Gift Shop Resources​

 

Inventory and Sales - Inventory

• Your inventory must remain fresh and up to date.

• You must know your customers needs and interests.

• This will build customer confidence and interest.

• If it is selling fast, respond to it immediately.

• Reorders are the bread and butter of a successful gift shop. 

• Sales merchandise should be placed at the back of the shop.

• Be sure old merchandise does not accumulate in your stockroom.

• The "rent" an item pays accumulates each day it sits on the shelf. Before long the cost of carrying that item is greater than its value.

• Slow moving merchandise slows down the shops overall turn rate.

• A dead item on your shelf has a return rate of 0.

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Designed to Sell: Large or Small ​, a pdf of a PowerPoint presentation

 

​Gift Shows

Market Square Shows, Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI  

​The Dells Show, Ho-Chunk Casino

The Iowa Show, Urbandale, IA (Des Moines Area)

Minneapolis Mart and Gift Shows, Minnetonka, MN
 

Vendors (some will sell to your shop and some will set up a display/sale in your institution)

• CancerGirl, LLC

• Exclusive Inspirations

• Geneva Distributing

• Gold House Enterprises, LLC

• Gerson Company

• HCI Fund-Raising

• Jewelry Designs by Judy

• Lionne Designs

• PRN Uniforms

• The Nutman

• VI.A

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