Learning Resources Fun Fish Counters

Product Information

And it’s not just Tesco that’s been wielding the axe. Asda announced in January it would replace its 150-plus meat and fish counters with a new “food-for-now” offer this year, replacing them with food-to-go services such as Greggs and Sushi Daily and delivery services like Just Eat in a bid to reinvigorate its stores ahead of a potential sale of the retailer by Walmart.

Counters - Vaki Counters - Vaki

Fish counters of this type are used widely in Scotland to census populations of Atlantic salmon, where comparison with closed circuit television shows around a 97% detection rate. By partnering with brands that fit with our core values of great quality and great value, we’re excited to be able to give our customers access to something new in store that we know they will love,” said Asda chief strategy officer Preyash Thakrar as he unveiled the partnership. Customers are shopping in different ways,” said Tesco’s UK CEO Jason Tarry last January, explaining the decision to ditch 90 fresh meat, fish and deli counters, and to drastically reduce the capability of the remaining 700 across its estate. “We know they have less time available to shop too. Which means they are using our counters less frequently,” he added of the cuts - part of a cull of about 4,500 staff. Asda’s plan will see it roll out at least 35 of its new formats by the end of the first quarter and 150 by the end of 2020, in a bid to “better align with our customers’ lifestyle”, suggested the senior manager of its food for now operation Elizabeth Ruddiman. Even Waitrose has cut opening hours on some of its counters. Resistivity and (particularly) optical fish counters require in-river structures to direct the fish through the detection aperture of the counter. Fish ladders and Borland fish passes are effective structures for this purpose and occasionally a natural restriction within the river may be used for a similar purpose. However, for most counters a custom in-river structure will be required. One of the most effective such structures is the Crump weir, a triangular profile weir designed to ensure rapid planar flow over the detector.But with Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s teaming up with third-party operators, the future of fresh meat and fish counters looks like it will be shared between retailer-run operations and concessions. With a full range of sizes, finishes, manufacturers and extra features it is easy to locate exactly the right display for your business’s individual needs. Whether looking for static or fan assisted cooling, extra hidden storage, ambient shelves or contoured glass our selection of fish serve overs covers it all. Fish counters can be divided into three principal types: resistive counters, optical counters, and hydroacoustic counters. An optical counter is also associated with an in-river structure. However, rather than pass electrodes, in an optical counter the fish interrupt some of a number of vertically arranged beams of light. The pattern of beam-breaks can be used to determine the size, profile, and direction of motion of the fish.

Fish counters - Calitri-Technology Fish counters - Calitri-Technology

The results of automatic fish counters can be supplemented, confirmed, or replaced by a number of alternative techniques, varying in accuracy, cost, complexity, and skew effects. Along with Tesco, that has prompted most of the major supermarkets to scrap deli counters in the past few years. Tarry again referred to “changing customer demands” last month, as he announced Tesco would also restructure its in-house bakeries - with a further 1,800 jobs at risk - through a plan to scrap scratch baking altogether in 58 stores and to move to the part-baking of some products in another 201 stores. Infrared light is used for minimizing the disturbance of the fish as they will not see the light when passing through the counter. When a fish swims through the net of light beams, the resulting silhouette image is used for counting as well as estimating the size of each fish. Each individual image is memorized in the control unit so that the counting can be verified afterwards. It’s very much a nuanced picture, says Roberts. “I remember talking to someone senior from Tesco who said counters weren’t a sales driver but what they do is create better relationships with some shoppers.”

Expert Fishmongers serving up freshly filleted fish

So if this report about Tesco is correct, it would be just another step in the journey that superstore grocers are taking to compete with the likes of Aldi and Lidl. The performance of optical counters has been determined by studies, under various conditions, to be greater than 90%. Optical counters can also distinguish the size of fish more accurately than other counter types and so are particularly useful where a mixture of species inhabit a river (for example rivers where salmon mix with sea trout). The benefit of these types of counters is that you still get to have a meat counter which can appeal to Muslims and non-Muslims alike, especially in key periods like the barbecue season. But the retailer isn’t responsible for the maintenance or payroll of that counter.”