The Evil in Those Mall Kiosks

Please stop giving my favorite gift category a bad name.  Quit sending the boxes filled with processed cheese spreads that are mostly chemicals and the unidentifiable tubes labeled as some sort of sausage.  Quit giving away those fruit baskets that are cushioned with tissue paper in an ugly box that takes up all that space [...]

Gift for the Health Conscious

We all know someone that when you pass by the vitamin store in the mall, we’re not surprised to see them browsing the shelves.  They are the health conscious one in the neighborhood, the one we all unsuccessfully aspire to be.    For the third year in a row, they’ve made it their new year’s [...]

Choosing Among Gourmet Gift Basket Options

Gift baskets are out of fashion!  Or is it that they’re just boring?  Actually, I hope the correct response is neither.  I’m actually a gift food merchant.  Kind of has a special ring to is, doesn’t it?  Granted, it may be less significant that solving the global warming problem or removing a pesky mouse from [...]

Gifts for Someone Down on His or Her Luck

Many of us are faced with a time in which some of our close friends and family are enduring tough economic times. We want to help, but we also don’t want to embarass them by extending unwanted charity. Especially in those types of cases, we want to be sure that the presents we select for [...]