The customer checks online before setting off: whether you stock what they want, what time you open, and whether they can park. A site that hides those three answers sends them to the next shop on the street.
What beats online retail is not price but everything a warehouse cannot do: take it home today, try it on, get advice, bring it back over the counter. That belongs on the website, not only in the shop.
Nobody expects the whole shop online, but they do expect to know whether a size is in. Letting someone ask about one item, or hold it until six, turns a browse into a visit that ends at the till.
Name the brands you stock. People search by brand long before they search by shop, and a page that lists what you actually carry picks up those searches while a page about your history picks up nothing.
Lead with hours and stock. When the counter opens, whether something is on the shelf today and how long collection takes matters more to a working electrician than any brand list.
Make the account obvious. Terms, credit, agreed pricing and how to open one belong on the site, because a contractor with an account stops comparing and simply drives to the same counter every morning.
Talk about regulation changes. What a new requirement means in practice, and which products now satisfy it, is genuinely useful and almost nobody publishes it.
Explain delivery to site. A contractor on a job cannot leave it, so whether material can arrive at an address that morning is a service worth describing precisely.
Say what you hold for discontinued ranges. Matching a replacement for a twenty-year-old consumer unit or a socket front nobody makes any more is work an online warehouse cannot do, and it is the reason somebody drives to a counter.
Take the materials list from the drawing. A contractor pricing a job wants a whole kit reserved against a fitting date, with one invoice per site, and offering that turns an occasional buyer into the merchant they route everything through.
Explain how cable is sold. Cut to length or full drum, any minimum, what offcuts cost and how often the copper price moves the rate: setting that out stops you being compared with an online list that was accurate yesterday.
The customer is an electrician with a job stopped. Opening at seven, having the part on the shelf and getting them out in five minutes is the entire proposition, and everything on the site should serve it.
Trade accounts are the business. Agreed prices, monthly invoicing and somebody who knows the customer's name is what keeps a contractor loyal, and it should be as easy to open an account as to buy a single socket.
Written for somebody whose job is stopped: opening hours and stock first, trade accounts made easy, regulation changes explained and delivery to site described.
The sentence that keeps an electrician loyal: it is on the shelf and we open at seven.
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