For anyone that has gone through the pain resetting a store, it is not a real fun process. Especially when you are open for business. Fortunately we have amazing Customers that are patient with our mess. They are also very excited for the day that our Traeger grills fire up and start serving food everyday…
We continue to juggle the moving of product with some departments in multiple areas in the store. With each product move we are painting our pegboard to match our store color scheme. That adds to the complexity, but it really looks nicer than just plain old ivory colored shelving.
The other part of the challenge has been determining what departments go well next to each other given the space constraints that we have. Given that our store is a collection of three buildings, we have more angles and aisles than we would prefer, though it does add character. We are sticklers for maintaining a minimum 48″ wide aisle, which also causes challenges when laying out merchandise in the configuration that I have available.
It is our goal in the end to make the store an inviting, open and fun space to gather. Adding the Cafe will only serve to strengthen that atmosphere that we are aiming for. We are also striving for all the other parts of who we are to support that also. Hopefully our next post will have rough plumbing and electrical happening…