Best Tips for Performing a Reset:
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- Use a magnetic clip to hold a POG on the shelf. It can easily be moved and won't tear the POG like tape sometimes can.
- When there is a facing with no product available, use a similiar sized product and place backwards in the space. That way the spacing is pretty close to what it should be and there won't be too little or too much space at the end of the shelf. At the end of the set, the missing product spaces can easily seen by the backwards facing products. And it is easy to place the labels for the missing new product.
- When you do remove product from its old home, always keep the shelf label with the product. It helps to find it later when you are looking for that one item.
- On shelving that has bent or misaligned shelf brackets causing the shelf to hang lower than it should, use a penny on the back wall where the bracket goes into the upright bar on the shelving unit. There is enough weight to hold the penny in place and the shelf lines up nicely with its neighboring shelf.
- In reset work, it is neither best to be the hare or the turtle. Yes, you need to work fast, but not so fast that you make costly time mistakes that take a lot of time to go back and fix. The best pace is a steady and methodical pace that helps you stay accurate in the work that you do.
- If working with carded product and the peghole tears, try using the stores staple gun to salvage the peghole. The staple will hold up to the weight of the product much better than placing tape over the hole.
- When doing a lot of pegboard resets such as cosmetics, some merchandisers purchase a piece of pegboard to use just for these types of sets. When removing a peg during a reset, they place the pegs with product on the pegboard to keep things orderly and easy to return to the new plannogram/modular location.
- Also, when setting shelves bring a level to make sure the A frames are the same heighth. This works great on resets that have wavy shelf lines. You will have to take the front kick panel off and adjust the feet up or down. It will amaze you after doing this. It is harder than setting shelves during a new store set, but will make a reset look better.
