Planogram Compliance Checklist

The sharpest operational question in this whole category: a deviation found today is not a point-in-time failure, it is an unknown-duration revenue leak, and the audit's real job is to bound that duration.

1. The schematic version and effective date being audited against recorded, not just "the current planogram".Field
2. Store, bay or fixture identifier, date, time, and auditor recorded.Field
3. The date of the reset being verified, and the date of this bay's last verified audit, recorded, so deviation duration is bounded rather than unknown.The previous audit's photos are what make this number mean something.Field
4. Post-reset audits run before the store opens, so corrections happen before a customer shops a wrong shelf.Field

1. Every authorized SKU in the bay present on the shelf.Field
2. Every SKU on the shelf level and horizontal position the schematic specifies.Field
3. Category sequence and horizontal and vertical flow as drawn, no reversed or transposed segments.Field
4. Brand blocks intact; adjacencies match the schematic.Field
5. Priority SKUs in their assigned eye-level and reach-level positions, not a convenient nearby slot.Field
6. No SKU displaced, narrowed, or pushed aside by a neighbor since the reset.The competitive-encroachment row, and the one a brand partner cares about most. Only comparison against the reset-day photo makes it provable.Field
7. No unauthorized SKU introduced into the bay.Field

1. Facing count per SKU matches the schematic, counted rather than eyeballed.A square-on, full-bay frame is countable, by a person or a model.Field
2. Shelf heights and positions match the schematic: a shelf moved one notch changes every capacity assumption above and below it.Field
3. Gaps filled by spreading a neighboring SKU recorded as deviations, not as fixes.The store's well-meant workaround is itself a compliance failure, and the subtlest row on this page.Field
4. Any over-facing of a high-velocity SKU documented against a named approval, not improvised.Field

The out-of-stock evidence, including the finding that a quarter of out-of-stocks are product physically in the store but not on the shelf, lives in our planogram compliance statistics; this stage is the operational counterpart.

1. No product hole at any facing position.Field
2. Every out-of-stock recorded with whether stock exists in the backroom: in-store-but-not-on-shelf and true zero are different failures with different owners.Field
3. Fast movers positioned so replenishment does not require dismantling the display.Field
4. Everything the schematic expects a customer to buy is physically reachable.Field

The one externally enforced number in this whole category: a weights-and-measures inspector passes a store only if at least 98 percent of displayed prices match the charged price, per NIST Handbook 130. Your planogram audit is the only routine that would catch drift below it.

1. Every facing has a shelf label, aligned under the correct SKU, readable at standing height.Field
2. Exactly one label generation on the rail: superseded labels removed, not covered.Field
3. Every promotional ticket, talker, and flag corresponds to a promotion live today.Field
4. Every was/now or compare-at claim matches exactly what merchandising authorized; no store-created comparison claims.A former-price claim is only legitimate if the former price was actually, bona fide offered for a substantial period; the store-level check is authorization, which photographs.16 CFR 233.1
5. No handwritten price or promo sign on the rail unless the store standard explicitly permits it.The handwritten sign is the visible symptom of a broken labeling process.Field
6. Shelf prices sample-verified against the register for this bay, weighted toward recent reprices; below 98 percent agreement is stop-and-fix.NIST EPPV

This is the stage the whole page exists for: promotional resets are what brands pay for, dispute, and demand evidence of.

1. Each promotional display matches the supplier or campaign schematic, including facing count and orientation.Field
2. The set display photographed on the day it is set, from the frame the brand will be shown, filed against the campaign and the store.The single most valuable photo in retail execution: it is the evidence of what the brand bought.Field
3. Promotional SKUs in stock for the campaign's duration.16 CFR 424
4. Food retail: every currently advertised item in stock and readily available, or a rain check or comparable substitute authorized and known to staff.For food stores this is federal law, not merchandising hygiene.16 CFR 424
5. Expired campaign material removed from the bay, the end cap, and every secondary location.Field
6. End caps aligned with the main shelf, not creating a second, contradictory price for the same SKU.Field

1. No damaged, crushed, or leaking packaging on the shelf.Field
2. Date codes checked for the bay's rotation window; nothing past date, nothing rotated backwards.Field
3. Rails, dividers, pushers, and shelf edges clean, present, undamaged.Field
4. Bay lighting reaches the bottom shelf; no dark bay.Field

An approved planogram can be executed in a way that breaks the store. The auditor is already walking every bay with a camera; these rows cost nothing extra and carry real law.

1. The aisle in front of the bay holds at least 36 inches of clear width, after the reset debris and staged stock.ADA
2. No talker, wobbler, or fixture protrudes more than 4 inches into the aisle between 27 and 80 inches height.Shot in profile.ADA
3. No promotional display or staged stock in an exit route; no hanging campaign sign blocking sight of an exit sign.Both installed by the same reset crew the audit is checking.OSHA 1910.37
4. Bulk stacks and pallet displays stable, blocked or interlocked, height-limited.OSHA 1910.176
5. Reset debris (banding, shrink wrap, cut ties, cardboard) cleared; surface free of trip hazards.OSHA 1910.22
6. Backroom overstock from the reset stacked stably, not obstructing a marked aisle.OSHA 1910.176

1. Every deviation photographed at the moment of discovery, not reconstructed at the end of the walk.End-of-walk photo sets are reconstructed, incomplete, and unlocatable.Field
2. Every deviation carries a named owner and a due date, or it is a note, not a deviation.Field
3. Deviations the store cannot fix (missing fixture, unshipped SKU, wrong schematic) routed to the function that can, and recorded as such, so repeat findings are not charged to the store.Field
4. Compliance scored the same way every time, at bay level, so the number compares across stores and resets.Field
5. Sign-off by the auditor and, where a third party executed the reset, by that party too.Field