Gondola Shelving: Versatile and Portable Fixtures for Modern Retail

Their name may evoke Venetian boats, but portable store gondolas serve as the sturdy backbone of any store. Today’s modern modular gondola shelving offers retailers the flexibility to adapt merchandising, attract attention, and boost sales.

Here we delve into gondola fixture components, applications, features, and advantages—and showcase how easy it is to elevate your customer experience with this flexible retail shelving solution.

Gondola Shelving System Components: A Quick Overview

The "gondola" in gondola shelving refers to the entire retail store fixture, including upright posts, a platform or base that can be either stationary or mobile, and a host of accessories.

Components might include:

• Slatwall panels to attach merchandising accessories such as shelves and hooks
• Slatwall shelving for displaying different-sized merchandise
• Wire grid panels to accommodate hooks and baskets
• End cap displays to provide additional merchandising opportunities
• Integrated signage to help promote and advertise

Your choice of gondola retail display fixtures is about more than shelf selection; it's about crafting a versatile experience that shifts seamlessly with traffic flow, planograms, and priorities. Because it’s modular, a portable gondola system allows you to configure the components based on your merchandise, store layout, visual merchandising goals, and budget.

From Convenience Stores to Stadiums: Gondola Fixture Applications

From the smallest footprints to the largest gathering spaces, gondola shelving makes workloads light, and suits a variety of applications across industries:

• Fashion and home goods retailers can maximize space and seamlessly transition between promotions and seasons.
• Automotive and industrial stores can tailor shelving to accommodate bulky or heavy equipment from drills to car batteries.
• Convenience stores can make the most of small spaces and spur impulse purchases.
• Movie theaters and mall vendors can utilize mobile slatwall units with locks and covers for daytime flexibility and overnight security.
• Stadium concessions and airport gift shops can incorporate gondolas with barrier systems or retractable belt stanchions to direct traffic flow and move customers through checkout efficiently.
• Traveling arena shows can use mobile gondolas to create impulse merchandise kiosks as they rollfrom city to city.

NeXtrac by Lavi: Retail Gondolas With Innovative Features

NeXtrac by Lavi Industries provides unrivaled ease of use and a range of innovative features for a flexible solution to modern retail challenges.

NeXtrac store fixtures offer significant benefits:

Effortless installation:

• While traditional retail fixture setups demand measuring tapes and an army of tools, NeXtrac revolutionizes the process with the industry’s most intuitive design. Dovetail hinges on our slatwall panels simply slide into the post grooves. It takes just minutes to install the entire retail shelving solution—no tools needed. NeXtrac Mobile Gondolas assemble just as quickly using a simple allen wrench. View the NeXtrac portable gondola installation guide.

Space Maximization:

• NeXtrac offers two styles of retail gondolas: fixed slatwall panels and mobile slatwall gondolas, both designed to seamlessly integrate into any retail environment.

Fixed Slatwall panels—available in 2-foot and 4-foot widths—feature hinged connectors for convenient angling to fit any space configuration and plan-o-gram. With their unique compact footprint and ability to angle, NeXtrac slatwall panels are ideal for areas where other gondolas can't fit.

Mobile slatwall gondolas can be used as stand-alone fixtures, or connect together to form long aisles. They sit on a wheeled platform and quickly integrate with existing NeXtrac slatwall systems or queues by connecting the stanchion belt to the mobile unit. Mobile gondolas’ flexibility lets you easily modify the length of queues to accommodate traffic flow, and optimize floor space with an endless number of design and merchandising configurations using hooks, shelves, and baskets.

Secure merchandising:

• Every component, from strong aluminum frames to sturdy swivel wheels with locking casters, is built to stand up to crowds and provide years of utility and attractiveness. NeXtrac's industry-leading captured shelves look inviting while also keeping merchandise and displays secure in place.

Get a closer look at NeXtrac retail store fixtures in this video:

NeXtrac Gondola Shelving: Boost Customer Delight and Sales

Lavi’s over 45-years of innovation and leadership makes us a trusted partner to retailers across the US and the world. In the challenging retail landscape, our retail store public guidance and fixture solutions yield tangible results. A case study about a leading retailer highlights the remarkable triple-digit growth in both sales and profit across 1,200 stores following the implementation of NeXtrac.

Lavi’s NeXtrac gondola shelving solutions provide retailers with a versatile solution to transform retail environments within minutes, drive sales, and elevate customer satisfaction. Shop gondola shelving systems today or chat with an expert from Lavi to explore your options.