbag brand launched by Intouch Leather House India Pvt. Ltd., entered the market with a retail showroom in North Mumbai in 2006. The company offers a broad collection of exclusive bags and accessories ranging from bridal wear to formal wear. With a global network of clients and more than 18 years in business, Esbeda has grown into a large brand with extensive knowledge of the bags and accessories markets around the world. The company has its own manufacturing facilities located across China, Korea, and Taiwan to meet the growing demand from the Indian market.

Peperone (Unico Retail) Unico Retail is one of the top handbag brands in India and a leading manufacturer of accessory lifestyle products such as ladies’ fabric bags, men’s wallets, and handbags. Founded in 2010, the company has evolved from a handbags company into a multi-dimensional growth-oriented fashion brand with lines such as Donna & Drew and Peperone. Peperone unveiled its first collection in 2010 in Chennai, and since then the handbag brand has attracted a large number of loyal consumers. Its products are a blend of craftsmanship, extreme comfort, and progressive styles.

What’s Trending in the Handbags Market in India? With the advent of e-commerce, a large number of customers are inclined toward online shopping. The vendors who have a strong digital presence benefit from the increased demand for online shopping among customers. In mature markets, e-commerce has already been established. In contrast, the trend of e-commerce and online retailing is comparatively less developed in emerging markets. E-commerce offers several benefits such as easy delivery and optimal usage of time. The numerous benefits of e-commerce have contributed to the growth of the handbags market in India.