Merchandising as an employee? (greeting cards)

I'll try to keep this short. A friend of mine mentioned her grandfather recently passed and forwarded me his obituary.
He was elderly and had lived an interesting life, lot of places and jobs etc.
Anyway, the obit mentioned that after he retired from the military, he set up a small dairy farm and made and sold butter and birdhouses he made himself. lol
And!....he was a merchandiser for American Greetings for the last 15 years of his life....
so who knew...he must have been the guy people saw swapping out the greeting cards at CVS.
Out of curiosity, I asked my friend if her grandfather was an employee of American Greetings...she thinks so, not sure.
It caught my eye because it suggests the work was steady and he likely wasn't losing out to low bid contractors...my assumption.
Have any of you done merchandising for a card company? if so, IC or employed?

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You are an employee. Some people like the work and others don't. I see them in the stores a lot. I worked for a company that was a secondary helper to cover missed stores, like when someone quits, or they can't find anyone. It was not my cup of tea. But, here are some job postings:
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I haven't done it but talked to a fellow merchandiser once. When they have to switch out cards for holidays, it is a pretty large project. They are employees and not contractors.

There are several merchandising companies. Jadent and SAS I've seen at the grocery stores where I service a slipper/sandal display. I think in 3 years I've only seen someone merchandising American Greetings cards. There is always a large back stock.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard Feynman-- letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230

i see them all the time in the chain pharmacys. last i looked the pay is very very low.

shopping north west PA and south west ny

Pay tops out at $13.00/hour— no thanks!— edited to add in my area. I looked in other areas the pay is a bit more.

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As I was reading these responses, I had a huge flashback.
When I was a kid, there were these ladies who drove around in vans with egg logos.
The vans were full of L'eggs pantyhose....lol
Every store had a L'eggs rack.
They must have been merchandisers lol

On a side note...have you ever been in a store, looking for something you cannot find and you walk up to someone working, thinking they are an employee and they answer "I don't work here"....
now I get it lol.

I used to do greeting cards through a merchandising company at Family Dollar, Kmart, Rite Aid. We were paid a flat rate. It was weekly, except for holidays, then we had to go in the day after the holiday and switch them out to the next holiday. We had to tear up the old cards and throw out. Weekly visits we had to straighten out the racks, put out card orders, order out of stock cards. We also had to do complete resets. They only gave us one hour for the weekly visits. Hallmark used to have their own people in Walmart and Walgreens. I have seen American Greetings in Fred Meyer, Albertsons.

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