Seasonal Businesses and Self Storage

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seasonal businessesThere are many types of businesses that are actually only open during certain times of the year. These seasonal businesses include retail stores that sell only Halloween costumes and supplies as well as businesses that offer a service such as helping customers file their tax returns. Rather than keep everything in their store front business location during their off season, they will often move everything into a self storage unit until it is time to open up their business to the public again.

For the seasonal businesses that sell products, there can be a lot of stock to move into a storage unit at the end of their season. Often they will have a clearance sale to reduce their stock close to the end of their season or right after the season ends. An example of this is a Halloween supply store having their clearance sale during the first week of November. Many customers look forward to this sale and stock up on what they might need the following year. The clearance sale helps the business by reducing the amount of storage space they will need and limiting the amount of paid labor for moving everything into the self storage unit.

Seasonal businesses that offer a service to the public, such as places that offer help in filing tax returns, do not have a lot of stock to store until the next season. Instead, they usually have the desks, chairs, and other office furniture that they use. They also usually have important business documents that need to be properly preserved while they are in storage. These documents do best if they are kept in a self storage unit where the temperature and humidity level are less likely to cause any damage. For example, if the region has very hot summers, then the self storage unit should have some type of cooling system, such as central air conditioning, to keep it cooler.

Since the self storage unit is rented by the month, the seasonal business only pays for the time that they are using it to store their items. This saves them money because the storage fee is usually much less than the amount of leasing a store front location for the entire year. In addition, the self storage facility offers better protection for everything because the staff members make daily checks of the facility to be sure everything is alright.