Retail Fitting Room Rules

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Retail fitting room rules.

No bathrooms no sephora makeup counter. Sixty five percent of women said they will not feel safe trying on clothes in dressing rooms due to the covid 19 crisis according to a survey by retail predictive analytics company first insight. Any clothing tried on by a customer must either be quarantined for 24 hours or thoroughly steam cleaned prior to returning to the floor. In phase 3 step 1 fitting rooms may be open by businesses for which their operation is necessary.

In phase 3 step 2 fitting rooms may be open for use by all retail businesses. We ve also found that companies who included this metric on their store report cards saw a significant improvement in their conversion rate because the entire staff becomes accountable for attracting more customers to the fitting room. Though the retail industry average for door traffic to the fitting room is 25 we ve found a wide variance between individual retailers. These 12 changing room behaviors should be avoided at all costs.

Any items used by customers in a fitting room and not purchased should be removed. If and when they are being utilized during in store operations fitting rooms should be cleaned with appropriate disinfecting supplies after each new customer use by an employee wearing proper protective equipment.