Picking device and method for operating a picking device

A method, comprising:

• restricting, with a holder, a chute base from sliding in a longitudinal direction of an elongate storage chute, the elongate storage chute extending in the longitudinal direction from a stocking end to a retrieving end and defined by the chute base and two separate chute partitions that each include a portion on which the chute base rests to combine to form a support device for the chute base;
• lifting the stocking end or the retrieving end of the chute base perpendicularly away from the support device;
• sliding an additional chute base between at least a portion of the chute base and the support device;
• removing the chute base;
• and
• fixing the additional chute base against sliding in the longitudinal direction without preventing the additional chute base from being lifted perpendicularly away from the support device at the stocking end or the retrieving end.

A method, comprising:

• providing at least one shelf row of a picking device, the at least one shelf row having at least one shelf having a plurality of shelf bases, each shelf base extending in a plane and each comprising a plurality of storage chutes, wherein at least one of the plurality of shelf bases comprises (i) a frame structure, (ii) a plurality of pairs of chute partitions, each pair defining one of the plurality of storage chutes and forming a support structure, and (iii) a plurality of blocking devices;
• resting each of a plurality of chute bases on a corresponding support structure formed from a corresponding pair of chute partitions to define the plurality of storage chutes, each extending in a longitudinal direction between a stocking end and a retrieving end;
• and
• fixing each of the chute bases against sliding in the longitudinal direction without preventing at least one end of each of the chute bases from being lifted away from the support structure upon which that chute bases rests, to allow sliding of a new chute base between a selected one of the chute bases and the support structure upon which that chute bases rests.