Retail & E-Commerce Shelving Solutions

Optimizing Fulfillment and Backroom Efficiency for Retail

The modern retail environment, combining physical stores, high-speed e-commerce fulfillment, and omni-channel demands, requires storage infrastructure that is both rapid and reliable.

The Retail and E-Commerce Applications category features articles and insights dedicated to solving the unique inventory and space challenges faced by this sector:

SKU Velocity: Managing fast-moving items and seasonal fluctuations.

Backroom Density: Maximizing storage within limited, premium retail space.

Aesthetics: Providing clean, low-profile storage that is still heavy-duty.

Solutions for Speed and Density

Our content highlights how WPSS products, such as RiveTier Boltless Shelving and specialized Pass-Thru Pick Shelving, are engineered to support retail and e-commerce success:

E-Commerce Fulfillment: Content focuses on Pass-Thru Pick Shelving integration with light-directed technology to achieve maximum picking accuracy and throughput.

Backroom Optimization: Articles detail how low-profile shelving and Multilevel Shelving (Mezzanines) can be deployed to create high-density storage within existing footprints, moving inventory up, not out.

Specialty Storage: Use cases showcasing durable, yet attractive, solutions like tire racks suitable for showroom environments.

Retail & E-Commerce

WPSS’ Put Wall helps warehouses keep pace with growing e-commerce demand

E-commerce has been steadily overshadowing the brick and mortar shopping experience, with the pandemic further solidifying the global trend towards an online-dominated marketplace. Though this shift to online commerce is a boon for many businesses, it also comes with new pressures for greater speed and accuracy at the warehouse and distribution-center level. Western Pacific’s shelving […]

Put Wall

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WPSS case study retail stockroom apparel storage

Retail & E-Commerce

Optimizing Retail Stockrooms: Custom Deluxe Wire Frame Shelving for Apparel Storage

A major national retailer needed to maximize their stockroom’s vertical space while meeting strict seismic codes. Partnering with WPSS, they installed a custom Deluxe Industrial Storage system featuring custom engineered wire framing.

Apparel Storage, Back Room Storage, Case Study, Custom Engineered, Deluxe Industrial Shelving, RiveTier

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Retail & E-Commerce

The significance of storage solutions in the e-commerce industry

The e-Commerce industry is one that is changing with the increase in consumer spending; online shopping is rapidly becoming the norm, and with this increase in consumer spending comes an increase in online shopping. This means that with an increase in consumer spending, comes an increase in the need for crucial storage solutions. E-Commerce companies

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Retail & E-Commerce

The Importance of Investing in Industrial Steel Shelving for an E-commerce Business

COVID-19 lockdowns or not, if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that online shopping is big business these days and will only continue to grow. For all e-commerce, warehousing is a massive and crucial part of the business. E-commerce warehousing not only involves safely and securely storing materials and goods in the

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Retail & E-Commerce

Make space in the retail warehouse for holiday return shipments

Warehouses are the busiest during and just after the holiday season, with a high volume of shipments going out and then coming back in. Holiday returns being sent back to the warehouse can be a total pain to deal with and customers expect returns to be handled faster than original shipments. Because business managers know

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Retail & E-Commerce

Streamlining Warehousing for eCommerce Business

Many eCommerce companies find that they run out of storage as their business quickly expands. Some find themselves in the situation where they are storing products in several locations, making for a complex situation when filling orders, and adding to their overall operating costs. If this is the case, it is ideal to consolidate these

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Retail & E-Commerce

How to Deal with Increasing Returns in E-Commerce Operations

As e-commerce has become a popular way to buy things, entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on this boom are popping up all over the place. What many that get started with e-commerce fail to take into account is that once you start picking up steam and making a lot of sales, you’ll start seeing a lot

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Retail & E-Commerce

Neglected Backroom Space is Costing Retailers

Retailers are shooting themselves in the foot by failing to optimize the design of their backroom space. Many retailers pay little to no attention to the optimal size and shape of their backroom space and it’s costing them more revenue than they might expect. If your backroom space is too small, it’s likely you’ll experience

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Retail & E-Commerce

How Micro-Warehouses Will Change The Consumer Landscape

If you thought the idea of portable, scalable micro-warehouses was a thing of the future, then you are in for a pleasant surprise. Shotput, a San Francisco based startup is seeking to change the warehouse storage space industry for good. Seeking to fulfill a need in fast-growing e-commerce companies that would appreciate a less investment-heavy

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