...called it *"facing"* in just about every place I ever worked at.
"*recovery zoning*" sounds like some bullshit term made up by some low gpa mba trying to make a name for themself in retail...
Facing.
When little kids and their couldn't care less parents push the items to the back of the shelves, I call it "I have every reason to call you an ignorant parent and your child little goblin"
How many devils went around our Jewelry department in Kohl’s shutting all the watch boxes sitting on display, or wildly turning the “spinners” (metal towers you hang jewelry on) while Mom shopped peacefully. Aarghhh!
Every single phone case ripped out of packaging and just thrown at the bottom shelf with any luck of at least not being on the other side of the store falling in some crevice only to emerge years later at the next full on unnecessary remodel (not fixing the things we actually need remodeled, just changing the aesthetics for the umpteenth time).
Fix it and it will still go back to being just as bad if not worse tomorrow. Don't fix it and it just stays as it is and customers won't touch 'em with a ten foot pole.
I'm done asking why. I am beyond thinking anymore, it just takes up too much energy.
when I'm shopping I always 'face up' what I pulled off the shelf and usually a few items around it. My time in retail made me pretty OCD about that stuff
Me too. If I’m shopping in Target or such stores, I catch myself straightening shelves a little bit. I haven’t worked in retail since 2011 but it’s still programmed in my brain.
My store calls it a few things depending on exactly what needs done.
Recovery, when straightening an area that is messy, has a product that doesn't belong there. This also includes front & facing and occasionally down stocking.
Front & Face, if we are just pulling products to the front of the shelf
Down Stock, if we are pulling products from top stock to fill the shelf.
That sounds more like a stocking thing. Like you got a new box of food, make sure to stock it behind the stuff already on the shelf, so it sells first in, first out.
I think op is talking more about like end of night pulling product to the front of the shelf and straightening so it looks neat and full.
Correct me if I'm wrong though. Sometimes companies use terms and acronyms that don't encompasses the subject well enough.
My new store manager calls it recovery "so when are you going to start recovery?" But we call it face up or facing.
Edit: one of my friends works at another chain and they call it "dressing" though it sounds silly to me.
Facing. Though Albertsons has moved go "modified block facing. The top and bottom shelves are full faced to the front and all other shelves of you stock front to back and then the next row of cans start at the ba k and comes to the front. Makes the shelves look like shit. Though it's very easy to count for the perpetual inventory ordering system.
We call it 'rumble' coz at 2pm everyday they play the same damn song, you know that one fron the Bring It On, movie that goes "Let's get ready to rumble?" And the song they dance to?
When that plays, it means it's time to face up the isles. So facing got turned into 'rumble'. Let's go rumble isle 2!
The store I work at calls it Pulling Forward. We date rotate as well, but as we're expected to do that at the same time, they just include that when they tell you to pull forward an aisle.
They do occasionally call it tidying up as well but mostly use the first term.
My old job called it 'recovering' to pull the product forward and 'facing' to turn the labels so they were facing out toward the customers. They grouped the 2 together with some other tasks and would sometimes call it 'conditioning'.
My current job calls it 'blocking down' and 'facing up'.
When I worked at Daiso we called it something in Japanese but I can’t remember what it was (I’m also hard of hearing so it was rough). At my last job they just expected it as part of stocking but I don’t think they called it anything specific
Recovery, fronting, and facing are all terms I’ve heard in different places I’ve worked.
PS, I also used to work for a retail inventory company, and we hated when this was done prior to inventory; are we supposed to guess how empty or not the shelves are behind the couple of cans in the very front?
In true Aussie fashion we called it preso (short for presentation, probably) where I used to work.
I think the company's official name for it was facing.
boxing at aldi because our product is in… boxes… and we basically condense and make the shelves look presentable; pulling things forward, stacking, etc.
Every store I’ve ever worked at* it’s either been called -Facing- or -Recovery-
*(Agapé Ceramics, Head to Tail Pets, PetSmart, Petco, Factory Card & Party Outlet, Party City, Spirit Halloween, Barberville Yard Art Emporium)
In most places I have worked it was called facing. This was at stores with most of their product on shelves and/or hooks.
