No matter the size of a retail operation, space is always a critical issue, but for small retailers, space may become a huge problem preventing them from growth or display of adequate inventory. Simply buying new property or remodeling your floor plan is not the only way to make more room in your retail store. Slatwall displays are a cheaper, inventive solution to the long time problem of space.

Slatwalls are described as flat wall fixtures with grooves that allow holders, hooks, and shelves to be fitted into those grooves and provide a wall display space for a variety of products. The goal of a slatwall is to get products off of the floor and onto the walls, creating more walk space and room for more products on the existing sales floor. With slatwalls, that wasted wall space becomes an effective product display area.

Possibly the greatest advantage of slatwall displays over gridwall panels is the abundance of slatwall accessories. As I said before, there are hooks, holders, and shelving unites, but accessories also include basket unites, brackets of all kinds, and customized product displays for things such as inline skates to literature racks to basketballs. Whatever your display needs, there are probably slatwall accessories to accommodate you. Some products that are commonly found on slatwall displays are magazines, books, CDs and DVDs, clothing (from jackets to entire outfits), hats (from ball caps to cowboy hats), sporting equipment, shoes, electronics, and more.

A major misconception about slatwalls is that they little the walls with ugly paneling, and thought that may have been the case in the past, the slatwall designs of today come in every variety to blend and work with any retail store environment. Slatwalls can be wood paneled like any wood type, nude for painting, textured, laminate, or pre-painted in any color. Once your products are in place, no customer will even notice the wall system. By browsing the mall or most any department store, anyone will see that slatwalls are extremely popular, while the public hardly recognizes their presence at all. That is the beauty of slatwalls. They tidy up the sales floor while creating great, elevated displays that really feature the products and not the store fixtures.

To really take full advantage of slatwall panels, it is important to order all of the necessary slatwall accessories. If you find yourself short on slatwall hardware or wishing you had another display piece, chances are, you will never get around to getting the right pieces. Plan ahead and get all of the slatwall accessories you may need, for now and the future. This will allow you to create the display that really shows off your products and gives you the ability to change up your display wall from time to time, easily. Also, the more types of products displayed on a slatwall, the better. When a slatwall only has one product, it may look bare or uninteresting. So consider the needs of your retail environment and how your new slatwall displays can help. Are some of the sections of your store looking cluttered? Do you have a pile of products in the back that are not even seen? Use slatwall displays to solve these problems.

Adding slatwalls to a retail environment can really be the solution to space problems. Free up the floors, and raise the bar by installing slatwall displays throughout your store.