Tanger Outlet Center

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchisee Isaac Collins and employee Hannah Strasser mix the heated ingredients of the fudge on a marble top while it cools at his store in the Tanager Outlets in Williamsburg on Wednesday November 28, 2012. The batch of fudge being made was being produced to ship to US Armed Services personnel overseas as part of a pound bought/pund matched pledge by the store. (Justin Torner/Freelance)

Rocky Mountain High

Chocolate store makes, sends 669 pounds of fudge to U.S. troops

  WILLIAMSBURG — The scent of sugar wafts through the air as Isaac Collins uses a large wooden spoon to mix fudge in a copper kettle. Minutes later, he pours the fudge onto a marble table. Working in a circle, Collins walks around the table, using large wooden paddles to move the fudge around. Swapping [...]

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Norma Kolosik (from left) and Tillie Smith-Albertson get a ride from trolley driver Bob Hook to Le Gourmet Chef at Tanger Outlets.. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)

Like an I-80 outpost, mall draws from Omaha — and Brazil

Mall boasts 56 stores

When your potential customers live anywhere from rural Iowa to Brazil, you need to use a variety of traditional and state-of-the-art marketing tools to bring them to your doorstep. No one probably understands that any better than Theresa Phillips, general manager of Tanger Outlet Center in Williamsburg. “We use television, newspaper inserts and a few [...]

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