So this would also depend on location and I don't have business experience past doing housing commissions for ff14 but...

Would starting a service (irl) to go into stores and just fix their shelves be a viable career that people would actually go for, do you think?

Like doing first in, first out, making sure things are in the right space, ect and that would be the. Ain job

Because then these businesses could worry about other things besides that

Taking the dollar General I worked at in mind (a hot mess), we never had time for that because the store was a disaster but other places are likely better off

But do you think that would be a viable thing that would gain traction?

are you talking about starting a business that would provide this service?

Yes possibly

This is all just me feeling around really because idk enough to act on anything

I imagine anyplace that's not a shit show wouldn't likely need it as much but idk

i don't think it's a bad idea at all! but I do think it might be logistically challenging

just drawing from my own experience, I once worked for the tuesday morning corporation

if someone had come to my store with an offer like this, I would have to point them to corporate and corporate would have to decide if they wanted to contract your company to provide this service

so this kind of job might require a lot of negotiating contracts with corporations

at the store level, I absolutely would've loved to have a couple extra hands setting up and staging the store. but even the store manager didn't have the authority to hire and pay for something like that.

it might be different at individually-managed franchises. i hear those have more freedom than corpo-stores like mine

I was thinking the same. Small mom and pop businesses might be a better place to start.

Where you have less hoops to jump through as far as getting approval.

Big-box stores like Wal Mart are supposed to either have their stockers or department managers for that. I believe they also hire vagrant people to go from store to store and check for that or signage. You might wanna start for smaller stores, yeah.

The plus side (is it though) is that I live in a small town where really the only name brand stores we have are dollar General, family dollar/dollar tree (combine idk how?), Casey's, and ace hardware