guysmom is so right! I actually go in ahead of time to set up a mutually agreeable date for the project, and explain what I will be doing, ask them to print my labels, and see if they really have received the product / shipper. That way, on the day they have agreed to have me do the work, I can explain it all again to the person who IS working that day, who knows absolutely nothing about what I'm there for, and then wait for the labels to be printed. I'm 3 for 3 this week on this scenario. I love doing things twice. NOT. I only accept reset work that is close to home, so it is easy for me to go in ahead of time when I'm out and about. I'm a solo merchandiser, so I make sure the product is there before I waste a day.
For couponing , they send the POP to my house then I just go in, tell the service desk what I'm there for when I sign in, let them know I will be taking a picture of the finished section with the coupons, and that I will need a manager's signature when I am done.
I actually had a project a few weeks ago, in which I had to go into stores to make sure that a Save the Rain Forest group had not placed warning stickers on the front of shampoo bottles. The sticker said " If you buy this product you are destroying the Rain Forest." If they were there, I had to take a picture of the coupons on the bottles, pull the coupons off, and then take a picture of the cleaned up section.
They were very nicely printed, not an amateur job at all.
Merchandising can be an interesting job, sometimes. A horror story other times. Rats in the cake mix aisle comes to mind.