sales floor

sales floor (plural sales floors)

1. (business) The part of a business devoted to retail activities, such as a showroom or selling area of a shop or department store, usually manned by sales staff and having free public access with goods on display.
   • 1981 April 4, “Thriving on do-it yourselfers”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 June 2015:

     Customers carry clipboards to record stock numbers as they wander about the 3,000-square-foot sales floor, testing items that are displayed, one each, on wooden shelves and tables.

   • 2005 October 31, Ling Woo Liu, “Mirror, Mirror...”, in Time, retrieved 23 June 2015:

     Tokyo's popular Isetan department store devotes an entire sales floor to men's cosmetics.

• shop floor, floor