shop floor

noun

British
: the area where products are made in a factory
proper safety procedures for the shop floor
also : the workers in a factory
managerial control of the shop floor

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The company also said that enhanced visual merchandising in stores and the reintroduction of mannequins on the shop floor; cross-category styling ,and styling innovations on the Burberry website also helped to tempt customers. Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 Jan. 2025 Material innovations cannot scale without buy-in from multiple brands, factory customers have an integral role to play in improving practices on the shop floor, and building up circular infrastructure requires participation from many players. Sj Staff, Sourcing Journal, 24 Jan. 2025 On the shop floor of the London store, Judd Crane, executive director of buying and brand at Selfridges, is putting his focus on exclusivity. Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025 According to Katana’s 2024 data, operational readiness has risen in tandem with task completion rates in shop floor apps up 10% and stock adjustments increasing by 11%. Gary Drenik, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024 That left toxins to be spewed unhindered into the air and raised temperatures to as high as 100 degrees for shop floor workers. William Gavin, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2024 He’s also made a point of being closer to the action, buying a house in the Seattle area and spending more time on the factory shop floor. Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2024 The announcement of job cuts, alongside a wide range of other measures, threatens to drive a wedge into the already fragile rapport between senior management and the shop floor. Julie Johnsson, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2024 The impact of this new order on the shop floor can then be modelled and analyzed with the new manufacturing scheduling optimization simulation capability. Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

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“Shop floor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shop%20floor. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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