Like all of the supermarket giant’s Metro stores, the Woolworths in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale aims to provide convenience for its busy inner-city clientele.
Apart from the usual groceries, the store also sells liquor. Because of its extended opening hours, and to meet state liquor licensing legislation, the business needed to be able to block off the aisle that carries alcoholic drinks during unlicensed times and then, with a minimum of fuss or disruption, open them up again during licensed trading hours.
It needed a portable expanding barricade that would stop people reaching the bottles or alternatively, if they were indeed able to reach through the barrier, prevent them being able to pass them back through that barricade.
S04-1 DD (Double Diamond) mesh portable expanding barricade
Woolworths Metro Armadale chose the S04-1 DD (double diamond) mesh portable expanding barricade from The Australian Trellis Door Company (ATDC) for this application.
The product’s tightly interwoven mesh, which creates a narrow 65mm pitch between the metal cross linkages, makes it difficult to reach through the barrier. In addition, the black powder-coated barrier is 2020mm-high and has a seamless, floor-mounted locking arrangement to secure the installation.
In other words, rather than attaching and locking the barrier to the aisle structure itself, the floor mounted locking mechanism has a surface-mounted laser cut stainless-steel floor plate to which the barrier engages at each end and locks. As such, it provides a truly effective and secure, yet completely movable, barrier.
During non-trading hours the trackless, portable barricade can be wheeled away to the “back of house” on heavy-duty, non-marking, rubber-bottom castors. There it can be safely stored, out of sight.
Tested to meet legislative requirements
According to ATDC, S04-1 DD’s double diamond mesh portable expanding barricade has been tested for safety under the latest OHS legislation and also tested by an independent NATA testing authority for compliance with numerous provisions of the Australian Standards for Temporary Fencing and Hoardings AS 4687-2007, namely for dynamic impact, simulated climbing and foothold aperture tests, having passed these tests successfully.
The successful testing also confirmed this steel fabricated product’s characteristics as being rigid, formidable and strong yet easy to operate.
According to Woolworths Metro Armadale, the introduction of the barriers has proven successful. They are serving their purpose as a powerful loss prevention tool, reducing shrinkage.
Consumers are likely to see more of ATDC’s products used in similar applications at more Woolworths locations. The company has become the preferred portable fencing supplier, across Australia, for the Beer Wine & Spirits (BWS) liquor group. BWS is owned by Woolworth’s Endeavour Drinks, which also owns Dan Murphy’s, Cellarmasters and Pinnacle Liquor. It is Australia’s largest retailer of liquor with well over 1400 Stores across the nation.