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Jan 26, 2011 09:51
13 yrs ago
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English term

item picking up

English Marketing Business/Commerce (general) research on shopping
I am revising a client's article (it was presented to me in a hybrid mix of Italian and poor English). He titled it in English, "Shelf position and items picking-up in a virtual environment". Do you think "Shelf position and item pick up in a virtual environment" is better"? Does anyone have evidence that "item picking-up" (vs. pick up) is an established term in the field? In general, I am inclined to modify "items picking-up" into "item pick up". What do you think? And would you hyphenate pick up or not? Thanks :)
Responses
4 +2 item picking/ selection
4 +1 picking up items
4 item collection / selection
4 adding items
4 "item picking"
4 Shelf position and item inspection
Change log

Jan 27, 2011 01:06: Maria Dotterer changed "Language pair" from "Italian to English" to "English" , "Term Context" from "I am revising a client\'s article (it was presented to me in a hybrid mix of Italian and poor English). He titled it in English, \"Shelf position and items picking-up in a virtual environment\". Do you think \"Shelf position and item pick up in a virtual environment\" is better\"? Does anyone have evidence that \"item picking-up\" (vs. pick up) is an established term in the field? In general, I am inclined to modify \"items picking-up\" into \"item pick up\". What do you think? And would you hyphenate pick up or not? Thanks :)" to "I am revising a client\'s article (it was presented to me in a hybrid mix of Italian and poor English). He titled it in English, \"Shelf position and items picking-up in a virtual environment\". Do you think \"Shelf position and item pick up in a virtual environment\" is better\"? Does anyone have evidence that \"item picking-up\" (vs. pick up) is an established term in the field? In general, I am inclined to modify \"items picking-up\" into \"item pick up\". What do you think? And would you hyphenate pick up or not? Thanks :) "

Discussion

nyteck (asker) Jan 26, 2011:
additional info I originally thought of "selection", but I became concerned that "picking up" or "pick up" was some sort of term in the field (I vaguely remember seeing it before). The authors state that their research concerns specifically which items are picked up (handled) by shoppers, NOT necessarily which products are ultimately selected for purchase... Do you think there is an elegant way to maintain the "pick" verb in the term?

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29 mins
Selected

item picking/ selection

The term your Client is using comes from logistics jargon. You have "picking" when you go to the warehouse and select goods or components. He is talking about consumers and it depends where this article will appear. I am ex-advertising and I don't have any problems with "picking" (as opposed to pick-up", which I would hyphenate. If this is not a trade article, then I would use selection.
Alison

Alison
Peer comment(s):
neutral Sheila Wilson : As you say, it's a jargon term. The problem here is that it's customers doing the picking and they can put things back too.
21 hrs
agree Chris Brewerton : I've had this too in a contract for warehousing procedures for a logistics organisation. While the context is a litle different i'd go for itme picking.
1 day 6 hrs
agree Ildiko Santana
199 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
3 mins

item collection / selection

pick up doesn't sound right at all.

I would suggest collection, though in a virtual environment selection might be better.
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18 mins

adding items

adding items to basket

This sounds like an on line shopping site and usual terminology is something like *add to basket* or cart (US).
See something like http://www.amazon.co.uk/ for ideas!
HTH
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27 mins

"item picking"

You will find various references to "item picking system" on the internet. A term used in particular for supermarket chains that offer online grocery deliveries (Tesco, Ocado, for instance in the UK), where the manual picking of orders can be the slowest operation in the process in the warehouse.
Reference:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7801640.html

Peer comment(s):
neutral Sheila Wilson : As you say, it's a jargon term. The problem here is that it's customers doing the picking and they can put things back too.
21 hrs
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+1
21 hrs

picking up items

I am not too sure what you understand as "shelf position" but I would definitely phrase the second part of the title as "picking up items". I had also thought of handling and selecting, but from what I understand this actually refers to picking the items off the shelf, in other words, picking up items - no hyphen required.


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pick up
pick up
1.
a. To take up (something) by hand: pick up a book
Peer comment(s):
agree Sheila Wilson : I think this is probably what the client meant to say
1 hr
Thank you Sheila
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22 hrs

Shelf position and item inspection

It allows for the item to be examined and either replaced or selected.
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