If we’re real lucky,

(and if we are talented consignment, resale, thrift shopkeepers as well) we keep selling stuff off our displays and ending up with blank spots.

a lot you can do in under five minutes.

Case in point:

Instead of just balancing that slingback back on its little platform,

and finding another couple of pairs of shoes, let’s instead tell a story:

In five minutes, we’ve kept the Coach mules and mixed merchandise, texture, shape to complement them…and now we’re tempting not only the shoe lover, but the purse/ hat aficionado as well.

While this end cap display isn’t so wonderful that we’d use it as a photo on our web site, it certainly does more for our shop, and involves our customers more, than what it looked like 5 minutes ago.