You already know that every single display detail matters in retail spaces. But there’s nowhere that’s truer than in a grocery store. Different lights change how green the produce looks or how red and fresh the meat appears. Lighting also changes how customers move throughout the space and what they think of the experience. 

So don’t just switch to LEDs and opt for daylight settings. Here are three more ways to use your lights profitably:

Light up bodegas and sections differently.

People notice differences in lighting even if they don’t know what they noticed. So underscore your bodegas, clearance sections, or new arrivals with pointed lights that have a slightly higher brightness or a different color. 

Add more light over high-margin or must-go products in the freezer aisles.

Freezer space is a valuable commodity, and it’s essential to get rid of clearance to make room for more profitable items. But it can be tricky if all of the clearance is grouped away from their usual sections. Draw customers’ attention to the clearance shelves by making them light up first. If your store has energy-saving lights with motion detectors, make sure any movement triggers the lights above the clearance.

Backlight display signs and decorations.

Signs and decorations can draw a lot of attention to displays. Even if your store has dim lighting, customers will be able to see and read the displays. What backlighting adds is another layer of invitation. Customers will gravitate toward even out of the way displays if the light is bright and welcoming. So use backlighting anytime you need to change your customers’ usual travel paths to bring them to a new stand or display in the store.

Grocery store lighting can make all the difference in what non-essential products become popular or stay on the shelves. Contact Relumination today for the right supplies and advice to make your store shine.

When operating a manufacturing facility there a lot of different competing concerns that need to be addressed and considered, pulling ones attention in many different directions at once. Safety, quality, productivity, costs, and employee morale are all at the top of this list, and often times every issue facing a plant manager boils down to one of these issues. Few actions that a facility can take will impact several of these, even fewer will impact all of these considerations. One item in particular will positively impact all of these areas, and it’s one of the simplest most cost effective ways to address all of these issues. Ready for it? Good quality manufacturing lighting.

Safety is always a top concern when running a manufacturing facility. Trip and fall accidents and hand injuries are always on the top of OSHA’s list of injuries each year. There are many actions that can be taken to help alleviate these injuries but towards the top of that list is replacing old inefficient lighting with brand new, brighter, and more efficient lighting. Dimly lit walkways and aisles suddenly become well lit, allowing workers to quickly identify objects left in the walkway. Employees stop squinting at their dark work stations and instead easily see potentially hazardous objects before they place their hands near them. It sounds so simple, but simply changing the environment into a well lit area heads off a huge percent of potential accidents. You never hear about a worker tripping over a misplaced pallet because it was too easy to see.

Every production process is always striving to have a perfect quality control process, but inevitably there is always something that makes its way to the customer. Function test and spot checking catch many of these issues, but they often focus on the functioning of the product, not on how it looks. Small blemishes and scratches are often left to the human eye to identify and address. If your customer has better lighting than you, blemishes and scratches that are invisible in the shadows of your dimly lit production line are spotted a mile away when under the bright lights of brand new industrial lighting or a sunny day in the field. Don’t risk it. Install ample amounts of energy efficient lights throughout your facility and hard to see scratches, dents, and blemishes will all jump out at your employees and inspectors, minimizing the chance that they will turn up at a customer sight.

When a worker is searching through the shadows for a dropped part or to identify the part number listed on a box they are wasting valuable time they could be using to be producing product. Don’t throw this valuable time away. Ensure that there is more than enough light on your production line and in your warehouse so that your hard working employees are focused on their jobs, and not on trying to read a label in the dark.

This speaks to the morale of your workforce as well. If they are constantly squinting to do their jobs or walking into work in a dark dimly lit facility, it brings their morale down. Brighten up their workspaces with brand new bright energy efficient lighting and suddenly walking into work isn’t depressing. Good quality lighting boosts the morale, and subsequently the productivity of every employee on your manufacturing floor.

Many older manufacturing facilities have old outdated lighting. Its easy to just keep using these old lights and not realize how much they are costing you. New energy efficient lighting often times saves so much on energy costs that they quickly pay for themselves in lower utility bills. This is even more true if you can utilize power company incentives or if your facility is charged rate based on peak load. This speeds up the already short payback period. These cost savings are even higher when think of all of the additional gains listed above simply by replacing your old existing lighting with new energy efficient lighting.

When you consider all of the benefits of updating your manufacturing lighting, it’s hard to think of a single investment that you could make that would impact as many aspects of your business as energy efficient lighting. If you are interested in seeing how our lighting can impact you please contact us.

