While checking out the clothing of a store minutely or having a quick glance over the food products in a general store –the feature that attracts the attention most is the neatly stacked up items on the shelves. Yes, the shelves or racks might seem trivial matters for your interior setup of the store but when you are selling something and want people to explore your products thoroughly, these shelves play their role in keeping things together in a perfect display. Looks matter, and so does the material that enhances that look.
Be it a wide metal shelf or a series of glass shelves, the utility of both varies and according to your retail floor plan, the creation as well as designing of shelves to changes.
Things to remember while arranging shelves
- A spacious yet well-organised floor plan includes the proper arrangement of shelves and while you are considering the idea of creating shelves, you need to keep the following in check –
- Shelves should contain the very products that your business is about. But that does not mean that you play all your best cards here. Show, but let the visitors ponder about what is in store.
- In case of metal shelving, try to keep them on either side of the wall or in the middle and for glass or wooden shelving, keep them close to the wall.
- Don’t clutter the floor space with too many shelves, visitors should have enough space to roam about and check out the products.
- Too much of floor space is not recommended as customers tend to overlook the shelves on sides if space in between is too much.
Free Flow Floor shelf guide
Glass shelves play a vital role in displaying the highlighted products of a hobby store or boutique design house having a free flow retail floor plan. These glass racks and shelves are fancy and elegant looking –they come in different designs like cupboard style or showcase style. With the see-through property, the customers can easily take a look at what is inside rather than rummaging-without-aim. Clothing, fabric, antiques, DIY Products and even canned and frozen products can be kept on these shelves.
Grid Floor shelf guide
Metal shelving is mostly used in straight layout or in grid retail floor plans, like that in grocery or convenience stores. In this plan, both the walls and the floor is utilised with metal shelves that can hold fruit and vegetables, kitchen goods, magazines and books, toys and sometimes even clothing (t-shirts, jeans, towels, door mats etc). These shelves are durable enough and are easy to move from one place to another. Visitors can grab-and-go in upscale environs which offer relaxed browsing.
Loop floor shelf guide
The loop retail floor plan allows the use of almost all types of shelves in a “racetrack design” where customers can check out every product which is on display in wooden, fibre, metal or glass shelves. The focal point of this plan has either grid floor design or free flow floor design or their mix-up. Small stores selling clothing, accessories, kitchenware, toys, homeware and other speciality products can utilise this shelf guide in a loop floor plan.
Grid floor, loop floor or free flow –whatever the floor plan is, the glass or metal shelves are present in every plan. A proper utilisation of these shelves helps in stacking and arranging the products strategically to let the customers know what they can find in the store.