Patent ID: 8033061

Claim:
A sales and presentation area having an essentially annular region, wherein said annular region is rotatably mounted in the horizontal direction, divided into ring segments able to be moved individually in the vertical direction, and set into horizontal rotational movement via drives during use of said ring segments by customers, a changing section along the path of said moving annular region which encompasses at least one of said ring segments during a standstill of said annular region, and which is kept inaccessible for customers from the exterior of said annular region, a lifting and lowering device which is provided beneath the changing section and over which said ring segments slide in the course of the rotational movement of said annular region and on which said ring segments rest during a standstill of said annular region for moving said ring segments in the vertical direction, and rooms below the sales and presentation area, wherein the rooms are radially outside of the annular region so that said ring segments are able to be pushed in a radial direction of the annular region into the rooms, if said lifting and lowering device is lowered from a standard height, wherein customers in the path of said annular moving region use a ring segment of said ring segments resting on the lifting and lowering device when the lifting and lowering device is at the standard height.