Activation fatigue is visual before it is verbal. Shoppers notice faded wobblers and mismatched end-caps long before they notice a soft sales dip.
Schedule teardown with the same seriousness as install. A half-day gap with clean shelves beats a week of leftover campaign debris.
For clusters without a central install team, send photo-marked playbooks: one correct photo, one incorrect, and a short checklist supervisors can complete on a phone.
Document before and after. HQ rarely visits every province; honest photography is how remote stakeholders approve the next budget wave.