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To turn all the dvds side on in poundland?

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NoMapOfMyHead · 30/09/2017 22:20

Not sure if every poundland sells dvds, but my local one does.
I like to see what they have but the stack them in a way so they're all facing forward and you have to flick through them all to see what they are. So a couple months ago I flipped them all on their side so I could scan the spine, it was soooo much quicker!
Well I've been in there twice since and they've been put back to how they were, so I keep flipping them on thwir side again.
It makes so much more sense.

Fwiw... I don't deliberately aim for pl when I'm in town to purely do this. It's just when I happen to be in there and want to look through dvds

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Wheels79 · 30/09/2017 22:22

I suspect that having them front out means that the cover art may catch the eye of a casual browser. I'm pretty sure I read that's why bookshops do it.

rightnowimpissed · 30/09/2017 22:23

Your just right

JeReviens · 30/09/2017 22:26

Sad Sad Sad Broken Britain Sad Sad Sad

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NoMapOfMyHead · 30/09/2017 22:29

It annoys me less so with books wheels as generally I know which dvds I'm looking for, so like to just scan the spine. Whereas with a book I like a cover to catch me.

I don't understand jereviens??

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Miraclesparklestars · 30/09/2017 22:29

Gosh, i'm learning so much about poundland todayGrin

I popped out for the first time in ages to see that my local one now sells coats
Read on here that some are now selling clothes
You've just said your local one sells dvds

Mine does sell books and yes, I prefer them on their side, so I can quickly scan, rather than flick through them all!Grin

ItsAHardKn0ckLife1 · 30/09/2017 22:31

Haha I do this OP, thought I was the only one Grin

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NoMapOfMyHead · 30/09/2017 22:39

itsahard I kind of hope as I walk in there that they'll get the hint and leave them... but I've only done it 3 times in the last 2 months. Think I need to go in more often!

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IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 30/09/2017 22:51

Hah! I also do this!! Glad there's more of us 😂

SchadenfreudePersonified · 30/09/2017 22:54

What? Are you an anarchist or something?

This sounds like the end of civilisation as we know it.

Will no-one think of the children?!

Theimpossiblegirl · 30/09/2017 22:56

I did this with the CDs today. Such a rebel. :)

Ttbb · 30/09/2017 22:58

It's different in bookshops. They only do this with a book every now and then and it is always the same book the whole way through so no point in looking behind.

AuldHeathen · 30/09/2017 23:06

Remember a few years ago people were going into book shops and hiding copies of Tony Blair’s autobiography. One day l spotted my youngest doing it in ou nearest Waterstones. I was a very proud ma. He should do Poundland next!

melj1213 · 30/09/2017 23:22

Speaking as a shop assistant (albeit in a supermarket and not Poundland) who has, in the past, spent half a shift reworking a single aisle because somebody "corrected" the shelf plan ... please don't rearrange things in the store.

Things are not arbitrarily thrown on a shelf even if it sometimes looks that way there are set ways things are supposed to be presented, and those decisions are usually made by Head Office and/or management. In my supermarket we get the planograms sent with everything marked in specific places and with specific instructions of how they should be presented on the shelf ... so whether we line things up, one in front of the other or stack things one on top of the other, are boxes "stood up" (to show the front) or "lined up" (so you can see the sides) etc. The department manager will delagate tasks to specific colleagues and at the end of the day if things aren't done properly then they will get into trouble, especially if they have been told something has been done wrong before.

Periodically someone from Regional Management and/or Head Office will come into the store and check everything against the planograms for our store and if things aren't presented properly then we get into trouble as well.

So you might just be turning some DVDs to face spine out instead of face on, but some poor shop assistant might be getting into trouble or at the very least is having to re-do work to put right your "corrections".

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NoMapOfMyHead · 01/10/2017 08:33

Yeah melj I vaguely remember that now when I worked in Woolies yonks ago. The choc bars always had to be in a set place!

Maybe I should email head office with my suggestion then Grin

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Wavingkitten · 01/10/2017 08:38

Completely agree with Melj. Some poor bastard is having to correct this. It's not funny or clever.

cheminotte · 01/10/2017 09:28

Maybe go and visit a charity shop and offer your services in organising their books or DVDs? They might appreciate it!

tippz · 01/10/2017 09:30

I would never shop in that skanky shithold. Urgh......

Half the decor in my house and garden is from there.

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NoMapOfMyHead · 01/10/2017 12:46

It's not supposed to be funny waving but personally I think it is a much more clever way than their way. It just puts people off looking and then buying. I buy way more when I can scan them quickly. Esp with dd3 in tow.

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NoMapOfMyHead · 01/10/2017 12:47

cheminote I don't need to, all the charity shops near me stack theirs side on for ease to customers

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Theweasleytwins · 01/10/2017 12:49

Pound land also sells sex toys. Unfortunately they ID you when you buy one when you are discreetly trying to use the self checkout 😅

CoughLaughFart · 01/10/2017 12:56

Remember a few years ago people were going into book shops and hiding copies of Tony Blair’s autobiography.

Years back our local WHSmith put Margaret Thatcher's autobiography in the True Crimes section Grin

Brittbugs80 · 01/10/2017 14:15

I'm not bragging or anything but our Poundland has the dvds with spines facing out. Makes it much easier and you can find the Blu rays now as they have their own section.

Even better, the Christmas dvds get their section too!

melj1213 · 01/10/2017 17:49

personally I think it is a much more clever way than their way.

Maybe so, but someone in Head Office has decided they want it the other way and since I'd rather not constantly get into trouble from my boss I'll stick to HOs instructions and return displays to the presentation they were meant to be in.

It seems like a small thing but when you're the one who has to constantly re-do entire sections that customers have arbitrarily changed (and it's never just one customer in a day who messes with things on the shelves) when you already have 10hrs worth of tasks to get done in an 8hr shift ... it's really fucking annoying.

TL;DR I don't care how you want it, the shop wants it the other way so stop fucking it up.

saveforthat · 01/10/2017 18:01

Wow MelJ. We are the customers, you should care how we want it. Customers are the reason you have a job (however annoying they are). Maybe suggest to your boss/HO that as the customers keeps changing the display, you could leave it the way they want it?

Ummmmgogo · 01/10/2017 18:25

wow @save you clearly haven't worked in retail recently/ever! if shops listened to the staff retail would be a much nicer place to work. I agree that Poundland DVD displays are annoying, but having worked in retail would never dream of creating more work for the staff unnecessarily.

also customers, please don't let your baby ride on the conveyor belt of my checkout.

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