Convenience Store Shopfitting
A convenience store customer came on purpose. Milk, bread, a quick top-up, something for tonight. They walk further into the store, they pick up more than one thing, and they come back several times a week.
That makes range and layout matter more than in a service station, where the customer is paying for fuel and barely leaves the counter. A convenience store has to hold a lot of lines in a small floor, and let a regular find them fast.
Recent Work
What a convenience store fitout involves
Range on a small floor
The core problem is lines per square metre. Double sided gondola at 1200mm bays, run as islands down the middle with wall runs around the edge. Adjustable shelf heights so small packaging sits on close-spaced shelves and bulky lines get the height they need.
End units on every run. Regulars learn where things are, and the aisle ends are where you put what is new, on promotion or seasonal.
The counter
Still the highest-value space, just not the only one. A display shelving counter puts confectionery and small impulse lines in front of the queue. Add a lockable POS module and a corner unit if the counter turns. Slatwall front if you rotate counter stock often.
Secure display
A glass counter at the till for phone accessories, chargers and small high-value lines.
Baskets
Convenience customers pick up baskets far more often than service station customers, because they came to shop. Hand baskets by the door, and rolling baskets if customers regularly buy more than an armful. Basket availability caps basket size.
Slatwall
Wall space in a small store is range space. Slatwall panels with hooks and scan hooks carry packaged lines, phone accessories and small hardware that would otherwise take shelf facings.
Back of house
Heavy duty shelving for the storeroom. Four levels per bay, adjustable.