Archived What does your signing area look like?

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DeadAndKhaki

DeadAndKhaki

I'm sorry, we don't do that at this store.
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Hi! I'm training to be the new signing specialist in my store!! My old SS is training me and our STL wanted us to go over best practices and I saw that the example pictures on Workbench are beautifully organized whereas our signing areas are.... A hot mess. Is it normal to have everything everywhere? Do you have an organized system? I've gone through the signing threads and haven't been able to find anything.
 
It is a process. Mine was destroyed when I inherited... I have finally gotten it and the fixture room fairly organized. Don't know what something is? Write a date on it. Throw it away in 6 months if you haven't used it. Anything marked over a year old? Throw it away... You will be amazed at all the room you have.
 
A cluster fuck of shelving, ladders, and overhead signs.
 
Ours is a cluster fuck. We have pallets of the new grocery transition that have been sitting around for 4 months, displays that should have went up in January or February. Though I'm not the signing specialist, the other day I secretly threw some old shit out and I doubt they would ever know. We are looking a better than a couple weeks ago but still have a long ways to go
 
I started in late January of this year. I think it was the week after toys reset post-Christmas.

Cleaning the fixture room took maybe two full weeks to actually get it all trimmed down and organized. This week I took two days to redo some of it, now that I know what gets used and doesn't.

I organized the fixtures according to department. One shelf section is entirely devoted to softlines. Another is domestics. In bins underneath the shelf wall I put the peghooks. One shelf holds two bins of peg-label holders, another holds backers and we have maybe 10 or so bins of peghooks. I kept things that we don't use too often in the back of the fixture room. Things like the legs for the tables we build during Halloween/Christmas, the black pegs that get used in kitchen cookware, that kinda crap.

These are things I've done. Your best bet to figure out where to put things is to just work and see how often stuff gets used.

And don't be afraid to throw things out. Don't be a hoarder. When I started, our old signing specialist for whatever reason liked to hoard the old CSE graphics. We had a bunch of Black Friday crap still floating around. I don't know why he had them.
 
Awesome! Now I don't feel so helpless. I have a cave in receiving where my pallet is dropped and were my trainer and I sort and purge. A lot of times the TLs don't know that they get backer paper or special signing and my trainer taught me that I have to hunt them down and let them know. Other than that I have a tub in the fixture room that I have some generic/licence headers that can be used during carry forwards as well as tools and parts. We do have limited space so we do purge our area and try not to hoard too much. We tossed anything that wasn't picked up by the team leads that was passed their set dates.

My HR ETL is trying to get us to get organized and on workbench it looks like the big directionals, hangers, focals, backer paper, etc are supposed to be kept in the reviving area and it looked like smaller ISM was placed in the fixture room with designated shelves that separated signage by department.
 
DeadAndKhaki said:
Awesome! Now I don't feel so helpless. I have a cave in receiving where my pallet is dropped and were my trainer and I sort and purge. A lot of times the TLs don't know that they get backer paper or special signing and my trainer taught me that I have to hunt them down and let them know. Other than that I have a tub in the fixture room that I have some generic/licence headers that can be used during carry forwards as well as tools and parts. We do have limited space so we do purge our area and try not to hoard too much. We tossed anything that wasn't picked up by the team leads that was passed their set dates.

My HR ETL is trying to get us to get organized and on workbench it looks like the big directionals, hangers, focals, backer paper, etc are supposed to be kept in the reviving area and it looked like smaller ISM was placed in the fixture room with designated shelves that separated signage by department.
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My designated signing space is right across from our fixture room so that helps cut down on hunting for stuff. I have shelves in the fixture room for salesplan and softlines signing. If it is bigger than will fit on those shelves it goes in my area outside the fixture room, labeled. Anything that is not put up within 2 months gets tossed. The Plano team has the most signing so that always goes in the larger area, again labeled and dated. Let them know what you get in and bring it to them if you know what they are setting. If you leave for them, it may accumulate to the point where you run out of room quickly!
 
Used to look like a safety hazard and the spaces to get through were so thin that if anyone on the remodel team needed anything, I have to get it for them. Now it actually looks neat and stays that way because its locked.
 
I'm currently at day 0 of starting yet another new process to keep the fixture room clean. Thankfully its still better than it was last time... that took a solid three weeks of cleaning, sorting, and pitching crap
 
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