1. Supermarket shelves

Supermarket shelves are essential equipment for opening a supermarket, used to display various commodities. In addition to supermarket shelves, fruit racks, vegetable racks, and promotional tables may also be common equipment.

2. Cashier system

The cashier system generally includes a cashier, cash register, and cashier software. The number of cash register equipment is determined according to the size of the supermarket, which is usually placed at the exit.

3. Refrigeration equipment

There are many kinds of refrigeration equipment. To operate fresh food, you need refrigeration and freezing equipment; to operate fruits and vegetables, you need fruit preservation cabinets and vegetable preservation cabinets; to operate fresh milk beverages, you need air curtains Cabinets and beverage display cabinets; operating quick-frozen food and frozen food, indispensable quick-frozen island cabinets; operating cooked food requires deli cabinets; operating cold fresh meat requires fresh meat cabinets; operating cakes and bread requires cake cabinets and bakery cabinets.

For small supermarkets, cold drink freezers are indispensable. In short, according to the scale and type of business of your own supermarket, you can choose the fresh-keeping cabinets and refrigerated display cabinets you need.

Extended information:

There are two theories about the birth of the first supermarket in the world.

1. On September 9, 1916, the first self-service store, Piggly Wiggly, opened in Memphis, Tennessee. Its operator, Clarence Saunders, patented this retail store business model in 1917 in which consumers select products on the shelves and finally check out. This was the prototype of the supermarket.

Supermarkets soon became popular all over the world. In order to make their products more attractive in supermarkets, the advertising and product packaging industries also developed.

2. It was first produced in New York, USA in 1930. In August 1930, American Michael Cullen opened the first Golden Cullen Union store in New York State. At that time, the United States was in a period of great economic crisis. Michael Coulomb accurately designed a low-price strategy based on his decades of food business experience and pioneered the commodity category pricing method.

His average gross profit margin was only 9%, which was astonishing compared to the 25-40% gross profit margin of general stores in the United States at that time. In order to ensure a low selling price, the purchase price must be low. Only a large number of purchases can lower the purchase price. Michael Coulomb opened branches in a chain manner and established a sales system to ensure a large number of purchases. He pioneered self-service sales. The method adopts one-time centralized settlement.

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