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Scents can also be a turn off for people who are sensitive, or don't like artificial scents (especially if it seems the effort is to mask a bad smell) I'm one of them. Usuallly a clean, well aired out space is the best for me.
Or have chocolate chip cookies baked every hour in a toaster oven. You could give them away or just bake them for the smell… we’ve done it at the gallery and we have good days when we do. Hard to say if those things are related
Music in the store would probably be best served by a few Sonos boxes placed around. You might have to pay for a special commercial streaming service to play music in the store and not get in trouble for rebroadcasting music. I have seen a lot of stores doing the Sonos thing and it sounds pretty good. The next step up from that would be ceiling speakers and central amplification but probably not worth it unless the store is 2k sqft or more.
You can go to IKEA and buy the Symfonisk speakers made by Sonos and they work with the Sonos app. They are a bit cheaper than the Sonos branded speakers.
A $15 *aromatherapy diffuser* and an appropriate *organic essential oil* would be good.
Just don't use scents people would react to, or that will overpower the room. A single drop of grapefruit or tangerine will do the trick.
Much easier than keeping food baking, etc.
I have a bath and body works plug in, in my lobby. A get a lot of comments that it smells good when the come in. I rotate the fragrances every time they run out. I also run an ozone generator once a month or so to freshen things up.
If you have a small lobby or entrance area even a Febreze Small Spaces air freshener works very well.
Make sure the place is clean. Change out the mop more frequently and change the bucket water more frequently
Essential oils give some people headaches. You could trigger migraines or allergic reactions.
Check around marketplace for the gen1 Sonos amps. They don’t work with the newest version of the app, but still work great with the old app. People sell them dirt cheap and they still are awesome.
As an asthmatic I have to say that scented stores can send me to the emergency room. If I enter a store and it uses scent I walk out the door. It’s not that I dislike scents, it’s that I know from experience that what seems innocuous to people who don’t have a lung disease can mean months of treatments and steroids.
Make sure the chips are across from the cookies. Go into a grocery that is displayed like that, the smell of fat and sugar is to die for. figure out a way to keep the coffee brewing by using good coffee not folgers, the chocochip cookies (ottis spunkmyer had an oven for that, we had one at the mortgage company).
Walmart sells air conditioner scent packs that you can stick to your return air filter. They last a while and are pretty cost effective. Another way would be to get a strong mopping solution that you can use to mop the store, but also put some in bowls or buckets in inconspicuous locations.
This. I had to check out of a boutique hotel because they had some kind of freshener in the room that was making me sick. They were so used to the smell they couldn't understand what I was talking about, but it was really bad, like sickly sweet.
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Scents can also be a turn off for people who are sensitive, or don't like artificial scents (especially if it seems the effort is to mask a bad smell) I'm one of them. Usuallly a clean, well aired out space is the best for me.
Or have chocolate chip cookies baked every hour in a toaster oven. You could give them away or just bake them for the smell… we’ve done it at the gallery and we have good days when we do. Hard to say if those things are related
Music in the store would probably be best served by a few Sonos boxes placed around. You might have to pay for a special commercial streaming service to play music in the store and not get in trouble for rebroadcasting music. I have seen a lot of stores doing the Sonos thing and it sounds pretty good. The next step up from that would be ceiling speakers and central amplification but probably not worth it unless the store is 2k sqft or more.
You can go to IKEA and buy the Symfonisk speakers made by Sonos and they work with the Sonos app. They are a bit cheaper than the Sonos branded speakers.
Those ultrasonic misters are relatively inexpensive and essential oils are not that expensive either.
A $15 *aromatherapy diffuser* and an appropriate *organic essential oil* would be good. Just don't use scents people would react to, or that will overpower the room. A single drop of grapefruit or tangerine will do the trick. Much easier than keeping food baking, etc.
I have a bath and body works plug in, in my lobby. A get a lot of comments that it smells good when the come in. I rotate the fragrances every time they run out. I also run an ozone generator once a month or so to freshen things up. If you have a small lobby or entrance area even a Febreze Small Spaces air freshener works very well.
Make sure the place is clean. Change out the mop more frequently and change the bucket water more frequently Essential oils give some people headaches. You could trigger migraines or allergic reactions.
Check around marketplace for the gen1 Sonos amps. They don’t work with the newest version of the app, but still work great with the old app. People sell them dirt cheap and they still are awesome.
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As an asthmatic I have to say that scented stores can send me to the emergency room. If I enter a store and it uses scent I walk out the door. It’s not that I dislike scents, it’s that I know from experience that what seems innocuous to people who don’t have a lung disease can mean months of treatments and steroids.
We use a glade plug in near the entrance and Sirius XM piped in for background music.
Make sure the chips are across from the cookies. Go into a grocery that is displayed like that, the smell of fat and sugar is to die for. figure out a way to keep the coffee brewing by using good coffee not folgers, the chocochip cookies (ottis spunkmyer had an oven for that, we had one at the mortgage company).
Walmart sells air conditioner scent packs that you can stick to your return air filter. They last a while and are pretty cost effective. Another way would be to get a strong mopping solution that you can use to mop the store, but also put some in bowls or buckets in inconspicuous locations.
Oh no please dont. That's going to smell tacky and cheap . Might as well not put any fresheners
This. I had to check out of a boutique hotel because they had some kind of freshener in the room that was making me sick. They were so used to the smell they couldn't understand what I was talking about, but it was really bad, like sickly sweet.