Talk:Facing (retail)

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 * Facing is the calling of an individual and saying "Your Face" and then hanging up. It can also be done by texting, or IMing, or, if you're really old school, it can be done in person.
 * It was started by Seattle rap artist Initial aka Anthony Koenen.

Any citation for this? It looks like someone's private neologism, and smells of vanity too. Until a decent cite turns up, I'm going to revert this to the redirect to Turning. CDC (talk) 22:28, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

revert
Apparant nonsense.

Facing (retail)
When more people take interest in this page I suggest removing the section regarding hyperreality. While it is worthy of discussion, it does not need to be in the first paragraph and is highly debatable and unprovable.

I am a retailer and agree that facing lends to a cleaner store than one in which shelved products that have been handled or removed by customers are left as is. But facing's other primary purpose is to serve the customer by making all available options obvious. If one product is displayed at the front of a shelf (easy to see, grab, read, etc.) and a similar competing product is in the back of the shelf it is a disservice to the customer to have them spend extra time reaching in to examine that product. Most retailers, I think, would argue that the ease of use of their store would contribute to more customer satisfaction and financial success than purposeful attempts at "hyperreality."

The idea that facing is used as an attempt to create a hyperreality that is a promise for endless supply of identical product does not hold up in many real-world applications. The frontline associates in the store I manage are selectively encouraged to "dirty up" some of our stacks of product to give the idea that the product is popular and many customers before them have made the choice to purchase this product. (Similar to apparel stores not always constantly refolding items on table displays). With data we have collected (that would never pass for scientifically-sound data!) this works better for many products than a rigis, "hyperreal" display.

--Lilbabycrunkchrist 06:41, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

The "hyperreality" mention is appears to be Original Research. It is probably a good idea to take it out for now unless someone can site other studies being done on this phenomenon. MrMurph101 02:05, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

My personal experience in a two-week fireworks fundraiser was that perfectly faced merchandise didn't move, but uneven first rows sold very well. I theorize that potential customers unconsciously didn't want to mess up the symmetry of perfectly faced items, but delighted in creating symmetry themselves by taking the odd item of an uneven row. --BlueNight (talk) 04:40, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Unsourced criticism of a particular outlet
is what I considered ‘ In ASDA Totton the staff seem to spend all their shift time only doing this particular task.’ to be. Any other opinions? WikitorrensT 09:13, 13 February 2013 (UTC)