Auntie Kate The Resale Expert

The next stop on our NARTS Conference Bus Tour was a bonanza of ideas from two shops owned by the same company, Turnstyle.

First, their clothing shop. It’s on the inside elbow of an L-shaped center, within 100 feet of their home furnishings store. Although there is excellent overhead signage for motorists, pedestrian-level signage is missing in both cases, and I did actually hear some of my bus companions exclaim that they totally missed the tucked-away clothing store.

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A whole wall of accessories, neatly arranged. Notice the narrow mirror, hung sideways above the jewelry.

Notice that scarves and jewelry are hung not on straight arm slatwall fixtures, but on waterfall faceouts for easier browsing.

I loved their devotion to colorizing. Don’t the belts look great… and colorizing shoes is something I seldom see!

The shop does carry a selection of childrenswear, sizes 2T and up, and some menswear as well. Plus size womenswear has its own floor space as well.

Periodic markdowns are done by hand, in red marker, as prescribed by the Manual ♥ (or maybe they just realized this was best practices on their own ♥ )

The cleverest idea I picked up at the clothing store was this: Spring-summer clothing is tagged with green tags, fall-winter with red tags. This makes it simple, at seasonal clearance time, to simply say “50% off all green ticket items”, without having to rearrange the shop or put stamps, stickers, or hole punches on each tag.

Here’s the shop’s post-dated consignment goods awaiting the seasonal switch. Note they have red tags, allowing the shop to intersperse some transitional goods into stock without affecting the green-ticket clearance event.

Next door to the clothing shop is the home furnishings store. Here, colorizing makes the assortment of knick knacks look so much more appealing:

What to do with too much wall decor? I’ve seen plenty of solutions, but these carpet-covered, stepped units are elegant in looks and function!

Soft goods get their own department, The area rugs are displayed on a large sturdy table for easy browing (and a bit of undercover storage as well.)

Stay tuned to our blog… Part III of the Resale Bus Tour at NARTS Conference coming up soon… and another shop a few of us were thrilled to visit on our free evening!

See Part I of the Resale Bus Tour.

Visit turnstyleconsign.com for more on this company.