Merchandising shelf spacer assembly

Abstract

Merchandising unit for stacked row gravity feed consumer product display and self service access, including a merchandise shelf having a rearward product display top surface and a forward product access top surface disposed in angularly offset relation to the display surface, the shelf being mountable horizontally on a support such that the display surface extends angularly forwardly and downwardly and the access surface extends angularly forwardly and upwardly for location of a supply of manually removable consumer products in successively stacked row gravity feed condition on the access surface and upwardly along the display surface, and a spacer assembly comprising bearing regions for positioning the spacer assembly on the shelf, upwardly facing contact surface regions positioned in upwardly spaced relation to the access surface for engaging the underside of an adjacent consumer product thereabove, and a cavity formation interposed in downwardly spaced relation to the contact surface regions and in upwardly spaced relation to the access surface and defining an open insertion cavity of finger accommodating size, for thereby maintaining such product in raised condition relative to the access surface and simultaneously providing a corresponding finger accommodating open space between the product and access surface to facilitate manual removal of the product from the shelf.