May 8, 2000
Board & Basket, a specialty furniture and gift store in Empire, has opened shop in the Mall of Michigan, an Internet retailing and shopping service operated by the Michigan Retailers Association (MRA).
Shoppers can access Board & Basket online through the Mall of Michigan at http://www.mallofmichigan.com. The store is listed in the Home & Garden section.
Board & Basket offers handcrafted wood furniture -- chairs, garden benches, tables and more -- made of cedar and cypress. The store's web fare also includes unique gifts such as lighthouse figurines and birdhouses.
Shoppers can make secure online credit card purchases through this Mall of Michigan store.
The Mall of Michigan's collection of unique specialty shops -- all of them MRA members -- opened in late 1997. More than 90 Michigan businesses now participate in e-commerce through this website.
Lansing-based MRA is the unified voice of retailing in Michigan and the nation's largest state trade association of general merchandise retailers. MRA's more than 5,000 retail business members operate more than 12,000 stores across the state.