Starting your own home center business? Expanding your current base of retail outlets? Your project probably consists of a sales floor, maybe an adjoining or independent warehouse and perhaps an optional attached lumber yard. Our experienced NSF Home Center planning team will assist you with the overall layout and plan of your store, warehouse and lumber yard, from fixturing to merchandising. We're here to help make your goals a reality.
Here is a basic checklist of important considerations in Home Center Store Planning:
     • Site Selection: Building choices, footprint and positioning
     • Traffic Flow: Entrances / exits for people, automobiles and trucks
     • Store Layout: Conventional, Grid, Racetrack, Y-Funnel & More
     • Fixture Height: The importance of fixture profiles
     • Merchandising and Fixture Selection: A vital relationship
     • Service Levels and Personnel Needs: The right combination
     • Demographics: Identifying your customer
You already know that contractors are a special breed of customer. They are serious professionals with professional needs and major time constraints. They require professionals catering to professionals.
This checklist of important requirements in Contractor Yard Planning can optimize performance and profits:
     • Your customers: The contractor's needs
     • RSB: Site selection, building choices, footprint and positioning
     • Traffic Flow: Entrances / exits for people, automobiles and trucks
     • The Great Debate: Customer or employee yard?
     • Merchandise Mix: Contractor showroom, layout and yard layout
     • Accessory Buildings: To be or not to be?