Countertop Candy Display Racks Are a Sweet Source of Profit for Retailers With countertop snack and candy retail display racks, even for retailers who don’t primarily market themselves as candy stores, candy can become enormous profit makers. Getting the right candy retail displays and racks in your store will certainly make a big difference in Read More …
Since 1984 Specialty Store Services has been the leading provider of retail store supplies and fixtures in the Chicago area and beyond. When customers order from our catalog or website, we ship their orders to every corner of the nation, in as little as 1 to 2 business days. Our friendly, helpful customer service reps Read More …
The concept of ‘going green’ has become more than a tagline. For businesses, there are some excellent advantages for choosing ‘eco-friendly’ as a method for cost reduction, while also reducing a company’s carbon footprint. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed by President Obama and allows both residential and businesses to take Read More …
In today’s net market, everyone has a website. For those that have a brick and mortar store or are a pure-play e-commerce company, a website can offer a plethora of information for an owner to ensure that inventory is available for sale. When used properly, a website can also be an asset upon which your Read More …
For most retailers, monthly volume doubles or even triples during the holiday season. It also seems that every year, retailers are scrambling to make sure they have the items consumers want in stock. This is very apparent in the toy industry when every child wants that ‘special’ toy and hardly anyone is carrying it. There Read More …
Success tastes sweet, but who knew it smells even better? Scent marketing research studies show that the use of scent in retail stores can have a significant and direct impact on business sales and profitability. Wondering how? Well, simply put, it helps deliver a better shopping experience to customers. By using scent in your retail Read More …
Showrooming: If You Can’t Beat It, Befriend It Showrooming is a relatively new foe in town for brick-and-mortar retailers. It is eating away retail sales and business profits. If you are not familiar with the term yet, it is basically a practice wherein potential shoppers visit a brick-and-mortar store, examine a product and then Read More …
Retail display aisle spacing is key to determining where different category products will be placed to how the in-store advertising material will be displayed, there is no doubt that shelf-product placement and SKUs prompt shoppers to purchase products they may never have had any intention of buying, which eventually fetches more sales for retailers. Does Read More …
According to the Wall Street Journal, last year consumers spent more than $3.1 trillion on retail purchases. Plus, 89% of sales in the clothing industry were made in stores compared to online. Where online shopping continues to grow, these stats show that, even today, the majority of retail spending still occurs in brick-and-mortar stores. This Read More …
Trends, whether they are seasonal events, holidays or the latest video game craze, are a great way to feature and sell what is “hot” and “new”. In this post we are going to discuss ways in which you can use trends, both popular and not-so-popular, to your advantage. This is the time of year when Read More …