I expect Wal Mart will figure out how to get this right. After an initial group of test stores where these are falling off, they will figure out a different way to attach them so they stay on the shelves. If they have such a problem attaching them to the shelves that they have to spend a ton of labor walking around and reattaching them all day, then this program may end up shelved. Or they will have to do remodels and make changes to the shelving so this works. In which case the cost-benefit analysis changes and maybe this is why we haven't seen widescale roll outs of these despite the technology being available for many years now.ClownLoach wrote: ↑June 9th, 2024, 10:32 pm Aldi is rolling out the same ones. There was a pile of at least two dozen that had fallen off around the store sitting next to the cashier at their checkstand. Not a good start. They, like Walmart, used a expensive glued on C-channel. If two dozen have fallen off presumably today in a little slow Aldi, there will be no labels at all in a Walmart after a few weeks. This will not work out well.
I have not seen any of these on the floor in Holiday/Sav-Mor but these are small stores (a lot of narrow aisles though) and not overly busy stores. These stores are very neat and orderly operations, primarily rural. They run pretty tight labor budgets in their stores also. I am sure that was a big part of why they deployed these was to save labor.
I do wonder in the case of Wal Mart if they should try this first on certain product categories, as opposed to a storewide implementation. I know to realize the efficiencies they need to get it storewide... on resets they'll still be having to move shelves and pegs all over the place even if they do deploy these.
Given how understaffed Aldi is, I am not surprised they are having this problem with execution on the shelf tags.
Another thing to keep in mind with Wal Mart is the amount of labor they have walking the stores to pull online orders. I don't want to say these employees are going to be responsible for things like picking a fallen shelf tag off the floor and reattaching it (they can't - it would kill their items per hour metric if they had to keep stopping to do that) but I wonder if Wal Mart could build something into the app the pickers are using, like a literal button to push- for them to report that issue and alert whoever is in charge of maintaining these shelf tags to come fix it...