January 8, 2001
Countryside Craft Mall & Antiques, with four locations in Michigan and Ohio, has opened shop in the Mall of Michigan, an Internet retailing and shopping service operated by the Michigan Retailers Association (MRA).
Shoppers can access Countryside online through the Mall of Michigan at www.mallofmichigan.com. The store is listed in the Gifts section.
Countryside Craft Mall & Antiques is an emporium featuring hundreds of dealers of crafts, antiques and collectibles. The store's web fare ranges from handcrafted eucalyptus wreaths to 1930s collectible figurines to birdhouses fashioned from gourds.
Shoppers can make secure online credit card purchases through this Mall of Michigan store. Dealers can also sign up to sell through Countryside.
The Mall of Michigan's collection of unique specialty shops -- all of them MRA members -- opened in late 1997. More than 110 Michigan businesses now participate in e-commerce through this website.
The Michigan Retailers Association is the unified voice of retailing in Michigan and the nation's largest state trade association of general merchandise retailers. MRA's more than 5,500 retail business members operate more than 12,000 stores across the state.