It’s a grocery store’s dream—the “dump bin”. Set up a barrel, fill it with mixed product, attach a splashy sign screaming an unbeatable sale price and watch the customers buy, buy, buy. It’s an inventory auditor’s nightmare—the “dump bin”. There’s no way to organize the different flavors within the bin, so as they work through […]
Malcolm Gladwell is a hot commodity these days. One of his main tenets is that anyone can become a master at something if they dedicate 10,000 hours to that activity. I thoroughly debunked this theory with my golf game, but in other areas this theory has real merit. Take Grocery inventories. When the same crew […]
You don’t just send a group of people into your store and have them start counting stuff until they’re done. You need a plan. Every good plan starts with a Map. First your store is broken up into Areas. For example, in a smaller store each gondola and wall might be its own separate Area. […]