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In my store's backroom right now, we have about 5 "display" pallets of detergent sitting around. Apparently, the good people at Procter & Gamble thought it would be a nifty idea to mix 10 different SKUs of Tide detergent on the same pallet, and put the bottles of detergent in open-top trays on the pallet. The idea being that a store can just drop the pallet down the middle of an aisle so that customers can shop it from all four sides.
Problem #1 with this: We aren't going to be dropping these pallets anywhere on the salesfloor. Among other things, it's too much of a risk for trip and fall and lawsuit. So we have to break down these pallets and backstock every SKU of detergent separately. We can't just put the pallet in our detergent backstock and expect people to root through it to find the one bottle of detergent they need.
Problem #2: The trays don't stack neatly like boxes of detergent do. So we end up with toppling towers of Tide in backstock, plus ginormous messes whenever these towers fall over and the bottles split open.
In fact, IMHO, displayers are generally a waste. We hardly ever put them up like the manufacturers intended. We just can't rip apart endstands or clog up the aisles with them. We usually have to open to the displayers, stock the product on the shelf where it belongs, and then backstock the loose product (if there's more than one SKU in a displayer, we can't just backstock the displayer somewhere, because it will have a display SKU and the scanners don't allow us to backstock display SKUs)
Anybody else with me? Or am I alone in this crusade?
Problem #1 with this: We aren't going to be dropping these pallets anywhere on the salesfloor. Among other things, it's too much of a risk for trip and fall and lawsuit. So we have to break down these pallets and backstock every SKU of detergent separately. We can't just put the pallet in our detergent backstock and expect people to root through it to find the one bottle of detergent they need.
Problem #2: The trays don't stack neatly like boxes of detergent do. So we end up with toppling towers of Tide in backstock, plus ginormous messes whenever these towers fall over and the bottles split open.
In fact, IMHO, displayers are generally a waste. We hardly ever put them up like the manufacturers intended. We just can't rip apart endstands or clog up the aisles with them. We usually have to open to the displayers, stock the product on the shelf where it belongs, and then backstock the loose product (if there's more than one SKU in a displayer, we can't just backstock the displayer somewhere, because it will have a display SKU and the scanners don't allow us to backstock display SKUs)
Anybody else with me? Or am I alone in this crusade?
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