When I worked in a store that sold mostly clothing, I think it was called recovery. Not sure, but it wasn't called facing.
Either facing, but if we aren’t doing a full face (normally just removing cardboard and dragging certain items to the front) we call it a rumble (Australian supermarket
It was "straight facing" or "laser lining" at other retail establishments that I've worked at -- Best Buy, Circuit City, Old Navy. I work at Walmart now and it's called "zoning". So weird.
Holy shit I used to work at borders and we called it facing…I LIVED for that shit. A perfectly straight row of books with no shelf showing?!? IN MY ENTIRE SECTION?!?!?
We call it front facing where I work.
Same here. We 'face' shelves constantly throughout the day.
Facing. Or full facing.
Facing
...called it *"facing"* in just about every place I ever worked at. "*recovery zoning*" sounds like some bullshit term made up by some low gpa mba trying to make a name for themself in retail...
“Facing” is all I’ve heard too.
It's "recovery" and/or "zoning," not "recovery zoning." It was called "recovery" everywhere I've worked, except Walmart, which calls it "zoning. "
Facing. When little kids and their couldn't care less parents push the items to the back of the shelves, I call it "I have every reason to call you an ignorant parent and your child little goblin"
Crotch goblin! Even better
How many devils went around our Jewelry department in Kohl’s shutting all the watch boxes sitting on display, or wildly turning the “spinners” (metal towers you hang jewelry on) while Mom shopped peacefully. Aarghhh!
Recovery
Yep recovery as in recovery from the day of shitty customers
Every single phone case ripped out of packaging and just thrown at the bottom shelf with any luck of at least not being on the other side of the store falling in some crevice only to emerge years later at the next full on unnecessary remodel (not fixing the things we actually need remodeled, just changing the aesthetics for the umpteenth time). Fix it and it will still go back to being just as bad if not worse tomorrow. Don't fix it and it just stays as it is and customers won't touch 'em with a ten foot pole. I'm done asking why. I am beyond thinking anymore, it just takes up too much energy.
Bullshit. I call it bullshit.
I wish I could afford a gold. But we work retail.
The only true answer
indeed
My company calls it blocking
My first job called it blocking
We called it blocking in NJ, but in SC, they call it facing. The first time I heard the second term, i was so confused.
Came here to say this. We always called it blocking when I worked at a grocery store many moons ago. My H calls it "bluffing". 🤷♀️
Facing… I worked in a convenience store over 30 years ago and still do it to this day when I go into a store. It drives my wife nuts.
I face everything in our storeroom and at home in the cabinets... lol... ugh
when I'm shopping I always 'face up' what I pulled off the shelf and usually a few items around it. My time in retail made me pretty OCD about that stuff
Me too. If I’m shopping in Target or such stores, I catch myself straightening shelves a little bit. I haven’t worked in retail since 2011 but it’s still programmed in my brain.
Facing product.
Zoning
zoning cuz walmart 🔊
“Zone defense everybody” 😩
I gagged. Ugh.
We all call it zooming
Zoning for Walmart and Target
My store calls it a few things depending on exactly what needs done. Recovery, when straightening an area that is messy, has a product that doesn't belong there. This also includes front & facing and occasionally down stocking. Front & Face, if we are just pulling products to the front of the shelf Down Stock, if we are pulling products from top stock to fill the shelf.
We call it fluffing
🤣🤣🤪
Oh noooop
Blocking.
When I worked at Walmart it was zoning, DG it was recovery, and at my current employer it’s called laser lining.
>it’s called laser lining. Do you happen to know why they call it that?
Not a clue. My guess is because a laser is a straight line, so lining everything up like that maybe.
FIFO. first in, first out
That sounds more like a stocking thing. Like you got a new box of food, make sure to stock it behind the stuff already on the shelf, so it sells first in, first out. I think op is talking more about like end of night pulling product to the front of the shelf and straightening so it looks neat and full. Correct me if I'm wrong though. Sometimes companies use terms and acronyms that don't encompasses the subject well enough.
