Safe shelf retainer assembly

A method of providing a retaining system to a supply of goods on a store shelf, to protect clerks and shoppers from goods falling from a shelf, comprising:

• securing a pair of posts on said shelf, so as to establish ends for support of a flexible mesh screen therebetween;
• attaching an elongated gripping member having biased together gripper portions, between the lower ends of said posts;
• attaching a lower edge of a rectilinear flexible mesh screen to said gripper portions of said lower gripping member;
• gripping said an upper edge of said mesh screen between a pair of gripping portions of an upper elongated gripping member;
• and
• attaching each end of said upper elongated member to a hook at the upper end of each of said posts, so as to secure said mesh on an open side of said shelf to maintain goods thereon, and keep them from falling off of said shelf.

A merchandise retaining assembly for the safe storage, viewing and access to merchandise on a first store shelf, comprising:

• a lower elongated rigid gripping member having a pair of elongated gripping pincher portions facing toward one another and biased toward one another;
• an upper elongated rigid gripping member having a pair of elongated gripping pincher portions facing toward one another and biased toward one another;
• lower securement means for attaching said lower gripping member to said shelf;
• a flexible mesh screen grippably pinched between said upper and lower gripping members,
• upper securement means for attaching said upper gripping member to a plurality of posts attached to said first shelf, so as to provide a secure readily removable, replaceable boarder to a store shelf, protecting store customers and merchandise alike;
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• wherein said upper and lower securement means comprises a plurality of hooks arranged at upper and lower locations on each of said plurality of posts, on which to attach said upper and said lower gripping members.