FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) – Cyber Monday often belongs to big retailers, especially those focusing on online sales. But one small business in Fairbanks has been working to find a niche in online retail in a state that relies on shipping.
The Great Alaska Bowl Company has spent much of 2024 working to both revamp their website but also bring customers to the website to boost online sales. According to Emily Berriochoa, the owner of Great Alaska Bowl Company, they began that work in early 2024 hiring out help from a photographer in Wasilla. They began the website remodeling, but there was something else to be done.
“I kept trying to figure out a way to break the barrier of getting that initial purchase from Alaskans throughout the state,” Berriochoa said.
The solution was eating the cost.
“The cost of the tape, the cost of the boxes, the cost of the time, just to kind of break …