Fall 2023 Hardlines Strategies

RESET SUCCESS

Anita Supply Center opened in 2012 in Anita, Iowa, and is a full-service building supply center, including a lumberyard.

Upgrading for Success Anita Supply Center Improves Store Flow With Reset

C reating an optimized comprehensive customer service. Anita Supply Center owners Kim and Brian Wendt wanted to upgrade their store’s floorplan, so they turned to Blish-Mize for help. Learn how the Wendts partnered with the Blish-Mize team to refresh their operation and make the store easy to navigate for their customers. store flow is a necessary component of providing

Ready for a Reset Anita Supply Center opened in 2012 in Anita, Iowa, and is a full-service building supply center, including a lumberyard. Since they opened, the business has become a staple for the community, serving a trading area of 2,000 residents. In 2022, the Wendts were ready for a refresh of the store, especially after the last several years of challenging supply chains affecting their inventory. “After the pandemic, we had more products than ever before, since we had focused on getting what we could into the store to help support the community,” Kim says. “We needed to find a more interesting way to merchandise to make it easier for customers to find exactly what they were looking for.” The Wendts turned to their Blish-Mize sales representative Peggy Kaldenberg to help them get started on a store reset project.

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