How to open a garden center

Homestead households - from small country gardens to luxurious suburban gardens - are experiencing a new wave of popularity. Landscaping is becoming a favorite hobby, and caring for plants is a pleasant way to overcome stress. That is why a business related to gardening products will generate a steady income.

You will need

• - premises;

• - start-up capital.

Instruction manual

1

Find a room for the garden center. Today, the assortment of products in this category is quite high, so the size of the sales area depends only on your capabilities: you can always fill it with a sufficient amount of products. It is advisable to choose a room in a large shopping center or a building on the outskirts of the city. It will be convenient for owners of cottages and household plots to buy the necessary goods on the way to their country house. Solve issues with fire protection, sewer, heating. If you are going to sell plants, take care of the possibility of maintaining a certain temperature in one of the trading floors.

2

Find suppliers for your mall. It is optimal to sign contracts with several companies specializing in different products. As a rule, to maintain the current assortment, you will need to pre-order long before the start of the season.

3

Form a product range based on an analysis of the target audience. If you focus on the owners of small household plots, focus on inexpensive tools, seeds, seedlings, household materials, garden tools. Expensive equipment may also constitute a separate category: lawn mowers, irrigation plants. If your store is located near a large cottage village, it is advisable to introduce rare plants, wicker furniture, decorative elements for landscape design, garden architecture into the assortment.

4

Enter the services of a designer at your garden center. Today, such a position is in great demand. Such a service should not be expensive, because by creating a landscape design project for a client, you can sell a lot more goods from your store.

note

Be attentive to the conditions of plants and seedlings. Most of them require a special microenvironment, as well as special dressings, without which they can die.

Useful advice

Introduce into the assortment of goods intended for casual customers: picnic accessories, potted flowers, crockery, accessories.