A Better Retail Floor Care Option: How One National Retailer Reclaimed Floor Care

You pay your cleaning contractor to keep floors looking great. Can you afford to pay for that same result at your low revenue stores?

Floor care is challenging for low revenue locations. Their budgets have no room for an outside cleaning contractor. Yet results must be consistent to protect the brand. So how can low revenue stores meet expectations and control costs?

One major national retailer turned to Kaivac to solve their floor care woes.

National Specialty Retailer Reclaims Floor Care

Bringing floor care in house is tricky. Professional cleaners dust mop to remove grit then use highly specialized scrubbers to clean and polish floors. The combination is both time consuming and daunting for hourly employees, who are not cleaning specialists.

“Workers are intimidated by the scrubber. It’s not an intuitive piece of equipment,” explains Allen Randolph, Sr. VP Customer Solutions, Kaivac. “And the dust mop is antique technology that doubles the workload.”

To complicate matters, this specialty retailer features low-pile carpet in their floor design. In response, Kaivac developed, the All Floor™. This intuitive, all-in-one piece of equipment empowers employees to dust mop and scrub in one simple step. A quick switch lets workers use the same tool for vacuuming and dusting.

After one year the change has been so successful that the retailer is expanding the program to mid-revenue stores. With a three- to four-month return on investment, the company has an eye towards moving the entire floor care operation in-house.

“Employees report that using the All Floor is easy,” says Randolph. “That’s a core value for Kaivac. Our tools exist for the people who do the work.”

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