Store planning
Staff-Only Fixtures vs the Sales Floor
A folding table of hangers in the walk is receiving that never left. Name staff kit off the floor.
Staff-only fixtures vs the sales floor: pack-out tables stay in back. The floor is merchandising. Independent retailers in Thailand leave a folding table of hangers in the aisle because receiving never finished. The shops that convert keep staff kit behind a door and put open hang on specified rails.
Back of house vs sales floor is the parent split. Rolling racks stay in receiving. Garment covers strip in back. Price-labelling is a bench, not a gun on the wrap. This page is the staff table, the steamer, the leftover pallet.
What staff-only is for
Pack-out / steamer / extra hangers. Operations. Not a second merchandising story. Locks if it rolls. Path that is not the customer aisle — aisle width.
Sales floor. Open hang, tickets, one floor story — layout, first-week mistakes. A staff table in decompression is still in the door.
Wrap. Packing customers, not labelling the next carton — cash wrap, queue space.
Mall back-of-house area may be specified — landlord. Street shops still need a named back even if it is a curtain.
Seasonal reset is move merch, not a week of staff tables on the floor. Installation sequence: wall and wrap before leftover pallets.
We do not invent a back-room square metre. Name what stays off the floor.
When it belongs off the floor
| Job | Sales floor | Staff-only |
|---|---|---|
| Size run | Open hangrail | Never covered intake |
| Labelling | Tickets on facing | Bench in back |
| Steamer / iron | Never in the aisle | Back |
| Extra table | One merch story max | Pack-out behind the door |
Common mistakes
- Folding table of hangers in the walk.
- Steamer as a window story.
- Labelling gun on the packing wrap.
- Pallet in the first two metres.
What belongs on the quotation
- Sales-floor lines vs staff-only lines — named.
- Back-of-house: rolling racks with locks, a bench if needed.
- Remaining walk on the floor with staff kit gone.
- Wrap is for customers.
- Language of the document, Thai or English.
Send shop type and whether you have a back room. That is enough to specify merchandising instead of a receiving floor.
Staff kit behind the door
If you are fitting a shop in Thailand, keep pack-out off the aisle. 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 floor, the back, and the walk.
Common questions
- Can the pack-out table sit on the sales floor?
- No as a permanent story. Back-of-house. The floor is merchandising.
- Steamer in the window?
- No. The window is an ad. Operations stay in back.
- Do you invent a back-room size?
- No. We name what stays off the floor. Square metres are your measure.
- Labelling at the cash wrap?
- The wrap packs customers. Labelling belongs on a back bench.
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