SAM Coverage
Rental & Retail
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1998 Snowboard Rental Roundup
Things are changing on the snowboard scene making rental more of a priority than it has ever been. From Airwalk to Rossignol, snowboard engineers…
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Fun And Familiarization
There’s little argument that ski shop employees can be valuable extensions of a ski area’s marketing efforts, acting as goodwill ambassadors to sell particular…
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Rental Shop– Keeping Track Of Bindings
Rental shops routinely number inventory components and use those numbers as part of their permanent records. Even shops with the most meticulous records usually…
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Rental Flow
Writing about ski rental shops, traffic flow, rack designs and procedures is theory based on practical experience. Actually designing a rental shop from the…
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Rental Shop
Where a rental shop operation is aimed at beginning skiers—you want to get them on the hill fast, teach them to ski efficiently and…
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Rental Shop
Fall is a good time to look at rental shop refurbishing. Efficient storage of skis, boots and poles for easy accessibility and space saving…
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Premating
The preset/premate system for ski shop equipment rentals is widely known for its simplicity, low cost and reduction of risks of injury to the…
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Rental Shop
The ski equipment rental form is a small but most important link in the rental operation. The customer usually fills in part, the cashier…
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The Rental Shop
In 1950 the late Mitch Cubberly introduced the Cubco binding. This was the first popular binding which did not rely on ski-boot-to-binding contact. Many…
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The Rental Shop
Save Time with Floating Pre-mated Systems In selecting rental bindings a shop must consider many factors: initial cost, rental efficiency, customer acceptance and the…