You have probably seen the two words wholesale and retail all throughout your life on many kinds of advertisements whether it be on commercials, signs, billboards, etc. Wholesale and retail are two terms that apply to a wide range of businesses, including hospitality. Even though you may have heard of these terms before, they are two very broad words that have a lot of information and more specific details that you may not have thought of recently. Properties are continually ordering hospitality products to keep their businesses moving, but people are also buying hospitality products for personal use. This blog will explain the differences between wholesale and retail purchases.

InnStyle’s parent company, County Linen, opened its doors in 1952. That’s a long, long time. Not many businesses can say they have survived for that long.

Like the name suggests, InnStyle started as a linen store, a small family business run by Jack Sternthal. As time went on, Jack’s sons graduated from college and joined the family business. The company eventually had three locations, with the main store moving to a 30,000-sq. foot building where they provided linens, furniture, accessories, flooring, custom window treatments, and bedding.

InnStyle was launched in 1988. Starting with a catalog, they began providing bed and breakfast properties with quality bed linens and other items for their rooms.

InnStyle began with customers who owned bed and breakfast properties in tourist destinations like New Hope, PA, and Lambertville, N.J., coming to shop at their store in Doylestown.

But it eventually morphed into an internet shopping experience, as their innkeepers began to put their businesses online. Visitors to their site can now find wholesale and retail shopping carts.

So why are they talking about all this?

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