Continued/Summarized: "Is this THE most optimal way to put up CVS sales tags?"
I made a post 3 months ago that was way too long, and no one benefited:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CVS/comments/1qzzs2e/is_this_the_most_optimal_way_to_put_up_cvs_sales/
Don't bother reading most or any of the above thread, except for the bottom / most recent post that I just made. The following is a paste of it to be able to read it here.
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I think the reason for the amount of effort of this post was from the combined stress of having to be the makeup-work guy many times. But the gist of it is there are various techniques people might not think about:
STORY 1: If you know that a shelf usually has only several sales tags (henceforth just called tags):
- Peel off tags (both thumbs) for it, e.g. A1, into your other hand until you see anything but that initial shelf.
- If you reach 4-5 tags in all of the initial shelf's tags, stop. Too many in your hand will slow you down.
This definitively tells you that only have 0-5 products to put up sales tags for—rather than looking frantically on the initial shelf, when the tag is completely elsewhere.
- If there are more than 4-5 sales tags for the initial shelf: continue after the above hyphen until complete.
- Blindly place these tags on the first matching price label's price, even if it's wrong.
Price numbers have the biggest font, so that makes your brain process minimally for maximal profit!
- If it's the wrong item number, then take it off and blindly put it on the next matching price.
- Repeat the above until the item number matches.
STORY 2: If you know a shelf's products will almost all have tags, well, anyone knows what to do in that situation: peel and stick away!
CONCLUSION:
I fall back on old habits sometimes, but this is generally the best. My main point is to A. look initially at price numbers only (and then item number until it's correct), because the font size is the largest. And B. stick tags on blindly, even if it's ultimately wrong—because you can just take it off and then find the right spot. Most of the time, it will be correct; therefore, the job is done, and the least possible amount of thinking has been achieved.
I dislike throwing away sales tags because of having no time to put them up. My store does that all the time. It reduces sales, even if just a little bit, at the cost of this procedure that can be a great simplification. I go out of my way to put them up at all costs, but obviously after a certain point/day it becomes undoable.
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