subject: Good House Keeping A Must For A Good Dollar Stores [print this page] Good housekeeping is an essential requirement for a public place. As the owner of a dollar store, you know that dollar stores are a public place where huge number of people come and go every now and then. It is your prime duty to have the place clean and tidy. People like tidy and well kept shops. One should realize the importance of having a clean and a well organized store to reap the succes of their dollar store business. If you have your dollar stores in such a condition, you will get more customers and more profits as a consequence. Tidy stores with good and healthy atmosphere always invites more and more customers.
Now the question is how to keep the store in clean and orderly organized. The best solution is to train your staff. A trained and motivated staff is the only way to promote good housekeeping in your dollar stores. There are many ways to train your staff. You can talk to them you can punish them or you can teach them, but all these are out dated methods. The most recent and the most effective method is to motivate your staff on the need to have good housekeeping. A motivated staff works better than a trained staff.
They must understand the importance of good housekeeping of your dollar stores. There are many motivational tools. One of the best way to do this. is to develop unity among the staff. If you have five people working in your dollar stores all five should be together sharing their work and sharing their rewards.
Keeping the store mopped frequently, carpet clean and fresh fragrance flowing through-out the store are a few measures to be taked care of on regular basis. If any customer has place an item in wrong aisle, then keep it back to its required location is also needed. Apart from this, its not the inside feel of the store to be taken care of, but the store should be well-maintained from outside also. There should be no trash or uncleaned walkways outside the store, and you should put trash cans at specififed intervals to avoid people throwing trash anywhere around.
You, as the team leader should set yourself an example for others to follow. Then everyone will feel that it is their own dollar store not their boss's. The day this thought goes into the minds of your staff employes your dollar stores is going to thrive. The sooner it happens the better for you and your staff, bringing you increasing number of customers.
