Archived Entertainment Planogram Nightmare 1,3,5,7,9

[Ember]

So who in corporate making planos, is dropping acid. I'm serious.
So now our shelf heights are not 12345 but 1,3,5,7,9 etc. Not to mention flipping the aisles from 1-5 to 5-1. So when you are looking at a location on the screen to tell you where to push a DVD lets say. and it says on a five section run to put it 1-5-1.01 thats not the Top shelf, oh noooo, thats the third shelf up and the last section. Huh? Apparently they do not get how long this takes to wrap your brain around , to essentially reverse your thinking. Not to mention a training nightmare to do this kind of reset going into 4Q. The rest of the store works this way...but in entertainment we like to retard our way of thinking. Why, for goodness sake would anyone think this is ok. Im so sick of this. Then I'm told this happens all of the time. Really, Really? Who is giving these people jobs. They can't even count.

 

[waterspout]

Doing this today. Yeah, it's like that book "Splat the Cat Makes Planograms and Revisions."

 

[RunForACallBox]

Just about all of our Ent. POGS were that. And I did the Thank You Note aisle today and they went up to 10 shelves. So it was 1,2,4,6,8,10... I was so lost trying to push the product back...

 

[see spot save]

It's amazing. A couple of our aisles are 1 2 3 4 5, the rest are 1 3 5 7 9.

It's been that way for two weeks now, it's no harder to push this way...just confusing the first time.

 

[eleuthreophile]

I've been on plano all week and I haven't noticed this at all. Should a make an offering to the POG god so it stays that way?

 

[Meli4Target]

mmb transition was a disaster.. finished it up today... however I did not understand the CDs & browser....
so is the browser changing to a planogram with label strips isntead of going by genre & alphabetical order?!?

 

[Ajax11]

mmb transition was a disaster.. finished it up today... however I did not understand the CDs & browser....
so is the browser changing to a planogram with label strips isntead of going by genre & alphabetical order?!?

There have always been strips sent in for the browser, only the top hits shelves should be using them however. As part of this transition dividing by genre should have gone away and the browser should be set alphabetically for the entire run. Take a look at the transition communication for examples of the proper flow to setting it.

As for Movies, I noticed it was the dept 108 SPLs that had the correct 1-5 shelf numbers, but all of the 058 POGs were the messed up 1,3,5,7,9s.

 

[Meli4Target]

mmb transition was a disaster.. finished it up today... however I did not understand the CDs & browser....
so is the browser changing to a planogram with label strips isntead of going by genre & alphabetical order?!?

There have always been strips sent in for the browser, only the top hits shelves should be using them however. As part of this transition dividing by genre should have gone away and the browser should be set alphabetically for the entire run. Take a look at the transition communication for examples of the proper flow to setting it.

As for Movies, I noticed it was the dept 108 SPLs that had the correct 1-5 shelf numbers, but all of the 058 POGs were the messed up 1,3,5,7,9s.

Thank you!! I'm fairly unfamiliar with how MMB sets and how the planograms are especially with the browser!! but now I'll be able to fix that

 

[Signkitty]

The only crazy thing I saw was that now that all the movie aisles are set in standard the pog team set them with section four sitting on the main aisle and section one at the back which seemed odd. In cosmetics even though nothing sets in reverse you still lead with section one so not sure why this would be diffrent.

 

[Ajax11]

Section 1 at the back is the way my last couple stores have been doing entertainment standard (reverse side aisle) for as long as I can remember.

 

[Longshanks]

It feels like over the last few months or so, POGs and (mostly) Revisions have been ass backwards.
This includes:
-Product spacing issues
-Peg spacing issues
-Changing out 20+ strips only when really one or two needed it
-Adding a trailing .01 (1-2-3.01) to every item in the POG for no logical reason

I don't know what the hell is going on with whatever team designs the planograms but it feels like they have let children take the helm.

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Welcome back, long!

 

[Longshanks]

Thanks Hardlinesmaster! It's been quite a while.

 

[commiecorvus]

Hey @Longshanks
Good to see you.

 

[JustJoe]

I've been on plano all week and I haven't noticed this at all. Should a make an offering to the POG god so it stays that way?

ME WORSHIP POG GOD!

 

[salesfloor10]

Section 1 at the back is the way my last couple stores have been doing entertainment standard (reverse side aisle) for as long as I can remember.

I believe that was the direction a few entertainment sets back. For example, recent releases has to be set standard because if you set it reverse it's not alphabetical. So you have to tie it to the last section in the aisle (like a35(5)1-1-3) so it makes sense.

