{"id":2080,"date":"2010-11-05T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2010-11-05T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T19:19:43","slug":"tappers-diamonds-fine-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/tappers-diamonds-fine-jewelry\/","title":{"rendered":"Better economy = better jewelry sales this holiday."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tapper's Diamonds and Fine Jewelers.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/retailspendingx-large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2081\" style=\"border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"Tapper's Diamonds and Fine Jewelers.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/retailspendingx-large.jpg\" alt=\"Tapper's Diamonds and Fine Jewelers.\" width=\"490\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/retailspendingx-large.jpg 490w, http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/retailspendingx-large-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Think that the economy is still down and out and jewelry is just sitting on the shelves of the leading jewelry stores across America? Well, think again. The November, 5, 2010 edition of <a title=\"Article about Today's economy.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/retail\/2010-11-05-retailspend05_CV_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a> features <a title=\"Tapper's Diamonds and Fine Jewelry.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tappers.com\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tapper&#8217;s Diamonds and Fine Jewelry<\/a> owner Mark Tapper putting a $65,000 Judith Ripka diamond heart necklace on shopper Rosemary Stepanski. Ms. Stepanski has been a <strong>Tapper&#8217;s<\/strong> customer since 1977. The retailer expects holiday sales will be good this year. &#8220;We believe in this economy,&#8221; says Mr. Tapper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tapper&#8217;s Diamonds and Fine Jewelry<\/strong> is an authorized <strong>Novell wedding band<\/strong> dealer. The jewelry store has locations in <a title=\"Locations for Tapper's jewelry stores.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tappers.com\/locations\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">West Bloomfield, Novi and Troy, Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a title=\"Article about the economy.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/retail\/2010-11-05-retailspend05_CV_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Holiday shoppers expected to be less cheap this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think that the economy is still down and out and jewelry is just sitting on the shelves of the leading jewelry stores across America? Well, think again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[53,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}