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Old 21-01-2007, 11:56 PM
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Shop fittings!

Yes, there are loads of specialist shop fitting firms in the UK. If what you are
after is a brand spanking new image and you have the resources, then that may be the way to go. It doesn't come cheap though. Forget about IKEA value here. The last time I went down that road was twenty years ago when we fitted out 4 fruit & veg shops at around ten grand each. It's a slightly different scenario though. The fittings had to be functional,easy to clean and had to display the goods properly. Because of the nature of the goods it was a pretty uniform fit right around the shop and the design had been tried and tested many times. Floristry is a little different. You can't just load them onto shelves as they do in Dutch lorries. (It would be a darn sight easier though!) I suppose if i was starting from scratch again with a clean canvas,(who knows, I may end up doing that on the other side of the world) I would think very hard about what i was going to sell, how i was going to display it, how the shop would function day to day, what work areas i would need, how much room for customers, how i would keep it clean and tidy, etc etc.
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