Alatasoille

Alatasoille is a Finnish term used in retail, warehousing, and merchandising to describe the action or instruction to move products to the lower shelves of a display or storage unit. The word is formed from ala 'lower' + tasot 'shelves' with the allative suffix -lle, literally 'to the lower shelves'. In practice it appears in internal communications, planograms, and stock-replenishment notes as a directive to staff when reorganizing shelves or transferring stock from backroom storage to accessible locations.

In merchandising, placing items on lower shelves is chosen for safety reasons, for handling considerations, or to manage stock with particular rotation rules. Heavy or bulky items are commonly shelved lower to reduce lifting risk, while some slow-moving products may be kept lower to encourage rotation of faster-moving items at mid- or high-visibility levels in other parts of the display. The term can be used idiosyncratically within a company and is not a formal retail theory; it primarily serves as operational shorthand.

Usage outside professional contexts is uncommon; consumer-facing materials rarely use the term, and it is mostly understood by store staff and warehouse personnel in Finland. It can also appear in digital shelf-management tools as a field or status.

See also: planogram, shelf placement, merchandising, inventory management.