Fresh produce stacked in a grocery aisle

Category mix review

A single sitting that asks which lines earn their facing, and which only keep a shelf warm.

Price basis: Fixed fee for an agreed bay or category

A mix review is for the owner who suspects a bay is pretty and idle. We take four to eight weeks of extracts, walk the bay once, and draw plates that put sales against facing, not against last year’s hope.

The pack covers one category you name — dairy, dry grocery, menswear, fasteners — not the whole shop. We mark lines that repeatedly sit through two promotional weeks, and lines that sell from a single facing while neighbours take three.

The sitting is two hours. You leave with a written note that a buyer can take to a supplier meeting. We do not reset the gondola ourselves; that is the floor’s work after the plates are agreed.

Ask for a mix review when the weekly briefing feels too frequent and the question is only “does this bay pay.”