(1) This is always a bit of a touchy subject. There are many shops that ONLY buy from FTF or WFTO members and I think that is great. Many shops are also part of small communities that have strong independent local artisan populations. I personally don’t see anything wrong with a hybrid shop that sells both fair trade products as well as products from either local artisans or domestic artisans. Depending on how your structure your shop and what your product mix is you may run into some identity issues but nothing that can’t easily be overcome. If you do more “art gallery” for the local products, especially if it is consignment, you may also have some issues with how you evaluate inventory and maintain your inventory control systems. There are work arounds for everything and you could easily keep the two inventories separate in your system and evaluate them independently based on different turn cycles.