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I suggested to the shop manager that one way of dealing with the overflowing back stock of books was to increase the space selling books in the shop.
Menswear isn't selling very well at present, so if we can find enough shelving, we're going to replace a rack of trousers with three more shelves of fiction.
We'll do the swap over on Monday, so that should keep me busy...
I'm also hoping that they'll go over to a sticker system for recording how long fiction has been on the shelves. Our current technique is to record the date a book enters the shop on the price label and to check regularly for books that have been there a long time. Oxfam use a four week colour rotation system which is a lot quicker.
The idea is that all books put out in week 1 have a small red sticker on the base of the spine. Week 2 books have a blue dot. Week 3, yellow and week four is green.
In week five, you remove all the books with a red sticker and replace with a new lot of red books (or use a fifth colour if you want to avoid confusion). It's much faster to check for books with a red sticker than it is to check the date individually on the back of each book.
It's not such a useful technique for non-fiction as the prices are often higher so the books get a longer shelf life. There, it can still be useful to use the date labels. However, for non-fiction worth two pounds or less, I want to start using coloured sticky dots.
Menswear isn't selling very well at present, so if we can find enough shelving, we're going to replace a rack of trousers with three more shelves of fiction.
We'll do the swap over on Monday, so that should keep me busy...
I'm also hoping that they'll go over to a sticker system for recording how long fiction has been on the shelves. Our current technique is to record the date a book enters the shop on the price label and to check regularly for books that have been there a long time. Oxfam use a four week colour rotation system which is a lot quicker.
The idea is that all books put out in week 1 have a small red sticker on the base of the spine. Week 2 books have a blue dot. Week 3, yellow and week four is green.
In week five, you remove all the books with a red sticker and replace with a new lot of red books (or use a fifth colour if you want to avoid confusion). It's much faster to check for books with a red sticker than it is to check the date individually on the back of each book.
It's not such a useful technique for non-fiction as the prices are often higher so the books get a longer shelf life. There, it can still be useful to use the date labels. However, for non-fiction worth two pounds or less, I want to start using coloured sticky dots.