Shopping is an experience for the senses: the colors, the textures, the lighting, but ultimately it is the act of shopping that people enjoy. The enjoyment a person gets from shopping comes from the emotions and release in endorphins that race thought a person’s bloodstream as they purchase that new sweater or flat screen television. It is not the purchase of a box of cereal or dishwashing detergent that excites us; it is the purchase of those “extra” things, things that are by most standards luxuries, that causes us to experience a rush.
On top of that desire for that shopping rush, marketers have been successful in creating need. They have succeeded in convincing us that we need everything: we need this shampoo to make our hair thicker and softer, that car to make us more appealing to the opposite sex, and they have even convinced the population that they need to purchase bottled water even though the United States has one of the purest public water supplies in the world.
At the opposite end of the shopping experience and our perceived needs, is the place where the actual act of shopping takes place: the store. How does the retailer keep the flame of excitement and need that the marketing and advertising bigwigs have started burning so that their customers buy more and return to their stores again and again? The answer is creating a store environment that appeals to the senses and to the consumers desire to satisfy their perceived, material needs.
Do not think that there is a single answer or solution; it is a combination of many factors all working in concert with one another that create the shopping experience. Remember the first line of this article? “Shopping is an experience for the senses: the colors, the textures, the lighting”, the retailer needs to leverage her store’s assets to deliver on these things.
Retail store displays and retail store shelving are what make the foundation of a winning shopping experience. Great looking and functional displays and fixtures, shelving are the canvas on which the retailer can start to create the art of the shopping experience. There are many choices that retailer’s have when they are purchasing store displays, fixtures and retail store shelving. Today they have a choice of grid, slat grid, or Slatwall all of which are flexible systems that can be expanded upon as the needs of the retailer change. All the retail shelving systems are easy to use and are great for a wide range of uses. The newest shelving system is the Per-Fect display system. It’s sleek silver finish and perforated steel give is a high-tech that will accent any store environment.
By starting with the best foundation, great looking and flexible retail store displays and retail store shelving, retailers can design and build great looking displays that will help sell their products to their customers. By consistently reinforcing the perceived need for the item today’s retailer can create a winning store environment that the customer will want to return to over and over again.
About the author:
Eric M. Weinstein is the VP of New Business at Specialty Store Services, a leading business to business provider of Retail Store Shelving and Retail Store Supplies.
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