Actually, they are much different functionally. These displays look to permit 3-4 layers of product depending on the size of the product. With something small like a plum or apricot it would probably have 4-5 layers. They could potentially box them from the bottom up, so product does not go all the way to the bottom, on delicate items.klkla wrote: ↑December 2nd, 2020, 2:50 pm The bins have hard plastic underneath the product as they do now. There is also plexiglass in front of the product. Functionally these cases are not that different than what they have already been using. They just display the product a little better and are more space efficient.
The current Smiths produce displays are not something I have seen outside Smiths. These displays are designed for only a single layer of produce. Sometimes they put 2 layers out, but they are not designed for 2 layers. Smiths (and only Smiths- not the rest of Kroger) maybe 3 years ago put in their current produce displays to put the fixtures in a square box set up where the employee would work "in the middle of the displays" and fill product "from the inside." The idea was they could better rotate produce that way, not be in the way of customers shopping for produce, and keep more produce back-stock out on the sales floor for efficiency purposes. Basically they tried to make the produce restock process like a dairy stocked from the back. That idea took up too much space and for other reasons that I am not aware of, evidently flopped and Smiths basically took the displays out of the "square box" arrangement and pushed them together into aisles again.