Getting back to Retail casket store options
Getting back to Retail casket store options and whether the brick and mortar casket store is the answer as we move into the future for individuals and families in North Carolina NC trying to get low wholesale pricing on caskets. There are currently only a few brick and mortar retail casket stores operating in North Carolina. At the time of this article I was not aware of any brick and mortar retail Casket store locations still operating in the Winston Salem, NC, Greensboro, NC, High Point, NC – North Carolina Area. There have been a number of Retail casket store locations in the area over the years that have opened and closed. Why have these brick and mortar retail casket stores failed to stay in business over the years when there seems to be a definite need for families to get low, wholesale pricing on caskets in North Carolina? To answer this question lets first look at a few things that a brick and mortar retail casket store can offer its customers.
There is a lot of comfort knowing the casket you purchased to be used in the arrangements of your loved one is a quality product that you have inspected.
- A brick and mortar retail casket store can offer the customer a chance to see and inspect the product before purchase. This is a huge comfort for families in their time of need. There is a lot of comfort knowing the casket you purchased to be used in the arrangements of your loved one is a quality product that you have inspected. This is why at Carolina Quality Caskets in NC we realize the importance of this family inspection and bring all caskets out for your inspection before purchase.
- A retail brick and mortar casket store can offer caskets at a reduced price compared to the high price of caskets that are found at a Funeral Home. It is true that the retail casket store can offer caskets at reduced wholesale prices. However, due to the high price of the overhead of a brick and mortar location, these casket stores often can not offer nearly as deep discounts as Carolina Quality Caskets in NC or some of the other Online casket retailers.
- A retail brick and mortar casket store can offer a comfortable non-pressured environment where the family can make a confident choice about the casket for their passed family member. The quality of this non-pressured comfortable buying experience at a retail casket store will be directly influenced by the quality of its employees and their experience. At Carolina Quality Caskets in NC the family will be dealing with either the owner or a select few employees that have been selected for their demeanor and aptitude for dealing with families at this difficult time.
At Carolina Quality Caskets in NC the family will be dealing with either the owner or a select few employees that have been selected for their demeanor and aptitude for dealing with families at this difficult time.
Advantages to the brick and mortar retail casket store
With all these advantages to the brick and mortar retail casket store, Why have there been so many that have not stayed open? There are a few reasons that seem to jump out as to why these retail casket stores have struggled to stay open.
- The first is that expenses for these retail casket stores are not kept low enough and are incurred too fast to sustain the kind of low wholesale casket pricing that is required in order to offer the public such a savings that they consider the retail casket store option valuable. In order for a Family to feel it is worth leaving a funeral Home and visiting a retail casket store, they have to expect that they are going to be offered a comparable quality casket at less than half the price offered at the funeral Home. The reality of it is that for the casket store to be considered worthwhile, they need to be offering a quality casket at less than half of the price that the family has found at the Funeral Home. Often the start up expense of the building and the staff is too high for the retail casket store to offer wholesale casket pricing low enough to make success probable.
- The second reason that retail casket stores often can not offer wholesale casket prices low enough to ensure their success may be that they are unable to afford to buy the quantities that they need to buy in order to be able to offer their customers a price low enough, and still stay in business. A retail casket store often has trouble finding venders and factories that will provide a quality casket. These sources often are hesitant to sell their product to a retail casket store that will be competing with the funeral Homes that also purchase from them. The factories that can offer a quality made product and are willing to sell to these retail casket stores, often require the purchase of large quantities of product to receive any decent wholesale pricing that can be passed on to North Carolina families. The retail casket store starting up is often unable to afford the type of quantities required in order to be able to offer the low wholesale casket pricing that is needed and can be passed on to their customers.
- Another problem facing the starting retail casket store in North Carolina is being limited to relying on approximately a fifty-mile radius of customers to come into their store and purchase their caskets. Depending on customers to come to your showroom and purchase from the immediate area that the retail casket store is located is often a mistake. The funeral Homes in a given area also are more likely to feel intruded upon and direct strategies towards the retail casket store in their location to try and force them to close.
Why is Carolina Quality Caskets of North Carolina considering opening a retail casket store
With all this being said: Why is Carolina Quality Caskets of North Carolina considering opening a retail casket store in the central Piedmont Triad area to include Winston Salem, Greensboro and High Point?
In order to overcome some of the obstacles that has limited the success of numerous retail casket store ventures in North Carolina, Carolina Quality Caskets plans on doing a lot of things different.
- Carolina Quality Caskets is looking at a retail casket store as primarily an add on and an additional service for North Carolina Families to support its already established North Carolina on line and other casket retail business in North Carolina. Carolina Quality Caskets has worked hard to establish itself as offering a truly different on line retail casket store experience for families in North Carolina. Our on line casket store experience is unlike our competitors in that it includes talking with someone in your area, Seeing the product before you buy it, and getting actual free next day local service and delivery in most of North Carolina. Being truly a North Carolina based retail casket store sets us apart. In addition to our On line Retail casket store presence, Carolina Quality Caskets also strives and makes it a point to work with local churches and service organizations that may offer our services as a way to save families money that are feeling a financial strain due to the loss of a Loved one.
- Carolina Quality Caskets has from the very beginning established relationships with suppliers and factories that provide a very high quality product at a very reasonable price. In order to receive wholesale pricing from these suppliers to make retail casket store pricing a possibility, Carolina Quality Caskets purchases and warehouses quantities large enough to receive and be able to offer the customers of a retail casket store the very lowest wholesale pricing.
Carolina Quality Caskets will first establish itself as North Carolinas primary source for wholesale casket pricing through our on line Retail casket store
Because Carolina Quality Caskets looks to first establish itself as North Carolinas primary source for wholesale casket pricing through our on line Retail casket store, We believe that the addition of a brick and mortar Retail casket store in The North Carolina Central Piedmont Triad Area is the natural progression.
Have a question about buying a casket in North Carolina? Please feel free to visit our website at www.carolinaqualitycaskets or call the Owner, Bryant Little of Carolina Quality Caskets.
Carolina Quality Caskets
1315 South Main Street
Winston Salem NC 27127
Bryant.little@carolinaqualitycaskets.com
www.carolinaqualitycaskets.com
336-287-0927