Tips and Tricks #7
Posted by Catarino,
Hi everyone, Tiago here with another Tips and Tricks!
Today the theme is supermarket! Sharing a few key builds to inspire a larger build of your own!
As always with needed parts and video instructions.
Shopping cart
A challenging little build, not as sturdy as I'm used to, but manages to capture the icon quite well at minifig scale don't you agree?
Freezer
An essential part of every supermarket, and you can choose what to place inside! I need ice-cream right now...
Checkout counter
Don't get away without paying, and keep a safe distance these days. No excuse left to start your own LEGO Supermarket now!
I've been asked to build a larger supermarket using some of these tips, so over the course of a few livestreams I came up with a full supermarket of my own!
If you're interested in checking it out, here is the link for the final build: https://youtu.be/HPPcLFoE1oM
Stay safe and don't forget, Build Something Fun Today!
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Wow! That Checkout Counter looks amazing! Thanks for the tips, Tiago!
Very cool MOCs, loving all of them. Congratulations, and thanks so much for sharing!
I see someone is hoarding toilet rolls in their trolley...
Tiny but mighty, as ever!
Next, could you show us how to build a church organ...? ;-)
Great builds, and enjoyed watching you build your Lego supermarket. I will be using these in my supermarket modular! (Along with your meat counter build)
In jangsbricks video on the new haunted house, he says the organ is called ‘the organ of Catarino’ in honour of a former designer... is that true/are you aware of that??
Very nice! I love how you got every detail in there, from the stock room to the dumpsters! This definitely could be a set
Thanks, is it wrong that I can recognize some of the techniques used here just by watching the pictures? For the fridge you are using a door on top of two 3x2 plates and behing the door is clearly a build that has 1x4 bricks were the articles are sliding un and not placed on studs.
Even if not as sturdy as you would like to, all are instantly recognizable. And minifig scales. Well done.
My simple tip for a Radish to fill up your shop shelves.
1x round 1x1 plate in Bright Purple with 1x light or dark green flower stud on top
Love your creations. So small yet so ingenious. That checkout counter in particular is simply perfect.
That shelfing in freezer is BRILIANT
The shopping cart is so cute.
One LEGO set I had a lot of interest in despite not collecting theme was always the Kwik e Mart 'cause of all the cool shopping builds. It's really nice seeing all those little details come together.
All great builds! Now i want a supermarket!
How did you start to work for LEGO @tiago?
I love the checkout counter! So good, and very recognizable!
@Slobrojoe:
I think buying a single roll is the very definition of not-hoarding.
Very good. I checked your larger supermarket. It is great - one suggestion: put checkout counters back-to-back for security reasons (customers should not be behind the employee (with money involved etc.)). Great! Thanks for sharing.
@miskox:
I have never once seen a grocery store that had checkout lanes back-to-back like that. Part of the reason they always have lanes facing the same direction is that everything uses the exact same setup instead of having to deal with two mirror-image layouts.
@PurpleDave said:
"I have never once seen a grocery store that had checkout lanes back-to-back like that."
Oh, that's an interesting little difference between regions! In the UK (and Slovenia, apparently) it would be quite the exception to find supermarket checkouts not set up as back-to-back mirrors; it seems to be for reasons of space efficiency.
@bananaworld:
In the US, if space is an issue, they usually just buy more property. I did think of two exceptions to this, however. One is self-checkouts, which usually have the staging platform and bagging scale flipped so your bags are on the street side of the checkout scanner. The other is "limited items" checkouts, which are sometimes "stacked" because of the reduced need for real estate. So one checkout will be in front, with another checkout behind it, using the same footprint as a full-size checkout, with each serving customers on the opposite side of the island. These, however, are largely being phased out in favor of self-checkouts, where a single employee can monitor an entire bank of checkouts and a higher volume of customers can be processed through in the same amount of space. And due to the pandemic, the Target near me has stopped staffing all of their traditional checkout lanes in favor of exclusively using the handful of self-checkout stations.