[atomic_dog]

You may not notice it. My wife works for a large grocery chain. They have a lot of people going through store placing units strategically so the shelves appear full. The practice is called "fronting".

[cgbg]

fronting

I was in a Walmart the other day (and found what I wanted) and the "fronting" created a hilarious situation.

Folks bought the "fronted" items, created huge gaps on the shelves.

However, the Walmart employees had not bothered to front everything, so there were a lot of "stragglers" way back in the shelf. It you got on your knees for the lower shelves and reached back as far as you could, you could find just about anything.

[GOPJ]

You may not notice it. My wife works for a large grocery chain. They have a lot of people going through store placing units strategically so the shelves appear full. The practice is called "fronting".

I remember at the start of the pandemic - - when stores were hit hard - walking into a Publix and seeing they had put out frozen turkeys (out of season) and large frozen fish to fill freezer cases - - discouraging panic. It worked. (Well, other than toilet paper...) The beauty of capitalism is there's a good chance it'll continue to work...

[flamberge]

The practice is called "fronting".

I have noticed that. Did not know it had a name.

They use to stock the shelves from front to back. Now I see a shelf with only two rows of an item and empty space behind them.

I also see advertising cardboard use as a spacer to fill out a half-empty shelf.

And of course there are the "holes in the shelf", where they simply ran out of something. Those last a day or two and then they are filled - and something else is empty.

Never used to notice any of those things. Now I see them every time I go to the store.

I feel a chill wind blowing.