Job Skills Task Boxes: Retail & Stocking

What is included

• •Five task boxes, each asking for something different: match, sort, sequence, verify, and prioritize
• •Eight planogram cards printed four to a sheet so a shelf plan stays readable, with nine garment cards shelved one style to a row and sized left to right, so the student has to read the size off the tag instead of guessing from the pile
• •Twenty gift cards across five store brands at four amounts each, sorted to a five-pocket rack mat by brand and then put in order by amount
• •A six-step hanging sequence photographed on one rail, with a sequencing mat and a production sheet so the student counts their own output
• •Twelve shelf tags to audit against a laminated Today's Price List, four of them wrong in two different ways, some with the wrong price and some carrying the tag from a similar product, with fix slips for writing what the tag should say
• •Twelve floor jobs sorted into Now, Next and Later, so the last box ends in a decision about what matters most rather than a number
• •Printable box labels, a coded answer key for every box, a Work Portfolio cover, three levels that fade the support, and four copy-paste IEP goals
• •A data sheet with a laminated key that says what to write in it: the V/G/P prompt levels used across the Teen Life Skills packs, what counts as a quality check in each box, and what one point is in each box, so two staff record the same session the same way
• •Per box, which support to fade and which tool must stay on the table, plus what a student needs to be able to do before that box is the right box

Questions from teachers

Who are these task boxes for?

Teachers running transition, vocational, and life-skills programs for students in about grades eight through twelve, plus 18 to 22 programs. Every box prints its own entry-skill line, so you can see at a glance which one suits the student in front of you: two of the five need no reading and no money at all. The store, its products and its prices are fictional and built for practice, and the layout looks age-appropriate for secondary students rather than like a worksheet for younger children.

What does it cost to build all five boxes?

Under twelve dollars. Each box fits a 4x6 photo case at about $1.25, and the rest is cardstock and lamination you already have. Print the box labels page, cut, and tape one label to each case. A few real shirts and hangers are an optional upgrade for the hanging box, but the paper version works on its own and nothing else in the pack needs anything from a supply closet.

Why is the size printed small on the garment tag instead of large on the card?

Because reading the tag is the skill. A size S tee and a size M tee are the same garment in the same photograph, which is exactly why a real stocker has to check the tag rather than judge the pile by eye. The style has its own color and its own shape, so a student gets to the right shelf without reading, and then the tag tells them the right spot on it. That also means the box works for a colorblind student, since color is never the only cue.

Why are four of the shelf tags wrong, and where do the correct prices come from?

That is the point of the audit box, not a trick. Two tags have the wrong price and two carry a tag from a different product, which is what happens when two tags get swapped on a shelf, and at level three the student says which kind of wrong each one is. The pack prints Today's Price List so the student has something to check against and can self-check without you: a box only the teacher's answer key can settle is not a work bin. The swapped tags are between similar products, a denim jacket and jeans or a sweater and a hoodie, because those are the pairs whose tags really do get switched on a shelf.

How is this different from the Food Service and Office & Clerical task boxes, and are purchases refundable?

Food Service is a customer-facing cafe job and Office & Clerical is desk work. Retail & Stocking is the sales floor: facing a shelf to a plan, sorting a rack, hanging to a goal, checking somebody else's tags, and deciding what to do first when four things need doing at once. No box repeats an axis from the other two packs. They share the print-cut-laminate format, the V/G/P data sheet, and the same card size, so cards from one drop into mats from another. Because it is an instant digital download, all sales are final; if a file will not open, email info@spectrumunlocked.com and Spectrum Unlocked will make it right.