Recent content by jackandcat

Possibly it's worth talking to folks at another Target in your area. While I caution about the "greener pastures" syndrome, perhaps a different Target store with a different SD and ETLs would value your skill and talents more than the store you are currently working at.

Here's a very useful quote from the WSJ story itself: Methinks this has been a huge problem that is seldom discussed. Drive-up orders sometimes arrive without advance notification, leading to a frantic scramble by a TM to pull the items from various shelves (and sometimes at a remote location...

From today's Wall Street Journal -- article is behind a paywall -- https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/target-new-ceo-michael-fiddelke-969cb13f Here are a few excerpts from the "most liked" reader comments to the WSJ article. User comments can be highly insightful.

Our company is in trouble. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/target-tgt-q2-2025-earnings.html

Today's quarterly financial reports were not particularly encouraging. I'm posting the URL here, but will go into more discussion in a separate discussion thread. Target Q2 earnings report to investors

In my store, those are very recent memories. I think it changed earlier this year (2025), not when COVID started five years ago. This might be a district-specific thing.

Does that mean guests could apply for the Debit Circle Card in-store without giving us a paper check? I haven't seen or heard anything serious about this. I wish guests could apply for the Reloadable Circle Card in-store. While the Circle Credit Card and Circle Debit Card are issued/managed by...

Very true indeed.

Mandatory OT isn't a thing for grade 35 store TMs, though at times it may be for grade 45 store TLs. For ETLs, of course, there's no such thing as OT as they are classified as exempt employees. I can see why it's extremely irritating to have last-minute schedule changes. Your life includes...

Sometime around the beginning of 2025, I noticed that sales at checkout of Stanley stainless mugs/tumblers dramatically decreased. What once had been a HUUUUGGGGGE seller apparently no longer is the must-have glamour status symbol. Apparently the infatuation bubble burst against the Stanley...

When an organization describes management and policy changes with verbage such as "transformation", "reform" and "modernization", one can be hopeful and optimistic but also skeptical. How many times throughout human history are we reminded of two truths 1) The Law of Unintended Consequences 2)...

Target is a company. They are in a dog-eat-dog competitive business. Unfortunately, they are sacrificing the fundamentals which made Target so brilliantly successful for quite a few years. IMHO, those fundamentals include: 1) Quick checkout with a real human being who helps create a...

Excellent insights.

Does anybody in your store go around late Saturday or early Sunday and actually pull down the expired promotional sales signs from the prior week? This seems to be getting worse at our store, and causes some embarrassing moments at the checkout lanes where a guest claims they should have gotten...

The new app has serious problems. One of the worst is when a pending Drive Up is being prepped, one TM preps the regular merchandise bags and scans them into the appropriate tier while you gotta wait until the guest shows up to prep the Cooler and Freezer items. Often the TM who started the prep...