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Originally Posted by minlshaw
I'm familiar with the term "action alley." I always understood it to mean a walking path with merchandise in it. The idea of getting you to browse (and hopefully) buy more stuff as you walk is what gives the term the "action" part.
In any event, even if they intend to leave the walking paths open, they've got an awful lot of unused space. Even as large as the average Walmart consumer is, it's more than what is needed. I would expect them to eventually restructure the sales floor to come farther into the unused walk path.
Instead of XX|^X^|XX (old arrangement with merchandise in the aisle)
or XX|^^^|XX (new arrangement with empty aisles)
Perhaps XXX|^|XXX
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I agree it is wasted space, but it feels a lot more open. Now some stores will have a lot more open space the others it just depends on how they are built. The older stores, I think are the ones benefiting from clearing out the action alleys. New stores have much wider alleys than older stores. It also depends on whether or not that particular Walmart is constantly crammed with shoppers. Most of time, the ones around here are. You won't be seeing arranging of any of the alleys to fill up that space unless there is a remodel going on. It just costs way to much to rearrange something that is already working. When any remodel happens most people differ to the next closest Walmart or Target or such because they don't want to deal with the hassle. That's a lot of money Walmart doens't want to see go elsewhere.
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