The power of color at retail

Walking the floor of the True Value Reunion in Houston, Ruth Buller explained one of the trends that’s working well back at the True Value store she manages in Enid, Okla. “We like all the colors that they’re coming out with now,” she said. “The coffee makers in the spring colors, and the reds and the blues of the Crock-Pots — it’s an eye catcher.”



Around the industry, there is no shortage of eye-catching developments in colors and tints. Clockwise from left: A Smeg vignette in vintage colors at Lowe’s in New York City; a vibrant nozzle display from Dramm professional watering tools, seen at the Orgill Spring Market; and Legrand demonstrates that there’s more to wall plates than white and beige.