Retail Store Moving in Chico, Yuba City and Sacramento

Shopping centers publish tenant move-in rules, and those rules set the schedule. Expect limits on which service door and corridor a crew may use, when a truck can stand at the dock, whether carts need rubber wheels, and how the corridor floor must be covered. Centers commonly ask for proof of insurance before they book the dock, and we issue a certificate naming the landlord on request.

For a mall store, loading usually happens after the center closes to shoppers, so we plan the teardown in the order the service corridor allows: stockroom first, then back runs, then the front of the store. A street-front shop in downtown Chico or on Colusa Avenue has the opposite problem, customers walking past an open door, so we find a side or rear entrance and cone off a short path.

At the new store, the fixture plan should show which walls are finished and released. We set bases and stockroom shelving first and hold merchandise on the truck until each run is standing.

Finished end panels and slatwall ends are padded face to face, glass shelves ride on edge in their own cartons, and gondola uprights travel banded together so the slots do not bend. We keep hardware with its bay rather than in a shared bucket, because a missing shelf clip can hold up a whole aisle.

Stock is handled as your count, not ours. Your staff seals each carton and records any mixed or partial cartons on its own sheet. We unload each department beside the run it will sit on, so the planogram reset starts at the shelf, not in the back room.

The electronic article surveillance pedestals at the door, the alarm panel, and any lighting wired into a fixture stay put until the vendor or electrician who installed them takes them off. We handle the fixture parts they release.