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Display and maintain greengrocery products to attract sales in a retail organisation

URN: PPL.B225
Business Sectors (Suites): Retail
Developed by: People 1st
Approved on: 2025

Overview

This standard is about displaying and maintaining greengrocery products on display to attract sales, regularly checking displays and dealing with substandard produce on display in your retail organisation.

This standard is for staff who are responsible for displaying and maintaining greengrocery products.

When you have completed this standard you will be able to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to:

  • Display and maintain greengrocery products to attract sales in a retail organisation

Performance criteria

You must be able to:

  1. check that display areas are clean and in the correct condition for greengrocery products to be displayed according to your workplace requirements
  2. place specific greengrocery products in the correct display areas following your workplace procedures
  3. make displays attractive to encourage sales whilst following your workplace’s display plan and procedures
  4. check the quality and shelf life of greengrocery products on display regularly following your workplace procedures
  5. follow your workplace procedures for displaying and maintaining greengrocery products to keep them attractive to customers
  6. follow the relevant legislation and your workplace procedures for removing, recycling or disposing of items that have little or no shelf life or that have deteriorated in quality
  7. follow your workplace procedures to rotate greengrocery products correctly according to their shelf life
  8. check that ticketing and coding is accurate and correct according to your workplace requirements
  9. follow your workplace procedures to check the condition and cleanliness of displays regularly and correct them if needed

Knowledge and Understanding

You need to know and understand:

  1. the greengrocery products that are sold by your workplace and how they should be displayed
  2. why greengrocery products need displaying in the correct display areas
  3. your workplace display procedures and how greengrocery products are displayed to attract sales
  4. why regular checks should be made on the quality and shelf life of greengrocery products, and how to do so
  5. why products need rotating
  6. how to rotate products
  7. how to price and display greengrocery products with limited shelf life to encourage customers to buy them
  8. the relevant legislation and your workplace procedures for recycling or diposing of greengrocery products that cannot be sold because they have deteriorated or are past their shelf life
  9. your workplace procedures for maintaining greengrocery products' attractiveness to customers
  10. how to clean and maintain display areas to meet relevant legislation and workplace requirements

Scope/range

Scope Performance

Scope Knowledge

Values

Behaviours

Skills

Glossary

Links To Other NOS

PPL.B224 Prepare greengrocery products for sale in a retail organisation

External Links

Version Number

4

Indicative Review Date

2030

Validity

Current

Status

Original

Originating Organisation

Skillsmart Retail

Original URN

SSR.B225

Relevant Occupations

Food Preparation Trades, Retail and Commercial Enterprise, Retailing and Wholesaling, Sales and Customer Services Occupations, Sales Assistants and Retail Cashiers, Skilled Trades Occupations

SOC Code

7111

Keywords

Retailing; retailers; displaying; displays; vegetables; fruits; salads; produce; facing up