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A merchandise push is completed by the PROCESS
Manager and involves physically moving merchandise
from proformas, hanging or folded, into a staging
area with the focus of getting it pushed from the
back room to the floor – with a timed expectation for
execution.

• Pushed merchandise can be stacked on carts,
pulled to rolling racks or to the Staging Section to
be placed on the floor.

DURING NON-PEAK • Once a push is staged, the PROCESS Manager
TIMES, WE CAN AFFORD can work with the team or delegate the task of
physically pushing the merchandise to the team.
TO BE CHOOSY ABOUT • Merchandise “pushes” should always be time-
WHAT ITEMS GET SELECTED bound assignments. The PROCESS Manager

TO BE PULLED TO THE FLOOR needs to set clear timelines for when a push is
to be completed as per the Efficiency Standards
BASED ON SIZE, COLOUR AND document.
NEED FOR REPLENISHMENT. DURING • Pushed merchandise is not necessarily size or
PEAK TIMES, WE SIMPLY NEED TO FLOOD style focused. It could mean taking the entire

THE SALES FLOOR WITH ALL AVAILABLE inventory of an item in the back room onto the
floor, specifically when a promotion on an item is
MERCHANDISE TO KEEP PACE WITH happening.
SALES. WHILE THERE IS A NEED TO BE • If there is space and capacity on the sales floor, a
STRATEGIC WITH HOW, WHEN AND WHAT push of merchandise from the back room should
be done. Later work with the merchandise on the
TO PUSH, REPLENISHMENT SENSE OF floor to use the extra sizes or styles to fill nesters
URGENCY, TIME TO GET MERCHANDISE and/or double expose.
FROM THE BACK ROOM TO THE SALES
FLOOR AND PACE NEED TO BE RAMPED

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