SHELF OBSESSED

The right pharmacy shelving does more than to just help you organize your products. They can also allow you to showcase products so that customers are drawn to them and enticed to buy. You can use them to display products throughout your store and at the checkout, both for customer convenience and so that you can benefit from customers' propensity to impulse buy.

Thinking of upgrading your retail shelving, but not sure if now is the time? There may not be any hard or fast rules when it comes to changing up your shelving, but there are three big questions to consider to help you know if the time for change is now.

Just bought a pharmacy? Congratulations! Being in business for yourself is exciting, and the opportunity to make the space uniquely yours, especially if it is a pharmacy remodel job, is an adventure in and of itself.

You have a lot on your plate as an independent pharmacist, and it can sometimes feel like there is not much you can do to make your own life easier. However, by gradually implementing these eight simple things, not only will your life become more manageable, but your employees and customers will be positively impacted as well!

Retail shelving is so ubiquitous that you may not even give it much thought until it comes time to buy new pieces. These five tips will help you choose the right retail shelving for your business.

If you're in a building or expansion phase, your new pharmacy must seem exciting to you. This is the perfect opportunity to create just the right layout, fixtures, and function from scratch – no more making do with someone else's vision of what it should be.

What do you think of "pharmacy workflow"? Is it something that you set up when you first went into business, only to become lax about it as time went on?

As an independent pharmacist, you serve your customers to the best of your ability. You fill prescriptions for your patients' medications and provide counsel on those medications, true, but at least part of your business probably also deals with selling merchandise.

Three specific trends in society that are becoming increasingly popular are starting to affect pharmacies nationwide, as their impact seems to be here to stay. These include:

"Follow the yellow brick road" is a famous quote from the Wizard Of Oz, but it can also serve as a message for you to increase your pharmacy's front end merchandise sales. By creating your own metaphorical "yellow brick road" – one that subtly guides customers through your store in such a way that they can't help but see the must-have merchandise they might otherwise miss – you can gently lead customers to where you want them to go.