RETAIL PROFIT MANAGEMENT
Blish-Mize has the profit management and marketing tools to help retailers overtake competitors and maximize their profits in today's big box retail environment. Our solutions address key elements of retail growth and profitability, including consumer/market growth, product and assortment planning, pricing strategy, store design and presentation, advertising, computer technology for sales, and customer service.
Know Your Market
Strategic Mapping
Our experienced team understands the importance of using accurate information for each individual market to help businesses make smarter decisions. Our Strategic Mapping tool is invaluable for retailers who want to know more about their trade area and their customers. Our mapping tool can also assist with:
• Store planning & expansion
• Category growth
• Census demographic overview & trends
The Right Mix
Product & Assortment Planning
Our RMS assortment planning tool gives businesses the right mix of merchandise for each particular market. We address the retail need for improved merchandise and provide the right items, brands, space, facings, and focus to ensure that your products are addressing the particular needs of your market for maximized profitability.
PRICE IT RIGHT. PRESENT IT RIGHT.
"Retail Right" RPS System
Pricing Strategy
Don't let your business suffer from a "same price for all" pricing approach. Establishing competitive and profitable retails for your store takes a thoroughly researched market-based approach. The "Retail Right" RPS pricing system through Blish-Mize helps businesses gain market share and become more profitable by utilizing national, regional, and local research.
RPS provides retail customers the flexibility to adjust prices to match their competitive situation and desired price within their market. By identifying all products by their level of price sensitivity, as well as competitive price gaps between big box stores and independents, RPS provides a systematic method to improve retail pricing.
Store Design & Presentation
By planning and maximizing retail sales areas, you can increase market shares and optimize your store's efficiency and security. Our store design specialist will help enhance your store's image and provide a pleasant shopping atmosphere for consumers using a customized store decor package, which includes informational and directional components.
Bring Customers In
Traffic-Building Advertising
Our advertising program features regionally-specific product selection and competitively-priced items geared toward bringing more customers into your store. Our Customized Circular Advertising Programs are the best in the industry — build your own or start from our base.
Circular Advertising Options
• Four-color photography
• Eight-page tabloid
• 24-page coupon book
• Paint inserts
• Full-page newspaper ads
• Monthly X-press Ads
• In-Store Sign program
Trim Kits
Trim kits help make your sales event more successful, featuring:
• Banners
• Service & theme pennants
• Feature item cards & price cards
• Unbeatable deal kits
• Rain checks
And More
Select from a range of additional items to grow promotional sales — postcards, calendars, special display kits, and tips on staying connected to customers using Facebook and Twitter.
We also offer a New Resident Program and Television Advertising Program — whatever route you want to go, we've got you covered.
For more information, contact the Blish-Mize Advertising Department at (800) 995-0525, Ext. 132.
Order Your Way
Flexible Ordering Capabilities
Our team will help you find the Point of Sales System that's right for your store. We work with several POS companies, which makes it easier to choose the right system to help run your business.
Placing an order is easy
• Computer to Computer (EDI or FTP)
• Remote Order Entry — via handheld ordering devices or mobile app
• Online here on our website
• Phone App
NHPA Partnership
Customer Service & Employee Training
We are proud to partner with the North American Hardware and Paint Association (NHPA) to provide the services and information retailers need to become better and more profitable merchants. The NHPA offers the best training and business tools available in the hardware industry to help retailers develop techniques that will enable them to operate successful and competitive businesses.
Online training programs are available to Blish-Mize customers through the NHPA website, including the Building Material Product Knowledge (BMPK) program — a self-study course covering building material products — and the Advanced Course in Hardware Retailing (ACHR), a self-study course in hardware and product knowledge that prepares sales associates to provide knowledgeable service that brings customers back again and again.
For more information, call the Blish-Mize Sales Department or NHPA at 800-772-4424, or visit www.yournhpa.org. Training programs are available to our customers at a discounted rate and can be billed through Blish-Mize.