Is there any word on if this will have an affect on receiving?
I would guess you kill it and ask the "backroom lead" to take care of it as they're unloading the truck and letting people in the morning anyways.
also all 10 org charts are gone, we now have 3 operation models. Low, Base, and high. Base will be 60% of the company.
That seems quite inadequate to properly define a store, one size fits all means some stores with more resources than they should really have vs stores scraping by.
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Interesting because years ago with e2e i would have guessed one of the goals would have been with these more "focused/specialized" teams stocking one section of the store, we could use well trained employees to flex out more product and minimize what we carry in the backroom, and dive deeper into a lean/just in time fulfillment. You can also completely minimize what stays in the back though the use of fast rolling racks and adding a shelves at the very top of all aisles, a self just for fast moving items or what would have been backstock. You can't sell from the backroom, grocery stores understand that because their margins are paper thin.
With that i would have guessed Target's big move for relevance would have been to utilized that hypothetical expanded that space form the backroom. They'd probably use it to make all stores into enhanced ship to/from store. This allows them to minimize speedy shipping cost. Shipping something 2 day or even 3-5 day is dramatically reduced when you ship it from the same area. This is in part how amazon gives away 2 day shipping with prime subs, because they have distros all over the place, meaning most things that qualify for prime are in your area. This would expand Target's footprint as an e-tailer, an area of good potential growth.
Of course the downfall of such a plan is a current problem with target, their supply chain and logistics is already full of holes.
This shipt stuff seems to be in line though with that same weird stuff with curb side delivery. As in target is trying to get a market in niche service.