Apparatus to Present Leaderboards for Associate-Level Performance Statistics
A control circuit for a retail sales facility presents via an active display a plurality of leaderboards that correspond to a variety of different associate-level performance statistics. These statistics can include, but are not limited to, the number of products that a given associate picks as part of moving products from a stock area to the retail sales product display area (over, for example, a given amount of time) and/or an aggregated monetary value of products that are so picked, a number of products that are so picked exclusively from a particular area of the product stock area, a number of manually-created requirements to so move products, and/or a number of products that are placed for storage in the product stock area itself. Such statistics can represent any time period of choice including, for example, a particular work shift such as a current work shift.
1 . A retail store assistance system comprising:
a retail sales facility having:
a retail sales product display area having a plurality of product displays configured to present products being offered for retail sale;
a product stock area having a plurality of product storage areas configured to store products as undisplayed inventory;
at least one user terminal having an active display;
a memory having stored therein data regarding a plurality of different associate-level performance statistics as regards products at the retail sales facility;
a control circuit operably coupled to the memory and the user terminal and configured to present via the active display a plurality of leaderboards corresponding to the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics.
2 . The retail store assistance system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics include statistics regarding:
a number of products that are picked as part of moving the products from the product stock area to the retail sales product display area; and
an aggregated monetary value of products that are picked as part of moving the products from the product stock area to the retail sales product display area.
3 . The retail store assistance system of claim 2 wherein the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics further include statistics regarding:
a number of products that are picked exclusively from a particular area of the product stock area as part of moving the products from the product stock area to the retail sales product display area.
4 . The retail store assistance system of claim 3 wherein the particular area of the product stock area constitutes an area of the product stock area that is higher than a threshold height.
5 . The retail store assistance system of claim 2 wherein the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics further include statistics regarding:
a number of manually-created requirements to move products from the product stock area to the retail sales product display area.
6 . The retail store assistance system of claim 2 wherein the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics further include statistics regarding:
a number of products that are placed for storage in the product stock area.
7 . The retail store assistance system of claim 2 wherein the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics further include statistics regarding:
a number of products that are picked exclusively from a particular area of the product stock area as part of moving the products from the product stock area to the retail sales product display area;
a number of manually-created requirements to move products from the product stock area to the retail sales product display area; and
a number of products that are placed for storage in the product stock area.
8 . The retail store assistance system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics correspond to a current work shift.
9 . The retail store assistance system of claim 8 wherein the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics correspond to only the current work shift.
10 . The retail store assistance system of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured to also present via the active display, while displaying the plurality of leaderboards corresponding to the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics, a link to a display of a retail sales facility leaderboard that corresponds to a particular one of the associate-level performance statistics as aggregated on a facility-wide basis for a plurality of retail sales facilities.
11 . The retail store assistance system of claim 10 wherein the plurality of retail sales facilities comprise a subset of all retail sales facilities that are operated by a particular retailer.
12 . The retail store assistance system of claim 10 wherein the retail sales facility leaderboard presents an aggregated value for the particular one of the associate-level performance statistics for the retail sales facility above a ranked presentation of aggregated values for the particular one of the associate-level performance statistics for the plurality of retail sales facilities.
13 . The retail store assistance system of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured to also present via the active display, while displaying the plurality of leaderboards corresponding to the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics, an aggregated value representing a presently-completed facility-wide number of manually-created requirements to move products from the product stock area to the retail sales product display area.
14 . The retail store assistance system of claim 13 wherein the aggregated value is presented in conjunction with an aggregated value representing a facility-wide number of the manually-created requirements that are to be completed in total.
15 . The retail store assistance system of claim 13 wherein the aggregated value is presented in conjunction with an aggregated value representing a monetary value that corresponds to the presently-completed facility-wide number of manually-created requirements.
16 . The retail store assistance system of claim 15 wherein the aggregated value that represents the monetary value that corresponds to the presently-completed facility-wide number of manually-created requirements is presented in conjunction with an aggregated value representing a monetary value that corresponds to a facility-wide number of the manually-created requirements that are to be completed in total.
17 . The retail store assistance system of claim 13 wherein the control circuit is further configured to also present via the active display, while displaying the aggregated value that represents a presently-completed facility-wide number of manually-created requirements to move products from the product stock area to the retail sales product display area, a link to a display of a plurality of different department-level performance statistics regarding the manually-created requirements.
18 . The retail store assistance system of claim 17 wherein the display of the plurality of different department-level performance statistics is selectively sortable as a function of the different department-level performance statistics.
19 . The retail store assistance system of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured to also present via the active display, while displaying the plurality of leaderboards corresponding to the plurality of different associate-level performance statistics, an aggregated value representing a presently-completed facility-wide number of automatically-created requirements to move products from the product stock area to the retail sales product display area.
20 . A non-transitory digital memory having computer instructions stored therein that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to present via an active display a plurality of leaderboards corresponding to a plurality of different associate-level performance statistics as regards products at a retail sales facility.