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fly off the shelves

To sell very quickly, as though the items in question cannot be kept on store shelves. Good luck finding that doll between now and Christmas—it's been flying off the shelves. Stores just can't keep it in stock. These trashy gossip magazines are of such low quality, yet they always fly off the shelves. It's a real racket if you ask me! We had to order a second shipment of shirts because the first batch flew off the shelves!
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hit (the) bookshelves

Of a book, to be published and available for sale. Her new mystery novel hits bookshelves this fall, and I am so excited. I can't wait to find out who kidnapped Eloise! It may not have been a huge sales success when it first hit bookshelves, but the book has become something of a cult classic over the years. When does the next book in the series finally hit bookshelves?
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To evaluate the performance of a light shelf fitted with a width-adjustable reflector, we first verified the validity of the light shelf having a width-adjustable reflector--we called this "Case 3." For performance evaluation, the widths of the fixed light shelf were set as 0.3 m and 0.6 m; these values were determined based on previous studies related to light shelves [6, 26-30].
"When the project team discusses daylighting a building and the design strategies include the use of light shelves, the team has to look at it from a holistic, integrated perspective.
The shelves in your store -- and what you put on them -- directly affect sales and profit (what you take to the bank), your shoppers, and your inventory levels.
And shoppers, driven by innate responses to products on certain shelves, have limited engagement with the total variety of products available.
With four levels of shelves, the front bay can hold 16 containers.
Scientists have long known that basal melt the melting of ice shelves from underneath, was taking place and attributed the trend to icebergs breaking off the platforms.
While Trion makes a full range of on-shelf expandable wire tray and molded and extruded plastic shelf management systems, the greatest increase in implementation, according to Kadysewski, has been with its bar mount tray systems, which actually replace shelves in center store and refrigerated retail.
Fit a shelf in a cupboard BY fitting shelves into existing cupboards or alcoves you can create extra storage - and hide away all your clutter.
The availability of narrow shelves means that small items can be easily stored at the front of shelves for easy identification and picking.
The hardest part is deciding how many shelves will be required.
An ideal option for shelves is Medium-Density Fibre board or MDF.
Retailers understand the relationship between shopper satisfaction and reduced out-of -stocks, and are employing tools on the shelves to help immediately flag out-of-stocks reduced out-of-stocks, and are employing tools on the shelves to help immediately flag out-of-stocks so they can be rectified quickly.
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