Jobes

Illustrated Task List

Table of Contents

The Jobes Experience

The Product Line
The Merchandising Tasks
Making Signs
Planograms
Reporting Tasks
Program Start and Length
Getting Paid

The Jobes Experience

Any of us who has
wanted to fertilize a
tree that is
surrounded by grass
has used Jobes
fertilizer spikes. The
company has been
known for their highquality fertilizers for
decades, and is a
recognized leader in
providing great
organic products.

The Jobes Experience

Jobes products are made in America, and the packages

proudly display the American flag.

The Jobes Experience

Starting this year, we
will provide service to
Jobes in nearly 800
Lowes stores
throughout the
Southeast.
Our job will be to
insure that Jobes
products are set to
planogram and
priced.

The Product Line

The flagship of
the brand is its
fertilizer spikes.
Lowes will carry
three varieties in
2015
Fruit and citrus
Tree and shrub
Palm

You may also find

Evergreen
spikes in stores.

The Product Line

There are
also smaller,
specialty
spikes
including
rose, tomato
and
houseplant.

The Product Line

For the
organic
market, Jobes
produces a
line of high
quality
granular
fertilizers, plus
bone meal
and blood
meal

The Product Line

A small number
of the stores that
we will serve will
also carry Jobes
Organic Lawn
Food. Be sure that
these pallet
displays remain
faced, full and
priced.

The Merchandising Tasks

Our goal is to
make sure that
the entire
product line is
on shelf and
available to
the consumer,
that it is
priced, and
that it has its
rightful space.

The Merchandising Tasks

The home locations should include the
products listed below and must be fronted,
faced, and priced.
Lowe's Jobes
Item # Item #
353018
353019
53635
41133
538485
594042
504249
504254
551737
371449
371456
103244
93849
210908
93111

09021
09521
09566
09066
09266
09289
09726
09327
09326
01310
01312
01010
04102
06055
5001T

Size
1.5 lb
1.5 lb
6 lb
6 lb
6lb
16lb
4 lb
3 lb
4 lb
9 pk
9 pk
5 pk
10 pk
50 pk
50 pk

Description
Organic Vegetable & Tomato
Organic All Purpose
Organic All Purpose
Organic Vegetable & Tomato
Organic Fruit & Citrus
Organic Fruit & Citrus
Organic Fast Start
Blood Meal Granular
Bone Meal Granular
Tree & Shrub Tree Spike
Citrus Spikes
Palm Spike
Rose Spike
Tomato Spike
House Plant Spike

# of
Stores

Retail

1,685
1,712
1,712
1,712
270
62
475
1,712
1,712
1,712
225
262
229
245
1,381

$4.97
$4.97
$9.97
$9.97
$9.97
$16.97
$6.97
$6.97
$6.97
$4.97
$4.97
$5.97
$4.97
$4.97
$1.97

The Merchandising Tasks

IF you need to restock
or cut in an item, you
will usually find it in the
overhead above the
home. The boxes look
like the ones at right.
BE CAREFUL taking
them down with the
ladderthey are
heavy and
cumbersome.

The Merchandising Tasks

You will also need to
restock the boxes on a
stick with the
appropriate spikes.
Although the POG may
call for up to 10 BOSs,
the reality at the store
may not allow for that as
many stores have lost
many of their fixtures.
Make sure they are full,
faced, and priced.

The Merchandising Tasks

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Be sure that you put the
spikes on the boxes that
make sense. The picture at
right does not, as the fruit
spikes are merchandised
with flowering trees. Put
fruit with fruit, trees with
trees, palms with palms and
evergreen with evergreen.
Every store should have at
least as many BOSs of
Jobes spikes as there are
types of spikes in the
store.

The Merchandising Tasks

About 80% of the stores
we serve will have up
to 7 2 X 2 stackouts like
the one pictured at left.
Restock them if there is
product available in the
overhead or home, and
then condense them as
product runs out.
Be sure they are priced.

The Merchandising Tasks

About 58% of the stores we serve
will have bone meal stackouts like
the ones at right in the bulb section
near the houseplants in the alfresco
set.
Restock them if there is product
available in the overhead or the
home location, and then condense
them as product runs out.
If you have to empty one or two of
the boxes in the stack, open it from
the bottom and then put the empty
box back on the stack to keep it tall.
Be sure they are priced.

The Merchandising Tasks

About 31% of the stores
we serve will be part of
the pallet bridge
program. These will
require special attention
on every visit because
competitors will feel
entitled to that space.
Lowes has put Jobes
spikes on the POG for
pallet bridge 4, so be
sure to keep it full and
priced.

Making Signs
One of the most critical things we do as
Merchandisers is to be sure that the
customers know the price.
Lowes has a computer based system for
doing so. You must make signs via
computerthey cannot be hand written.
Follow this link to learn more about how
to do it. The password is blossoming

Reporting Tasks
If youre a Matrix
Employee:
1) Log in and out of the
store using
PocketTracker
2) Complete the
Jobes survey for
each store, which
will include pictures.

Program Start and Length

The program will begin on 03/24/2015
Stores will be scheduled for visits at regular
intervals according to their volume, as
follows:

Weekly
Every other week
Monthly
Every six weeks

The program will end May 31

You will be informed of the frequency for
visits for your store(s) when assigned, and
reminded each Monday.

Getting Paid

1. Log in and out of the store on

Pocketracker
2. Complete the Jobes survey
3. Send a completed piecework timesheet
to the manager who you normally report
to.