Monday, December 14, 2009

#90 DESIGNING THE STORE * (revised 6/3) "bagged goods shack"



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A smart garden store owner will ask this question;

Why would a lady buy a bag of bark from me when she can buy the same bag at half the price at Home Depot?


And that owner gets the right answer;

because the lady never has to get dirty.


The kid picks it up, carefully places in her Audi and she drives away.

It is as simple as that.



We believe in superior concierge service at green garden gardens for our customers, especially with bag goods.



The bagged goods shack is a clean and neat operation with a modern well kept building. It measures sixty feet long eight feet deep and twelve feet high. It is roofed , guttered, with a concrete floor and sheathed with translucent fiberglass panels to match the other buildings on the site with a concrete floor. The roof on the back side of the shack forms the roof of the adjacent walkway. The end of the shack is walled high to form a display area #X. It is lighted for evening business, and is equipped with electrical outlets and water spikets for easy cleanup.



There is only one vertical support beam across the face of the building to provide for easy forklift loading and the maneuvering of pallets.



An error,often made in construction of this building, is there are support beams that get in the way of forklifting into the face of the building. Be careful so severely limit these support beams



The shack is set back deep to allow an adequate vehicle loading lane that does not obstruct traffic flow. There is a door leading from the back of the shack directly into the nursery enabling the loading employees to do other tasks in shrubs and trees and still get to the loading area quickly. The shack can hold a wide variety of bark, peat moss, rock, and potting soils and is replenished from a major storage area for these products in another part of the site.


Make the building as "clear span" as possible






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