How Retailers in the UAE can use Storage Pods for Seasonal Inventory

Sometimes it can seem as if you are running two businesses at once, with day-to day requirements on the one hand and future needs on the other. This can be particularly so if the business you are in is retail and seasonal. You can have one category of goods out on the floor, and another stored out the back, awaiting its turn in the spotlight.

The trouble with “out the back” is that it is a handy concept that can quickly grow larger than its space. When we start a business, we find premises that fit the bill, but as business grows and your product range expands, suddenly the storage space can run out.

Storage in the UAE: Specific Climate-Related Conditions

Part of the appeal of the UAE for many people is the climate. It’s not damp and draughty like the UK or parts of the US. It’s not icy like parts of Canada, Russia and Scandinavia. But the UAE is not simply warm and mellow and pleasant. In the summer, which means roughly the end of April to the beginning of October, it is seriously hot, and even though there may be winds, they are not cooling breezes. These are hot winds and they can bring dust storms.

With Dubai being close to the sea, the season known as winter (roughly October to April) is a little cooler but can be very humid and there can be rain and thunderstorms.

The overall effect of this is potentially damaging to retail stock, which cannot be left in a standard storeroom. If not properly protected it can be damaged by heat or covered in dust.

Why Special Storage is Essential

Keeping your inventory safe and sound during its time as backup to the stock in your showrooms is perfectly possible if you place it in the care of a specialist storage company with purpose-built facilities. As a very handy bonus, you can have the transfer done safely and conveniently by having the company deliver a number of pods to your premises, to be filled with your goods and taken to their temporary home.

These pods are specially designed to keep out dust, sand and pests, while the facility itself is climate-controlled. When you need the goods to take their turn they can be delivered to you, and because they are in pods they are not repeatedly being handled, with the risks that would bring.

Purpose-built climate-controlled storage exists in the UAE because it does a crucial job, not least for retailers, like our state-of-the-art facilities at Easytruck. Then you can have your stock kept safe and along with it the money you have invested in it. When the time comes for it to be brought out to entice your customers it can be in perfect condition.