MEGATHREAD Signing Tips, Tricks and Quips (along with howls of despair)

Did they add a 36" shelf? The PTL and I were looking for one but I'm pretty sure we've never had any extras lying around. Just 28 and 32.
 
Infants actually went relatively smooth this year. Fingers crossed - i have to audit the thing before the end of the week though.
 
TargetOldTimer said:
OMG, was infants a challenge or what?

Whats up with the white crib display being listed on the large insert sign as being online only? Really?
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Infants wasn't too bad. Only missing a few signs and displays. Luckily I built all the displays last week so this week we just had to put them up.

Now I'm getting ready for toys next week. Hopefully I do not have to move many of the the boutique pop out signs in toys.
 
We started toys yesterday, so far ive had to move one entire 8 foot bouttique sectional to the opposite aisle for an adjacency flip flop. Which i just dont get why we have to flip flop aisles sometimes when they are in the same valley... ive also had to move one 4 foot sectional from section 3 to section 2 *facepalm*.
They do not move really easily.... the brackets that are on the shelves and basedecks just dont move... so when we moved them we had to move the basedecks and shelves with them >_<
 
TargetOldTimer said:
I would like to hear why ISM thinks these moves increase sales and are worth the payroll....I'm not being sarcastic, I really want to know.
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I have asked that question so many times.
It's a given that the SOP is to treat us like mushrooms (keep us in the dark and fed only BS) but a little transparency about why I'm doing my job would be nice.
 
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i wouldn't mind it so much if they really looked at the things that they are moving and whether or not it is realistic, and either making things stationary and respecting that, or make them mobile from the get-go.

also - notice how all the backer paper was carry-forward and all they sent was a box with pink and yellow? nice that we started in boys action and needed two aisles of blue so we had to tear apart education systems to get enough. ugh.
 
TargetOldTimer said:
I would like to hear why ISM thinks these moves increase sales and are worth the payroll....I'm not being sarcastic, I really want to know.
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The planograms are planned out to drive sales. That's how they decide which items go in which section of the aisle and which shelf it goes on etc.
 
greydot said:
also - notice how all the backer paper was carry-forward and all they sent was a box with pink and yellow? nice that we started in boys action and needed two aisles of blue so we had to tear apart education systems to get enough. ugh.
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That's weird. Our store got yellow and blue.
 
Green goes on our gamewall - which currently has none, so we will see how far we get with that from whatever I have saved in the past. Interesting that they are trying to get me to toss the small selection of backer paper I keep for just such a circumstance, but then if I don't have it OMG, why don't you have it? You can't have it both ways, management.
 
The shifting paper trick has been great fun.
They sent us pink and yellow but no blue.

My despair is two displays that I didn't know were carry forward from endcaps and previous planograms so they were dumped and now low and behold they show up.
 
I now have half a dozen displays in the fixture room that need to be tossed. Why aren't they in the trash already? Because no one can figure out how to take the batteries out (yeah right) and apparently I'm really good at that type of thing.
 
stupid rules said:
The planograms are planned out to drive sales. That's how they decide which items go in which section of the aisle and which shelf it goes on etc.
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I know that the initial set up of the boutiques did drive sales (As All Signing Does), but common sense tells me that moving a large fixture from section 4 to section 3 did not do anything but cost the company payroll to dismantle and reassemble the display over 4'.
 
TargetOldTimer said:
I know that the initial set up of the boutiques did drive sales (As All Signing Does), but common sense tells me that moving a large fixture from section 4 to section 3 did not do anything but cost the company payroll to dismantle and reassemble the display over 4'.
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The sections of the aisles are one of the main considerations they do when they plan the planogram. If you are talking about a 6 section aisle then I'm not sure what the difference would be but they have their reason (it may be stupid, I'm just saying how they explained it when they plan the aisle).
 
commiecorvus said:
My despair is two displays that I didn't know were carry forward from endcaps and previous planograms so they were dumped and now low and behold they show up.
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Luckily we kept the Monster LEGO fixture. We've dumped so many displays because they are on the Non-Carry forward list.
 
stupid rules said:
The sections of the aisles are one of the main considerations they do when they plan the planogram. If you are talking about a 6 section aisle then I'm not sure what the difference would be but they have their reason (it may be stupid, I'm just saying how they explained it when they plan the aisle).
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Nice if "they" explained it in the early set notes. "We realize moving this fixture 4' will create extra work for your team, but test stores showed moving it created a 3% increase in sales" I guess it would take the frustration out of the extra work when we feel we are doing it for a reason and that we are part of the success instead.
 
