Nursery and Garden Center Operations

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Nursery and Garden Center Operations

• Chapter 10

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objectives

• Managing Products

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goals

• Turn products as fast as possible
• Perishable is more critical than hardgoods
• Hard goods do go out of style or get dirty

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Living Product management

• Indoor and outdoor plants
• Their fresh look
• Place plants in correct locations
• Buy from the best grower

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Key factors

• Plant proportion to pot
• Number of branches
• Condition of foliage
• Pest and disease free
• Weed free
• Clean pot
• Growing media in pot
• Root growth
• Labelin
• feeding

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Management in store

• watering
• Protection of plants from wind, frost, stress
• Protect customers from plants

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Stoneware, statuary mangement

• Can be heavy
• Need to be safe from falling or breaking
• Customers safe
• Clean products

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Dry goods management

• Cleanliness
• Fingerprints
• Floor
• Cobwebs
• Dead flies

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continued

• Off season products keep updated
• Top selling products keep in customer eyes
• Stock only three types of one product
• Heavy items placed close to floor
• Keep out of the reach of children needs to be
  minimum 3 feet off ground

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Garden chemicals

• Keep sawdust handy to soak up any spills
• Teach all employees this safety procedure
• Put glass containers, if any within easy reach

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Stock control

• This is the key to success
• Know the stock life of products
• See by dates for everything
• Set expectations how much to sell each week of
  one product before ordering
• Keep records what sells when and how much

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consistency

• Need a checklist to use on daily or weekly basis
• See page 126 for a sample checklist

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conclusion

• Stock inventory is important to keep a business
  efficient and properly functioning each day.