MEGATHREAD Signing Tips, Tricks and Quips (along with howls of despair)

^^^same, I taped mine up against a LPP header. Bullseye's ears kind of stick up over it but oh well.
 
Formina Sage said:
Did everyone enjoy the 40-some boxes of backer paper we received this week? I think 15 boxes of Lawn and garden backer paper seems a bit extreme...
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. between the tons of backer boxes, the overheads, and all the stuff for garden, some of the cosmetics stuff, then they have to send in easter too. how many transitions can we have going on at the same time. I liked our club value stuff we had last year in seasonal much better than this year. it sold last year. all we get now, is a smart huddle to push what no one else has been able to squeeze out there. think next month we will start receiving our back to school stuff too? I am told i have roughly "1" hour to break my pallets down and put them in my steel? this is supposed to be on the truck day too. (usually cannot even get to them before 10 am or so) i am well into my day before that. can you actually do that? One pallet most likely, 3 no way. that is unless it is built like the empire state building/leaning town of pisa. Plus i have to scan everything and make sure i have the proper aisles written on them or the plano number.

We will be going thru Pfresh remodel this year, and i keep hearing that the fixture room will get smaller plus my signing steel will have to go in there too. issue, no 4' deep steel in there accept for tip top where all the repacks are. all light duty shelving. I believe we are C volume store? losing a lot of back room backstock area to prep area and freezer/cooler. anyone going thru this or been thru this that can enlighten me?
 
Believe it or not, we don't have the Itunes endcap up, so I am waiting to set that sign, but if I remember right, that sign is for attaching to the backer paper between product and header, if you have it on a 84" endcap?
 
smurf101 said:
. between the tons of backer boxes, the overheads, and all the stuff for garden, some of the cosmetics stuff, then they have to send in easter too. how many transitions can we have going on at the same time. I liked our club value stuff we had last year in seasonal much better than this year. it sold last year. all we get now, is a smart huddle to push what no one else has been able to squeeze out there. think next month we will start receiving our back to school stuff too? I am told i have roughly "1" hour to break my pallets down and put them in my steel? this is supposed to be on the truck day too. (usually cannot even get to them before 10 am or so) i am well into my day before that. can you actually do that? One pallet most likely, 3 no way. that is unless it is built like the empire state building/leaning town of pisa. Plus i have to scan everything and make sure i have the proper aisles written on them or the plano number.

We will be going thru Pfresh remodel this year, and i keep hearing that the fixture room will get smaller plus my signing steel will have to go in there too. issue, no 4' deep steel in there accept for tip top where all the repacks are. all light duty shelving. I believe we are C volume store? losing a lot of back room backstock area to prep area and freezer/cooler. anyone going thru this or been thru this that can enlighten me?
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I'm from a former Greatland too. I did have my signing in the old chargeback cage and the tiny fixture room was elsewhere. When they remodeled, freezers went in the chargeback cage area and they told me I had exactly 8' in the fixture room.

I transferred to another store.:rtfm:
 
TargetOldTimer said:
Believe it or not, we don't have the Itunes endcap up, so I am waiting to set that sign, but if I remember right, that sign is for attaching to the backer paper between product and header, if you have it on a 84" endcap?
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Our planogram was set with pegs all the way up to the header. The old planogram only had pegs 3/4 the way up the endcap so I pinned the black iTunes header to the pegboard and the white header remained in the header slot.
 
Formina Sage said:
^^^same, I taped mine up against a LPP header. Bullseye's ears kind of stick up over it but oh well.
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Lol we almost did that, but the other Electronics TM that was there didn't like that too well (neither did I really), so he actually found some header that had a white reverse to it and taped THAT to the back of the iTunes ISM.

TargetOldTimer said:
Believe it or not, we don't have the Itunes endcap up, so I am waiting to set that sign, but if I remember right, that sign is for attaching to the backer paper between product and header, if you have it on a 84" endcap?
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No, like Formina said, the Planogram calls for the gift cards to go all the way up. The ISM header is too thick anyways, to do that, it isn't paper like the old black sign. Also, I digress a bit from the main topic at hand, but since we are on the subject:

Since you haven't set it up yet, just a heads up, make sure you pay extra attention to the right hand side of the Plano, because for the first two or three rows, the cards are the same all the way up, then about the 4th row over they kind of mix it up a bit. Also the 60 dollar packs don't get thrown out, they stay on the planogram.

Formina Sage said:
Our planogram was set with pegs all the way up to the header. The old planogram only had pegs 3/4 the way up the endcap so I pinned the black iTunes header to the pegboard and the white header remained in the header slot.
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Yeah that's pretty much how we had our old Plano set, about 3/4th up, black sign on pegboard, and then LPP for the header. I then had to re-set all the pegs etc...
 
