Commercial Equipment Projects We Have Delivered

On the usual planning figure of one lane per 100 to 150 m² of sales floor, a 1,000 m² store works out at five to nine lanes. The sales floor is 750 to 850 m² once the back of house is taken out, and those two ends are where the two ends of the answer come from. Basket size stores clear customers faster and sit at the lower end; trolley size stores sit at the upper end, and the longer counters built with a conveyor belt take more frontage per lane. Send a plan and we will count it against your own store rather than an average one.

By the bay. One bay is the section between two uprights with the shelves hung on it, and a run is built by repeating it. We count bays on a 1,000 mm module because that is the length our fresh shelving is published at per group, which makes one running metre equal one bay and saves everyone a conversion. Bays are also built at 900, 1,200 and up to 2,000 mm, and because a wall almost never divides into whole bays the last one is cut to measure.

Yes. Every one of them was produced in our own plant at Changshu and shipped, most of them within the last two years. Customer names are commercial information and we do not publish them, so each project is identified by store type and region instead. The categories, the quantities and the way the goods were packed are as they were recorded on the order.

A plan and an area get you a counted list very quickly. To put prices against it we also need the finish you want, the bay height, whether the checkout lanes take a conveyor belt, and the destination port. A hand sketch with the wall lengths written on it is enough to start and a CAD file is faster. What comes back is an equipment list with your own numbers in it, priced, together with the projects above that came closest to yours.

Yes. All twelve categories are built in our own plant at Changshu, so the front end, the fresh zone and the centre store can be held to one colour and one wood tone and shipped together. The Jinhua project at the top of this page is twelve categories in a single order. You are not obliged to take the whole list, and most first orders are one zone, but a whole store order is the case this plant is set up for.

The one that matches your basket. A grid suits a large weekly-shop store; a loop suits a mid-size format; a free-flow layout suits speciality retail. What does not change is the order the departments appear in, and supermarket layout design is where the equipment list actually comes from.

Department by department. Once the aisles are set, each zone converts into a countable unit — bays for shelving, lanes for checkout, groups for produce — and the schedule writes itself. That conversion is why we ask for a floor plan before a product list.