For Grocery store Bakeries, custom cakes are good business. The profit margins in decorated cakes are lofty; therefore it’s in the bakeries greatest interest to keep up with the latest cake decorating trends. The supermarket bakeries adorn their cakes with the latest kids characters, holiday decorations, sports figurines, and so on. They buy many of their decorating products from shops that sell cake and candy supplies and other cake supplies.

The In-store grocery store bakeries have to find their place to differentiate themselves from rival stores. What worked in the past, might not work in the future as times are changing. The solution is for them to find their cake niche, promoting it and keeping up with the customer assistance that brought them the business in the initial place.

The supermarket must encourage their baked goods in the weekly leaflets and brochures that they put out. The flyers are mailed and then they should be circulated to each store and displayed in departments beyond the bakery. Promotional buttons can be worn by the bakery personnel as well as other store employees. Television and radio publicity campaigns work well as well.

Picture cakes are cakes that have a custom Edible Image® placed on the top with a picture. This is not new to instore grocery store bakeries. Placing a custom photo on the cake has been around for more than ten years now, so it has lost a little bit of its luster. Now is the time to give a boost to those types of sales, particularly around graduation time, but differentiates them by using unique cake varieties such as: chocolate chip, raspberry swirl, marble and lemon.

Product placement within the store is vital to grow custom decorated cake sales. Attract your customers to the bakery section with well placed displays of goodies in places other than the bakery. Do not put too much of an assortment in the non-bakery departments because you’ll want to entice the customer toward the bakery to see what else the store is offering. Instead of baking during the nighttime when the store is empty, bake during the day when the baked goods fragrance can whiff throughout the store and make customers chops water.
Grocery store bakeries are relying more on thaw-and-sell cakes because of their labor saving advantages. But, they are also using these cakes to offer a broader collection of flavors and sizes. When accomplished well, quality thaw-and-sell cakes can present customers with more upscale varieties, unusual shapes and sizes or meet special dietary needs, which can be too labor-demanding to produce.

Most importantly it is store customer service and product superiority that will sell more high profit custom cakes and sweets.
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