As happens twice a year, some 90,000 people have converged downtown for the Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market at AmericasMart.
It’s where manufacturers and wholesalers compete to get their products into retail stores near you. And even in the era of e-commerce, “the market,” as it’s called, still matters.
When famed Atlanta architect John Portman opened AmericasMart in 1957, he described it as a department store for retailers. It’s also been called “the place where you go to shop goes to shop.”
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