With summer nearing an end and the holiday season just around the corner, retail stores are seeing an increase in customers, while inventory moves in and out at a rapid pace. A clean and safe store is essential to ensuring your shoppers spend time browsing your items, wanting to come back again in the future.
Retail store owners and managers need to ensure everything remains gleaming and hygienic during these busy times, whether its a Black Friday sale or an end of year shopping season. This can be challenging, which is why we have put together a sales and peak shopping season cleaning check list for retail stores.
With an increase in foot traffic and inventory arrivals, it's important to ensure you keep your store clean and hygienic. When you are not consistent with your cleaning, your floors can become dusty and sticky, displays can be disorganised and dusty, and germs can spread through high touch surfaces, such as changing room door locks and pay terminals.
Studies have shown that close to eighty percent of shoppers take cleanliness of the store into consideration and are more likely to make a purchase from a clean, neat, and healthy store.
Sales and Peak Shopping Cleaning Check list for Retail Stores
A clean retail store is welcoming, especially during very busy periods. The Sloane Cleaning Services team of professional cleaners have put together a check list for retail store owners and managers, helping you tackle cleanliness and hygiene during sales and peak shopping seasons.
Your entrance or doorway should be cleaned daily:
Your display areas should be organised, spotless, and appealing throughout the day, especially during peak times, making it more enjoyable for shoppers to browse your product range:
Your shoppers expect great care to be taken in your check out or cashier areas. These are high touch areas that require regular sanitising to reduce the spread of germs:
Careful attention should be paid to your retail store washrooms, ensuring you provide shoppers with a positive experience:
To ensure your team feel valued, you should provide them with a clean and hygienic area where they can relax during their break:
With a sale around the corner or peak shopping season looming, it's time to ensure you give your retail store a deep clean. This includes:
Peak shopping season or when you hold a sale is your stores chance to shine. It's important to make a great first impression on shoppers when they walk into your store, encouraging them to browse your product range, make a purchase, and become a repeat customers. With regular daily and weekly cleaning, along with pre-sales and pre-peak season shopping deep cleans, you can maintain a clean and healthy store. Contact Sloane Cleaning Services today for a free, no obligation quote.