Talk:Shelf front

Umm, retail shelf is the same thing isn't it? Need to be combined, and one term (only) chosen.

Umm...No. retail shelf is where the products and their id tags are, shelf front is where we hope to bring Consumerium Services to the consumer in the future. --Juxo 15:01, 29 Mar 2004 (EEST)

So 'shelf front' is more abstract? But can it ever mean anything other than the (concrete) retail shelf? If not, the two should be in only one article. If 'shelf front' can include things like sidewalk vendors or county fairs or flea market, I think it needs a different name, since those don't have 'shelves' they have 'displays'. So a retail shelf could be one display front, a vendors table could be another, ebay could be another. But I think you mean only an actual physical place where the goods are, and are taken from? In which case storage location is most accurate actually. The retail shelf is then one of many storage locations - and some storage locations (like grocery bins for produce) are automated with friendly retail capacities for Consumerium buying signal, even if it's just to run the little sticker on the fruit past some scanner.

Be more specific about the use cases here. It's just too abstract now.