Spruce Up Your Retail Store for the Holiday Season

For retail stores and businesses, the holiday season is easily the busiest and most demanding. It goes without saying that retail businesses need to adjust for the rush and higher volume of customers during the holiday season, which can be chaotic. Ready for some holiday season store cleaning philosophy? You need to find order in that chaos, and doing so requires preparation. Let’s call that preparation a spruce up and discuss how you should combine organizing your store, decorating it, cleaning it, and implementing a maintenance plan to help your retail store deal with this critical period of time.

Calling it anything else just seems against the holiday spirit. You should approach the preparation in a way that will invite customers and nourish their spirits versus an approach that comes off as stale and stressful, right? Right – here’s how to spruce up your retail store for the holiday season:

Top to Bottom Cleaning

Trust us, it’s best to just change your operational vocabulary and consider cleaning part of your spruce up. To keep it short and simple, move all fixtures, empty all shelves, and deep-clean your store from top to bottom.

Greet & Treat

There isn’t a better way to spruce up your retail store than with the human element. Whether or not your business employs one or more staff to greet customers upon entering your store, the holiday season is an appropriate time. Not only will your greeters start off the customer experience with warmth and positivity, they’ll be able to immediately address the condition and cleaning needs of your store’s entrances and exits.

Strategic Decorations

Perhaps the most important method available to you to spruce up your retail store involves the strategic selection and placement of holiday decorations. Cleaning and maintenance are ironically more important and harder to manage during the holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year decorations can easily cover contaminated surfaces, occupy major dirt and dust collecting corners, and distract the view of things that need to be cleaned.

Customize Your Layout

Feel free to scale it even further back when deciding what measures to take in how to spruce your retail store up for the holiday season. Your ideas may be far away from things that can be executed given your store’s current layout. Retail stores commonly change their layout seasonally, anyway, so try following your bolder ideas and designing a new layout, and spruce it up!

Sound & Smell

Cleaning up after your customers and constantly sprucing up your retail space during business hours is both tricky and difficult. Customers don’t want to be bothered by cleaning efforts, and their process shouldn’t be disrupted. To help keep the experience a jolly one while you can’t do much to keep your store spruced up, play some holiday music on your store speakers and keep the space smelling good and relevant to the holidays. Try scented candles, hidden automatic air fresheners, or a combination of both.