4 Must-Haves for Showing Off Your Products

The most profitable stores tend to be the stores that are the easiest to shop at. After all, people aren't going to spend their hard-earned money in a store that's cluttered and disorganized. If you work in retail, you need a way to organize all of your products - that also showcases everything. If you're looking for a good way to do both, you need these 4 things:

1. An acrylic display case With acrylic, you don't have to worry about anything "stealing the spotlight" from your products. Acrylic is colorless, and it's durable - so you won't have to worry about even the clumsiest of customers breaking it. Plus, an acrylic display case is incredibly versatile; you can use it as a stand-alone piece, or you can set it on top of a counter. Depending on the size you get, you can hold everything from tiny jewelry to giant handbags in it!

2.An acrylic sign holder Once again, acrylic can work wonders! But this time, instead of holding actual products, you can get an acrylic sign holder that shows off important messages. That way, your customers will know about the giant sale you have going on, or the fact that certain aisles have special savings offers. And since you're dealing with acrylic - rather than glass - you don't have to worry about anyone breaking anything. Even if someone crashes into your acrylic sign holder with a shopping cart, it will be just fine!

3. A bulletin sign holder Sometimes, making a sale means making a statement - and a bulletin sign holder offers you the best chance to make it! A bulletin sign holder comes with built-in metal feet. That way, you can stand it up at the entrance of your store, near the aisles that are offering the biggest deals, or even out on the sidewalk to try and convince passersby to come in and shop! Plus, if you have several messages to get out, you can get a bulletin sign holder that holds two signs. That way, you get double the communication - without taking up double the floor space. Luckily, a bulletin sign holder shows off messages on both sides. That way, you can spread your message to people who are coming and going!

4. A brochure display holder Want people to find out more about your loyalty program, your store credit card, or your newest product? By getting a brochure display holder, you can draw attention to brochures that aren't big enough to command attention all by themselves. Instead of just laying a stack of brochures on the counter and hoping that someone picks one up, you can get a display holder that people can't help but look at!

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Richard A. Manfredi has written about www.displaywarehouse.com . Offers store fixtures, retail counter displays, gondola shelving, wooden clothes hanger, brochure holders, clothing and greeting card racks.

The Exquisite Unnoticeableness of Slatwalls and Wire Racks

Ever heard of a slatwall trend-setter? When you're out in a big store shopping for perfume, or something slightly more obscure, like kid gloves, it's only understandable that you would image that the only things found inside with the ability to influence fashion trends, and paradigmatical shifts in what society deems to be acceptable or desirable, are the cotton, silk, and polyester garments hanging from the racks -- if not the purple gator high-heel boots and purses. But the designer ready-to-wear items that make it into Italian Vogue, or into a chic Mexico City edition of Vanidades, are not the only discrete entities present to work influentially on fashion trends. Perhaps you'd like to take a closer peek at those apparently ordinary-looking retail shopping bags in which your exquisite cream-colored gloves were placed.

Of course, above, the compound term "fashion trend" should be understood to refer to "fashion" in its most general sense and use. The fact of the matter is that every single thing that meets your two good eyes, if you have them, has been influenced by previous trends and, as it presents itself to you, is in the midst of influencing the objects and arrangements that are yet to be. To write it out with a bit less periphrasis, the wire racks from which the luxurious garments hang are just as important as the smartly dyed and cut blouses, and other fine raiments.

Observable adornment comes in all imaginable forms, and if it goes unnoticed it is not because it is lacking, or because one is looking with insufficient care -- although that does occur, sometimes -- but because its very unnoticeableness is the culmination of a well-accomplished design purpose. That purpose would be retracting from the foreground in order to provide exquisite relief to things like silk handkerchiefs, or hand coverings made of the fine and variegated skins of slaughtered animals. It is by no means a haphazard occurrence that specialty boutiques and other mindful merchants spend so much time thinking through the semiotics of an apparently simple bulletin sign holder -- both the sign and the holder present a message in the way they adorn one another.

Sam Walters is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her writing appears in print and online.

About the Author

Richard A. Manfredi has written about www.displaywarehouse.com . Offers store fixtures, retail counter displays, gondola shelving, wooden clothes hangers, brochure holders, clothing and greeting card racks.