

If you’re rude to me, I return the favor figuring it’s the way you like to be treated.

Putting up with rude customers shouldn’t even have to be tolerated, but there is certainly a skill to it. Keeping that many people straight in one’s head is a skill. If they have to look around the store, there’s a better chance they’ll buy something else. There are new planograms sent out frequently to move products around so people don’t get complacent and just pick up what they need. It’s a bit more difficult than it appears, especially when the actual shelving in use may not match the dimensions on the gram. Were that actually true, you would only be able to get fast food during the school year between 4pm and 9pm. There is a mistaken belief that fast food is a job for kids in school. If the ad says it’s a career choice, the job should be treated as a career choice internally by the company. Many fast food restaurants advertise their jobs as excellent “career choices”. How does it make sense that low skill, minimum wage jobs should be elevated and paid as suitable permanent choices for someone’s livelihood? Their lower level situation may even make it simpler for kids to get items to add to their parents' carts.Examples:Placing of sugar candies at the billing counter (to attract kids/parents waiting in the queue)Placing sketch pens or craft items on the bottom shelves and so on.Placing higher margin items on better visibility racks against lower margin items.How does it help the Inventory:Helps increase sales and thus reduce the inventory.Reduces shelf life of items.Increases turnover ratio.Efficient inventory management as one can predict sales using the planogram trends. However, items on the base rack might be eye-level for children or kids. This involves many aspects like:How high or low should a product be placed.Quantity of products to be placed such that it’s visible to the customers - Number of facings.Where in the retail space should the product be placed.How Planograms can help to increase product sales?Items set at eye-level may offer superior sales to items set on the base rack. Planograms can be derived using the past and current sales record against the positioning and the quantity of the products displayed. Planogram is basically a representation that tells you how can a retailer place/display the products in order to increase the sales.Planogrammer is a person who uses planogramming skills to come up with a diagram on placement of products.
