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What's in a Savvy Store blog, you ask?  You'll find business tips, recycling and reuse ideas, creative store fixture use, community events, store design, and much more.  We post our blog once a week(ish) and try to mix helpful with a dash of amusement.  Enjoy!

Fixtures For Your Pet?

Never thought your pets would use store fixtures?

Well, they can!

Actually, it's more like you are using your store fixtures for your pets - details, details...

 

 

How to be a Great Customer

From our collective retail experience (and the retail experiences of many, many, many of the people we know), we started talking about what kinds of customers are our favorite kinds of customers. And there seems to be some common threads in our realms of experience. We talked about customers who are always nice and never yell, and customers who remember our names even when we aren't wearing company shirts and name tags, customers who talk to us about more than the weather and customers whose products or services we believe in. And then we came around to customers whose stores we like to shop in. And this brought up an interesting point. What kind of correlation is there between a customer whose store we enjoy and our enjoyment of that customer when he or she is in our store?

 

Neckblock Alternatives

Instead of a neck block (the big piece of wood or metal that sticks out of the neck hole of your dress form), try these alternatives-

 

 

A Blog About Blogs is Blogerrific

Do you get tired of wading through endless social media babble to find something that might be useful for you to use in your business? I know I do. I love social media. It is a great resource. But sometimes all I want is a little bit of inspiring business information that I don't have to search for. And that's when I turn to the blogosphere. I have a couple of standard blogs that I visit when I'm looking for a little insight or a new idea or some work-related entertainment. These blogs are, in my opinion, the best of what I've found, but if you have a better suggestion, please let me know.

 

 

Store Fixtures as Garden Decor

We know that store fixtures have multiple uses - you don't just have to use a clothing rack to hold clothes. But what about outside of your house or your store? What about store fixtures as vehicles for plants or decoration in your yard?
Never thought of that, did ya?

 

 
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