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Tracy Stevens and several other employ-
ees run the retail side of the business.
The Pierces say buying from Blish-
Mize gives them and the rest of the store
staff confidence they can answer most
any request a customer has. For items not
in the store’s regular inventory, they use
Blish-Mize’s online catalog to look up
items and show them to customers, with
the assurance they can get the product to
the store within a short amount of time.
In fact for any given product the Pierces
research in the catalog, there are usually
a couple of different choices at different
price points, allowing them to meet the
needs of a wide variety of customers.
“We never have an issue with not
being able get something,” Foutch says.
“When we look up the product online,
we know right away if something is
available and in the Distribution Center.
Blish-Mize keeps the online catalog up
to date.”
That’s just another reason, too, why
the Pierces would recommend Blish-Mize
to another retailer.
“Their deliveries are always on time.
The amount of products they offer is
huge,” says Jerry. “We can go to the
Markets and buy items on promotion,
which allows us to mark them down
significantly to bring people in and still
make money on them. We definitely rec-
ommend Blish-Mize.”
The RMS assortments the Pierces purchased at their first Blish-Mize Buying Market form the core of
their product selection.