 

[Sushi2Go]

It feels like over the last few months or so, POGs and (mostly) Revisions have been ass backwards.
This includes:
-Product spacing issues
-Peg spacing issues
-Changing out 20+ strips only when really one or two needed it
-Adding a trailing .01 (1-2-3.01) to every item in the POG for no logical reason

I don't know what the hell is going on with whatever team designs the planograms but it feels like they have let children take the helm.

I feel the same way. The way the pegs go from left to right.. 1-P1-1 > 1-P1-2 > 1-P1-10 > 1-P1-11 > 1-P1-3 It's so random.

I'm thinking someone with much less experience took over the plano design. Hopefully this person gets his/her act together. It's really starting to piss me off!

 

[Sushi2Go]

mmb transition was a disaster.. finished it up today... however I did not understand the CDs & browser....
so is the browser changing to a planogram with label strips isntead of going by genre & alphabetical order?!?

The plano team member that does our entertainment revision and headed the mmb transition this week sucks. She fucked up the browsers when I left as an entertainment specialist. When she took over, she thought it would be a great idea to use all the strips and remove all the alphabet dividers. So everything is now by schematic. She doesn't even make 3x5 so it's just empty grey sign holders dividing all the CDs. So not only did it make sorting harder and more work, guest had a hard time finding the albums. What annoyed me most is that leaders seems to be ok with it until I think one of the DTL noticed and asked why it was so different then all the other stores. So she had to revert to the old way. This was about 5 months later.

I was checking out the browers today and it's like 35% full LMAO. It's not spread out to fill the aisle like it should be. Just in 1 spot and I think they backstocked everything that had no location.

 

[mrknownothing]

So now our shelf heights are not 12345 but 1,3,5,7,9 etc.

I've noticed this happens with focals sometimes. It's always seems to be the 3rd side of the focal that's like that.

 

[RunForACallBox]

mmb transition was a disaster.. finished it up today... however I did not understand the CDs & browser....
so is the browser changing to a planogram with label strips isntead of going by genre & alphabetical order?!?

The plano team member that does our entertainment revision and headed the mmb transition this week sucks. She fucked up the browsers when I left as an entertainment specialist. When she took over, she thought it would be a great idea to use all the strips and remove all the alphabet dividers. So everything is now by schematic. She doesn't even make 3x5 so it's just empty grey sign holders dividing all the CDs. So not only did it make sorting harder and more work, guest had a hard time finding the albums. What annoyed me most is that leaders seems to be ok with it until I think one of the DTL noticed and asked why it was so different then all the other stores. So she had to revert to the old way. This was about 5 months later.

I was checking out the browers today and it's like 35% full LMAO. It's not spread out to fill the aisle like it should be. Just in 1 spot and I think they backstocked everything that had no location.

We did this about a year and a half ago. Personally I loved it. I could actually find stuff for guests, go straight to the schematic and get it, now we have reverted back to the alphabetical way it was when I started, so we will see how it goes...

 

[NOP]

It feels like over the last few months or so, POGs and (mostly) Revisions have been ass backwards.
This includes:
-Product spacing issues
-Peg spacing issues
-Changing out 20+ strips only when really one or two needed it
-Adding a trailing .01 (1-2-3.01) to every item in the POG for no logical reason

I don't know what the hell is going on with whatever team designs the planograms but it feels like they have let children take the helm.

They are also having issues with schematic information not being printed on the label strip either. So everything on the shelf is printed without the schematic number.

I did a few revisions where all the pegs changed and each peg got its own number, regardless of whether it was multiple facings of the same product. Made it really confusing.

I'd also like to know what's up with all the displays that have been coming in NOF.

 

[Ringwraith917]

Sounds to me like they automated the POG design process and its not working as well as they hoped.

 

[konk]

I need to look again, but I know the first aisle is backwards. The second aisle should be left to right. The first section of the second aisle has 5 shelves with locations and they didn't use strips. Looks tacky. Third aisle is fully located. Everything has 2 facings which is a waste. There's also the 4-way which repeats many if the same CDs. I almost think we have enough room for every cd to have its own location if we got rid of all the duplicates.

 

[sigma7]

Hopefully we all know the alphabet by the time it's legal for us to work. I don't understand what is so hard about alphabetizing. Maybe I could see it taking a little bit to find a CD before if you weren't sure of the genre, but now you literally can just go to the letter in the browser the band name starts with (excluding the, a, an). Maybe I'm biased because I was an entertainment specialist for a couple years, but the browser is not hard.

 

[konk]

I was speaking from a guest standpoint. Would just be easier to shop. My favorite area to shop was the section on the 4-way with the indie/punk type stuff, but that has turned into some type of random new section.