Category Layout And Techniques (2)

T E C H N IQ U E S .O F C A T E G O R Y LA YO U T S A N D D E S IG N

PRESENTED BY: HIMANSHU SHARMA MEENA CHAUDHARY

TO DEFINE A CATEGORY LAYOUT – firstly, we have to define our category GROCERY Products in this category: Bakery Deli/meats Sea food Fruits and vegetables Beverages Staples Dairy products Frozen items

Definition of category • A category is a group of similar or related products which a customer would ideally like to find together in a store. 

• Categories are mainly used as organizational aids to better manage and monitor predefined groups of products.

OBJECTIVE OF CATEGORY LAYOUT(GROCERY) • Be able to navigate through the grocery store identifying items to choose and avoid in each aisle. • Be able to effectively read food labels and choose foods accordingly. • Increase traffic flow, and guide shoppers through the entire sales space.   • Category layouts should encourage customers to discover new products and specialty items. • A good category layouts increase customers’ shop time, incremental sales and

CATEGORY LAYOUT TECHNIQUE CONSIDERATION • Space planning • Assortment planning • Visual merchandising to increase good product visibility. • High margin items should be placed in high traffic areas. • High demand items should be placed in low traffic areas. • Complementary items should be placed near each other.

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• Larger food departments should be placed in lower traffic areas and related food categories departments should be placed near to each other. 

• Meat products should be placed at the end of the store and it should be near to the frozen food section/department. 

• Impulse items should be placed near to billing counters. 

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QUESTIONS RELATED TO CATEGORY LAYOUT(GROCERY) Managers and owners of grocery stores need to match the correct grocery store layout to their store type.   

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Question that arises are:

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Q1. What is my store type? Q2. Who are my target customers? Q3. How much shelf space is to be allotted to each 

category? Q4. which are my high margin products? 

CATEGORY LAYOUT AND DESIGN • Traditional( straight floor) category layout • Grid layout • Free flow layout • Racetrack layout • Mixed upscale layout( Free flow + Race track) 

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Grocery Category layout in stores 

General store grocery layout

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• Traditional category layout or straight floor layout is used by the retailers who started a small scale grocery business at the initial stage • Unorganized, motive is to fill the shelves with the products • Do not define the category in a broad manner • They focus on canned products, dry food items, non perishable goods and day to day requirements of the customers.

General grocery store(straight floor layout) .

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Canned food items

Canned food items

Bakery goods

Cereals and staples goods

Specialty grocery stores • The specialty grocery stores includes the gourmet food stores, natural and organic food stores, health food stores, meat and sea food stores, fruits and vegetables stores, bakeries, and candy and nut stores. • Organized and use free flow category layout and grid layouts. • Keeps the category in a broad manner • Deals in perishable and non perishable goods • For example – blue moon stores dealing in natural and organic foods, Bismillah

Specialty grocery store (Grid layout)

Supermarket grocery store • A supermarket grocery store contains high variety of grocery products • It includes bakery products, staples, dairy products, canned food, frozen food, baking items, fruits and vegetables, unprocessed food, snacks and meat products and are beautifully organized and assorted. • It also includes other day to day usable products like kitchenware and homecare products • It usually have large aisle to walk throughout the store, grocery products are

Supermarket grocery store( Racetrack layout)

Grocery store with mixed layout • It includes the combination of free flow and race track layout. • If the target is upscale customers, then the grocery store layout might need to include a combination of free flowing departments and a modified racetrack design.   • Free flowing areas allow more customer interaction, which along with the expertise required for this type of operation often appeals to upscale customers. • The upscale grocery store layout may include more entertainment & design elements which are also intended to lengthen the time a customer spends in the store. • These elements contribute to a pleasant

Grocery store mixed layout( free flow + racetrack) CANNED FOOD

BEVERAGES CHECKOUT

FUITS AND VEGETABLES

PRODUCE

SNACKS

MEAT

PRODUCE

FROZEN FOOD

BAKERY

Hypermarket grocery store • Hypermarket offers a huge variety of grocery products in wide assortment • It usually involves the mix of grid layout and racetrack layout which involves the connectivity of various departments • Grid layout is used to provide large aisles to walk throughout the store, it is customer tendency to walk through every aisle in parallel to get something desirable, so aisles offers a better visibility of products and walking space in a hypermarket • Fully organized • For example – Food Bazaar

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Hypermarket grocery store layout( Grid + racetrack) ORGANIC

FROZEN FOOD

STAPLES

SNACKS

GROCERY AISLE

GROCERY AISLES

GROCERY AISLES

GROCERY AISLES

DAIRY PRODUCTS

GROCERY AISLES

BEVERAGES

GROCERY AISLES

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

DELI/ MEAT

Conclusion • Category layout helps to increase the product sales turnover 

• It makes the customer shopping convenient. 

• Category layout is necessary now a days due to the increased competition between the similar products and to define all the products together with similar function. 

• It also defines the difference between the stores and their products. 

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