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Wilson's Garden Center: Starting Fresh
Ned and Mitzi Wilson's vision for the future delivers a new garden center structure that maximizes space, efficiency and sales.
Slideshow: Wilson's Garden Center
Wilson's Garden Center's new retail structure offers an eye-catching new building with the flexibility to make the best - and most profitable - use of the space at any given time.
Features
State Of The Garden Center Industry: Spring 2010
Despite a hodgepodge of adverse weather conditions this spring, results from our 2010 State of the Industry spring recap survey showed positive signs in foot traffic and sales growth.
Signs Sell: Sale Signage
Well-done sale signage does an excellent job grabbing a customer’s attention and gets product moving off the shelf.
Five Questions With Shorty’s Garden & Home
Whether it’s e-mail communication, high-end phone systems, digital microscopes or POS-improved loyalty programs, Shorty’s Garden & Home proves it’s well deserving of its Revolutionary status.
More Updates At Shorty's Garden & Home
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In addition to improving in-house communication, this progressive Northwest garden center has made two key updates to make its customer service more efficient than ever before.
Buyer's Market: Planters, Shears And Ponding
Check out these new products to improve your business.
Theft In The Garden Center: A Growing Problem
Retailers discuss how to nip garden center theft in the bud.
Garden Tools: What Women Want
Manufacturers have learned gardening tools don’t always have to be tough and rough, but colorful and comfortable to appeal to the garden center’s favorite customers – women.
Structures And Benches: Adding On
Looking to renovate on a smaller scale? Here are some new benching and greenhouses for garden center merchandising that are catching on across the country.
Temporary Garden Center Locations Are Popping Up Everywhere
Retailers are taking roadside stands to a new level with highly improved temporary locations.
Is A Floral Shop The Way To Go?
Garden center retailers talk about their floral departments and share tips to increase profitability.
P. Allen Smith Day At Pleasant View Shows How Plants Equal Value
Take advantage of this valuable opportunity to get a celebrity to talk trends and teach your customers the true value of plants.
Fall Season Varieties: Making The Most Of Fall
These brand-new varieties can help elevate the season and excite your customers into one last planting.
Fafard Has A Growing Business
The growing media company based in Massachusetts, has set the stage for a nationwide revitalization in the retail market in 2010.
Steal This Idea Gallery: Al's Garden Center
One garden center that knows how to inspire is Al’s Garden Center in Sherwood, Ore. But along with inspiring customers, Al’s is a great place for other retailers and designers to visit and take notes. This retailer has an eye for design – something every visitor can see.
Columns
Touchpoints By Pete Mihalek
The Cat's Away
Do you trust your young staff enough to let them take the wheel?
Management And Profitability By Sid Raisch
What Discounts Do
Our industry’s need to excessively and improperly discount leads to the self-inflicted erosion of our products’ value.
Strategies And Concepts By Kurt Fromherz
Back To Basics v.2010
Retailing is, and always has been, about the customer.
