| Whether you're just now starting a candy store | | | | trees, but you can also find pre-filled bucket racks |
| or you've managed one for years, you can | | | | designed to rotate or remain stationary - |
| always use a few tips on how to create - and | | | | whichever model is most convenient for your |
| improve - your candy store displays. | | | | customers. |
| Tip #1: Choose candy containers that work well | | | | Tip #4: Select display fixtures that will catch each |
| with your merchandise. | | | | customer's eye. |
| Perhaps the most obvious tip within this list is the | | | | Many kinds of display fixtures - such as plastic, |
| tip to make sure you choose containers and | | | | acrylic, and glass containers, jars, and bins - are |
| other fixtures that will attractively and | | | | available in different colors, shapes, and styles. |
| conveniently display your merchandise. | | | | Don't be afraid to give these fixtures a try in |
| Certain kinds of fixtures work best with certain | | | | your store! |
| kinds of candy. For example, you wouldn't want | | | | Tip #5: Always think about safety. |
| to display lollipops in a gravity bin. As you're | | | | This last tip is perhaps the most important: As |
| browsing around for fixtures and other display | | | | you're planning your candy store display, think |
| tools, pay attention to the kinds of examples the | | | | about the safety risks the display fixtures and the |
| wholesalers provide within the descriptions of their | | | | overall setup might create for your customers. |
| fixtures. | | | | For example, if your store typically experiences a |
| Tip #2: Choose candy containers that work well | | | | high volume of traffic - or caters mostly to |
| with your display space. | | | | families with young children - and you need simple |
| In addition to choosing containers that attractively | | | | containers to hold your candy, opt for acrylic bins |
| and conveniently showcase your candy, you need | | | | and plastic containers and fish bowls over glass |
| to choose fixtures that you can attractively and | | | | jars and fish bowls. The acrylic and plastic |
| conveniently situate in your display space. | | | | varieties work just as well as their glass cousins, |
| Before you begin browsing for fixtures, get | | | | but don't impose the same level of risk should a |
| familiar with your display space. How much room | | | | customer accidentally bump into or drop one. And, |
| do you have to work with? Once the fixture is | | | | if it does happen to break, pieces of acrylic or |
| set up, how much space will be left for your | | | | plastic aren't as likely as pieces of glass to harm a |
| customers? | | | | customer. |
| Tip #3: Work smart - not hard! | | | | You must also carefully think about how you plan |
| Obviously there will come times when you'll need | | | | to set up your displays. Whether your store is |
| to restock your candy displays, but you can | | | | large and roomy or small and cozy, and whether |
| prolong those times by choosing display fixtures | | | | it experiences high or low volumes of traffic at |
| that hold bulk amounts of candy. Candy store | | | | any given point during business hours, it's |
| bulk fixtures allow you display large quantities of | | | | important that you make sure all of your display |
| product and, depending on how long your | | | | fixtures are sturdy enough to hold your |
| particular candy stays fresh, cut back on the | | | | containers and merchandise and that you've |
| amount of time you spent refilling the fixtures. | | | | properly assembled them and situated them in |
| You can also make things a bit easier on yourself | | | | places throughout your store that won't increase |
| when you choose pre-filled candy displays. Such | | | | the chances they'll be bumped into or cause a |
| examples include gumball machines and lollipop | | | | customer any inconvenience. |