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Smoke Shop & Vapor Store Acrylic Displays
Consumer demand for e-cigarettes and vapor products are on the rise. In fact, research by Wells Fargo Securities estimates the size of the retail e-vapor market at $2.2 billion with annual growth estimated to be approximately 15%. If you have a convenience store, smoke shop or vapor store, you’ll want to take advantage of this hot growth segment by using the right display solutions for your e-cigarette, e-liquid and vapor supplies.
Vapor Supply Stores use unique acrylic displays to showcase their e-cigarettes, e-liquid bottles and vapor pens and other e-vapor supplies for sale. At Discount Shelving & Displays we offer a wide variety of Acrylic Vapor Store Displays for sale*. Our acrylic vapor displays come in many different style holders from multi-slot, multi-tiered, single-slot and curved display stands as well as multi-compartment style acrylic displays. Place acrylic e-cigarette, e-vapor displays on your counter top or display cases to create attractive displays to help maximize your sales. These acrylic displays for e-cigarette and e-vapor products help you keep your products well organized and secure. You can easily change your displays to showcase different e-cigarette, e-liquid bottles, mods and tanks for sale.
Also, if you have slatwall, there are acrylic displays made specifically for use on slat panels that are ideal for merchandising your e-cigarette, e-liquid bottles and other vapor supplies. You can shop for Acrylic Displays for Vapor Stores at www.discountshelving.com.
*Disclaimer: Discount Shelving, Inc. does not manufacture, produce, sell or promote the use of tobacco, e-cigarette or vapor products of any kind. Our acrylic products are used exclusively for display purposes only.
Q. I have been browsing your website, and am eager to purchase a variety of displays that I need for my retail store. However, I want to touch and feel the products before I purchase them. Do you have a show room that I can go to?
Our show room is located at 698 Long Island Avenue, Deer Park NY 11729. Please call us before you come so that we confirm if the products you are looking for are available for pick-up from our NY warehouse location. We carry a large inventory in NY however many of our products are shipped from multiple warehouse locations nationwide.
Our telephone number is 1-888-957-4353, and our hours of operation are Monday through Friday 9 am to 5:30 pm.
Put Your Best Merchandise Face Forward
In retail, creating the right look is one of the key ingredients to sales success. Smart use of displays and accessories can help put your best merchandise forward.
As you put together your retail displays remember that you want to make a positive impact as soon as a potential customer walks through your door. That first impression will often prove the amount of time they will spend in your store. Keep in mind that most people only give you one chance to make a good first impression. Also, it takes just seconds, a glance for them to form an opinion about your store.
When merchandising, pay careful attention to everything from lighting and store layout, to traffic flow and retail store signage. Strategic product presentation will also help you make a great impression. One of the best ways to attract your customer’s attention quickly is to use face-out presentations. Face-out merchandising means having the front part of a product facing the customer. If you sell books or music, it means titles and CDs are displayed on shelves or easels, with the covers facing the buyer. Showing just the spines of books or CDs in a bookcase, requires the purchaser to be motivated to work hard to find anything they may want, let alone catch their attention to even want to try!
If you’re selling clothes, face-out merchandising is even more critical. Don’t hide your merchandise by making the mistake of just hanging clothing on racks where only the edge of a sleeve or shoulder is visible. For a shopper, it’s like having to dig through a closet aimlessly with no direction. Not many customers would bother sifting through this type of display without any eye-catching triggers to entice them.
Think about using mannequins and forms to display your clothes. They offer one of the best options for an attractive face-out presentation. It’s proven that “people like to see clothing on people”, to help visualize how clothing will look on themselves. Place clothing forms near folded items to entice customers. Mannequins are typically used to attract attention in display windows and inside to lead buyers to a particular section of a store where often racks of similar clothing set-ups.
If you don’t have the floor space or budget for mannequins, a great alternative is to use apparel racks and accessories. Many stores use apparel racks and accessories that are designed to create effective face-out merchandising.
Which racks and accessories offer eye-grabbing appeal? The following products have proven to help increase sales:
Two-way racks and four-way racks with face-out arms present are compact, perfect for the center of the floor.
Spiral racks offer a cascade effect from which you can hang and feature the same item in different colors.
When capacity is an issue, supplement your round clothing racks, and double bar clothing racks with clothing rack toppers.
Made of wire, glass, or wood, you can display face-out signage or forms on top of these rack toppers.
On walls, use straight-outs, waterfalls and slant arms. Unlike shelves straight-outs, waterfalls, and slant arms give you the opportunity to practically “reach out” to your customers.
When it comes to merchandising, don’t be shy, grab and entice your customers with face-out displays.
Figuring Out Mannequins & Forms
When displaying clothing for sale, remember that people prefer to see clothes on people. The next best thing is to merchandise clothing on mannequins and forms. It’s proven that you can sell more when you display it well. Mannequins and forms make it easier for customers to visualize how the garment will look on them. Today there are literally hundreds of mannequins and forms available to choose from. Following is some useful info to help in figuring out whether a mannequin or form will fit your needs.
Space considerations
• Forms give you more opportunities to displays clothing in limited areas. You can use forms as displays on top of racks and hung from walls.
• Mannequins are available standing or sitting, in action or still, and take up floor space.
Merchandise considerations
• Forms allow you to display individual items (tops, bottoms, tee-shirts, swimwear, etc.).
• Mannequins allow you to display full outfits (tops with bottoms, dresses, suits, etc.).
Style Differences
Forms
Forms are available in complete rounds or plastic shells. Shell forms cost between $8.00 and $15.00 with full rounds increasing in price, but are still economical. There are also separate heads, hands, legs, and bottom forms.
Jersey Forms are a long-time standard in the industry. Covered in jersey fabric, they offer smooth contours and shape. Jersey forms make pinning and shaping garments easy. They also offer a classic look with neck block and wood base.
Mannequins
Mannequins come in a lot of styles. Typically mannequins have arms and legs. They can come in all sorts of different poses. Style wise, there are abstract mannequins that have no facial features, sculptured heads that don’t require any wigs, and those that give you different wig styles as options. Mannequins also come in different ethnic styles.
Then there are the headless models considered “timeless” because they don’t depict a specific style or genre. You don’t have to worry about ethnicity, hairstyles that go out of fashion, you don’t have to show age, etc. Retailers like headless mannequins because they’re not affected by current fads/looks.
Both forms and mannequins come in male, female, adult, child styles and in different shapes and sizes (plus-size, pregnant, petite, active, etc.).
If neither mannequins, nor forms fit your needs, consider alternative displays such as flexible forms and metal displayers. These non-traditional displayers offer a more abstract way to show off clothing.