If you are considering opening a dollar store, be sure that you plan ahead to have the staff in-place to handle freight receiving and store stock work. Be sure that you establish clear guidelines for receiving and then moving the newly received merchandise to the retail sales floor. Never allow the receiving area to become a huge wasteland that is filled with inventory.

One easy way to handle the staffing part of the new merchandise arrival equation is through the scheduling of all larger deliveries. Often a little work to coordinate with suppliers and then freight companies can accomplish this task. When opening a dollar store you will find that it is relatively easy to develop delivery windows for freight that is in-transit.

Are you opening a dollar store? Always schedule receiving personnel so that they are ready to receive and then stock merchandise shortly after it comes to your receiving area. Be sure that those employees are well trained and equipped. That will make the actual receiving task capable of being accomplished very quickly.

When opening a dollar store be sure that you establish guidelines regarding the time that is allowed for new freight to reach the sales floor. Often newly received orders will seem almost overwhelming in size, and some of the items will seem almost impossible to place on the sales floor. Yet that is exactly what must happen to continually grow your sales. Having a guideline that sets boundaries on how long the task of moving merchandise to the floor can be delayed is a simple and effect means of making that happen.

Newly received merchandise is not making you money when it sits in the receiving area or the stock room. Owners and managers can do their part to get items to the floor by staffing appropriately, establishing time limit guidelines for the receiving area and for the stock room. If you are opening a dollar store you will be glad that you took the time to do just that!

To Your Dollar Store Success!

Do you want to learn more about opening a dollar store? See Insider’s Guide to Opening a Dollar Store at www.openingadollarstore.com.

Bob Hamilton is an entrepreneur, author, writer, business consultant and trainer.
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