It’s Trade Market Season: How the Stores Shop
Hampton, VA – Store owners around the Peninsula — and across the country — began a different kind of shopping bustle in the weeks following Christmas.
Some of the largest retail trade markets began in early January, with shop owners doing their own bargain hunting to prepare for the new year.
Tish Llaneza, owner of Countryside Gardens in Hampton, recently traveled to Atlanta’s AmericasMart, where thousands of wholesale vendors revealed upcoming trends and new products.

