Supermarkets and grocers

From the local grocer to the mega market, today’s food shopper has a wide variety of food retailers from which to choose. Studies show that their decision is based on many variables including merchandising, price, and quality produce and meats. Topping this list is store appearance and cleanliness. A commitment to an effective floor care program will help any customer choose a particular retailer by improving their perception of the store’s cleanliness.

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To preserve a consistent clean appearance of any floor while providing a slip resistant surface for customers and employees, Amano Pioneer Eclipse created the Supermarket Floor Care System. This system helps retailers achieve superior results as efficiently as possible by coordinating chemicals, equipment and procedures. It also ensures that current and new employees are able to quickly and effectively execute every floor care procedure and react to changing store traffic and weather patterns.

Floors are the first and most prominent physical characteristic a customer uses to judge the quality of any store. A clean shiny floor surface is not only appealing; it also provides a perceived and real sense of safety to the visitor throughout their store experience. But, the floors in any facility are subject to the most abrasive wear of any surface in the retail space. This is especially true at entrance and exit areas where first and lasting impressions are made on each and every customer.

The system provides food retailers with the right products and tools required to manage the floor care and sanitation needs of any size facility. It helps to maintain the floors, control hazards, train employees, meet regulatory requirements and save time and money in the process. Using an assortment of management support tools, including wall charts, posters, plan-o-grams, quizzes, data sheets, troubleshooting guides and training videos, the system gives store managers a method to maintain a consistent year-round store appearance, meet the regulatory requirements of OSHA and pass internal inspections.

Specific floor care products are selected from a wide variety of finishes, strippers, cleaners and maintainers to produce a tough, long lasting floor surface. From a satin, low-gloss appearance to a brilliant wet-look shine, Amano Pioneer Eclipse has a floor finish suited for any specification. Developed to reduce the frequency of costly floor maintenance procedures, these finishes are designed to work with ultra high speed burnishing machines that cure and seal the surface effectively and efficiently.

Amano Pioneer Eclipse offers a broad line of green flooring products to satisfy the challenges faced everyday in supermarkets and grocery stores. Appropriately named EnviroStar Green®, this environmental preferred system includes floor strippers, cleaners, coatings and maintainers. These chemicals minimize unwanted toxins, fragrances and odors that could cause adverse reactions in cleaning staff, store associates and customers. These same characteristics help to reduce the impact these treatments have on the environment. EnviroStar Green chemicals contain:

• NO Zinc-based cross linking agents.
• NO Ethylene glycol-based coalescent solvents.
• NO Bioaccumulative fluorocarbon surfactants.
• NO VOC’s exceeding regulatory limits.
• NO environmentally toxic preservatives.
• NO NO alkyl phenol ethoxylate surfactants.
• NO 2-butoxyethanol.
• NO phosphates.
• NO ethanolamine or ammonia.
• NO flammable solvents.
• NO added fragrances.
• NO non-recyclable packaging.

EnviroStar Green chemicals are developed specifically as environmentally preferred solutions. The chemists who created these products did not simply remove harmful agents from a standard formulation to meet certain standards. On the contrary, EnviroStar Green products contain chemistry specifically designed to produce excellent results while reducing their impact on both the indoor and outdoor environment. This performance along with the added durability of EnviroStar Green floor coatings means less money and time are spent on expensive stripping and recoating operations.

Above the floor, the Supermarket Floor Care and Sanitation System includes cleaning solutions for other parts of the store as well. These sanitation products encompass a wide range of cleaning applications with a minimum number of products. Using a relatively low number of products simplifies training and maximizes results.

The Supermarket Floor Care and Sanitation System helps strengthen customer confidence through real and perceived improvements in store cleanliness. This confidence leads to consumer loyalty, higher repeat visits and ultimately increased sales and profits. The system also helps reduce the exposure to costly slip-and-fall liability that can lead to costly litigation expenses. As one of the most comprehensive guides for floor care and sanitation written for the supermarket industry, The Supermarket Floor Care and Sanitation System is a valuable asset to any food retailer.