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"...we got to get you upgraded.."
heheh. Pretty good Ernest. Yes. This store has a mezanien (sp?). About half the back part of the store has two levels. I did not get go upstairs today, since technically I was not permitted in the store, I did not want to cause any problems.
Bottom line is. All the specialty departments, e.g. major appliances, floor and walling, kitchen and bath design are upstairs, and perhaps administrative offices.
The downside for those departments located underneath the second floor is that their shelves are much lower. So for instance in what I saw in the elect. dept. there was little room for overhead storage. Which dictates less area to store things. This could end up being a real problem if the store has a high volume customer base in these departments. In my store for instance we have two upper shelf layers, so that one can store things such as skids full of stuff on the upper shelf, and in the lower storage shelfs store things that we can easily reach by hand ladders, that get downpacked on a regular basis. Many a day I have to run up a ladder to grab a box of something as the lower shelves empty out.
At any rate, this place sure looks nice. Spanken new clean shiny floors, no smells and dust etc..
In my store all the lighting fixture boxes and displays are constantly covered by dust, due to our location next to the receiving department. Which is one filthy place. Tons of dust belch out as we have to dump lots of things down the grinder chute, and this dust works it way out of receiving into the elect. dept., and at the other end of the store in building and lumber, a similiar dust cloud occures and hundreds of contractors rip the shit out of all the bags of cement and things, ending up creating a lot of dust, as associates have to sweep the floors all day long.
In short. My store is a real pig pen both internally as well as outside the building. The land the building sits on for a hundred years was nothing but heavy industries. Imagine rendering plants where one would gag as they drove by due to the horrible smells, a creek that was almost raw sewage, trains full of dead animal parts (guts) that would sit in the hot summer sun, waiting to be sent to the rendering plants. Chemical companies, dye companies, tanneries etc.. I can still smell the land full of all the crap that was bull dozed over some twenty years back to reclaim the land for retailing and wholesaling companies to move in. Now one walks on parking lots belonging to McDonalds instead of triping into some cesspool full of rotting dead horses.
heh heh. All I write is/was a reality. Nothing invented or even exagertated in the least.
I smell chemicals on some days that I smelled fifty some years ago, that are not even part of the few remaining petro chemical plants processes. Real great place to life ah.