3 Ways to Use Large Plastic Containers in Your Store

Large plastic containers are excellent tools for a variety of retail stores and other businesses, but if you’ve never used them before…how do you get started?Below are three quick, simple, and extremely effective ways to use large plastic containers in your business. Chances are you’ll find more than one way to help you and your customers, and even other stores!1. Create Merchandise Displays With Large Plastic Containers Plastics are some of the best kinds of containers for merchandise displays. They’re available in numerous sizes, shapes, and styles, so it’s easy to find the best ones for the perfect “look,” but they’re also tough enough to create a safe display. (Plastic doesn’t break as easily as glass, after all; broken plastic isn’t as dangerous, either.) Depending on the sizes of your store’s countertops (and the kinds of merchandise you sell, of course), you can use large plastic containers to create countertop displays of candy, hair accessories, children’s toys, or convenience items. If you don’t have much room, or if you prefer, you can pair these containers with convenience store racks and situate them anywhere in your store.2. Gather Collections in Large Plastic ContainersYour store might not be in the business of selling the kind of merchandise a customer can pay for and take home (think restaurant or tavern). If this is the case for you, you can use large plastic containers to collect items from your customers such as tips, business cards for promotional drawings, or suggestion cards. 3. Use Large Plastic Containers for StorageStorage is an especially useful idea for storeowners who’ve been using their large plastic containers as display fixtures or for collections for quite some time and are ready to retire them for newer models. These containers are great for holding and storing everything from other kinds of display-related tools not in use (such as tacks, hooks, nails, sticky putty, etc.) in your stockroom to the kinds of tools your employees need (such as markers, pens, price tags, extra rolls of cash register tape, etc.) under your checkout counters.In other words, long after you order them and they’ve served their original purpose, there are still plenty of uses for large plastic containers!Remember: Once you’re finished with your containers, there’s no need to toss them! If they’re in pretty good shape, you can sell them to other retail stores or even donate them to local nonprofit and charity organizations. If they’ve seen better days, drop them off at your local recycling center.