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Gifts, especially home décor items, have been currently selling well for a variety of store types. In this edition, we offer a special expanded Gift Report that includes the stories “Growing Gift Sales at Botanical Garden Shops,” “Hot Sellers for the Home - The Home Décor Gift Picture at Boutiques,” “Gifts at Waterside Stores - Capturing Coastal Magic with Special Merchandise,” and “Country and Candy Stores: Trends in Edible Gifts.”

Name-dropped, custom, and licensed products have also been enjoying sales. To address this trend, we offer in this edition a special Name-Dropped and Custom Products section that includes stories covering zoo, cave, cavern, public lands, and sports stores.

The issue also covers apparel for summer at resort-locale boutiques, jewelry at museum shops, best-selling merchandise at pharmacies, variety, and discount stores, plush and toy sales at water and amusement parks, and other topics and store types. And don’t miss the timely story “Fun Distractions for the Times - Game and Puzzle Best-Sellers at Toy Stores” by Contributor June Allan Corrigan that includes the bonus sidebar “Simple or Complicated Directions? Which Board Games Sell Best?”

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Scott C. Borowsky President and Executive Editor Souvenirs, Gifts & Novelties magazine