How many frames does your dispensary carry?

[Ladyoptician]

How many frames does your dispensary carry?

[k12311997]

I wish people who voted would elaborate. We have a little over 500 spaces on our boards and 0 -100 in backstock depending how close to an ordercoming in it is. Our best year in the last 10 saw a 4.25 turn but usually 2 to 3 turn. I see reps about every twelve weeks and I usually space reps two weeks apart.

[DragonLensmanWV]

We have 1024 ( wow - 1 KiloFrame! ) spaces on our boards, counting freestanding rotators and desktop displays. We also have in stock about an equal number, which I am reducing.
Has anyone else noticed how often you can show someone a frame (or they pick it themselves), and then show them 20 other similar styles, they frequently go back to the very first one?

[Chris Ryser]

Wow..................the more the better.........

Do you know why ?

Because you need less selling skills if you have more than less.......... your customers will spend more time in the store, because the more frames they see, the more they want to try on and the more they get confused.

The more confused they get the longer it will take to close the sale. Specially when a woman want to try all 500 frames you can do overtime until midnight.

Having less frames will make you sell a frame and learn how to convince a patients why this or that one is the one they want and actually believe it.

:cheers:

[MarcE]

Has anyone else noticed how often you can show someone a frame (or they pick it themselves), and then show them 20 other similar styles, they frequently go back to the very first one?

I hear from salespeople in other markets that this is true in furniture, clothes, shoes, appliances, etc.

[jimius]

I've noticed that if you keep the frames orderend, keeping certain type of frames close to each other you can basically keep a patient from browsing the whole store. By seperating Men's and women's frames (when possible) and keeping the young/hip frames (that usually don't fit PALs anyway) from the larger PAL-capable frames you can carry a lot more frames but "restrict" a patient to only a portion of them without sacrificing your collection. It works for me anyway.

[Andrew Weiss]

Check out the thread "frame inventory levels" from 2004. Drk came up with a formula which at least provides a basis to build on.

[EyeManFla]

We had as many as 1500 on display. But the new regs from Lux had us remove three floor mounted racks and two table toppers. We lost over 300 spaces.