SHELF OBSESSED

In the competitive, ever-evolving world of retail displays and retail store shelving, the most successful retailers utilize their eye-level shelf space in crafty ways involving creative retail display ideas. Shelving Design Systems in Pell City, AL looks at four ways in particular that certain retailers get the most out of their retail fixtures.

Retail shelving is one of the more underrated components in a store. Though rarely garnering the appreciation it deserves, the right retail store shelving equates to effective retail merchandising and is a big contributor to a business’ success. Of course, the flipside is that utilizing the wrong retail shelving and retail wall shelving can majorly undermine your game plan and profits.

Collectively, the team at Shelving Design Systems in Pell City, AL has more than 150 years of experience in providing exceptional retail and pharmacy solutions to our customers nationwide. We’ve worked with plenty of different products, and we can say without reservation that Madix shelving is one of the industry’s best. Here’s an overview of why Madix offers some of the market’s best products.

If you’ve noticed a decrease in your pharmacy’s productivity, poor workflow could be the reason. Shelving Design Systems, a leader in pharmacy shelving and pharmacy solutions, has several ideas for boosting productivity and improving your bottom line.

The Point of Purchase (POP) area of your pharmacy is a goldmine of sales opportunity and is more than a place for gum and lottery tickets. Once a customer has reached the POP, they have already committed to buying something, and here’s the chance for you to influence their buying decisions before they check out. POP displays are crucial to building revenue off low cost, high profit items that customers can’t resist.

Shelving is such a basic part of your retail image that it’s easy to forget about it while you focus on other things. When customers walk through your store, they might not think to themselves “Hmmm…now there’s a shelving error”, but they do notice, at least subconsciously, when something’s not right.

Your pharmacy shelving actually has the capability to make or break your business as an independent drugstore because it's responsible for creating a major part of your overall merchandising environment. While it's the prescription dispensing function that brings most customers to you and produces the greatest percentage of your store's revenues, it's the front-end merchandising area that shoppers have to walk through to get to the prescription counter located near the rear of the store. If shoppers are put off by what they see, it will negatively affect their “buying mood” and may even convince them that they just might want to purchase their prescriptions elsewhere.

Modern pharmacies are more than a quick stop to get cold medicine when you’re not feeling well – at least they should be. Today, customer expectations are higher and they’re looking not just for products, but also an experience.

Once upon a time, pharmacies were more than just a place to pick up a prescription at a drive through window. Pharmacies of days gone by featured soda fountains and counters that beckoned patrons to hang around, make friends, and catch up with the neighbors.

Effective pharmacy sales are, after all, retail sales much like in any store. Although, as an independent community pharmacy owner or manager, it may be tempting to fall back on the sale of prescription medications to boost your store earnings, the fact is that gross margins on prescriptions are dropping for most stores, lowering profits, while front-end sales continue to be strong and stable. This is according to the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).