This can be detached structure (so called secured warehouse), roofed premise (so called shelter), silo or reservoir and storage site.

It is used to store goods for different clients, such as e.g. retail outlets, entities of public use, other wholesalers and individual consumers. Wholesale warehouses are divided according to the following criteria: assortment of the stored goods (universal and special), construction type (single- and multi-storey), degree of equipment with technical devices (non-automated, partly automated and fully automated and automatic).

• Trade warehouse