Store planning
Staff Cupboard vs Sales-Floor Shelf
Cartons on the last open shelf are unfinished spec. Name a staff cupboard. Keep the facing as merchandising.
Staff cupboard versus sales-floor shelf is overflow in back — the facing is not the warehouse. Independent retailers in Thailand park cartons on the last open shelf because receiving never finished. The shops that still look merchandised specify a staff cupboard off the floor and keep the sales shelf as tickets and leftover millimetres finished.
Staff-only vs sales floor is the parent split. Back of house is the room. Back stock vs forward stock is how much sits forward. How much shelving is facing metres, not carton metres. This page is cupboard versus the open shelf.
What each job is for
Staff cupboard. Overflow, steamer, extra hangers, labelling gun — price-labelling, garment covers. Locks if it rolls. Path that is not the customer aisle — aisle width. Mall back-of-house may be specified — landlord. Street shops still name a back even if it is a curtain.
Sales-floor shelf. Open facing, tickets on — price tickets. Unused millimetres finish as trim, not a carton dump. First-week mistakes: a staff table in decompression is still in the door — two-metre decompression.
Not the wrap as the cupboard. Packing customers, not labelling the next carton — cash wrap, queue space, packaging vs wrap.
Rolling racks stay in receiving unless named as campaign and locked. Layout: the floor is merchandising. Installation sequence: wall and wrap before leftover pallets.
We do not invent a back-room square metre. Name what stays off the floor. How to measure: leftover millimetres on the sales shelf, remaining walk after any cupboard that sits in the unit.
When cupboard vs sales shelf
| Job | Staff cupboard | Sales-floor shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Overflow / pack-out | Strong | Never as cartons |
| Facing with tickets | Weak | Strong |
| In the first two metres | Never | Never as a dump |
| On the packing wrap | Never | Never as labelling |
| Remaining walk named | Required if it sits in the unit | Required |
Common mistakes
- Cartons on the last open shelf.
- Folding table of hangers in the aisle.
- Labelling gun on the wrap.
- No named back, even a curtain.
What belongs on the quotation
- Staff cupboard vs sales shelf — named split, what stays off the floor.
- Remaining millimetres on the facing — tickets on, leftover finished.
- Remaining walk after any cupboard in the unit.
- Path that is not the customer aisle.
- Language of the document, Thai or English.
Send photos of the last shelf and the back. That is enough to specify a cupboard instead of a leftover carton forest on the facing.
Overflow in back, facing on the floor
If you are fitting a small shop in Thailand, do not warehouse the last open shelf. Send the shop type, the size, and the opening month through the fixture plan form. We will return one fixture schedule and one written quotation — Thai or English — covering the cupboard, the shelf, and the walk.
Common questions
- Cartons on the last sales-floor shelf?
- Usually no. Overflow belongs in a named cupboard off the floor. The facing is tickets and leftover millimetres finished.
- Labelling gun on the cash wrap?
- No. Packing leftover stays packing. Labelling is a staff leftover, not the till.
- Staff table in the first two metres?
- No. Decompression stays empty. Operations sit off the customer aisle.
- Do you invent a back-room square metre?
- No. Name what stays off the floor. Remaining walk after any cupboard in the unit belongs on the quotation.
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