These staffers surely take their facing duties seriously. But if your store was down to 4 tubes of Crest, maybe you should just re-order rather than toweringly face as a Jenga construction? Shallower gondola shelf and auto-feed shelf management are also stock minimizing alternatives. CLICK the thumbnail for an alternate view.
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About a million years ago, I was a field sales rep for P&G and sold Crest into the retailers. I know things change over the years but back in the 1980s sales reps were instructed but P&G to face off the shelves this way to maintain visual impact. If you had three facings for an SKU and only three tubes left in inventory, you were to put one tube in each facing. If you had one facing and three tubes, they were to be stacked on top of each other like your photo. Again, this was POP merchandising from the 80s and I don’t know if they still have a filed sales force. Brought back memories.
Sorry for the typos in my earlier reply.
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