People no longer ask for recommendations the way they used to: they search for a haberdashery on Google and trust what they find. If you're not there, to many customers it's as if you don't exist.
Shop searches carry a brand, a model and a "near me" or an "open now". Those are exactly the queries a marketplace cannot take, because the answer depends on being here and having it in stock.
Opening hours, stock and the Google Business Profile do more for these searches than any homepage redesign. The site's job is to feed them accurate data, not to impress.
Retail search is seasonal twice over: the trade season and the local one. Work backwards from the date you want the till to ring, then subtract three months for indexing.
A category page rarely ranks; the product does. Individual pages with the brand, the model and the size are what pick up the searches with buying intent, and they are the ones worth keeping updated.
More and more people ask ChatGPT and AI assistants for a recommendation instead of scrolling Google. We structure your haberdashery's content so those tools understand what you do and put your name forward when someone asks.