Read the February 2017 issue online

Garden Center magazine's February 2017 issue can be read online as a web version and as a digital edition.

This issue serves as Garden Center's 2017 Spring Survival Guide, a resource for independent garden centers preparing for the spring season - the busiest sales period of the year for most IGCs. To this end, we explored a variety of topics important to maintaining a successful retail operation through the spring, including minimum wage and payroll concerns, ways to keep your staff happy, creating good first impressions through employee attire, making sure customers don't get bored while waiting in line, having fun at work and branding your IGC to get noticed in your market.

We also include updates on the EuroAmerican Propagators bankruptcy, ideas for energizing your edibles category, advice on crafting policy toward legalized marijuana in the workplace and the latest trends from Europe.

Also, the Garden Center Products & Supplies special section provides a look at many new and innovative garden center products on the market.

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