Why bother with out of stocks, most of the out of stocks have a out of stock tags thick as a book from doing it week after week, and still no product! It's just busywork. Most of those tags are the result of vendor issues and not genuinely being "just" out of stock.
The district manager gets twitterpated if we take the initiative to take down all of the empty pegs or fill empty spots on shelves (quite embarrassing, quite frankly) and spread out product to make it look stocked. Nope, leave the planogram how it is. We don't know if the OOS will ever come in but we have to maintain planogram integrity!
I've never seen a store where spots sit empty week after week and the only thing taking its place are a ton of "See associate for assistance" tags, so we can tell them nope, don't have it and don't know when it will come in. It's just sloppy.
Pay the damned vendors and get some stock in!