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Max King of the Wild on 13 November 2012
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Adinnieken said:
Max King of the Wild said:

Targets floor plans are mostly universal throughout.... there are slight variants from store to store but for the most part it's the same. Which is why I can go to a 2 story Target in CA and go to the exact shelf for the item I'm looking for.

As for what market I am in? I was at an ultra low volume store in the Chicago suburbs. Only made about 6-10 million a year but now I'm in an ultra high volume store in West Milwaukee which makes about 60 million a year.

Niether are Super Targets either.

You're honestly talking about 36 - 4' long (x 8' tall) sections of glassed in shelving?  So, 144 linear feet of retail space:

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I've never seen that in a big box retailer.  Even the largest showcase gaming area at this particular retailer isn't that large, and I don't even think that exists anymore.  Never have I seen that much linear footage in gaming except at GameStop or Play-n-Trade.

One of the people I used to work with now appears to be working at the retail side of things, he may be involved in scoping out the competition, I'll have to ask him where his employer stands in terms of shelf space.  However, from what I've seen locally, they are on par with the competition.

btw...you aren't referring to 4' wide x 4' tall shelving units are you?  That'd still be a lot of retail space and more than I've ever seen that I recall.



I don't know exactly how tall they are but most of them are eye level to me so probably around 6 feet (the stores I've seen got rid of the sliding glass doors which were probably 8 feet and replaced them with each shelf having it's own glass door).

Anyway, each section in the aisles at Target are 4 feet wide. In every Target I've been in the last year the set up is the same. One aisle for PS products that have 6 sections (that was aisle F14 at my old store. However, the new one has the books on the opposite side of the games which push it back a few aisles... so maybe F16 - F18). On the front end cap of this aisle are accessories for cameras being that F13 has the camera displays. The back end cap (which is also 4 feet but case takes a lot of that space away) is the PS3 kiosk with the PS3 case under it.

F15 is a 4 sided shelving unit (These might be 3 feet I'm not sure. Never set these). The front is for all new 360/ps3 releases so right now it has Halo and BLOPS. The back is for 360 games. One side has the PS Vita kiosk and its case under it. The other side is ps360 accessories... Then F16 is in the same aisle the 4 sided F15 is in but has a gap between them (obviously). It only has 4 sections because of the 4 side. These are where the 360 games are. The front end cap is of a display and is where the walkthroughs are held. The back end cap is of the 360 kiosk and 360 case. Then F17 is back to back with F16 so it only has 4 sections also. This is where most of the Wii games are held. F18 is another 4 side. The front is the Wii/3ds new releases. One side is all the Ps360 PSN/gold subscription cards. The back side is of all the 3ds accessories. And the other side is of the 3ds/ds games. F19 is in the same aisle as the 4 side so it is also only 4 sections long. The first 2 sections are for the skylanders games. The other 2 are more wii games. Front end cap is 3ds kiosk with it's case and the back end cap is Wii kiosk and case. F20 is back to back with F19 and is 4 sections of 3ds/ds games. F21 is again a full aisle so has 6 sections. First section are budget games for Wii/DS. Second for the 360 and 3rd for the Ps3. The other 3 sections are the computer software. The endcaps are for printers I think since the next aisle are printers... or external hard drives maybe