Workin’ on MLK day bringing you another fine episode of the ‘Geek Shall Inherit’ podcast. Episode 006 is now live here and on itunes for your listening pleasure. I called this the “plug episode” as Jason accuses me of plugging a lot of things during the recording, but it’s really just the debut of our new feature “Things We Are Excited About”
In this episode:
- Jason talks about the upcoming Complete James Bond Blu-Ray collection
- Daniel and Jason give you their picks on who should perform the 50th Anniversary James Bond theme.
- Daniel (and Siri) give you the details on “An Evening With Adam West.”
- Daniel is excited about the return of Valiant Comics.
- Daniel gives you the details on Season 2 of SyFy’s Face-Off.
- In light of the newly announced Masters of the Universe Classics schedule delays from Mattel Jason and Daniel give you some insights into what can go wrong with product and dealing with factories.
- And More!
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Just catching up on these now (Loved Being Human, refuse to watch the American Version, kind of hating The Hobbit for being the career vehicle that rotated the British cast…)
Anyway.
Notes on retail shelving –
Yes. I straighten the product up when I’m shopping too. My reasons are varied. As a former retail McJobber I know how much of the day is taken up by cleaning up after humanity and the staff has my sympathy.
So I would never be that guy that walks the aisle and moves stuff to single pegs on them, because the hourly rank and file have to go back over the area every single time someone does that to relay the section. Their bosses make them. I also know it doesn’t have anything to do with ordering.
The on-hand numbers are in the computer – electronic ordering happens automatically in most store systems, and the only thing that would affect that would be increased sales by moving product from stock room to shelves… So if the area is already clean and merchandised, it leaves more time for the employee to pull a case and put it out.
Further, if you’re someone going on regular “toy runs” looking for something, you want to be the guy who’s helpful vs. the guy who makes more work in the employee’s eyes. There have been a few times where clerks have offered to go pull fresh cases for me after having seen me a few times (cleaning up, etc) and even talked with me while we hung the rest of the case on the pegs after opening the case. Quid pro quo.
Finally, and this is kind of the ugly secret – a lot of less considerate toy hunters will purposefully destroy an area of a store to better help them obscure a particular item if they can’t pick it up then. Reasons for that are varied, but often if it’s an employee hoping to buy it after shift they’d find a space in the back to put it instead (though not always – some stores may have strict policy about that so you could be pulling the last of something an hourly guy or gal is hoping to pick up). Either way, I’ve often found one item or sometimes whole waves (neatly put together into one of each or just short packs) obscured in a corner and covered with other random larger packaged toys.
A clean aisle makes for easier shopping and spotting.