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

[FlowTeamChick]

We fully set mini in a night (Friday night -> Saturday morning) and last night we pushed whatever came off the truck.

We plan on starting Personal Care Tuesday night and hoping that the ISM will be delivered by the time we start since going back to put up backer paper for aisles with pegs is a lot of double work

Agree about re-doing pegged parts of sets when ISM finally arrives. That's why I haven't done either of the shave POGs yet, assuming that at least some of it will have new something or other.
I wish we had overnight shifts for this sort of thing, but no such luck. My store is probably not low-volume anymore because we do a lot of SFS, but not enough for overnights.

 

[FlowTeamChick]

proper merchandising would make a huge difference in clearance sell-through.

This is why it's worth it when I take a few minutes to straighten up my clearance shelves. When it's left a mess, no one wants to hunt through what's there. But when it's kept sort of neat, it sells down better. That said, I'm glad I'm not in Style. Hard enough with GM merch.
Of course, the stuff that started out over-priced and stays over-priced even on clearance (like those "wellness" boxes that were on a tower starting right after Christmas) are mostly still just sitting there at 30%. Maybe when they go to 50, they'll move?