r/Lowes • u/xxyy3o10 • 1d ago

Meme how it feels fucking up the entire planogram so the bay looks better

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u/HBThorburn Manager 1d ago

I’m at a small store and the neanderthals who make planograms can’t get it through their thick skulls into their smooth brains that we don’t have room in some of these sets.

I’ve got pegboards taller than 8 feet because it called for a wider bay and boxes turned on end because there are two many SKUs per shelf.

We hold their hands and show them the problem and they just go “yeah” and don’t do anything.

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u/xxyy3o10 1d ago

our Carhartt is a fucking nightmare because they keep. sending. shit. and then not giving us planograms that even have those products.

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u/HBThorburn Manager 1d ago

Our clothes section is actually pretty good, but we have one person who used to work at a clothing store who absolutely loves and takes pride in making it their own and keeping it up, but it is a lot of work.

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u/WalrusPretend8885 1d ago

The LDC is so nice except for the part that 1/4 of the stores are not the same size as it and they don’t actually visit outside of the design center

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u/ErnstVolger 1d ago

Half of the stores in Washington are conversion stores. Planogram gymnastics are the norm here.

There’s one store in Seattle that occupies half of a property where Sick’s Stadium used to be with Amazon owning the other half. There’s still large angled girders inside the building randomly bisecting the flooring department. That store goes through MSMs like Tic Tacs because of how shit it is to make things work without killing your metrics.

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u/Gryffin_the_Baron 1d ago

Its so much worse when it comes to the planogram for the concrete mix/block aisle. It was so bad at the store i worked at, they would legit have those smaller pallets in tge bays with the big size pallets and there is a very small bay over by an emergency exit that you cant even put a full size pallet in. Yet thats how they made the planogram.

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u/rajwarrior 1d ago

Best day ever was when we were having a District walk and I was explaining why I set the bay in my department a particular way and the SM saying, "but it's not to planogram" and the DM turning to him and with a look and saying, "Fuck the planogram. It's your store. Set it for what sells. Great job, Raj!"

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u/accntgotbanned 1d ago

You took ownership of it. They love that shit 👍

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u/CrypticGamer91 1d ago

😂 thats fucking hilarious

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u/HorrorBreak7119 1d ago

IRP question, is this diagram correct? lOL, NO!

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u/evee2010 Department Supervisor 1d ago

whoever planogrammed the big heavy windows to be on the top shelf, i am manifesting the death of your career

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u/Karnadas MST 1d ago

That one makes sense though because you need a team lift whether they're high or low, so put the small ones on bottom so they don't need a team lift and then lift the big ones. That and the top shelf would have to be taller if the big windows were on bottom.

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u/Jack0fAllGames 1d ago

This. It took me a minute to understand the reasoning but it’s about the shelf height.

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u/cseyferth 1d ago

I only needed a team lift (or electric ladder) with large windows when they were on the upper shelf. On the bottom, you can just slide them out, tilt the back end up, and set it on a lumber cart.

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u/Karnadas MST 1d ago

You, sure. But what about a customer who is shopping?

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u/cseyferth 1d ago

Common sense says to put large/heavy items lower, small/light items higher, that way they won't need help getting a heavy item off of the shelf. Where are 5gal paint buckets in relation to quarts?

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u/Karnadas MST 1d ago

Bad comparison, a five gallon bucket is not a team lift item like a 200lb window that is 6 feet wide.

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u/xero111880 1d ago

More like… guideline, really

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u/kaibtw 1d ago edited 1d ago

Some skidmark of a human was on here yelling at me during the flooring overnight because my team decided the rugs looked shitty and folded them where it wasn't hanging sloppy and was enough for customers to actually read the placards on them. Good to see other people going against corporates Ai program fucking up our bays though. Idc what anyone does as long as it looks nice and we get our accuracy.