Floor ready merchandise arrives at the retail store ready to sell - tagged, ticketed, pressed, and often on hangers. No backroom prep needed.
What Floor Ready Includes
- Price tickets and hang tags - attached at the factory or distribution center
- Garments pressed and on hangers - ready to hang on the rack
- Polybagged or ready to hang - depending on the retailer's fixture requirements
- Correct size runs per store allocation - each store gets its pre-packed assortment
Who Does the Work
The factory or the retailer's distribution center performs the pressing, ticketing, hanging, and allocation. This shifts labor cost upstream, but it gets product onto the selling floor in hours instead of days.
Cost vs Benefit
Retailers pay more per unit for floor-ready service, but they save store labor hours and get new product selling faster - critical for fast-turning fashion where a day of delay is a day of lost sales.
FAQs
- Do all retailers require floor ready?
- Large chains often do. Smaller stores may accept bulk-packed goods.
- What's the difference between floor ready and ticketed?
- Ticketed is just one part - floor ready includes pressing, hanging, and allocation too.
- Can factories do floor-ready packing?
- Yes - many offer it as a value-added service, sometimes called 'retail-ready'.
Glossary: see the full fashion glossary for more apparel industry terms.