Focusing On Service
Lawn & Garden Retailer
August 2007
By Meghan Boyer
Excellent service is something every retailer wants to achieve. The Ritz-Carlton, a leader in customer service, has internal structures in place to ensure every guest at the company’s hotels and resorts has a pleasant, consistent experience.
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Making Lease-Or-Buy Decisions
Lawn & Garden Retailer
July 2006
By George Koziarz
When your garden center needs to buy new vehicles, you have many financing options. Learn the tools you need to make this decision.
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Sweet Charity
Lawn & Garden Retailer
February 2006
By Meghan Boyer
Cause-related products are popular among consumers, but the main advantage of carrying such products is helping not-for-profit organizations.
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Set the Table
Lawn & Garden Retailer
March 2005
By Carrie Burns
You already know that any time you can bring people into your store it means more money, but have you thought about using more than plants and fertilizer as bait? Many garden centers now carry home décor and gift items as a regular part of their offering. What about other items? What about products that are not usually considered garden products…things like pet supplies and gourmet food? These kinds of ancillary categories are proving profitable for garden centers around the country.
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The Gardening Gourmet
Lawn & Garden Retailer
February 2005
By Catherine Evans
You already know that any time you can bring people into your store it means more money, but have you thought about using more than plants and fertilizer as bait? Many garden centers now carry home décor and gift items as a regular part of their offering. What about other items? What about products that are not usually considered garden products…things like pet supplies and gourmet food? These kinds of ancillary categories are proving profitable for garden centers around the country.
“Developing Markets,” a monthly series that will appear in each issue of Lawn & Garden Retailer, will profile eight of these potential new markets, giving insight into the health of the market, relating how other garden centers have mastered the category and profiling some of the best new products in the category.
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