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Employment Opportunities in Retail Stores
Pet grooming is
certainly a diverse industry considering you can have a home,
mobile or commercial business, or work in grooming department
within a kennel, veterinarian hospital or clinic, or a pet store.
In the 1990's there has been significant growth in the number of
grooming departments and that trend is expected to continue into
the new millennia.
Leading the way for
grooming departments in retail environments are companies like
PETsMART, PETCO and other superstores. Of course,
to many groomers discussions of grooming departments in
superstores often leads to widely differing points of view and
some emotion. However, from our point of view, as career
consultants, we are pleased that there are more job openings for
groomers being created by the growth of grooming departments in
retail stores. Most self-employed groomers agree though that
overall these stores do not pose a significant threat to their
businesses. They typically claim that their clients are loyal and
willing to stay with them when new super pet stores open in their
areas, and that is the result of their providing plenty of
customer service for their clients. So we strongly urge those of
you to consider the importance of not only your fine pet care
services, but your client services. For more information on client
relations at this site, click here.
Stay sharp as it seems logical that the superstores are always
interested in growing their market share, of course.
When you consider that
there are 4,000 dogs and cats in the U.S. alone for every pet
grooming business today, isn't there really enough pets to go
around? You bet. Very few grooming anywhere in the U.S. have
saturated their market areas. In fact, one reason we favor
vocational licensing of groomers is that as a body groomers could
come together and through co-op advertising spread the word to all
pet owners in their areas as to value of professional pet
grooming. Maybe this way the millions of pet dogs and cats not
being professionally groomed now will be, and everyone will be
more busy than ever.
For some groomers,
working a retail pet store large or small is ideal. Often they
enjoy benefits like retirement plans, sick pay, vacation pay and
more which is often not available in independent grooming
businesses. If it's right for you, investigate employment
opportunities in retail stores. PetSmart
and PETCO both have web sites with more employment information
(see links on
Home Page to their web
sites).
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