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When I started at Target 7 years ago, I bought shares in the company in my other job's retirement plan. I felt good about working there. The store was gorgeous. We all worked together. The company was thriving, and the store was #1 in our district. Shares kept going up. I bought more on dips...

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

Fellow Former and Current Target Employees, How have y’all been? I haven’t been on here for a year because I forgot my password and had to reset it. Been thinking about how some of y’all I used to talk to on here have been and yes even to those I’ve had a lot of disagreements and problems...

Inside Target, Frustrated Employees and Search for New CEO Retailer, needing to revive sales and boost morale, looks for its next leader https://archive.is/ZnTOG Interesting article I saw in the Wall Street Journal. Figured many of you may want to read it.

Thoughts on this?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/15/target-stock-and-sales-fall-as-ceo-brian-cornell-contract-ends.html I mean who could have possibly ever guessed this, right? "Brian Cornell is doing an amazing job leading us through the pandemic and he's an absolute trailblazing industry leader with his highly...

OMG did it just blow up today like COVID 2. Every guest has water, paper towels and diapers. Anyone else getting slamed? My SD was running drive up orders.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/target-slows-store-theft-but-at-a-cost-to-shopping-experience/?dicbo=v2-kMbkEdB To cut those losses, Target recently lowered its product value threshold for shoplifting intervention from $100 to $50. Many store employees avoid confronting thieves when there...

How many of you seen headlines like this for the last two weeks? Wondering if it's bankruptcies or closing under performing locations? Nothing of the sort it just business the are closed Easter Sunday. Shitty headlines.

If you're only stopping by to tell us you're too cool to get excited about eclipses, move along, please. This thread isn't for you. For those of you in the path of visibility, is your store planning anything special for the day? Do you think it'll affect guest traffic? If you're working...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/21/target-doubles-bonuses-for-salaried-employees-as-profits-recover-.html Interesting. Headline is a little misleading because as I understand, their bonuses are basically recovering from last year's cut. Of course this pisses me off knowing I'll likely be getting...

https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2024/03/ohio-boy-12-spends-night-in-target-after-being-locked-inside.html

There is a interesting theory (see article below) that Walmart isn't shutting down its self checkout because of theft but because it is offering a paid membership that will allow people the same option. Just like games locking things you used to be able to win behind a paywall. They make the...

Can anyone confirm this...

As a Former Employee of Target, Saw on the news tonight in my city of Jacksonville, Florida, All stores in the city as far as I know (Not sure about other counties nearby, Had closed down early today because someone sent bomb threat emails or something to bomb all stores. Not sure who or what...

The senior corporate treasurers who give grants are the reason why Target is failing miserably in public perception. A recent report stated they gave a grant to the NDN collective in 2022. This grantee wants to demilitarize The violent United States military among other questionable objectives...

45 minutes before closing a fight broke out among 2 guests inside the store. It appeared the person attacked had been followed into the store by the attacker who came in screaming at the top of his lungs that "I m going to kill you m.fkr." 3 guests attempted to restrain the attacker as he...

https://www.businessinsider.com/target-ceo-earned-680-times-median-employees-pay-in-2022-2023-5?fbclid=IwAR00yKKhexSn5LCS_I-Nm5-Z5X7t_Mm9I46KC6L4bFW0vo2r9Ww5vMc489I&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar Your thoughts?

Target employees say they are overworked and dreading the arrival of drive-up returns: 'Somebody is going to get hurt or killed doing this.'