Here’s a favorite thing that will guide your browsing customers AND save you hours of straightening time. Color-coded mini-markers that slip on the neck of a hanger. Think how YOU could use them:
* To indicate Petites or Talls while keeping clothing in the right size range.
* To denote Boys, Girls, Gender-neutral in T’s, jeans, and other items.
* To mark linens folded on hangers: table, window, bed, bath. Keeping these usages separate makes for an easier shopping experience for your customer, which means more sales for you.
* To call attention to higher-end designer items. Makes it easy for even part-time staff to keep them on the proper racks, or for buyers to understand your price structure if you mix your price ranges within categories.* To point out vintage, costumes, whatever would be useful for your staff or your clientele to know.
You could even go hog-wild and assign a different color mini-marker to sizes XS, S, M, L, XL throughout the shop… thereby being able to create appealing completely-colorized racks. Imagine being able to have a rounder of black pants here, of tan there, of the rest-of-the-rainbow over there, and STILL helping shoppers “find their size”! That’s a way to banish the mish-mash of merchandise in consignment and resale shops!
(Oh sure, it takes work, keeping things on their color-coded hangers properly…hey, everything takes work!)
For a [update: a little more than a nickel now] nickel apiece, these hanger mini-markers might become one of your favorite things as well!
across something else with the potential to be, perhaps, your Favorite Thing in your shop.
Auntie Kate The Resale Expert 