Retail Showcase and Display Ideas

Use these display ideas to make the most of your slatwall, gridwall and showcase displays.  Learn what benefits these store displays have over other forms of product merchandising.

Using slatwall in a retail setting can be really beneficial.  Once the slatwall panels are installed, you can quickly and easily change up your displays.  There are just about endless accessories that can help you to be creative and grab attention with your arrangements.  You can feature higher priced or new merchandise at eye level to grab the attention of customers that may only be passing by your store.

Slatwall can hold a lot of weight and is the choice of retailers that sell power tools and other heavy products.  It is also very popular for making the most of a retail space that is insufficient.  You can use circular garment racks and other floor displays along with your slatwall set-up and fit a large inventory into a small space.  You can accomplish this without cluttering or cramping the space.

Gridwall is useful in a lot of the same ways that slatwall is.  You can easily move around hooks, shelves and display bars to accommodate changing seasons and inventory.  You can also buy sections of grid wall that clip together to create custom retail floor displays.  You can make a wall of cubes that fit in odd spaces.  For example, underneath a staircase. This unique feature helps you to utilize what would have otherwise been wasted space.

Gridwall and slatwall both help customers see what you have to offer.  You can hang mannequin torso forms at the front of your inventory to show customers what clothing looks like when worn.  You can use gridwall and slatwall in your retail window displays to showcase accessories like shoes, hats and bags.

In addition to your gridwall or slatwall displays, you will need garment racks and glass showcases.  Your retail showcases can help you to control the flow of traffic through your store.  Showcases that are lighted attract customers to areas where you want them to shop.  They also help to control what customers are allowed to handle and touch.  Most showcases have plunger locks that require key entry.  This will allow you and your employees to monitor merchandise while customers are looking at them.  You can keep a nightly inventory to prevent employee theft as well.