CASE STUDY ..... Lintzford Garden Centre

“This system works, I can believe what it tells me. It is one of the main reasons for our improving profitability”..

Gerrard Humble - Owner

Increase sales
Improves margin
Less Stock
More Profit

Tried and Tested ........EPoS Systems and EPoS Software...... in use at Lintzford Garden Centre.

See your Profits Grow by using product promotions and managing waste, a seasonal business can still be a profitable business.

A garden centre needs to be in stock of fast sellers and clear the stock of slow sellers before the season ends.

Speed at the tills, easy promotions and sales statistics improves buying and reduces stock.

If you can measure, it you can manage it, saves time, reduces costs - increase sales increase profit

The Customer Background

Lintzford was a redevelopment of an old nursery by an experienced garden centre management team that had used epos before.So they decided to set up the computerised proceedures from the start. A large part of the product range is still classic garden centre plants, trees, and shrubs the shopping experience local and friendly.

The Need for Change

The whole of the shop stock and outside plant areas are barcoded for epos and the system produces horticultural labels for use outside. Like all garden centres they need to move the seasonal stock quickly and so use a variety of promotions to ensure older stock gets cleared …

The Solution

The outside areas and goods inwards storage are away from the main sales area and the staff need to be directly involved with products and customers. To overcome the need to be connected by radio handset to do the key tasks of placing orders, goods inwards and counting stock.

The Benefits

As a destination they need to maintain a year round custom of seasonal sales whilst still maintaining and developing a local base of customers. To do this they decided to offer a high quality restaurant. The epos solution supports the restaurant using a cafe serving version of the till program.

The Future

The site is restricted for overral space and so the targets are more about trading better than pure growth and the systems gives them the information to monitor this.