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5 minutes here, 5 there: pretty soon, you’re talking SIZZLE!

January 28, 2014 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw

Does your consignment, resale or thrift shop sometimes overwhelm you with messiness?
Do you feel like you can never get your merchandise arranged in a shopper-friendly manner?

Then do what all the home organizers suggest: tackle things five minutes at a time.

Some real-life examples:

First, a nice fixture that has sold down after the New Year’s Eve rush for dressy shoes.

An untended fixture

After a 5-minute neatening. Same merchandise, same fixture, much more appealing for browsers:

Consignment shop shoe area

All we did is condense the display, leaving the top and a few bottom compartments empty. While we were on the phone. Easy-peasy.

Another example:

A rounder of blouses, placed without regard to color.

Consignment shop blouses uncolorized

And arranged in color order, AKA colorized:

Colorizing helps consignment goods look more like "real" stores

(Colorizing does take time, so notice that in five minutes, I only got the Mediums done πŸ˜‰ This is the subtle retail merchandising touch that will make shoppers ask “Are these things new?”)

If you want your shop to Sizzle, Shop Sizzle is the Product for the Professional Resaler that you want. Get it now!

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