Jimmy Degroot

Smith and DeGroot Release ‘A Vendor Perspective’ Podcast Episode

The industry veterans discuss the relationships between retailers and vendors — dynamics, potential problems, and how to keep them on track.

Published

6 months ago

March 13, 2024

Jimmy DeGroot

IN EPISODE 7 of The Business of Jewelry Podcast, Jimmy DeGroot and Peter Smith talk about the supplier’s point of view in the industry. In “A Vendor Perspective,” the industry veterans discuss the relationships between retailers and vendors — dynamics, potential problems, and how to keep them on track. They discuss how industry members on both sides of the aisle can form and maintain positive, productive partnerships.

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After almost 60 years in business, Breakiron Jewelers in Erie, Pennsylvania, was closing its doors. And the store’s owner, Linda Breakiron, was ready for it. She had run the store as its sole owner since the beginning of the millennium and was looking forward to a change. Of course, she called Wilkerson. Breakiron talked to other jewelers who had used Wilkerson and was satisfied with their response. “They always had positive feedback,” she recalls. With the sales, marketing and even additional inventory that Wilkerson provided, Breakiron insists she could never have accomplished her going-out-of-business sale without Wilkerson’s help. She’s now ready for the journey ahead, but looking back, she’d be sure to recommend Wilkerson. “They just made the whole process very seamless.”