Disinfecting Your Retail Store Can Help Keep Customers Happy and Your Employees Healthy

Disinfection helps reduce negative customer reviews and fewer call-outs from illness (see our blog about the flu and your staff). Regular disinfection of your retail store (whether it be for convenience, groceries, clothing, or fun) is vital because surface hygiene is crucial to everyone’s safety. Besides regular cleaning, occasional disinfection of retail stores’ surfaces is vital to eliminate bacteria and viruses that can become a health hazard to staff and customers.
 
Let's explore 4 areas/items that require regular disinfection in your store. 

High Traffic Areas 
Use a reputable disinfectant when eliminating bacteria and other germs from retail store surfaces. Regular disinfection of visible surfaces in your store, including fixtures, walkways, and flooring, can help prevent the buildup of germs and the risk of illness. Similarly, use the same procedure to disinfect, windows, walls, and counters. Dust, grime, spills, and germs accumulate on these surfaces can promote cross-contamination. 

High Touch Surfaces
Surfaces like credit card terminals and shopping cart handles are touched by all of your customers every day.  Regularly disinfecting these items will help keep germs and illnesses to a minimum for the next customer and your employees

Bathrooms
Dirty retail store bathrooms can result in the spread of infections and germs. Regular disinfection of toilet seats, doorknobs, toilet handles, soap dispensers, faucets, and light switches is key to eliminating disease-causing organisms. Also, ensure you disinfect other high-touch and contact areas in the restrooms, including walls and floor. 

Door Handles
Unless your store’s door remains fully open every time, people entering your business will keep touching it thus increasing the risk of spreading diseases. Regular disinfection is pivotal to help control the transmission of germs in stores. 
 
Other items to consider:

• Displays
• Refrigerator door handles
• Handheld scanners in self-checkout areas
• Touch screens in self-checkout areas
• Shopping baskets

 
The above are some areas or surfaces that require regular disinfection in the store, although the list isn't conclusive. For best results, consider hiring a reputable disinfection professional service. 

Reliable Retail Store Disinfection Services
Are you looking for dependable retail store disinfection experts around North Andover, MA, and services in the Merrimack Valley area of Southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts? Millennium Cleaning Services is the ideal partner to keep your retail store germ free. Contact us today and learn more about our retail store disinfection services. 

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