The new wall decor in the housewares department is basically the same as in meat and dairy -- white walls (blah) with vertical category marker signs. These signs clearly aren't designed to work with Fred Meyer's tall and deep wall shelving, though -- the actual text on them (pushed all the way to the bottom) is extremely difficult to see!
The shelving on the left does not look all that tall as such, but compared to the woman going down the aisle, those shelves look super tall! I wonder how well the items stacked up high sell. It seems to me that some customers may not even be able to see some of those high items. Even if they do, they may not be able to grab them!
ReplyDeleteFred Meyer's home department has super tall shelves because they keep most of their back stock out on the shelves. Everything above the height of the category markers (about the height of a normal shelf) is just back stock, not stuff people are intended to grab themselves (kind of like at Walmart, though from what my parents tell me, they have to get stuff from the "employees only" part of the shelving there all the time!). In some stores, it's blocked off, though most of them have it in the open like this (though that wooden spoons poster makes me wonder if at some point there were more posters here, closing off the upper part of the shelving).
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