gloves to touch vinyl surface


Hi,
I'm in the quest of equipping my record store with gloves for walk-in customers visiting the record store. This hasn't been done at any locations I've seen so far, but quite a few Mint records after a while are full with customer finger prints. They will also protect covers as well.

I don't normally sell any record bellow Goldmine EX grade and don't really want it to be finger-printed or sometimes accidentally scratched by nails.

What will be the best material that would be quite thin? It also shouldn't inflict any additional static.

After a pair of gloves used by customer one drops it in the basket and at the end of day I'll laundry them. I have to order them via uniform store I guess with store logo. I also plan to sell those as well
czarivey

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Thanks for responses and laughs as well!
I don't think that I can offer my clients to stretch neither vinyl or nitrile or latex gloves.
Chef's plastic gloves are easy to slide and OK as temporary solution.
My store IS a clean room and I'm serious seller with over 30 years of media retailing experience. New arrivals at the store are cleaned inside and out including jackets before shelving and filing pretty much at any price point. In the future still I'd want to have light cotton ones and have a white glove as part of my store logo. Mints, Near-Mints are usually store-sealed with sticker note
HA!
Why do y'all think that it's going to be mandatory??
It's on voluntary bases. Would you like to wear ones to examine records? It's just to let know that store provides gloves if the client is comfortable using them to examine vinyl.
You can opt out of wearing gloves. My goal is to reduce the amount of fingerprints on the store inventory. Further on, I betcha good portion of clients will start respecting environment and ask for ones. There's also a natural 'repeat' factor among most of people when one sees another one examining records in white gloves...
Not sure what Dougdeacon means by "best quality goods", but why not having best quality goods occasionally for bargain prices?
Voiding the best quality goods is OK since there are ones that are looking for them and apperently more than ones that are not. I would rather describe my location as best value goods.
Every retail store should have its own differences in handling products and every retail store develops its own pattern and clientel as well.
I'm pretty good in internet retailing, but having the storefront was always more convinient.
Fingerprints are not easily removed unless they're removed within next few min. Than they stick there like a glue and one have to literally rinse to remove it. It also depends on skin and every skin is different. One is more moist another is more dry. There are fingerprints that needle can acctually feel and give a surface noise like ones from the burger grease for instance. VPI would not rinse these off and they'll still be noisy. After ultrasonic cleaning they're back in business sounding very clean. After handling hundreds of thousands of records you will definitely know what is noisy and what is not.
This costly idea can be sufficient by spending $10 for 2 dozen of cotton gloves worn normally by restaurant servers.
There are many confident record listeners who know how to handle them and there are young college kids that do not know and would actually actually ask for gloves if available believe it or not. I have visitors of ALL age categories down to high-school kids shopping for records.
Once again -- the gloves are provided for customer convinience, not for mandatory use
My store is in 2 location
one is @discogs iredog and another one is in Raleigh NC
thanks for being experienced customer who knows how to think from his/her own standpoint. i'm a retailer and must think from DIFFERENT standpoints and that's why i established myself as a retailer.
there are also inexperienced customers who think different and from seller's standpoint it's clearly visible too.
cleanness of records may not b important for you and even for me who can identify that after cleaning they will look and play OK, but not for someone else who don't know or don't have fancy cleaning machine. at the same time the filthiness drives the price down or record would stay on shelves longer. simple math no science at all.
did you ever see ladies shopping for records? they value no dust on the covers as well.
retailing deals with array of various people.
as far as drop damage is going, there are restaurant server's gloves with nylon or latex coating at the fingertips which adds little to nothing to the price per bundle of 2 dozen. even besides that you can simply pinch or grab record with gloves and hold it steady. one would feel comfortable its own way, but statistically $10 investment mentioned will move quality of sales by a notch or few...
it's like audiophiles fine-tweaking the rigs with extra thousands of dollars spent on tweaks to get infinitesimal improvements.
Cerrot,
Us always bigger and larger than you. Simple math and that's been already explained in details. You can also view quite different responses here. Ones will like the others won't. Each retail spot has its own specific on likes and the other doesn't no matter what you do.
The point was in the original post is the best safest material that could be used as record 'exam gloves' given and provided at customer convenience.
Roaming and tailgating around ones may not like as well and you can put me on that list. Less likely I will come back to purchase anything at the store where I'm being tailgated! Whatever one likes better will work for a particular one. For plural it's a-bit different and sometimes it's hard to understand the difference.
Policy is policy. I have various records that are store sealed and OK to inspect only at front desk or by any store personnel regardless of gloves.
Gloves is just a kool feature or maybe some kinda attraction.
Qdrone,
Is it a type of fetish?
They might as well jump into the orchestra hole and start conducting.