Gift Ideas Under $25 - Green Tomato Pickles from Lauri Jo's

Green Tomato Pickles - the item that launched Lauri Jo's

Holiday entertaining and gift-giving will drive business for the remaining 8 weeks of the year, and your customer will be looking to you for fresh ideas to make their events unique and memorable.

Lauri Jo's is not only a welcome gift idea, it is also an easy way for your customers to add that special ingredient to their holiday meals and parties that will have their friends begging for their recipes.

Lauri Jo (she's a real person!) started the company with a few of her great-grandmother's recipes and began home canning - launching a growing and successful business that now offers over 40 products.

The first item was Green Tomato Pickles:

The Green Tomato Pickle is my HERO!!  It is what started my business and is still to this day my favorite product.  They are the real deal.  It takes 4 days to make this old-fashioned lime pickle....Chopped up, they make the best deviled eggs or chicken salad you will ever eat.  Some people eat them on grilled hamburgers.  Food Network serves them on Turkey Cheddar Melt sandwiches.

She works with local growers and suppliers to bring you the agricultural bounty of South Georgia, producing award-winning pickles, pepper jellies, salsas and other gourmet products, using locally-sourced and all-natural ingredients.

Pepper Jellies are available in 14 different flavors

The pickles and pepper jellies can retail for $8.95, making them easy additions to gift baskets and ideal for multi-unit selling because just one isn't enough!

The pickles are available in 6 different varieties, while there are 14 flavors in the pepper jellies.

All items taste great on their own, and they are often used as ingredients to add a new flavor dimension to common dishes - like with her meatball recipe which I had the good fortune to taste last week and can affirm they are delicious!

Gift Ideas $25 & Under - New sock collection from rockflowerpaper

Dachshund Navy pattern

Socks remain a HOT category at retail and is truly one of the must-have categories for your shop this season.  The new sock collection from rockflowerpaper includes 11 designs, some of which are inspired by popular designs already in the line and others that are completely new.  Each pair is an all-over pattern with no words (or profanity) like you find on some other sock companies.

Socks have become the perfect impulse purchase - for a gift or for self-purchase - and a favorite stocking stuffer.  They add life to your store displays and a touch of whimsy to your customers' outfits.

Fair Isle Red pattern

The socks are crew length in women's one-size-fits-most.  They are a cotton/nylon/elasthan blend that makes them durable and easy-care.  

Retail them for $10-12 with a comfortable margin.  Since it's not uncommon for customers to purchase more than one pair, consider offering a price break on a multi-unit purchase ($10 each or $28 for 3).