Atriums, malls and centre courts
Product Sampling At Shopping Centres Indoors And All Day
A shopping centre is the high street with a roof on it. The same broad crowd, the same browsing mood, but no weather, no council licence and a footfall figure the centre can tell you in advance. It is the most predictable product sampling setting in the country.
It is also the most managed. Centre management owns every square metre, sells promotional space by the day and decides what may be handed out, where the pitch sits and how big it is. Get that conversation right and the rest is straightforward.
Bookings are made per centre, per day. You tell us the centres, the dates, the hours and how many people you want at each, and a run across five centres is handled as one booking. We have sampled at Meadowhall, the Bullring, the Trafford Centre, Bluewater, Lakeside, the Metrocentre, Highcross and centre:MK, among others.
An itemised quote, usually within hours, with day rates, hours and on-costs listed for every centre. No hidden fees, one invoice.
Assigned once the quote is signed off, with a project manager on the booking and 24/7 support while it runs.
Our operations team pick people on skills, experience and location, so every centre gets a team from the nearest of our 40 hubs.
Your briefing form becomes a tailored document covering the product USPs, the audience and the key messages, alongside centre management’s own conditions.
Right to work and ID verified. Employer and Public Liability cover on every campaign. DBS, food hygiene and risk assessments available on request.
We are the employer. PAYE, tax, National Insurance and HR are all handled in house.
Shift reminders, geo-tagged check-ins and live attendance monitoring, which matters when the centre signs contractors in at a fixed hour.
Reporting with attendance confirmation, on-site photos and feedback, quoted alongside the staffing as an add-on.
Great company with great staff. We have used Executional for various different roles and occasions and we couldn’t recommend them more.
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What we supply
Five Jobs Inside A Shopping Centre
Everything follows from the space the centre sold you: a mall unit, a pitch in the atrium, or permission to walk. These are the five jobs.
Atrium Pitch Teams
The central space, usually the most expensive and the most seen. A staffed table or unit worked from opening to close, catching shoppers moving between floors.
- Working the footprint centre management agreed
- Full trading hours rather than a peak window
- Presented to the standard the centre expects of its promotional space
Suits: launches, food and drink, beauty, financial services
Mall Walkabout Crews
Where the centre allows movement rather than a fixed pitch. The team covers both malls and both levels, which reaches people who never cross the atrium.
- Covering an agreed route rather than one position
- Carrying stock in branded bags or trays
- Restocking from a base point through the day
Suits: snacks, confectionery, printed offers, app sign-ups
Chilled Counter Hosts
Cold chain indoors, with power and a loading bay, which makes a centre far easier than a field or a pavement for anything that has to stay cold.
- Insulated storage held at the pitch
- Restocking through the service corridors rather than the mall
- Food hygiene certification available on request
Suits: dairy, chilled drinks, iced coffee, ready meals
Store Front Teams
Outside one retailer’s door rather than in the mall generally, driving shoppers through it. Needs the retailer and the centre to agree, not just one of them.
- Positioned to convert passing shoppers into that store’s customers
- Timed to the store’s own trading peaks
- Agreed with the retailer alongside centre management
Suits: store launches, stocked lines, retailer partnerships
Centre Liaison Leads
Across several centres an event manager or campaign lead handles centre management, inductions, access and the day-to-day changes, and is your single point of contact.
- Confirming pitch, induction and access centre by centre
- Holding the brief consistent across every site
- Absorbing the changes so you are not fielding them
Before you book
Centre Management Decides Everything
A shopping centre is private land. Promotional space is sold by the day, often months ahead and at a rate that varies by centre, by position and by season. Most also require an induction and their own insurance paperwork before anyone sets foot in the mall.
Where a permission is needed we arrange it. There are costs attached and they differ from centre to centre, so they are quoted alongside the staffing rather than buried in it.
Product sampling as a whole is set out on the main service page. Outside the doors and on open pavement the equivalent is high street sampling, and where the brief is a promotion rather than a sample, shopping centre promotions covers it instead.
Recent work
Campaigns Run Inside Centres
Six campaigns delivered inside UK shopping centres, from single atrium pitches to eight-week rollouts across five centres at once.
140 hours
Bullring, Trafford, Meadowhall
A freezer-loaded cart sampling three flavours across five centres in ten days.
30,000
Lakeside, Metrocentre, Trafford
Thirty thousand samples and vouchers handed out beside a VR experience.
252 hours
Bluewater And Highcross
An eight-week UK launch worked from branded spaces in five centres at once.
5 weekends
Ma Vie, Centres Nationwide
Fragrance on blotters across five weekends, pointing shoppers at the counter.
Bullring
Summer Takeover, Birmingham
A chilled coffee pitch inside one of the busiest centres in the country.
371 hours
Bluewater, 14 Days
Forty-two shifts and three roles across a fortnight in a single centre.
Get a quote
Tell Us The Centres And The Dates
Send us the centres, the dates, the hours and how many people you want at each. We will come back with a fully itemised quote, usually within hours, one line per centre per day.
