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  • I really wanted to love Union but left disappointed...and hopeful that more shops besides the Queen Creek Olive Mill can showcase locally made goods more prominently in the future. For all the hype about the shops here being locally owned businesses, I was shocked at how little locally made merchandise was on the shelves (and if it is there in abundance and I somehow missed it, that it is not more visibly marketed as Arizona made). We are more sophisticated shoppers than we were five years ago when it comes to recognizing and spending our funds on locally made merch. We already buy handmade and unusual items directly from the people who made them at farmers markets and festivals, and also from locally owned shops that feature high quality locally made items such as Practical Art, the Mesa Art Center Artist Co Op Store and the Vision Gallery in Chandler. This is our level of expectation for places like Union to fulfill. Walk around and look at the Union's current ceramics offerings, for example. Their quality and design and interestingness can't hold a candle to the high quality work being made in abundance by Arizona ceramic artists here...and if I do like the type of mass manufactured ceramics like what is offered in these stores I have probably already found a way to get it elsewhere online. The same goes for everything from cutting boards to letterpress bicycle greeting cards to jewelry, soaps and fashion...many of the previous reviews enthuse over what a fun place this is to browse through - and that is true. But unless customers actually keep coming back to buy (and buy again) how will it survive in the long run? To the locally owned businesses of Union, I do truly wish success for you in the long run and I hope to spend some dollars here to support you. I would love to see you feature more locally made items so when I "shop local" I know that more of my dollars are staying here in az thanks to you, in turn, supporting items that come from here and the people who make them. Your tourist customers would gain a chance to see and purchase items of quality that are uniquely Arizonan. I hope you can take the time to source some Arizona made merch (or hire someone who can help you find it) or even find avenues to put out a call to artists a couple times a year...I'll be back soon, with high hopes.
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