Okay so we never got the Duncan Hines fixture for the Frosting Creations. My signing spec mysupported it and even after sending a picture of the fixture, they don't know what it is. They are clueless. Add the to insult that a guy came last week to build the stupid fixture yet he didn't have one on hand (he probably gets paid double to build a fixture that a two year old can build). He didn't care we didn't have it.

Is there anything we can do about this?
 
daninnj said:
Okay so we never got the Duncan Hines fixture for the Frosting Creations. My signing spec mysupported it and even after sending a picture of the fixture, they don't know what it is. They are clueless. Add the to insult that a guy came last week to build the stupid fixture yet he didn't have one on hand (he probably gets paid double to build a fixture that a two year old can build). He didn't care we didn't have it.

Is there anything we can do about this?
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I don't have an answer for you, but our store hasn't received it either.
 
greydot said:
i wouldn't mind it so much if they really looked at the things that they are moving and whether or not it is realistic, and either making things stationary and respecting that, or make them mobile from the get-go.

also - notice how all the backer paper was carry-forward and all they sent was a box with pink and yellow? nice that we started in boys action and needed two aisles of blue so we had to tear apart education systems to get enough. ugh.
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Did your boys action not have blue already? Also education systems should have been set with yellow last set IIRC.
 
daninnj said:
Okay so we never got the Duncan Hines fixture for the Frosting Creations. My signing spec mysupported it and even after sending a picture of the fixture, they don't know what it is. They are clueless. Add the to insult that a guy came last week to build the stupid fixture yet he didn't have one on hand (he probably gets paid double to build a fixture that a two year old can build). He didn't care we didn't have it.

Is there anything we can do about this?
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Check with grocery side team. Our grocery TL ended up with it somehow.
 
greydot said:
Green goes on our gamewall - which currently has none, so we will see how far we get with that from whatever I have saved in the past. Interesting that they are trying to get me to toss the small selection of backer paper I keep for just such a circumstance, but then if I don't have it OMG, why don't you have it? You can't have it both ways, management.
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Double check that green only goes behind the playdough and such, not the actual puzzles.
 
greydot said:
i wouldn't mind it so much if they really looked at the things that they are moving and whether or not it is realistic, and either making things stationary and respecting that, or make them mobile from the get-go.

also - notice how all the backer paper was carry-forward and all they sent was a box with pink and yellow? nice that we started in boys action and needed two aisles of blue so we had to tear apart education systems to get enough. ugh.
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So yeah..... my box of backer consister of yellow and blue, about 28 pieces of blue and 8 sheets of yellow. what the hell am i gonna use 8 sheets of yellow for when i have 20ft toys aisles? ive also got two aisles that needed blue, which means i have 8 extra pieces. ON TOP of that we did not receive a single piece of pink, which we needed 20 *facepalm*. I guess were just going to have to re use yellow from one aisle when it moves to the next. Wish i had known ahead of time i had no pink before i threw it all away....
 
signing guy said:
Double check that green only goes behind the playdough and such, not the actual puzzles.
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Green goes behind the playdoh and the card games, 1st section of the board games/puzzles plano.

Elandora said:
So yeah..... my box of backer consister of yellow and blue, about 28 pieces of blue and 8 sheets of yellow. what the hell am i gonna use 8 sheets of yellow for when i have 20ft toys aisles? ive also got two aisles that needed blue, which means i have 8 extra pieces. ON TOP of that we did not receive a single piece of pink, which we needed 20 *facepalm*. I guess were just going to have to re use yellow from one aisle when it moves to the next. Wish i had known ahead of time i had no pink before i threw it all away....
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Our yellow was used on the new bulk toys plano (no more riser planograms). Because we used the yellow on that, we didn't have enough for the education systems and had to leave that blue. We needed pink too, so looks like Im gonna have to order both pink and yellow. We had extra blue too after taking down all the seasonal toy aisles, so we saved it for the next set.
 

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