| As the owner or manager of any kind of retail | | | | markers, tags, hooks, and tacks. |
| store, you're undoubtedly familiar with clear plastic | | | | NOTE: You can get even more mileage out of |
| containers. Because of their convenience, | | | | your clear plastic containers when you recycle and |
| durability, versatility, and numerous different sizes, | | | | reuse them. Instead of ordering new containers |
| shapes, and styles, these bins are perfect for | | | | for storage, why not use your old display |
| creating displays, storing merchandise and other | | | | containers? Once your display bins have served |
| tools, and organizing your work areas! | | | | their purpose, you're in the market for new ones, |
| 1. Display | | | | or the ones you currently have are looking |
| Folks in the retail industry love clear plastic | | | | weathered, transfer them to your store's storage |
| containers as fixtures because they are | | | | or stock room and use them to store items! |
| extremely durable and safer than their glass | | | | 3. Organization |
| counterparts, they're lightweight and versatile, and | | | | You might think that storage and organization go |
| they're available in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, | | | | hand-in-hand, and sometimes, they do; however, |
| and styles. You'd be hard-pressed to find any kind | | | | when you're organizing something it doesn't |
| of small merchandise that COULDN'T be displayed | | | | always mean that you're also storing it. |
| in one of these containers! Plus, because they're | | | | For example, many retail establishments have |
| see-through, they allow employees and customers | | | | shelves under their checkout counters that allow |
| alike to see what's inside. | | | | associates to keep items they might need on the |
| NOTE: Once you're finished with your display bins | | | | fly. Markers, extra sales or discount stickers, |
| - say, you're ready to create a new display that | | | | paperclips or staples - these are the kinds of |
| requires different kinds of fixtures or you've used | | | | things clear plastic containers can help associates |
| your bins for so long they're starting to get a little | | | | keep organized and easily accessible. |
| rough around the edges - you can reuse and | | | | Another example for using clear plastic containers |
| recycle them as storage bins or organization bins | | | | as organizational tools in retail stores is the |
| (see below). | | | | manager's office. Like anyone else's office, the |
| 2. Storage | | | | managers and assistant managers of retail stores |
| Clear plastic containers are excellent storage tools | | | | have plenty of items in their offices that need to |
| for the same reasons they're excellent display | | | | be organized. Writing utensils, extra stables and |
| tools: they're durable, they're available in numerous | | | | paperclips, sticky notepads, erasers, tacks, and |
| sizes, and they're clear which makes it easy for | | | | other small items are all the kinds of items |
| you and your employees to easily see what | | | | mangers and assistant managers can organize in |
| they're looking for. | | | | these containers. |
| You and your employees can use clear bins to | | | | NOTE: Just like you can reuse your old display bins |
| store anything from small merchandise not yet | | | | as storage bins, you can also use them as |
| ready for display to small display tools and | | | | organization bins. Reusing and recycling your old |
| accessories like clearance and sale stickers, | | | | bins is a great way to save money! |