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Thanks for the detailed responses, folks! I'll probably be using some of those ideas as I get comfortable with my new position.
MEGATHREAD Signing Tips, Tricks and Quips (along with howls of despair)
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Going back to those shoulder bars, can you not just store them on the bottoms of your racks/convertibles?
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Absolutely!! That is exactly where they are supposed to be stored, but I can't get my new sl team leads to accept that. Eons ago, when the grey racks rolled out, replacing the chrome racks, it specifically told us to do that. I have tried and tried to find where it is written that that is how it is supposed to be done so I could prove it to them.
it's so funny reading y'alls stuff. i think we need to have a company wide signing conference. because everything you guys have done and struggle with, we have also. it's like listening to my signing guy all over again.
the sl bars were all laying on on shelf up top in our fixture room. it was actually cracking the shelving due to the weight. i asked it we could put them on the racks, and my signing guy showed me how so you couldn't really even see them. i thought it was genius and asked the etlsl. she immediately got upset because we were encroaching on her territory and told us no way, even involving my etl (she doesn't like us interfering with her dictatorship). we went ahead and did it anyway. it's been almost a year, and she's never even noticed them. her team uses them and she's not out there enough to know. they like it because they don't have to hunt down bars.
on a similar note, do you guys put your extra shoe shelves at the bottom of your aisles? we received communication on doing it, but never did because i didn't like the way it looked. but now, im thinking about it just to get them out of the fixture room.
Thats what we did back before we became a stacked presentation shoe store, now there is no room to do it that way.
Our shoe planograms always used to call for 2 extra shelves at the bottom of each section to form a "basedeck" of sorts, but last time I did a POG over there (thankfully I got out of it this time, guess my PTL likes me) it didn't call for them anymore.
I feel really bad for our signing specialist. He didn't really get proper training at the store they sent him too. I've been trying to help him out as much as I can but he just doesn't seem to be retaining things. I've found so many things where he couldn't find it and ordered it, but we had it sitting around somewhere... Our PTL gives him minimal support too, and keeps wanting him to come in at overnight and then have him pull batches/push product etc. for her. I'm just not sure he's going to make it.
If anyone finds this "proof" anywhere please omg post it here or PM me! Same things over here. My bounceback already happened but I still am angling for fixture room solutions/time. Our SL team will not "self store" any bars on their racks for the same reasons. Also - just found out why our fixture room has 3 solid vertical rows of vertical 4ft maple shelving (which is absolutely insane). I walked with a SLTL today and just found out that the ETLSL had them take the PALLETIZED softlines shelving from the back room, UNPALLETIZE them and stick them on the wall in the fixture room! my head hurts from that.
I also vote for the signing conference as well. Or at least like a message board like the SFTs have on their project site, or back when I had our PFresh remodel, one like that.
As for the shorter softlines label holders I used to have those in the fitting room closet but now they are saying that don't want ANY softlines fixtures in there (used to keep a few softlines specific things in there - small things only), they don't even want the monthly value signing in there anymore. which seems crazy to me. they keep dumping their racktop signing in the fixture room when there's no place for it. and heaven forbid they hold onto their magnetic signholder feet themselves (those tiny ones from the 13"x whatever size signs- you know what i mean?).
oh, but back to the bars - are you guys talking about the shoulder hang (curved) or the straight bars?
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I was talking about both. The team at my old store put both straights and shoulders at the bottoms of the racks. Waterfalls and extendable faceouts were in the fitting room. There really weren't a lot of SL fixtures in the fixture room, just shelves, pegs and some puckend faceouts along with all the miscellaneous junk and some jewelry fixtures.
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If possible, ask if his trainer could come to your store and help him get caught up. I do this when my trainee is having to get caught up when there has been a gap between signing tm.
Unfortunately, I think his trainer is really terrible which is part of where the problem originates. That... and he is just really slow at comprehending stuff sometimes.
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My signing person has no concept on anything. Finally, my stl who hired them, agreed at last. Bye, bye in 1 month...
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Wow, they finally figured out there was a problem.
I hope the next one is better.
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It seems like everytime i finally get my steel organized i get 3 pallets and the fn coke vendor sitting on a pallet with a flat, talking on his phone after having moved my pallet i was coming to break down, so i have to wait since i think coca cola thinks our store is a product warehouse your shelf on the floor holds 10 12 packs why are you ordering 2 pallets worth, and ffs dont leave your pallets pushed in my corner, ive started to just take them and put them right up against their pallets so they have to move them all, to get to their product, reap what you sew, and get off your damn phone
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OK, the oversized pallets are bad enough but when they are built so deficiently, badly, inadequately, lousily, poorly, unacceptably, unsatisfactorily, wretchedly, improperly, incorrectly, and unsuccessfully (it's impossible to find enough words to describe just how bad this damnable thing was) that it punches holes in the signs it is supposed to be protecting then someone needs to lose their job.
Amen. And to add all the times they have tipped over in transit due to being unbalanced. This is where I utilize the trailer feedback form. There's also a spot on MySupport that allows you to send feedback about missing and damaged pallets. I want to know why I got 4 boxes of the same planogram for the HBA set, and missing 3. Hopefully the backer paper doesn't change or our team is going to be hurting...
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I didn't see rolls of backer paper but many of the big flat signing boxes might have paper in them.
Hope the paper is perforated since the boxes are (see post about oversized pallets).
Hope the paper is perforated since the boxes are (see post about oversized pallets).
RLY? great. which part of HBA was it for?
yeah, even mouthwash gets new backer. and ours is on the backwall, so we got a lot of headers we couldn't even use. all the backer is stored in flat boxes, and the boxes all scanned incorrectly for the aisles (in our case). monday, we're gonna crack open what's left and detrash.
the backer is kind of blue/black. looks pretty.
the backer is kind of blue/black. looks pretty.
i'm dying. i have three pallets of store ordered fixtures for "bounceback", one pallet of backordered NIT, the pallet of personal care, and that giant freight train of a pallet with garden place. oh, lets not forget the CSE i'm working on. its going to be a long week. sidenote - why are there 10,000 tiny backer paper boxes for seasonal? wth? unrelated - anyone's Prabal sign not break? if not we don't need to replace with the dup the sent fedex today, do we?
