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Two tips to follow when ordering work uniforms for your new supermarket staff

8 November 2021 by Mitchell Gilbert

If you've set up a supermarket and need work uniforms for your staff, here are two tips you should follow.

Ensure both the back and the front of their t-shirts or jumpers feature the supermarket name or logo

Even if you choose work uniforms in colours that match your supermarket's branding (i.e. in hues that you are confident will be identifiable as your business colours) you should still also order t-shirts or jumpers that feature your supermarket's logo or name on the back as well as the front of the garment.

The reason for this is that new customers might not be aware of your brand colours and so might not immediately identify a staff member as your employee, if they see them when they're turned away from them. Instead, they might assume they're just another customer. This could cause issues when customers need help with finding a particular food product (something that happens regularly in supermarkets) and are searching for a staff member on the staff floor, as if your employees are turned away from these customers, the latter might not recognise them as staff and won't approach them for help.

As such, to ensure anyone who comes into your supermarket can instantly identify your staff, no matter what way an employee is facing (and, therefore, get the assistance they need), it's sensible to order uniform tops that have a large print of your logo or supermarket name on the back, as well as the front.

Choose stretchy, but somewhat loose-fitting garments

You should pick uniforms that consist of garments that are both stretchy and quite loose-fitting. The reason for this is that any of your staff members who work on the shop floor will need to kneel, stretch upwards and perhaps use stepping stools when stocking the shelves. If their uniforms are fitted and the garment fabric is not flexible, they'll probably find these movements uncomfortable, and they might even experience painful chafing on certain areas of their body from repeatedly performing the same movement whilst stacking food on the shelves, due to their stiff, fitted uniforms abrading their skin.

Even your checkout staff, who don't need to do much physical work, will probably find stretchy garments more comfortable. For example, if the waists of the uniform trousers are elasticated, they won't dig into the checkout staff's abdomens, even if they sit at the tills for hours at a time.

Finally, opting for uniforms that are somewhat stretchy will also make it easier to ensure that every staff member can find one that fits them, no matter what their proportions are (as even people who wear the same dress size can carry their weight differently). This is important in a supermarket, where you'll probably have a lot of employees, many of whom will have different body types.

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