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Accoutrement’s customer Froggie’s 5 & 10 was named by D Magazine to be the best toy store in Dallas/Fort Worth. And that’s saying something because Texans know their toys!
Click on the image below to download a PDF of the article.
In our Archie McPhee store, one of the things customers find most helpful is our list of bacon products! There are so many bacon products in the store that it’s easy for customers to miss one or two. For some customers, it’s even a kind of checklist to make sure they have one of everything.
Any theme you have at your store could be a potential list! It’s easy to be overwhelmed by a wall of product and a printed list is a really humorous way to make it feel manageable. I have a feeling we’re going to have to post a cupcake list by Christmas.
The Communist Party of Australia ordered a few cases of our tongue-in-cheek Communist Mints to give away at events. Despite their lack of belief in private property of any kind, they paid promptly. I don’t know about you, but Communism has been very profitable for us.
When you sell stuff that’s as strange as the stuff we sell, it’s sometimes a little difficult to describe to people exactly what they’re buying. To make the whole process a bit easier, we’ve posted virtual versions of some of our products on the web.
After a few minutes with each one, you start to understand out irresistible they really are! Click the links below to take a product for a test drive.
Here at Accoutrements, we’re used to living in our own weird world, but it gives us great pleasure when it expands beyond our borders. One of the best recent examples is when one of our Horse Masks showed up on Google Street View for Aberdeen, Scotland.
The world press was so shocked it was at the top of BBC News for two days. Now that it has freaked out the world, it’s sure to be a top seller this Halloween.
Nai has worked for Accoutrements forever and while he doesn’t always enjoy our products, he’s never been shy about sharing his opinions about them. We put him together with Gibson, a product designer, for a series of videos that we hope will promote our products, even the ones that Nai doesn’t actually like.
This video goes through a selection of our mustache products. Nai, mostly, approves.
