However, products on the bottom shelf may be eye-level for children. Products placed at eye-level may sell better than products placed on the bottom shelf. For example, stores will first group all bread-like products in the same aisle and then will often place peanut butter, jelly and other condiments in the same place to help remind shoppers to stock up on those items at the same time. Making a planogram is a delicate balance of logical organization such as grouping items in the same category and taking advantage of consumer behavior and psychology to expose them to new or highly profitable products, and increasing sales by using cross-selling techniques and triggering impulse buy behaviors. Planograms can also serve as a reference when trying to analyze retail performance to identify one of the potential culprits in lower sales. Planograms are sometimes used by manufacturers to suggest optimum display for their merchandise at stores. Placement is important in retail to maximize sales and minimize wasted space. Associates didn't make MET do that, management did.A planogram (also known as a plan o gram) is used in retail to show the placement of products on a shelf. And other faucets moved from that bay to make room. Slowly but surely all the black kitchen faucets got moved, a couple at a time, to the same bay. MET shouldn't have to reset every bay every 4 weeks. You're telling me I should stick to the planogram. How do you think the customer is going to react to this nonsense? Does this make us look better than Lowes, or worse? And then, you have the audacity to tell me I should not take it upon myself to rearrange the shelves so things fit. Are these replacement skus mention on the POG?: and yes check the back pages.Īnd too many people want to act like a Manager and make executive decisions, but not take responsibility.Įdit "Sorry MET Shouldn't have to reset every bay."įirst you call me a "Karen/Kyle" for complaining about this. I'm not calling freight team dumb, I'm not calling dept associates dumb, I'm not calling my own MET team dumb, but I can say. Dept associates are not inclined to check pog integrity for missing product, and MET shouldn't have to reset every bay every 4 weeks." End of the pre-walk was, "I'd rather have a legit Out and a missing hole on the shelf, than it covered up and flex out a facing of another sklu. So our DM and DEM checked all the un-tagged skus, and 90% were to arrive in the next two weeks. Half of the pool chemical labels were torn off, and the garden hose bays were all f'd up, not set to pog. We walked through pool chemicals and the garden hose aisle. We recently had a pre-walk to an ultimate walk with our VP later this month yeah walks are fun :-(. Secondly, this whole mentality needs to stop. I constantly hear department associates bitch and moan about POGs, POG integrity, shelf outs, and the old standard, "SEE A HOLE, FILL A HOLE!"įirst of all rude, please ask for consent first. Call outs are high turnover more so HD is scrambling to keep product on the shelves, outsourcing to other manufacturers. Americans are being infected and dying from a virus that is treated by a vaccine and a shit ton of breakthroughs in treatments and aid. The county is experiencing what is called a "pandemic". I feel for my supervisor as the demand on him has become a unrealistic to say the least. Were so over whelmed and very stressed out. Some of us going in 2:00 a/m to do resets that cant be done when customers are in the store and the other half of the team coming in at 4:00 a/m to back us up with routine service all of Crown Bolt and general service no to mention more projects. Where do we go from here as they continue to dump more on MET than they can handle as my store they decided that we should be a remote store and we no longer have the MET night travel team. They have not a clue in fact one of the individuals responsible for the light cloud turned her position over to a ill trained coworker ( shocking right ) shit show city. One big problem is HQ Covid work from home policy and the loss of so called seasoned vets that are responsible for POG updates that reflect the correct facings left or they transferred to another job set.