Does your pricing team push their own clearance or move clearance before a POG reset? Our's doesn't, but I've always been curious if the pricing team owns everything in other stores.
No, because our pricing "team" is one person. POG generally moves it to the nearest clearance endcap.
I always wished instocks had its own tl like it used to, but that's because I just want to fully run the team, unlike the minimal way I do now Lol. To me I suppose it works both way to be under sftl and brtl. Salesfloor tl is trying to fill the floor, use instocks... But backroom tl is trying to empty the backroom by filling the floor... Use instocks.
I don't even think our pricing team talks to the pog team. Obviously they talk to the tl, but I don't think about where to put the clearance or anything. All clearance locations usually gets directed to a salesfloor tl or sf etl.
I wish our pricing team moved clearance! They leave it in the home location and put up a clearance shelf label. Same in softlines, just ticket it, leave it in its location, put up a clearance sign.
It's supposed to stay in the home location until the POG resets. Company best practice states that sales come better from the home location than an endcap. I don't understand it but ok. Lol. Also my STL and I were talking that presentation should have its own TL, and pricing should go under a SFTL. I feel like I spend barely any time in pricing. Luckily my team is awesome, but I still hate that I can't be there all the time because presentation definitely needs me more.
I don't understand it either, since we will empty a home location to stock an end cap. I think most people go to a home location if they are looking for an item to buy.
I would very much dislike that. I'd fear that if flow isn't done we would constantly be dragged into helping them. With our old tl she was more worried about backroom and less so about instocks so she always handed us off to flow for an hour and a half to two hours.
I totally get that, but I don't like half a rack in softlines being clearance, let alone scattered through RTW. I had three racks of half clearance, half full price next to each other in RTW. Screw best practice, common sense to me says to put all that clearance on one rack, lol.
Per best practice, for the last decade, clearance is to be merchandised by the TL of the area. If pog touches it, it should only be to stage it on a flat in the Backroom for the sales floor to push.
Think it depends upon the odds of an impulse buy.
That probably made sense a decade ago. But we have three sales floor TLs at our store and they all need to cover their own departments when they are working.
As my STL has often said... Best practice doesn't know what best practice is. Everything is so out of date. It's all about what works best for your store.