Businesses today are always looking for a way to be more sustainable, and to reduce their carbon footprint. Partially because it’s good for a business’s image to show that it cares about the environment, but also because it saves money. One of the smartest, easiest things you can do as a business is to overhaul the kinds of lights you’re using.

LEDs are cheaper now than they’ve ever been before.

Why Aren’t You Using LEDs For Your Business?

LED lights, according to Boston University, save up to 80 percent of the power used by traditional light bulbs. Which is why, if you simply unscrew the incandescent bulbs you’re using now, you’ll experience an instant savings with little actual change to your lighting setup.

Even if you use a more complicated lighting array (fluorescent tubes, arc-sodium lights, etc.), you will still save in costs over the long-term by switching to LED lighting. While the up-front cost often makes a business balk, the important thing to look at is your savings over the lifetime of the installation. Every day you use a less efficient lighting system is another day you’re using (and paying for) more electricity than you need.

A simple analysis of your current lighting system will tell you how much you’re currently spending, and how much switching to LEDs would save you over the lifetime of your business. However, what that analysis won’t measure is how much waste you save (since LED bulbs last longer, and are completely recyclable). It also won’t measure the positive impact your change will have on your company’s image, and on your ability to draw new clients to you with your green initiative.

Other than the initial, up-front cost (which will eventually be paid for by the system’s savings), there is literally no downside to switching to a cleaner, greener, and more sustainable lighting system.

For more information on sustainability, and on LED lighting systems, simply contact us today!

More and more businesses today are concerned with sustainability and reducing their impact on the environment. One way they achieve this is by implementing energy efficient lighting systems. Not only are these systems better for the environment, but they can positively affect a firm’s bottom line.

What is Energy Efficient Lighting?

Energy efficient lighting aims to keep the overall lighting wattage low while still delivering the necessary amount of illumination to an area. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways: switching from incandescent to LED bulbs, supplying areas of the facility that aren’t used often with motion sensors that turn the lights on when someone enters the room, or maximizing natural light provided by windows and skylights.

Profitability

Installing energy efficient lighting in your facility can lead to significant savings in energy costs, and lowering overhead expenses without sacrificing lighting quality is always a good thing. In addition, utility companies are often mandated by regulators to encourage consumers to use less energy. One way they carry this off is through incentives, a way of rewarding businesses for using less energy. Many companies fail to leverage these incentives, giving the firms that do an edge. Moreover, this perk helps to increase the return on investment of the new lighting system.

How We Can Help

Energy efficient lighting systems are not one size fits all. A warehouse with high ceilings, tall shelves, and few windows has very different lighting needs from an office building with an open floor plan and plenty of natural light. At Relumination, our seasoned lighting professionals can assess your company’s unique requirements, measure current light levels and identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement, then design the optimal layout for your facility. If you choose to go forward we can install the system and even help with the sometimes confusing paperwork needed to obtain the energy company incentives.

To learn more about how Relumination can help you save with energy-efficiency, please contact us.

While businesses will typically spend resources on consultants for process efficiencies during the redesign process, they might not look towards energy efficiencies as a cost-saving measure. If your business is considering a redesign or new build, you could be missing some of the simplest cost savings possible if you omit a lighting consultation. That’s where Relumination comes in. Whether it’s during a redesign or the construction of a new building, remember to include Relumination during your planning phase.

Firstly, we’ll help you consider repositioning your fixtures to better fit how your business works now. If your building was designed more than fifteen years ago the chances are that you have had to make modifications to your processes and physical environment in order to keep up with your business’s changing needs. It may also be that your physical layout didn’t change, but you could eliminate a number of fixtures by using different lighting — perhaps a fixture that spreads light wider or lighting closer to the work being done.  This too would help reduce energy usage. If you’re considering making a change to your physical layout make sure to add a lighting consultation so your design isn’t limited because of your current lighting scheme.

Once we have considered where your lighting needs to be, it’s time to properly determine how much lighting you’ll need in those fixtures. No one wants to work in dim — and possibly dangerous — conditions, but there are times where you can safely scale down the wattage used in a fixture. This too will save your business in the long run. While often overlooked, installing lighting fixtures that are too large for what you truly need is like buying a seven-ton air conditioner for your tiny apartment. It will certainly cool down the area, but it will do so with such poor efficiency that you’ll end up wasting money.

Whatever your business’s current buildings’ needs are, remember to include a lighting consultation from Relumination in order to reap energy efficiencies that add to your bottom line.

If you’ve ever bought or sold a house, you know how important it is for a building to have curb appeal. First impressions make a huge difference when it comes to selling your home for a great price, and making small changes to your landscaping can really improve curb appeal! Read on to learn more about how landscape lighting can increase the value of your home.

