{"id":5487,"date":"2016-03-28T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T11:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xcartwp.x-cart.com\/?post_type=success_stories&#038;p=5487"},"modified":"2023-09-12T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T06:24:49","slug":"success-storiesvsa-fitness-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/success-stories\/vsa-fitness.html","title":{"rendered":"Athletics Barn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>I am a webmaster, IT Manager and Marketing Director for our small eCommerce company. Athletics Barn is an offshoot of our primary business, it is focused solely on fitness related items. We decided to set up a separate Athletics Barn online store in addition to the primary website&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vsathletics.com\/store\/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">VS Athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<link  rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/miniflat\/build\/css\/elements\/post\/quote.css?var=1742284057\" \/><blockquote class=\"gb-quote\">\n        <div class=\"gb-quote__content gb-quote__no-photo\">\n                <p  class=\"gb-quote__text\">Exporting features and variants flexibility were the main reasons for choosing X-Cart shopping cart solution for the online store.<\/p>                    <footer class=\"gb-quote__name\">\n                <cite>Dough Lync,<br>a webmaster, IT Manager and Marketing Director of Athletics Barn<\/cite>\n            <\/footer>\n            <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>Exporting features and variants flexibility were the main reasons for choosing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.x-cart.com\/ecommerce-solutions\" target=\"_blank\">X-Cart shopping cart solution<\/a>&nbsp;for the online store. 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