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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Setting Up the Retail Environment
In an earlier chapter, The Crazy Reality of a Creative Reuse Center, we touched on the unconventional nature of the retail environment in a creative reuse center. While not nearly as easy to organize as a grocery store, or even a big box craft store, you’ll want your store to be shoppable and navigable as possible. Adding some structure and policies to the following categories can certainly help:
- Flow
- Sorting and Packaging
- Pricing
- Sections
- Signage
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Getting Started - Your Infrastructure
The opposite of infrastructure is chaos. Setting up a creative reuse center is unpredictable enough by virtue of dealing with donated materials. Having systems in place will save your hide when you’re up to your ears in fabric, bottle tops, paper, and crayons.
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| photo courtesy of morguefile.com |
While there are many elements to building capacity in your creative reuse center, we’ll stick to the basics:
· Decision making
· Staff/Volunteers
· Programs
· Administrative systems
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