By definition, a hypermarket is a variant of a store that combines the principles of self-service and dividing the store into trade departments. The arrangement and maintenance of such a store is troublesome. However, it is also quite profitable. Therefore, new stores, incl. and hypermarkets appear every day.
Instructions
Step 1
To get started, register as an entrepreneur. You can open both individual entrepreneurs and LLCs, OJSCs and other forms of business management.
Step 2
To open your own hypermarket, you need to consider many different factors. First of all, decide what you want to sell. After all, such stores are not only grocery. There is also a hypermarket of vouchers, real estate, etc. As a rule, surveys will help you with this question. Study the market carefully. This is not so difficult to do - take newspapers, magazines, specialized periodicals and analyze which stores are already quite large on the market today, and which are lacking. Personal observation also helps a lot. Go on a city tour, carefully noting any shops you encounter along the way.
Step 3
Equally important is the city in which you want to open your store. If the town is small, and the retail outlets are all quite small (trade pavilions, stalls, etc.), then your hypermarket will be a great success.
Step 4
What kind of work space you need depends on what exactly you are going to do. So, for example, for the sale of vouchers and real estate, you do not need a large building in which you need to place shopping arcades, equipment and shelving. In this case, you just need to choose a good, spacious office, which will accommodate all the employees of your company.
Step 5
If your choice still fell on a grocery and household type of store, then there will be much more worries. Carefully consider the choice of premises. It should be a fairly large building, well lit and well ventilated. The area of such a room is usually from 4,000 to 10,000 square meters. It should provide for such utility rooms that will serve as warehouses and driveways for unloading vehicles with goods.
Step 6
The next step is the purchase of equipment. These should be racks and special refrigeration units for different types of products. Be sure to think about how you can divide your room into zones in order to separate different groups of goods in different directions. After all, in no case should you put household chemicals and food next to it.
Step 7
POS terminals, film wrapping machines, a label printer and accessories for it are only a small part of what should be in your hypermarket.
Step 8
You also need to take care of the staff. To work in a hypermarket, you need not one or two employees, but a whole staff. All of them must have medical records, be healthy and benevolent. Do not forget about the qualified administrative staff. It is advisable that the senior administrator is a good business executive - this is the only way you can succeed.
Step 9
Be sure to resolve the issue with parking. After all, if customers find it inconvenient to drive up to your hypermarket, they simply will not do it.
Step 10
All that remains is to select trusted and reliable suppliers of goods, and your store will be ready to open.
