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

[BKop16]

From what I can see the goal is to dramatically expand storage (department 2) and shrink utility (D85) to not only drive where the sales are but to expand capacities to have less bulk storage in the backroom.

 

[Alexbegt]

Anyone else notice they removed some of the pegs off the aircare aisle and replaced them with shelves? Like they want all the car air fresheners on the shelf now instead of being on pegs like they were… why…

 

[BKop16]

Anyone else notice they removed some of the pegs off the aircare aisle and replaced them with shelves? Like they want all the car air fresheners on the shelf now instead of being on pegs like they were… why…

Most of the ones on pegs come in the same shelf ready packaging as the shelves. I always found it strange they were on pegs to begin with.

Honestly the pog needs pushers.

 

[Dead and Khaki]

Most of the ones on pegs come in the same shelf ready packaging as the shelves. I always found it strange they were on pegs to begin with.

Honestly the pog needs pushers.

Back in the day, it did have pushers. The old white ones.

 

[Alexbegt]

I see the back to school map is available… very fun with the back wall just being backpacks and the folders are down an aisle again, feels like previous years when they did that.

but when I saw dump bins I went “oh no” because of how they always end up becoming a jumbled mess

 

[Alexbegt]

Does anyone know the part number for the label
Strip holder for the front end small coolers? Or is this a vendor product that we need to contact the cooler company for?

Also, does anyone have the strip # for the freezer shelves? The 1ft shelves used for products like ravioli and pizza

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Does anyone know the part number for the label
Strip holder for the front end small coolers? Or is this a vendor product that we need to contact the cooler company for?

Also, does anyone have the strip # for the freezer shelves? The 1ft shelves used for products like ravioli and pizza

The label holders I think you are looking for are PR001. You can check the Pog listing for the number.

 

[Sisyphus]

What does everyone do with their clearance during a transition? Let's take the chem transition for example. All endcaps have new salesplans(which MUST be set, no if ands or buts), adjacent departments have new salesplans, district doesn't want it on towers. So where does one go with clearance and discontinued items?

 

[BKop16]

What does everyone do with their clearance during a transition? Let's take the chem transition for example. All endcaps have new salesplans(which MUST be set, no if ands or buts), adjacent departments have new salesplans, district doesn't want it on towers. So where does one go with clearance and discontinued items?

They've done a better job at shifting the salesplanners for major sets to the week after. So in this example, Paper/Chem sets this week and the salesplanners set next week. So you would use the back endcaps first and set SPLs as they sell down.

 

[Alexbegt]

What does everyone do with their clearance during a transition? Let's take the chem transition for example. All endcaps have new salesplans(which MUST be set, no if ands or buts), adjacent departments have new salesplans, district doesn't want it on towers. So where does one go with clearance and discontinued items?

I tend to tell the leadership/dayside team that I could not find a home for the clearance and continue setting 🤷‍♂. Especially with them wanting us always weeks ahead. We basically finished chems before the labels came in, and now are basically done with frozen (man that was annoying and pointless...) but of course ran out of shelves and target automatically sent the wrong style freezer shelves for our coolers! (thanks for that!)

I think this week is SPLNs before we move into furniture.

Also I hope you guys have brand new shelves in the back for furniture with the new 'metal lip' they are sending (reminds me of the one from babies so long ago), since the page for the transition says make sure shelves aren't bent lol.

 

[BKop16]

I wonder how many more Bullseye sets they have already gotten into the US. I wonder if Target would just bite the bullet on importing that stuff since it's so high margin.

 

[gsa4lyfe]

I wonder how many more Bullseye sets they have already gotten into the US. I wonder if Target would just bite the bullet on importing that stuff since it's so high margin.

They’re asking for all the salvage this set to be shipped back ok separate pallets. Maybe they’re planning to reuse it haha.

 

[jenna]

I tend to tell the leadership/dayside team that I could not find a home for the clearance and continue setting 🤷‍♂. Especially with them wanting us always weeks ahead. We basically finished chems before the labels came in, and now are basically done with frozen (man that was annoying and pointless...)

You are setting without new label strips?

 

[Alexbegt]

You are setting without new label strips?

Yep, we had to go back and put the labels in what we set, which hasn’t happened yet. It’s annoying for reverse aisles.

 

[FlowTeamChick]

What does everyone do with their clearance during a transition? Let's take the chem transition for example. All endcaps have new salesplans(which MUST be set, no if ands or buts), adjacent departments have new salesplans, district doesn't want it on towers. So where does one go with clearance and discontinued items?

We have a back end cap between Personal Care and Paper that's been clearance for forever at my store. Chems, OTC, Personal Care, and Paper all use it and it's almost always pretty full. Guests know to check it out.
I have a back end cap in OTC that never has a sales planner for it, so I use it for NOP and weird stuff that gets sent to my store accidentally but doesn't have a $0.00 price like it sometimes does when that happens. This last time with OTC and Pers Care resets, I had so much clearance that I used both of those end caps plus one where we never got the ISM (all product had home locations and it was a back end cap, so not a huge disaster) plus maybe 4 side caps.
Recently, there was a tower of clearance paper towel rolls.
Beauty often uses a back end cap plus they have a weird spot in the blow dryer POG that works for clearance.
So I guess it's partly ASANTS and partly being creative with the space we have.

 

[Sisyphus]

They've done a better job at shifting the salesplanners for major sets to the week after. So in this example, Paper/Chem sets this week and the salesplanners set next week. So you would use the back endcaps first and set SPLs as they sell down.

That would be the most logical choice but the salesplans are already set. Things like this must be what those hour long planning meetings are about 🤣 And some of the clearance is only 15% so I know it wouldn't be gone next week when the salesplans would normally set and all salesplans at my store MUUUUst be set no if, ands, or buts.

 

[RTCry]

I used back endcaps in C block (STO/FUR) for the Chem clearance. They were super light/empty and resetting next month.

 

[BKop16]

The freezer shelf heights are so bad. How does the bottom shelf work? I've found that setting that one based on the height of the product on the base deck then counting up based on the difference in inches (not notches) kinda worked.

 

[Dead and Khaki]

The freezer shelf heights are so bad. How does the bottom shelf work? I've found that setting that one based on the height of the product on the base deck then counting up based on the difference in inches (not notches) kinda worked.

That's what I'm finding, too. If in doubt, go with the shelf-to-shelf height in inches.

 

[BKop16]

That's what I'm finding, too. If in doubt, go with the shelf-to-shelf height in inches.

I've realized that all POGs default to the same notch x = y inches based on the standard gondola. It doesn't apply to the outliers like refrigerated shelves or high capacity gondola.

 

[BKop16]

Storage June 1 and Dairy/Meat June 8 look an absolute nightmare.

 

[Alexbegt]

Storage June 1 and Dairy/Meat June 8 look an absolute nightmare.

I mapped out our storage preties and I went 'oh god' with the amount of changes happening. Vacuums are back to one whole aisle for us instead of split between the two, air purification moves next to vacuums and so many other changes that I am like why.

 

[BKop16]

The why makes sense about expanding plastic and decorative storage to drive sales and lower backroom bulk usage. But these huge space moves need to add like 50% hours to the workload to account for all these moves.