Supermarket and Grocery Store Shopfitting

A supermarket sells volume. Everything in the fitout either holds more stock, moves customers through faster, or gets in the way.

That is the difference from smaller format retail. In a convenience store the counter carries the margin. In a supermarket the counter is a bottleneck, and the money is in how much range the floor can hold and how quickly the queue clears.

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What a supermarket fitout involves

Checkout lanes

The checkout decides how many customers a store can process in an hour. An L-shaped lane gives the customer somewhere to unload and the operator a separate bagging area, so scanning and packing happen in two places instead of one. Stainless steel tops take the daily wear that laminate chips under, and they wipe clean when packaging leaks.

Specify lanes left or right handed to suit the floor.

Gondola runs

Double sided gondola at 1200mm bays, joined side by side into continuous runs with end units closing each end. Adjustable shelf heights, because a grocery range changes constantly and a fixed layout costs you facings.

An end unit at each end of a run is not optional. It closes the aisle end cleanly and gives you a third merchandising face at the point customers walk past most.

Trolleys and baskets

Trolley capacity directly caps basket size. A customer who fills a basket stops shopping, and a customer who cannot seat a child ends up carrying them.

100L for standard format, 150L where customers do a full weekly shop. Hand baskets at the entrance for top-up trips.

Fresh produce

Stainless display for fruit and vegetables, which washes down where timber crates absorb moisture and stain. Promotional tables and island bins for seasonal and bulk lines.

Back of house

Heavy duty shelving for the storeroom, four levels per bay, adjustable.