Specialty and Architectural Lighting — Retail Stores

When it comes to upgrading to LED lighting, owners of small retail businesses may assume that bottom line benefits accrue primarily to large operations retrofitting with hundreds or even thousands of LED lamps. While scale and buying power certainly help larger businesses justify major light upgrades, locally owned retailers will find they too have LED options well worth exploring. Any smaller sized retail business open six or seven days a week probably operates enough lighting...

People cannot look at lighting as an expense, but rather as a way to increase sales and profitability. You can have the most beautiful retail store and the best jewelry, but in the end you want to be able to present your jewelry in the best possible light. -Mickey Minagorri, Artco Group, Director of Business Development As a consumer, you have most likely walked into a store and have unknowingly been affected by strategic lighting....

Effective lighting for retail stores focuses on two concepts: entice shoppers to enter the store and, once they are in the store, direct their attention to the merchandise. This basic formula gets more complex, depending on the store, with the need to find a balance with other important issues such as energy use, maintenance costs, heat and UV generated by the lighting. A winning lighting strategy accomplishes the primary goal of getting shoppers in the...