3 Ways to Reduce Scratches on Your Store Floor

If you own a business like a grocery store or general store that seems a lot of traffic, there are bound to be scratches and scuffs on your linoleum or tile floors. Custodians can buff some out, but it takes a lot less time and money if you do what you can to prevent or reduce these scratches to begin with. While you can’t control what shoes your customers will wear, you can protect your flooring.

Purchase Pneumatic Wheels

Replace the wheels in your store with pneumatic wheels, which are durable, air-filled casters that are less likely to scratch your floors. Start with the shopping carts your customers rely on and then move on to every other cart that touches your store’s floors, such as the carts your employees use for stocking and the carts your custodians use to transport janitorial supplies.

Buy Floor Locks

Your stocking carts and janitorial carts should all have floor locks added so your employees can park the carts securely where they need them as they work without worrying about bumping into them and jostling the items atop the cart. The less the cart moves unnecessarily, the less wear and tear they’ll cause to the flooring.

No Heels or Rubber Sole Shoes

You can’t and shouldn’t try to police what your customers wear into your store, but you can reduce the damaging scuff marks caused by high heels and rubber sole shoes by requiring your employees at least to wear shoes less likely to cause damage. They spend the most time on your floors, anyway.

Talk to an Access Casters representative for more information on outfitting your shopping carts, stocking carts, janitorial carts and other carts with the best parts to reduce scuffs and scratches. It’s too expensive to replace all of these carts entirely, but it’s quite affordable to just swap out the casters. Buy in bulk so you can quickly replace any that get damaged.

How to Make Rearranging Your Furniture Showroom Easier

In the furniture business, there isn’t room to let one furniture set collect dust. The objective is to sell

the latest furniture while it’s still hot and then shuffle those display items to the clearance section in the back when the newest designs come in. However, moving furniture in a showroom is a time-consuming, back-breaking effort for your staff. Make it simpler and you’ll save time — and your employees will thank you.

Invest in Casters

Purchase furniture casters to make moving all of the large pieces — beds, dressers, cabinets, chairs, etc. — as easy as can be. You can leave them on some of the displays, like a bed, or you can invest in furniture dollies and low-to-the-ground carts that you slide under the pieces when it’s time to move. (So the casters don’t give the display pieces additional height and make shoppers think the pieces are taller than they are.)

Get Floor Locks

While casters make moving large pieces of furniture across the store floor simpler, you don’t want would-be buyers to bump into the furniture and send it moving across the display space. Floor locks make sure the pieces stay steadily in place once you’ve arranged them where you want them and it’s simple to unlock the wheels whenever you’re ready to shift things around.

Plan Ahead

Sketch out how you want one area of the display to look like so you know exactly what set of furniture you need where and you don’t waste time moving the pieces from one side of the display to the other as you contemplate the best design.

Discuss all of your large item moving needs with an Access Casters representative. In addition to wheels for your furniture display items, you might want to invest in carts to transport the smaller furnishings all at once. Furniture sales depend on beautiful displays. Make arranging displays much easier with casters on your store’s large furnishings.