Gondola shelves – a great storage solution …

[wheresdavid]

A great storage option is gondola shelving. They are super strong and the shelves are “rearrangeable”/ “adjustable”. The shelves also come in different widths 15″, 19″, 22″ …you can look them up on ebay to see what they look like. They are also expensive, but right now you may be able to score a deal at a store that is closing. I live in the Northwoods and we had two stores close and at the end the fixtures were sold off. At one store you could have got 4′ long by 6’6″ tall sections with shelves for less than $25. You can set them up “one sided” against a wall (I have an offsite storage area where I have the interior walls lined with gondola shelving. I also have “two sided” ones set up in my basement.

Look for stores that are closing and ask about the fixtures. They might start at a high price but the closer it gets to the closing date, the cheaper they will become. I recently saw the results of a local online auction and 4′ sections sold for only $4. In my opinion the best way to buy them is if they are assembled – that way when you take them apart you know you have all the parts needed to put them back together.

I used to have custom wood shelving units that with 4 shelves designed to hold medium size boxes from the home depot. The problem with them was if I want one or two rows of shelves to hold small boxes from the home depot, I would have had to either take the shelves apart and resize them, or loose storage space. Now I can simply move the shelves.

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[Retro Treasures WV]

Sears closed here recently. I was looking at those and wondering how much weight they hold. I’m far too committed to more conventional shelving at this point.

[Jay]

Yeah, Gondola Shelving is the typical shelving in a convenience store:
https://www.handystorefixtures.com/product/gondola-shelving

Looks cool depending on the inventory you have to store. For us, we need shelving that can handle tall plastic bins stuffed with items. But if you specialized in small tickets or collectibles, I could see these are good for storing items loosely.

[Old Dad]

I bought a huge lot of this type of shelving from a local hardware store that was moving to a new building with newer shelving. I use it for my fireworks retail store but not in stocking my online inventory because it just doesn’t hold as much for the same footprint and the ones I have are not as tall as I can get with other shelving.

For the shelves I do use, I added pegboard to the row ends to hang smaller items.

[wheresdavid]

each gondola shelf can handle a couple of hundred pounds and can easily handle tall bins stuffed with items. you can load the shelves up with books, heavy metal parts …

Prior to switching to the gondola shelves, I had custom made heavy duty wooden shelves that held 30 medium sized heavy duty home depot boxes. after I took out the wood shelves and replaced them with Gondola shelves I can now store more boxes in a bit smaller footprint. Now I have a storage systems that is totally adjustable, so if I change the size boxes or totes that I use, I can easily change the shelves.

[So Cal Joe]

Wow, look what I found in the free section of Craigslist.

https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/zip/d/chino-all-kinds-of-shelving-4-14-high/7009629040.html

[So Cal Joe]

The link is dead now. It was a store full of those Gondola shelving.

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