Pest Control for Retail Stores and Shopping Centres

Many people love to go to the shopping centers with a complete variety of goods in all categories of retail items they need while getting some services, entertainment, and relaxation at the same time. There are different types of retail stores in a shopping center, such as department stores, grocery stores, cafes, dining areas, appliance or electronic shops, fashion stores of different apparel, bakeries, pet shops, medical clinics, cinemas, gyms, and other recreational areas.

As much as mall-goers enjoy loitering around, hopping to different retail stores, and doing shopping, there are also several discreet horrendous creatures on the move going in and out of the mall. In these large commercial premises, the most commonly found pests are rodents, which chew electrical wires in some shops and eat any kind of materials; cockroaches, which hide in small cracks or spaces and are attracted to papers, cardboards, and food leftovers; ants, which are present in any sweet food or beverages and fresh food; fabric beetles, which eat synthetic fibers materials; silverfish which eat paper-based products; flies, which is easily attracted to smelly and tasty food, and last but not the least, bed bugs, which are hiding inside a cloth or fabric-covered seats.

These pests choose to stay and live in a climate-controlled environment with many possible hiding spots to use as their shelter and with readily available food all over the place. Also, there are many entry points for them to get through since the shopping center has multiple entrances and exits. Also, there are many public use areas in the shopping centers that also become their favorite hiding places like toilets, play areas for kids, amusement rides, gardens (for some landscape designs), and parking lots for cars. (Check out: Sydney’s Common pests)

Clearly, everywhere in the shopping center and retail stores, pests can actually be seen. They infest all kinds of tenants’ stores, whether it is food or non-food store. In fact, it is very difficult and challenging to avoid pests due to adjacent leasing units of different stores. The high foot traffic of shoppers also contributes to many pest problems in the shopping center, as they can bring in insects like mites, lice, or bed bugs inside the mall unknowingly.

Aside from customers, there are different goods or products delivered in loading docks which also become the entrance of some other pests. Pest infestation is likely to occur in the whole shopping center in any location and certainly, it adversely affects several businesses worldwide in many aspects. Unexpected costs, damage to business reputation, customer satisfaction rates becoming lower due to discomfort they might feel, and health risks to employees which may lower their productivity, are some of the possible effects of neglected pest infestation.  Related: Pest Control For Shopping Centers

HOW TO KEEP SHOPPING CENTERS PEST FREE

To stop more terrible things to happen, store managers and shopping center managers must look into it as soon as they see an onset of pests in the shopping center or any retail store. Quick action must be done right away before rodents can start a fire accident, silverfish can damage wallpaper and completely destroy the material, ants eat all the merchandise or retail goods and flies contaminate fresh food in the grocery.

In the worst scenario, pest infestation might also give sleepless nights to store managers as this might lead also to lawsuits when customers file a complaint to the authorities. Pest Control in Retail Stores & Shopping Centers It is very difficult to manage pests in large commercial premises like shopping centers due to a very diverse landscape and the presence of many retail stores or tenants. ( Read: Industrial Pest Control)