NexPet - A Group For Independent Pet Retailers

NexPet is a pet store association that helps independent pet store retailers be more profitable. Usually called a "co-op", NexPet offers many financial benefits to its members. Current members of this pet store association include over 500 of the largest and most successful independent pet stores in 48 states throughout the United States.

NexPet helps its members compete successfully with large chains by combining their buying power and sharing best practices. Financial benefits for members of this pet store association include rebates on major pet supply lines purchased through distributors, discounts on products bought direct, and big savings on services like credit card processing and medical insurance, and on store equipment. Members of this pet store association also enjoy hundreds of professional marketing programs and easy ways to share ideas and strategies with other pet retailers. NexPet is the only national pet store association designed for independent pet store retailers in the USA.

You know pet store employee training is important. But pet store employee training programs can be difficult to create and implement. NexPet offers pet store employee training programs based on pet industry best practices that are designed to retain good employees as well as improve customer satisfaction within your pet store.

As a member of the NexPet pet store association, your pet store employee training program will teach product knowledge and sales techniques using both workbooks and online courses. As part of the pet store employee training program, you'll receive customizable employee manuals and courses on setting and implementing customer service standards.

And NexPet's pet store employee training programs don't stop there. We help educate your customers, too, with customizable care sheets for the pets you sell. NexPet's pet store employee training program, combined with all the other benefits of membership in this pet store association, will pay for itself many times over.

We invite you to click the links to the left and acquaint yourself with the full list of benefits that being a member of NexPet can bring to you and your business.

Since 1999 NexPet membership has aided the success of full-line stores that carry livestock, aquatics, bird or reptile specialty stores, and dog and cat specialty stores with between three and fifteen stores under the same ownership. NexPet members collect rebates on “dry goods” they buy from their regular distributors, i.e. supplies on cages, filters, tanks, crates, treats, chemicals, for many types of animals mentioned above as well as on NexPet’s private label dog food.

Members also receive a comprehensive employee product and sales training program covering all pet categories including Dog, Cat, Aquatics, Bird, Small Animal and Reptile, over a hundred marketing programs involving all types of pets, and customizable care sheets and management tools. NexPet members participate in our email group and other discussion forums with owners of similar businesses, and pay a higher membership fee than do NexPet 2 members.

NEXPET 2 MEMBERSHIP IS DESIGNED FOR OWNERS OF ONE OR TWO DOG AND CAT SPECIALTY STORES

NexPet 2 members receive a program that helps them improve their pet store management expertise and their own and their staff’s personal selling skills. These members also have access to over fifty marketing programs for Dog and Cat products, a comprehensive employee training program covering Dog and Cat products and pet nutrition, and customizable care sheets and management tools. NexPet 2 members participate in an email group and other discussion forums with owners of similar businesses, and they receive rebates on NexPet’s private label dog food. NexPet 2 members pay a lower membership fee than do members of NexPet.