There’s a good reason plastic containers are some of the most popular tools around when it comes to business purposes – they work. They’re versatile, ...
There’s a good reason plastic containers are some of the most popular tools around when it comes to business purposes – they work. They’re versatile,
durable, convenient, and they work. Large plastic jars especially open many doors for businesses when it comes to display and storage options.
1. Use Large Plastic Jars to Display Edible Merchandise
Gumballs, novelty candies, baked goods – these are all the kinds of edible merchandise items large plastic containers are great for displaying.
Note that if you plan to use plastic jars as display tools for food, you must make sure the containers are equipment to meet the food items’ needs. For example, if you plan to display food that has no kind of protective wrapper, you’ll want to choose jars that have lids. These lids might snap on, screw on, or be hinged or otherwise already attached to the jars. Some edible items might also necessitate jars with handles or handgrips, as well as accessories like plastic or aluminum tongs or scoops.
2. Use Large Plastic Jars to Offer Complimentary Items
Some businesses, such as restaurants and hotels, regularly offer complimentary items to their patrons and guests. Large plastic containers are great ways to store, organize, and display items like toothpicks, breath mints, hand wipes, and matchbooks as well as travel-sized containers of hygiene items like shampoo, conditioner, soap, lotion, toothpaste, and mouthwash.
3. Use Large Plastic Jars to Collect Tips
These containers are great tools for restaurants or taverns to collect tips from patrons. Because of their size, of course, you might want to save these jars for the bar area of your restaurant and look for smaller plastic containers or fish bowl containers to situate on your establishment’s individual tables.
4. Use Large Plastic Jars to Hold Raffles
It doesn’t matter what kind of business you manage; chances are, you can hold a raffle or drawing that would not only show your appreciation for your customers but would also help attract new customers. If you manage a restaurant or tavern, for example, you might want to hold a raffle for an assortment of miniature liquors. You can use the large containers to hold the prizes or collect the raffle tickets – it’s entirely up to you!
5. Use Large Plastic Jars for Storage
Keep in mind that just because they’re typically used as display fixtures, you don’t actually have to use these jars to display merchandise. You can also give them more “behind-the-scenes” responsibility and use them as storage tools under your store’s checkout countertop, in your business’s stockroom, or even in your own office.
How you use these jars as storage tools will depend entirely on the kind of business you manage and your own storage needs, but note that these plastic containers are large enough to work well to hold and organize everything from office supplies like packs of stables, rolls of tape, extra computer ink cartridges, and pens as well as retail tools such as sales and discount stickers, scissors, markers, and extra price tags.
