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  • #16
    I am ever so glad that I don't have to deal with planograms.

    Please don't hate me.
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    oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
    There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
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    • #17
      I still remember my DM bringing in the Planogram guy. Let's just say.. it was the last time my DM ever introduced me to anyone from corporate where I could rip them a new one.

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      • #18
        Quoth Gurndigarn View Post
        How did the a corporation go in reverse?
        Quoth Linda View Post
        Basically, the company is losing money, and they've tried everything else already!
        Ah. Well, mine is losing money, too. They just haven't started to do the things that will bring them back into the black yet.

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        • #19
          I did a planogram once... Half the product on the sheet we didn't have, but the stuff that was there would have fit on the shelves just fine. I thought it was fun, but I was never asked to do it again.
          Jim: Fact: Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Gallactica.
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          • #20
            I always thought the planogram sounded like a breakfast cereal.

            The store I worked at, the planogram would work, if they sent us the right one.
            We were considered a "6.5" store in a design, but for some reason Corp always thought we where a "8.0" store, which basically means our store layout is completely different then what the planogram called for. If they sent us one for the 6.0 or 6.5 design then everything would fit, otherwise with 8.0 we have to play "Who's aisle is it anyways?" and improv the shelves.
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            • #21
              Quoth MadMike View Post
              One day, when I was still working at the supermarket, I came in and noticed that everything in my aisle was switched around. Worse yet, stuff that didn't move was given huge spots, while the fast-movers were given almost no space.

              The bigwigs sent their people in, who completely FUBARed every single aisle. I was told not to mess with it, because this is how they wanted it.

              So naturally, I gradually started moving everything back the way it was, over a period of several weeks. They never noticed.
              That's another problem we have at the Kitty . . . and no, I don't know how the Kitty brand regular maxi pads got cut down from 4 facings to 2 and the Always regular got cut from 3 to 2 . . .
              Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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              • #22
                I hate them. When they make sense.

                The most aggravating thing about them is, they include the plans for a storefront that I doubt 85% of the stores have, which is an open entrance to AN ENCLOSED MALL!! And they fucking expect us to comply with the display requirements when we have enclosed entrances?

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                • #23
                  I work in wholesale now and am out of grocery, but previously I worked in whoelsale grocery and before THAT was 15 years in retail grocery. Funny thing about planos is how you read them depends on who your employer is.

                  When I worked for the store, I adjusted the plano for items that were either left out but in stock, or on the plano but not in stock. Otherwise I tried to follow it. or at least adjust it logically.

                  When I worked for a vendor I (and the rest of the vendors) tried to fudge it to get a couple of extra facings for my company.

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                  • #24
                    I always hated how planograms (and the corporate missives that come with them) always have that passive-aggressive "the people in the store are too dumb to know how to line their own products on the shelves" tone to them.

                    I used to work at Circuit City, and I feel Kara's pain about having to create a fourth dimension to fit things according to how the suits want it. After struggling to fit our metric fuckton of accessories on a display about 2/3rds the size needed, I just started piling the extras on the bottom row. The store manager tried to play the "THATS NOT TO PLANOGRAM" card, and I just said "then have the guy who wrote the planogram do it, because I'm done with this".
                    "You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride not to be human." - Hobbes

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