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  2. Stock rotation - Wikipedia

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    Stock rotation is a way of mitigating stock loss. It is the practice, used in hospitality and retail, especially in food stores such as restaurants and supermarkets, of moving products with an earlier sell-by date to the front of a shelf (or in the cooler if the stored item is on repack so they get worked out before the new product), [1] so they get picked up and sold first, and of moving ...

  3. Food storage - Wikipedia

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    A food storage calculator can be used to help determine how much of these staple foods a person would need to store in order to sustain life for one full year. In addition to storing the basic food items many people choose to supplement their food storage with frozen or preserved garden-grown fruits and vegetables and freeze-dried or canned ...

  4. Rotary storage - Wikipedia

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    Rotary storage systems are filing cabinets; specialised office furniture units usually consisting of a double sided rotating unit, allowing the user to access two full sides of filing from one point. A foot pedal or lever is often used to operate the rotation mechanism, thus allowing user easy control.

  5. Automated storage and retrieval system - Wikipedia

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    A horizontal carousel is a series of bins which revolve on an oval track. Every bin has shelves which are adjustable to .75 inches (19 mm) and can be configured for a myriad of standard and special applications. An operator simply inputs a bin number, part number or cell location and the carousel will rotate via the shortest path.

  6. Lazy Susan - Wikipedia

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    Jefferson never had a lazy Susan at Monticello, but he did construct a box-shaped rotating book stand and, as part of serving "in the French style", employed a revolving dining-room door whose reverse side supported a number of shelves. [9]). By the 1840s, Americans were applying the term to small lifts carrying food between floors as well. [1]

  7. Shelf (storage) - Wikipedia

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    A shelf (pl.: shelves) [1] is a flat, horizontal plane used for items that are displayed or stored in a home, business, store, or elsewhere. It is raised off the floor and often anchored to a wall , supported on its shorter length sides by brackets , or otherwise anchored to cabinetry by brackets, dowels , screws , or nails .

  8. Silo - Wikipedia

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    The toothed augers rotate in a circle around the center hub, evenly chewing the silage off the surface of the pile. In the center, a large blower assembly picks up the silage and blows it out the silo door, where the silage falls by gravity down the unloader tube to the bottom of the silo, typically into an automated conveyor system.

  9. Logistics automation - Wikipedia

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    Logistics automation systems comprise a variety of hardware and software components: Fixed machinery Automated storage and retrieval systems, including: . Cranes serve a rack of locations, allowing many levels of stock to be stacked vertically, and allowing for higher storage densities and better space utilization than alternatives.