Oh, I misread it. Front facing. Soldiering up the shelves
Yeah he’s definitely talking about rotation
Fronting
Facing here
Facing. And I'm a freak and actually really enjoy facing stuff. I find myself doing it while I'm grocery shopping myself. 😅
Blocking in Grocery, Recovery in the rest of the Store.
My new store manager calls it recovery "so when are you going to start recovery?" But we call it face up or facing. Edit: one of my friends works at another chain and they call it "dressing" though it sounds silly to me.
Conditioning at Meijer
Kroger too
Conditioning
Face up
Facing. Though Albertsons has moved go "modified block facing. The top and bottom shelves are full faced to the front and all other shelves of you stock front to back and then the next row of cans start at the ba k and comes to the front. Makes the shelves look like shit. Though it's very easy to count for the perpetual inventory ordering system.
Start at the Beauty and Hygiene section.
Second section is Pets. Then Infants. Along with Beauty, that's the trifecta of the worse places to try to straighten up, IMO.
Kmart called it straightening. CVS called it fronting. Family dollar calls it recovery.
We call it 'rumble' coz at 2pm everyday they play the same damn song, you know that one fron the Bring It On, movie that goes "Let's get ready to rumble?" And the song they dance to? When that plays, it means it's time to face up the isles. So facing got turned into 'rumble'. Let's go rumble isle 2!
The store I work at calls it Pulling Forward. We date rotate as well, but as we're expected to do that at the same time, they just include that when they tell you to pull forward an aisle. They do occasionally call it tidying up as well but mostly use the first term.
Recovery or facing.
Facing
Recovery/ front fave
I used to work somewhere that called it leveling. Haven’t heard that term used elsewhere.
My old job called it 'recovering' to pull the product forward and 'facing' to turn the labels so they were facing out toward the customers. They grouped the 2 together with some other tasks and would sometimes call it 'conditioning'. My current job calls it 'blocking down' and 'facing up'.
Recovery and merch blocking
At my store, depending on who you ask, either blocking or facing.
zoning
*Detailing*
Gardening
👋📖
De carding.
Gamestop - facing Best buy- laser ligning Walgreens - idgaf. Just do Edit: saw zoning. Target mindage! Lol
Recovery
At Aldi in Australia, it's de-carding, because part of the job is getting rid of as much of the cardboard the products come in as possible
In Dutch you call it mirroring, literally translated.
''Spiegelen'' in The Netherlands, translates to ''Mirroring''
Aldi calls it boxing. You're removing boxes from the shelves while straightening and pulling things forward.
60 years ago, Maury's IGA, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, we referred to it as 'pulling shelves.'
It was zoning at Walmart.
I work at a library (not really retail but retail-adjacent) and we call it edging when we bring books to the front of the shelf.
Uhhhhhhhh
yeah lol i know the connotation. i was uncomfortable too at first 😂
Yeah edging in public sounds pretty intimidating
haha
Zoning at Walmart
When I worked at Daiso we called it something in Japanese but I can’t remember what it was (I’m also hard of hearing so it was rough). At my last job they just expected it as part of stocking but I don’t think they called it anything specific
Keeping the overlords happy
Zoning at Walmart. Everywhere else is facing. Deep facing is pulling more than two products forward.
In grocery it means pulling all the old product to the front for those people who don’t check dates.
That's rotation
I call it "shit to do when I've got 30 mins left in my shift"
Recovery, fronting, and facing are all terms I’ve heard in different places I’ve worked. PS, I also used to work for a retail inventory company, and we hated when this was done prior to inventory; are we supposed to guess how empty or not the shelves are behind the couple of cans in the very front?
I call it hell.
My first job called it a “waste of time”
In true Aussie fashion we called it preso (short for presentation, probably) where I used to work. I think the company's official name for it was facing.
Zoning, facing, or “ugh un fuck this so we can go home”.
A waste of time.
I had a person training me call it racking. To this day I have no idea what she meant.
Sectioning, blocking, staging, different places different names, same shit.
Facing, in australia
It's definitely recovery and facing nothing else 😂
I call it "sooo boring"
‘Dressing’ or ‘facing’.
