Organising tins/cans on shelving

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I have been looking for a better way to organise the tins we have in the garage. I've seen a couple of variations on designs like this picture, but I can't figure out the logistics of refilling them. Surely you would have to rotate the entire unit to stock up from behind, which would be quite a faff and possibly rather heavy? What am I missing?

How do people store their tins in such a way that you can still see what you have? We have quite tall deep shelves so we end up with "stacks" of similar tins but that means if you use more of one stack that happens to be behind a taller stack then it gets lost. And if the groups are lengthways through the stacks (so, say, the bottom tin of every stack is chickpeas) then there's a similar problem when one row depletes faster than the one below. Rearranging a faff, hence trying to find a more efficient plan b.

Someone must have figured this out? Any inner-shelving recommendations, sneaky stacking tricks or otherwise prepping pearls of wisdom gratefully received!

Op I have that style of shelving and it's not a faff at all.

Say I use a tin of soup... I take the remaining 3 tins out, add one from my stock and put back in in date order.

I have a thing like in your picture. the idea of refilling from the back is only worthwhile if you have a maximum of 9 types of tinned foods you buy and you always have 3 of each in stock. reality is more chaotic. when unpacking shopping I tend to relocate everything possible downwards and put the newest stuff at the top, then when I need chickpeas or whatever I know that whichever one is lowest down will be the oldest, but obviously will regularly need to hoik it out from behind some kidney beans or whatever.

Thank you all! I am probably overthinking the restocking element of this, so have gone ahead and bought a similar one online...fingers crossed!

I'm interested in this but not sure how much easier using that is rather than just lining up as you described, by type?
I have quite a few different types of shelves though

I stack my tins in rows in date order and just pull them out of the way and restack as I restock from the back. Works best for things like beans or Tom soup that I buy in multipack and go through quickly. The other thing I do is use Ikea shelf inserts 'variera' to create extra space to stack different things 'on top' of one another but still have them easily accessible. Still have to pull everything out to stock rotate though. I do have a habit of letting my new stock be left in a pile then have a mass sort out every so often. Every now and then I have a hiccup where I end up double replacing items but unjust generally shrug and don't replace until I'm below my normal 'threshold' for a restock.

I like the idea of the rolling thing, but don't think I could make one. Has anyone seen any in shops?

My shelving will take three tins front to back and two tins stacked on top of each other so that's how I stack them. If you see tomatoes at the front then it's tomatoes all the way back. Every tin of tomatoes I've bought has a BBE of July 2021 so I am just putting the new ones in the gaps until the new harvest appears. At that point I'll have to start a proper rotation.

For everything else I pull forward and add new tins at the back or at least that's my intention. What actually happens is that now and again I have a sort out on one shelf and shuffle the old stock to the front. The life on tins is long enough that I'm sure my haphazard shuffling will move everything round before I need to worry about dates. Other than tomatoes I don't really have a lot of any one thing but I try to make sure that what you see at the front carries through to the back.

The eternal problem of tins and shelving! I store all tins of one thing together, furthest into the future expiry date at the back. I print out clear stick-on expiry date labels for everything (I really recommend doing that, no more searching for hard to find dates). But of course I need to access tins at the back (usually 4 tins deep) to add new stock.

I too want to maximise the number of items on any shelf and am looking for shelving inserts or something to improve how much I can store. Have just found some clear drawer-type things I can use, seem to be the right size to fit one tricky shelf!

The balance for me seems to be ease of access for stock rotating v maximising use of space. Every thing I have tried/thought about using is either a pain in the bum to stock rotate or takes up more space and then you end up resenting the space inefficiency cos you could get another x number of tins or whatever if you didn't have it in that box or if the shelf was higher/lower or whatever. Stupid prepping.

Shelf is supposed to arrive tomorrow - maybe I'll do a before and after photo!

I think if the shelves I had were shorter or less deep it wouldn't be as much of a problem, but they're four cans tall and five cans deep so things can get rather lost.

So with cans stacked by type (One photo attached), you end up wasting space because of the way you have to stack them so you can see what you have means gaps behind. Stacking in rows is better but is a problem if there are more cans on a middle row than the bottom... So in the second photo I've attached you end up with The Problem of the Floating Chickpeas.

Stacked by type is best so far and what we've been doing for a while but it has meant a few instances of "we don't have any beans" "oh yes we do" "where" "behind all the soup" and as DP and I are very visual sort of "if I can't see it it may as well be on the moon" people... here we are. The hope with the can rack is that it gives the best of "sorted in rows" without The Problem of the Floating Chickpeas.

Note that to take photos that actually showed what was going on I had to empty the rest of the shelf onto the floor!

I have the same problem, deep and high shelving. I can a lot of stuff too and they can't be stacked on top of each other so I really need to rethink the space I have.

I eventually just used ikea cabinets and squished them full, I know which ones have which product and roughly keep them in date order, with stuff we have to use near the front.

However I like this idea: https://pin.it/58v0qap

And the magazine rack one: https://pin.it/4NQI7Ny

I like the magazine rack, but haven't been able to find any wide enough. Are those magazine racks in the US?

They might be, Pinterest has a huge US audience.

These look promising on amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DK7CX6P - especially if you hooked up two or three together.

I really like this too, for the side of the fridge: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01JG451LS

The magazine rack OK if you can get one to fit tins but that pull put draw is horrendously inefficient! I love the idea, hate the execution.
If you have the right lay out the side of the fridge cabinet good. Not for my under couter fridge though.
Could you get some sort of drawer for you deep high shelves. I feel like I have seen wire rack drawers before, maybe designed for putting inside cupboards. I could be dreaming though.

It's in! There's even space on the top row for some double stacking of our most-used tins, so I'm thrilled. No more floating chickpeas!

No more floating chickpeas but a rogue tin of tuna

Excellent stuff! Glad you happy now there are no more floating chickpeas!

A single tin of tuna I can cope with I can see everything! Nothing is hidden/invisible!