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What was the craziest project you did as a merchandiser?

September 03, 2016 02:46PM
I once had to use a blow dryer on shoes to remove tool marks that showed where straps were attached or rivets to be placed. Spent 3 hours applying hot air to marks that were barely visible to begin with. Paid bonus and mileage.

~~*~~*~~*~~ kal ~~*~~*~~*~~
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just forget to load the film.
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September 03, 2016 03:05PM
I once did a gas station audit for Marketforce. After printing 24 pages of guidelines it took over an hour on site to gather all the pictures they wanted. All for 8 bucks. Never again.
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September 03, 2016 03:43PM
All of my projects are mildly crazy because my company's scheduling department is whacko. They send me for frozen resets and don't tell me that it's frozen (i.e. I need gloves and jacket), they accidentally schedule me for a reset out of town on the wrong date (or one that was canceled) so I show up and no one else on the team is there, they send me for a project that is supposed to be a reset with a team only to find it is a single person reset, they send me for a reset that is supposedly able to be done by one person in 4 hours and there are so many snafus with the store, plan-o-grams, or other issues that it turns out to be a 9 or 10 hour project instead...tell me what's not crazy!
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September 03, 2016 04:42PM
Worst one was 26 Xmas trees to be assembled and put on a display, which also has to be set. ( Martha.) Every ribbon, bow, bulb had a specific location on each tree. No one else showed up!. My bass came down and helped. Did I mention this was an out of state project? 16 hour day, 3 hour ride home. Never built another Xmas tree since.
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September 03, 2016 04:44PM
Oh that job would so not be me. I won't even set up a tree at home, LOL.
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September 04, 2016 02:02AM
Many moons ago, about 6-7 years or so, I had to go to a BRU to make sure certain cribs were off the floor...can't remember why now....probably had something to do with space between the slats or something similar. Anyhow, all those in the original boxes were to be shipped back to the manufacturer. The one out on display was taken back to the back room with WRITTEN ORDERS to be DESTROYED on site!! Yup....one of the employees and myself whacked that crib apart with some hammers and mallets and threw all the wooden pieces out the delivery door!! It couldn't just be taken apart and thrown out, because the instructions said that someone might come by when the store was closed and take the pieces home and put together the crib! So it had to be really destroyed. That was strange!
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September 04, 2016 02:36AM
I bought all of a certain brand of children's mouth wash and go into the bathroom at Walmart and empty the bottles down the drain and photograph the empties. The directions stated, in caps, MUST BE DESTROYED ON SITE. Management wouldn't let me use the cleaning closet sink for some reason. So I dumped a dozen into the sink. I never did find out why. It wasn't expired. Had to do the same with syrup one time, but I at least could come home to dump it and photograph the empties.
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September 04, 2016 02:58AM
Yeah, Cindy, it was toothpaste too. I had to the same but it was toothpaste. Apparently a bunch had been made in China or somwehere else and potentially had been made with formaldehyde.
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September 04, 2016 05:30AM
I'm afraid of any product that is to be used internally that comes from China. On the plus side, the business man that adulterated the baby formula was tried and executed very quickly. Talk about harsh quality control! But one heck of a deterrent.
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September 04, 2016 03:15PM
Two weeks ago I was to go into a major department store, take down a display end cap take inventory of it, move it to a side fixture set it to POG and reset the end cap with the stuff I moved. Spoke to the store manager and he told me what stuff to move. Spent 4 hours moving and setting 2 displays. Last week I was in the store for a different reason and the original product was back on the end cap. The visual manager saw me looking at it and said the stuff I replaced it with went on clearance so we moved it back. Both displays were reset to before I did the change. Craziness.

~~*~~*~~*~~ kal ~~*~~*~~*~~
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just forget to load the film.
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September 05, 2016 12:32AM
@kalfini wrote:

Two weeks ago I was to go into a major department store, take down a display end cap take inventory of it, move it to a side fixture set it to POG and reset the end cap with the stuff I moved. Spoke to the store manager and he told me what stuff to move. Spent 4 hours moving and setting 2 displays. Last week I was in the store for a different reason and the original product was back on the end cap. The visual manager saw me looking at it and said the stuff I replaced it with went on clearance so we moved it back. Both displays were reset to before I did the change. Craziness.
Doesn't that just "getcha" when stuff like that happens??!! I had my share of stuff like that happen to me, too, during the years I merchandised!
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September 05, 2016 01:06AM
Yeah, it's like when you move stuff during a reset and end up having backstock, then the department associate/manager tells you they don't like backstock and asks you to "hide" the product behind something else. If you don't do that, they are just going to bring it back out and hide it themselves and then be irritated that you didn't. I just put it aside in a cart until after the photos are taken then oblige.
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September 05, 2016 02:47AM
Build a display at 6 local grocery stores, snap a picture and kill the display. Boss won a weekend get away we got sore back.
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September 05, 2016 02:51AM
Spending an entire day resetting a 26 door beer cooler for a VIP tour in 2 days and the next day finding out they gave you the wrong Plan-O.
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September 05, 2016 04:09AM
OMG sstazz that beats em all.
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September 05, 2016 06:52PM
@sstazz wrote:

Spending an entire day resetting a 26 door beer cooler for a VIP tour in 2 days and the next day finding out they gave you the wrong Plan-O.

Yea they go crazy when they are having store visits.

~~*~~*~~*~~ kal ~~*~~*~~*~~
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just forget to load the film.
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September 07, 2016 01:37PM
The funniest-being told that I was the only reliable person in my state who could do a job and being assigned to hang posters all over the state of New Jersey which I did. Told that company to forget my name...
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October 22, 2016 06:38AM
Oh please post the first letter of the Co name, I am CURIOUS !!

@JASFLALMT wrote:

All of my projects are mildly crazy because my company's scheduling department is whacko. They send me for frozen resets and don't tell me that it's frozen (i.e. I need gloves and jacket), they accidentally schedule me for a reset out of town on the wrong date (or one that was canceled) so I show up and no one else on the team is there, they send me for a project that is supposed to be a reset with a team only to find it is a single person reset, they send me for a reset that is supposedly able to be done by one person in 4 hours and there are so many snafus with the store, plan-o-grams, or other issues that it turns out to be a 9 or 10 hour project instead...tell me what's not crazy!
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