Formina Sage said:
^^^same, I taped mine up against a LPP header. Bullseye's ears kind of stick up over it but oh well.
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This is the kind of stuff that is hard to explain to people about our job and why it's just about impossible to really train anybody in a couple of days to do it.
You get a Shawn White sign that you should just be able to slide into the holder and walk away, only the bright folks made it an 1' and 1/2' too wide so you have to get out the razor and trim the frelling thing so it fits.
So now what was a 2 minute job has turned into 8 and your entire day is like that.
I spent this morning building the glider for the infant display because we had to take it out of stock and Impact never showed up.
It didn't take that long but wasn't exactly on the list.
I don't mind taking care of this stuff, it's part and parcel of my job.
It's just hard to make people understand what makes the job so complicated (and not something a monkey could do like I've seen a few posts say).
 
commiecorvus said:
This is the kind of stuff that is hard to explain to people about our job and why it's just about impossible to really train anybody in a couple of days to do it.
You get a Shawn White sign that you should just be able to slide into the holder and walk away, only the bright folks made it an 1' and 1/2' too wide so you have to get out the razor and trim the frelling thing so it fits.
So now what was a 2 minute job has turned into 8 and your entire day is like that.
I spent this morning building the glider for the infant display because we had to take it out of stock and Impact never showed up.
It didn't take that long but wasn't exactly on the list.
I don't mind taking care of this stuff, it's part and parcel of my job.
It's just hard to make people understand what makes the job so complicated (and not something a monkey could do like I've seen a few posts say).
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yes. no one gets it.

its especially nice when they're like "ok, train this brand new plano tm how to do signing so we have a backup" and its like ummm......no? i went through a remodel hell, proved that i knew the job by already doing the job before even interviewing for it. which was a three-interview process, anyone remember that back in the "specialist" days? and now they want to throw anybody they can into it. thank you for having no appreciation for me, or what i do or how hard i work.
 
greydot said:
dumb question - where are you getting this from? i mean - where on workbench?
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Keep in mind that the Adjacency Calendar only lists hours for planogrammed signs. Pallet sorting, TIPP ordering, and NOP (overhead etc) signs are not included. Though you can get an estimate for NOP sign setup and takedown in the Monthly Signing Update (Workbench -> Sales Floor -> Signing)
 
Oh whoopsies that totally slipped my mind!
 
Anyone check out the Spring Signing for FOS, looks like a giant puzzle, 100 colored panels that connect together and look like an overhead canopy. 3-4 hours to set one door. I hope this will be up for a while, longer than 2 weeks!!
 
So I just became a team lead of plano and would like to help out our signing person get on track with his workload and stay on track. Can you please help me out with some pointers such as the best way to organize the signing steel,since this has been a problem for awhile. Thanks
 
planopeep said:
So I just became a team lead of plano and would like to help out our signing person get on track with his workload and stay on track. Can you please help me out with some pointers such as the best way to organize the signing steel,since this has been a problem for awhile. Thanks
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This is how my steel is laid out, more or less. It's 2 side-by-side sections.

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In the top part of the first section, I just lay down things so the labels/barcodes all face out. Keep like departments together, etc. It makes transitions pretty easy when you can just grab everything you know you'll need.
 
lookndwnonya said:
Anyone check out the Spring Signing for FOS, looks like a giant puzzle, 100 colored panels that connect together and look like an overhead canopy. 3-4 hours to set one door. I hope this will be up for a while, longer than 2 weeks!!
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Its actually easier than it looks to assemble. I pre assembled the panels and the plastic holders. It's about 8 sections that connect together when hanging it. All that's left to do is hang it next week.
 
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Yes the New Fixture/New Signing area. TLs make a bigger mess since there is no order there. Also he only has one section do to the fact that the bike builder has the other section,and dealing with breakout carts lined up blocking it completely at times does not help. Our back room is very cramped when flow cant complete their process.
 
Ajax11 said:
Keep in mind that the Adjacency Calendar only lists hours for planogrammed signs. Pallet sorting, TIPP ordering, and NOP (overhead etc) signs are not included. Though you can get an estimate for NOP sign setup and takedown in the Monthly Signing Update (Workbench -> Sales Floor -> Signing)
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I wish I could find that in writing. Lately, I'm only getting 3/4 of the adjacency hours for signing. I'm actually running from task to task AND setting a plano here and there because I love the new PPTL and I hate seeing her stressed.

I'm really getting too old for this job!!
 

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