Whether you’re a customer or a retail business owner, you may have wondered from time to time what exactly happens to those old, worn-down shopping carts and baskets when they’ve been replaced. This is merely a matter of curiosity for a customer, but if you own a grocery or retail store, it’s good to know…
Category Archives: Shopping Carts
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Aug
Aug
Maintaining your retail or grocery store and its assets requires a multi-faceted approach. You must hire personnel to handle daily maintenance tasks, such as cleaning bathrooms and floors, dusting surfaces, restocking supplies, mopping up spills, etc. Additionally, you must invest in more rigorous services on a less frequent basis, like floor waxing, deep cleaning, and…
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Jul
Jul
The world is moving toward a more sustainable and equitable future. What might have seemed like just a phase in the early 2000s has since grown into a much larger movement for environmentally-friendly manufacturing and ethical sourcing. If you own a business, you would be wise to take note of this ongoing trend, not only…
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Jul
Jul
For decades now, there has been an ongoing, sometimes vitriolic debate among shoppers about whether or not retail and grocery stores should carry mini shopping carts for kids. And the jury is still out. Today, shoppers will encounter stores both big and small that either offer these small carts, never carried them in the first…
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Apr
Apr
News recently broke that Walmart plans to get rid of their store greeter position at approximately 1,000 stores by the end of April 2019. The company was one of the first to incorporate this job, first implementing greeters in 1980 – and for nearly 40 years now, Walmart has mostly hired people with disabilities to…