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.
After a 5-minute neatening. Same merchandise, same fixture, much more appealing for browsers:
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.
And arranged in color order, AKA colorized:
(Colorizing does take time, so notice that in five minutes, I only got the Mediums done 😉 This is the subtle retail merchandising touch that will make shoppers ask “Are these things new?”)
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