Shawn Olson Creative Arts 142 18 http://www.shawnolson.net http://www.shawnolson.net/sitemedia/shawnolsoncreativearts.gif http://www.shawnolson.net/guest/1/?refType=article&refId=1188 Guestbook Posts http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1188 Wow this makes me rethink all my work, I am a reset specialist for a C-Store chain i travel store to store looking at the departments and making changes to these corporate wide Plan-O-Grams based on my veiws on the stores i love them and have been working with them since i was 14 at my first job. Sorry to hear my work can confuse people and these so called "Smart People" arent always the brightest i agree with that. Rob Romesburg 2009-03-28T20:05:13-05:00 http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1188 You hit the nail on the head. These supposidly smart people just don't use their heads either when catagorizing the differnet products available. I find myself going to the store that changes things the least nowadays. I shop at Kroger, Food Town, H.E.B., Walmart-Market & sometimes Walmart Supers & Randall's. I don't mind a store changing stuff around (like when the local Walmart became a Superstore and added Groceries) that is a situation where the store is like a new place altogether. So I almost exclusively shop at the Food Town because they only thing that changes in the store is the bulk (or warehouse style) isle, and that is because they get a lot of one kind of item that they put on sale. What these Smart People don't know is that they loose more business then (a least from me & a lot of my friends) then they will ever make up in products that people buy because they saw something else that they didn't come in for, while walking around wasteing time looking for what they do need. I just get frustraited and leave and go to another more familiar store. I don't have enough time in the day to spend one extra minute in the store than I have too. So not only do I not buy the extra things that the smart people think I may be buying, I am also not buying the things that I came to the store for in the first place. Kroger especially should wise up and fire some of the smart people that really think they know better than the average shopper. Norma Powell 2007-09-20T14:11:27-05:00 http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1188 Hey, the point is not to get in and get out (that is my point of shopping, but not the retailers). The longer you stay (looking for your speciality), the more you buy. You like a certain fish food, well, I guess you will stay to search for it! By the way, don't bother to notice the new bio-filter we have that you didn't know you needed.... Love and Kisses, Marketing P.S. Great comments you have! Greg Bennett 2007-05-14T16:32:36-05:00 http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1188 haha I work through a vendor company at Home Depot and I deal with plan o grams everyday. Store gets so mad when i have to move product to new locations. clint monnier 2007-01-14T18:50:13-05:00 http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1188 i was working in a deli and one of these really smart people starting talking to me... do you know the planogram for these turkeys... so i say yes. i was going to call them out cause i was pretty sure it wasnt a real word. they shouldnt f*ck with me cause i can make up words all day. at least i know im not alone jim thomas 2006-10-30T17:40:11-05:00 http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1188 Gosh, we must be twins! I'm so accustomed to the layout of my local HEB that when they went to a new Plan-O-Gram design, I stayed with the old one. So on my shopping list was Laundry Detergent, Soy Milk (I'm a vegetarian), Paper Towels and facial tissue, cat food and cat litter, and avocados. Since I usually shop with only one brain cell concentrating on what I'm doing, at the end of my shopping experience, because nothing was in the usual place I found that my cart contained a one gallon jar of pickles to put into my washer, a half gallon of Purple Slurple for my breakfast cereal, Depends to wipe up spills and a stack of paper plates to blot my lipstick on. The cats got two sacks of flour for their litter box and 20 cans of car wax to eat. Obviously, these days when I shop, I turn on all my brain cells in order to make sure that the scheme of the store is correct. No more running in, grabbing what I need off the shelf and checking out in less then 15 minutes. Thanks for a good read. Lee Evans 2006-07-25T12:42:35-05:00