Food trade is one of the most reliable types of business. Indeed, even in times of economic crisis, people constantly need to eat and drink something. It is quite natural that many novice businessmen are thinking: should they open a grocery store?
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, carefully choose the place where the future deli will be located. Remember: your income will be in direct proportion to how well it is located. Ideal: when your grocery store is located in a place where many people pass by, and there is not a single grocery store a few hundred meters away.
Step 2
Therefore, evaluate the following factors: are there other retail outlets nearby, are there nearby enterprises and organizations where a large number of people (potential buyers) work, where public transport and pedestrian routes pass. Try to estimate how many customers per day you can count on by opening a store in this particular place.
Step 3
If there are other grocery stores not far from your grocery store, do not despair, you may well occupy your niche. To do this, think about how you can attract buyers. Go to the shops of your competitors, study their assortment and prices, take a closer look, whether the goods are laid out conveniently, whether the sellers are polite. Try to make everything better for you: the assortment is at least a little wider, the prices are at least slightly lower than them, etc.
Step 4
Carefully calculate the necessary costs for opening a deli and think about how you can save. But immediately take it as a strict rule: you cannot save on quality. "There is only one freshness of sturgeon: the first, it is also the last" - these words of Woland from "The Master and Margarita" should be your guide to action. Whether or not you trade sturgeon.
Step 5
Pay special attention to the selection of suppliers. Discuss in advance with them the procedure for considering claims, complaints, return of low-quality products, etc.
Step 6
A very important point is the selection of personnel. Remember that all your efforts to open a grocery store, maintain a wide assortment, can go to pieces because of impolite and lazy salesmen or drunken movers. Therefore, carefully monitor labor discipline and think over a motivation system so that staff are interested in good, conscientious work. For example, you can pay grocery employees, in addition to a fixed salary, a bonus in the form of a certain percentage of income.
