June 5, 2024

Bin it to Win it

Bin it to Win it

Happy June!

As promised, I am covering my biggest and best lessons from my time at Anthropologie. We are starting at the beginning with binning. Binning is one of the tricks that can do several things at once. It gives value to inexpensive items, contains multiple loose items, and creates cohesiveness. It also helps break up the run-on sentence of lined up or stacked up products on shelving. 

 

 

Here are some examples:

Small inexpensive items like lip gloss, jarred salts or candles in tins. Most of them come in hideous little boxes that you put out on your counters, why not take them out of the box and find a pretty candy dish or interesting bowl? Instantly the little inexpensive items look more important, it looks pretty and you have given it more value instantly.

 

 
Tiny little gift books, why stack them up where they will get lost? Find a medium-sized glass jar and place them inside. This immediately cleans up your shelf or tabletop and contains an item that would normally get lost in a sea of bigger books.
 
 
 
When setting your shelving displays or wall units, binning certain items helps break up the CVS-looking lined-up boxes. Binning some items like the smaller boxes, jarred candles, and accessories will break up the lineup.. I like to create a pattern, 2 rows of lined up products, 2 rows of stacked up products, a jar of binned out products, and repeat the pattern. 
 

 

I hope this gives you some inspiration!
 
XO,
Michelle
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Here is a quick background on who I am. I have been in retail for the last 41 years, 7 of them at iconic Fred Segal, where I owned 3 stores and later, another 7 at the mecca of retail, Anthropologie, where I was the lead visual merchandiser of the 3rd Street Promenade location in Santa Monica.

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