open type trade
Pharmacy supermarkets gain more and more popularity in our country. As a rule, the products range of open type trade pharmacies is much wider. Here customers can buy not only necessary medicines but also various related health care goods, including parapharmaceuticals, cosmetics, bioactive supplements. The open type trade in pharmacies tends to establish itself even in spite of the fact that expenses by this format of pharmacy trade is frequently twice as high as those of traditional pharmacies.
According to specialists’ estimations, by now pharmacy supermarkets have occupied about 20% of the market. Despite large costs, the profit of open type trade pharmacies is also, as a rule, higher by 20-30%.
The main condition for opening a drug-store with open type trade implies quite a great amount of space. It’s advisable to open a self-service pharmacy in case one can arrange a sales area of at least 60 square metres. As in a food supermarket, it’s necessary to think over the sales area arrangement as the degree of profitability by open type trade is most often calculated by 1 square metre of the used area. Thoroughly elaborated commercial logistics and equipment of a pharmacy supermarket will become a clear advantage both for customers and for business.
Why do customers go to a pharmacy supermarket first of all? Certainly, because of the product range and a possibility of examining and touching those goods they are interested in themselves combined with an applicable assistance of a specialist. In this case certain shopping convenience plays an important role. According to the statistics, it’s the open type trade that makes customers do spontaneous shopping as such pharmacies are visited not to buy a concrete drug but to literally obtain health.
The arrangement of an open pharmacy sales area possesses a number of its peculiarities that are first and foremost related to specifics of products being sold so by planning the sales area as well as other similar spaces it’s necessary to consider a great number of special requirements and details. First of all, it’s necessary to take care of special furniture. It’s not a secret that a lot of requirements are set to pharmacy furniture, including sanitary and hygienic standards and functional peculiarities. Pharmacy furniture should combine both interior decoration and functional parametres. Besides, modern pharmacy supermarkets are most frequently represented by one single network so such network equipment should also be made in one corporate style. It’s in such open pharmacies that a necessity of rigid zoning is required, which can be easily done by means of special furniture.
Attractive design, functionality and compliance with standards are the main requirements set to pharmacy furniture. Our specialists possessing a wide experience in designing and manufacturing pharmacy equipment, including drug-stores with open type trade, will be glad to help you with developing a project enabling to obtain the maximum benefit from existing sales area taking into consideration all peculiarities of a customer’s space. Different kinds of cabinets, counters, ramps, shelves and show-windows for open type trade are elaborated by our designers both for customers’ convenience and for comfortable operation of service providing staff of an open type trade pharmacy. The combination of modern design and high quality materials used by creating a pharmacy network complying with all requirements and standards will undoubtedly satisfy even the most fastidious customers.
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Head of sales department:
Grigory Sinizyn
(495) 783-08-71, Extension 121
e-mail: sg@tandem-west.ru
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Lead manager of sales department:
Olga Grishanova
(495) 783-08-71, Extension 119
e-mail: olga@tandem-west.ru
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Manager of sales department:
Vladimir Pilipenko
(495) 783-08-71, Extension 120
e-mail: vladimir@tandem-west.ru
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Manager of sales department:
Anna Shuboderova
(495) 783-08-71, Extension 104
e-mail: anna@tandem-west.ru
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Postal address: Tandem West, LLC, PO box 34, Moscow, 121351
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