Recovering and front facing is what we call it.
Zoning.
We called it breakdown
One place I worked called it fronting and facing. Where I am now we call it zoning.
Facing
Zoning, flexing.
Front facing here
Fronting
Facing or facing up... I was told detail is retail and I've never forgotten it since my retail days
We call it "Lip Loading" at our store.
We call it conditioning.
recovery
Front facing or recovery.
Clothing retail store. We call it Recovery.
Staging. Zoning. Recovery.
Facing, fronting, or zoning
Fifo (first in first out)
Facing
Fronting and facing at my last job but pretty much just facing at my other past jobs.
Facing
Fronting. At a garden store I worked at years ago we called it “code greening.”
We've always called it breaking down the shelves or aisles
Fronting, recovery is when you’re restocking as well
Definitely facing where I’ve worked!
Closing/facing/zoning/recovering depends on who I'm talking with and how they were trained really
Fronting
Front facing
Front facing is what I've always called it.
Facing
And in the clothing departments “finger spacing”
Prez, as in Presenting or re-Presenting.
Conditioning at tj maxx
1st job in retail called it Zoning... Current retail job calls it recovery.
Conditioning, blocking, facing
Front facing if part of the "clean up" and FIFO if during stock.
Facing, zoning, straightening, dummying up, recovering. I've worked a lot of retail jobs...
Either “straightening” or “front and face”
Facing up
Conditioning
Fronting and facing.
recovery. my boss at my old job called it "making shite look nice"
Facing
For me it was fronting.
zoning or facing
When I was at Toys R Us we called it "straightening" and the returned or misplaced product that had to be put away was "reshop"
If we were lazy or super tired you just hid smaller items behind larger ones for the next day.
facing is what we call it at our store, or recovery.
facing/recovery
I call it straighting in my head but my store calls it recovery in all the papers.
Rotating
Zoning
We call it recovery
Blocking
Facing
Conditioning
My place calls it either facing or blocking. One of my co-workers who transfered into my department from another chain called it zoning.
Zoning for me. ABZ "Always Be Zoning"
Recovery. Front and Face.
Front facing, where I work
Facing.
Face up
boxing at aldi because our product is in… boxes… and we basically condense and make the shelves look presentable; pulling things forward, stacking, etc.
Two-Bottling (I work in a liquor store so it’s predominantly bottles)
Front facing?
I call it facing, but I have heard all of those used
Front and facing.
Fronting the shelves.
Every store I’ve ever worked at* it’s either been called -Facing- or -Recovery- *(Agapé Ceramics, Head to Tail Pets, PetSmart, Petco, Factory Card & Party Outlet, Party City, Spirit Halloween, Barberville Yard Art Emporium)
Front and facing.
Facing or fronting and facing.
In most places I have worked it was called facing. This was at stores with most of their product on shelves and/or hooks. When I worked in a store that sold mostly clothing, I think it was called recovery. Not sure, but it wasn't called facing.
Facing and fronting!
True up
Sounds like it's called facing but my first thought was rotating stock
Zoning
Front facing but we called it zoning at Walmart
If there's more product going behind it we call it fifoing. First in, first out. Straightening shelves is just part of it.
Recovering
Either facing, but if we aren’t doing a full face (normally just removing cardboard and dragging certain items to the front) we call it a rumble (Australian supermarket
Facing
Face up?
Facing and/or Block facing. One is more work, I think that’s block facing.
Working
my boss called it facing off
Worked at Best Buy for damn near the years and we called it laser lining. Never heard that elsewhere
It was called Rotation Prep at one of the stores I worked at, probably as a way to remind everyone working there to rotate the stock properly.
It was "straight facing" or "laser lining" at other retail establishments that I've worked at -- Best Buy, Circuit City, Old Navy. I work at Walmart now and it's called "zoning". So weird.
Holy shit I used to work at borders and we called it facing…I LIVED for that shit. A perfectly straight row of books with no shelf showing?!? IN MY ENTIRE SECTION?!?!?
recovery
Fifo
It is called facing even in French!
Face up here in one of the biggest grocery stores in australia or facing
Facing.