From now on Midwest Retail Services may need to add a sticker to all our retail store fixture boxes that reads "As Seen On TV"! It turns out that our Lozier gondola shelving and our Boni RX bays have real star quality and are now starring along side actors like...
When it comes to choosing fixtures for your entire store, a single department, or just one merchandising section there are a myriad of products, brands, and materials from which to choose. To help our customers make better decisions, we're sharing the professional...
Perhaps your store has decided to carry a new line or a new brand of products, but you haven't cut any of your existing offerings to make room. Or maybe you've decided to expand into fulfilling prescriptions, but have no idea where you're going to put a full pharmacy....
We had a great question submitted through our website contact form asking: "When is it time to replace shelves?" Here are the best answers as provided by our team. You'll notice that there is more than one thing to consider when providing an answer to this question,...
What makes more sense, buying a special display domestically or importing it? Lower cost is the usual lure for importing, but there are more factors to be considered. If you are not a regular buyer of custom or specialty display fixtures or accessories then the task...
Practical vs. Elaborate Displays Ask a visual merchandiser or merchandise manager how to grab the attention of shoppers; their answers will reveal an insight about customer behavior and what makes consumers respond to store environments and displays. Even armed...
Inventory Control Made Simple: Control at the Hook & Shelf Level When you think of inventory control, you often think of software for managing inventory levels, or about cycle and end-of-year counts for tax purposes. In the grand scheme of inventory management, it...
Are you buying a shelf or a solution? If the customer is always right, then the right thing to do should be to provide whatever the customer wants. But is this how it’s supposed to work? A true professional goes beyond simply providing what the customer wants and...
Steps to improving shop-ability in your store When building long-lasting customer relationships, one of the most important factors is the shopability of your store. Shopability refers to the ability to turn consumer interest into purchases through the strategic use of...