Case Study: Alsip Home & Nursery achieves accurate inventory, smarter buying decisions and $17K payment savings with Epicor

Lawn and garden center runs business more efficiently and accurately with Epicor solutions

Alsip Home & Nursery, a second‑generation, family‑run lawn and garden center in Frankfort, Illinois (two stores, 150+ employees), struggled with maintaining accurate inventory across a wide merchandise mix, making fast buying decisions at distributor tradeshows, and staying competitive with big‑box retailers while reducing payment processing costs.

Implementing Epicor solutions — Eagle N Series, Eagle Mobile Manager, Inventory Planner, Compass, Payment Exchange, and iNet — gave Alsip real‑time quantity‑on‑hand visibility, mobile scanning at tradeshows, streamlined purchasing and collections, internal gift‑card management, and eCommerce tied to live inventory. The result: easier inventory maintenance and improved customer satisfaction, better buying decisions and pricing, and over $17,000 saved on card processing in the first seven months.

Alsip Home & Nursery

Richard Christakes

Chief Executive Officer