BTB - VM guide

• Document No.

• Audit Title

• Client / Site

• Conducted on

  Date

• Prepared by

• Location
  Address

• Personnel

Apparel

• Style / volume merchandising. Review Emerson causal departments in the store through ladies, men's and kids. Has stock being grouped by style before colour?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Has a consistent fixture pattern being used through the style merchandised areas you checked ? Has no more than two types of arms been used in a side?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Have tops and pants been grouped together following the "would you wear it principle" ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladies business space. Has the shop been grouped into the two zones of 9-5 workwear and occasional wear?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Men's business shop set up to VM directive?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Coordinated merchandising standards reviewed through ladies men's and kids. Has stock been grouped into clear colour stories or by character in licensed areas?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladies active - special fit out in place?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Lee cooper denim wall features set up correctly? Light to dark. Recovery standards correct ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladies accessories set up correctly. Business bags in business, casual bags in casual? Accessories wall not over the top? Where possible, accessories fit out in business completed?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladies sleep department set up correctly? Stories on back wall and mannequins in place? Style merchandised on the smaller wall?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Men's sleep wear grouped by style. Licensed product grouped by characters?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Footwear grouped by style. Check the ladies canvas and heel sides.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Footwear - work boots grouped by price. Display shelf at eye height?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Hardgoods

• Towels - back walls of RP laid out with white as the lead in and blocked by colour?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Towels - smart value on outside wall. White the lead in and colour blocked ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Towels - smaller gondolas. Side of bath matts, other towels, gift pack towels all blocked by colour not brand. White the load in?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Towels - all product folded the correct way through the department?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Adult Manchester - back wall of separates blocked by colour with white the lead in?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Adult Manchester - smart value range on the outside of the department. Grouped by colour, white the lead in?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Adult Manchester - house and home range grouped into clear colour stories. White the lead in where possible.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Kids zone - produced grouped into gender with a neat lay out?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Kids zone - house and home the lead in with licensed towards the back of the space ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Home decorator - cushions and ottomans grouped by colour?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Home decorator - photo frames, wall art, indoor furniture, indoor mats and Rp range of candles and vases all grouped into their own space ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Home decorator - remaining stock grouped into clear themes following a similar bay lay out to example photos. Repetition used to create a cleaner look ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

General standards

• Is the store free of all stock off the floor - including on the display pad areas?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Is the front window and check out area free of HIZ or other display equipment ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are the women's mannequins centred to the store entry where possible?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• AAEC - review end caps around the store, have they been correctly blocked ? Is product all forward facing ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• AAEC - has the store got a min of 20 tile spaces between locations ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• AAEC - is the AA equipment straight and lined up. Ticket boards at the same height ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• AAEC - pillow hoppers filled to correct standard ?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• 1900 height line discipline in place? Review to lite paper and storage in particular for over filling?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• General cleaning standards - review AAEC equipment, bumper rails, tops of cosmetics gondolas, base shells.

  Yes

  No

  N/A