Drawing Attention To Your Home

Landscape lighting can be effective at highlighting the most beautiful parts of your home. Make well-maintained plants, yards, or gardens glow with exterior lighting, or illuminate the sidewalk or walkway to your front door. Lights can help guests find their way in the dark, or can bring attention to your front door. Lighting welcomes visitors to your home and makes it feel like a warm and inviting place. A well-lit house is a welcoming and beautiful house! 

Landscape Lighting Can Help Keep Your Home Secure

The statistics on burglary and home invasion can alarm any home owner. A house that is lit up brightly at night is less attractive to burglars. While these lights can be a fantastic crime deterrent, leaving the lights on all night is wasteful, and will probably annoy your neighbors, so invest in lights with a motion sensor. When the sensor is triggered, the lights will go on, scaring off any potential invaders, and alerting you to the movement.

It’s Easy And Affordable

Adding exterior lighting can offer a huge return on investment. For a few hundred dollars and a few hours of work, you can boost your curb appeal and make your house worth more. Even if you aren’t planning on selling your house any time soon, it’s always a smart idea to keep improving your home. When it does come time to sell, you’ll be glad you made small changes!

Do your customers seem to enjoy shopping in your grocery store or do they just usually go through the motions during each shopping trip? If your customers usually just go through the motions, it could be time to think about making changes to your grocery store lighting. It could be time to make the change from traditional lighting to LED lighting. When you have LED lighting throughout your entire grocery store, you will see an improved overall look and feel throughout your entire grocery store. 

There has become a new standard for grocery stores when it comes to lighting. The old standard when it came to grocery store lighting was just a variety of fluorescent light bulbs. However, it did not take long for grocery store owners and managers to realize that fluorescent light bulbs were expensive to operate. LED lighting is less expensive to operate due to their energy efficiency and their ability to last for many years without needing any type of maintenance.

LED lights can be highly effective when it comes to your refrigerator cases and your freezers. Why? When you use fluorescent lights in your refrigerator cases and your freezers there will be a significant amount of light reduction. On the other hand, you will not have to worry about light reduction when it comes to LED lights. The freezer aisle of your grocery store will immediately look appealing and brand new just by making changes to your lights. All of your customers will be able to see your food items clearly and they will look better. Your customers will be more likely to purchase items when they can easily find them and when they look good in the store.

When you can create a bright, clean, and appealing shopping experience, your customers will be satisfied and they will be more likely to make frequent ships to your store. Are you ready to upgrade your grocery store lighting? Do not hesitate to contact us today.

Every commercial building has its quirks. The inexplicably huge water heater, the spooky bathroom, the flickering light. Of course, these aren’t just weird things about your building, they’re structural clues. That huge water heater means your building could support a commercial kitchen. The spooky bathroom is an effect of echoing tile and insufficient lighting. And that flickering light? It’s a sign that your light fixtures are aging.

A lot of older commercial buildings are due to retrofit their fixtures and update the wiring. Here are five signs that your commercial property has outdated, costly, or dangerous lights that need a retrofit.

1) Flicking Lights
Flickering is often a sign that circuits and wiring are getting old. When the electrical connection isn’t consistent, or when the circuit can’t support the electrcal current, you get a flicker. If your lights flicker even after changing the bulb, this could be a sign of future danger. Getting a retrofit is a safety concern.

2) Expensive Bulbs
Of course, keeping your fixtures might have other consequences as well. If replacing your bulbs is more costly, in 1-5 years of replacements, than retrofitting, then the choice is obvious. Why keep buying expensive bulbs when you could upgrade to long-lasting, energy-efficient, and affordable LEDs?

3) Frequent Replacements
Another sign that your lighting is on its last legs is the frequency of bulb replacements. If you’re replacing your bulbs more often than once a year, that’s too much. Old light fixtures with unreliable electricity tend to burn out bulbs and possibly even explode them.

4) High Power Bills
Or they can soak up more power than the light is worth. An old, inefficient light fixture may draw more electricity than the bulb needs or can handle. Or that outdated bulb type uses more electricity than any modern form of lighting would ever require. Meaning a retrofit could save you a ton on utilities.

5) Rusting Fixtures
Finally, there’s actual fixture damage. If you can see rust, corrosion, or broken aspects of your light fixtures then malfunction and dangerous behavior aren’t far behind. Retrofitting at this point is preventative maintenance and just good responsible building management. Before your light fixtures start exploding lightbulbs or dropping screws out of the ceiling.

Do your light fixtures need retrofitting? Contact us today to consult on your commercial lighting needs!