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Has anyone else's store seen a humongous drop in sales and payroll hours before this whole bathroom thing? I know I'm probably opening up a can of worms but just curious how everybody else's stores are doing. I've had too many guests to count that have come and paid off their entire balance on their REDCard, said they wanna return all their stuff from target, even transfer their prescriptions from CVS. My store hasn't made the forecast goal since all of this started and we were up 4.7% YTD just a few weeks ago.
 
There was a huge drop in payroll at my store before the bathroom announcement, but I think it has more to do with the time of year and stingy corporate than planning for a drop in revenue because of the announcement.
 
the boycott signatures is up to 1,207,807

there was speculation that there were people signing multiple times, but i don't think it's that significant. i have been keeping my eye on it and it shot up to a million in a few days and has only gained 207,807 more signatures over that last 8 or 9 days. if people were signing it multiple times i don't think they would have stopped and it would have kept growing the same.



guests come in to shop, the wife says "brad please let's get out of here" "damnit janet, we can't leave until i pay off my redcard!"
 
No I'm strung out about how you keep posting a pointless petition from a religious conservative website that people can sign multiple times.

By the way, the creator of the petition, the American Family Association, has said things like black people "rut like rabbits", the first amendment only applies to Christians, Hispanics are "socialists by nature", and that "Homosexuality gave us Adolf Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews."
 
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i'm sorry if it bothered you i thought it was relevant to the discussion since it's related directly to the amount of lost sales. and the rocky horror clip was just part of my vibe. it was amazing.
 
Payroll is tight in the Month of May in general (the after Easter but not yet Summer lull). Comps we are doing fine. I don't think the conservatives have the buying power to make an impact (I bet 900K of those signers were Walmart shoppers who already didn't shop at Target in the first place) and the rest were the crazy people who dropped our margins through coupon abuse or some other method. Sales will continue to climb as the younger generations continue to grow and increase in buying power as they get out of college, since they are the ones we bought over at the expense of the old conservative crabs.
 
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Payroll is tight in the Month of May in general (the after Easter but not yet Summer lull). Comps we are doing fine. I don't think the conservatives have the buying power to make an impact (I bet 900K of those signers were Walmart shoppers who already didn't shop at Target in the first place) and the rest were the crazy people who dropped our margins through coupon abuse or some other method. Sales will continue to climb as the younger generations continue to grow and increase in buying power as they get out of college, since they are the ones we bought over at the expense of the old conservative crabs.
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interesting take on it. i'm curious if anybody knows is it the conservatives or liberals that have more money and buying power compared to one another. you might be right that conservatives wouldn't really shop at target anyways.

i have seen several threads over at godlikeproductions.com about this issue, and there were many posters who claimed to have spent several hundred dollars a month at target but will no longer shop there.
 
To answer the OP question -- it seems like sales floor hours are down a bit, but not by much. Although cashier hours are up. We have had at least one or two more cashiers working at any given time. Also sales floor people are getting cashier shifts as well so any lost hours for sales floor TM are being made up with cashier shifts.

Although I wish hours would go up a bit more. I worked last Sunday and we beat sales by $12,000 that day so it was fairly busy. But since we were staffed for a much lower number I was exhausted by the end of the night. We are been meeting or beating sales a fair amount recently (although not by $12,000 everyday or anything), but I am assuming they aren't increasing hours because they 'think' we can handle it with very few people even if the store doesn't look too good.

Our store is also doing pretty good with REDcards as well. We have met the weekly goal for the past several weeks which doesn't always happen. Last Friday was ridiculously good for REDcards. I think they were have a contest for the cashiers or something, but whatever it was we had about eight REDcards by the time I left at 4pm.
 
invictustaylor said:
the boycott signatures is up to 1,207,807

there was speculation that there were people signing multiple times, but i don't think it's that significant. i have been keeping my eye on it and it shot up to a million in a few days and has only gained 207,807 more signatures over that last 8 or 9 days. if people were signing it multiple times i don't think they would have stopped and it would have kept growing the same.



guests come in to shop, the wife says "brad please let's get out of here" "damnit janet, we can't leave until i pay off my redcard!"
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I don't understand your selective skepticism.

Anyway, I guess worst case scenario, Target will go Canada on religious areas. I don't think that's happening. This isn't that slippery of a slope. Those signatures are nothing more than a symbol, and a weak one at that.
 
It's bad at my store. And at mine, you know it's bad when they start cutting hours from POG. Where we are guaranteed 40hrs a week.
 
invictustaylor said:
interesting take on it. i'm curious if anybody knows is it the conservatives or liberals that have more money and buying power compared to one another. you might be right that conservatives wouldn't really shop at target anyways.

i have seen several threads over at godlikeproductions.com about this issue, and there were many posters who claimed to have spent several hundred dollars a month at target but will no longer shop there.
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Its not even so much conservative vs liberal, as much as the basic statistics of the demographics in regards to age. In general, as you look at older generations, they are more conservative in regards to this issue. Younger are more liberal and supportive. Younger people are worth at least 50 or so years worth of spending (and a large online force) while older are maybe 20 (and smaller when it comes to online). We may give up a few hundred dollars at our brick and mortar store over the next twenty years or so, but we dropped them to pick up someone who will shop both brick and mortar and online over the next 50 (and will be starting families).

Statistically it makes sense the way it played out on a pure economics perspective.
 
Okay, I'm glad about all the feedback. Now that you do say that @redeye58 and @Rock Lobster i do remember around this time working in electronics and there was only one person in hardlines and me in Electronics and one softlines TM and the operator, and maybe two cashiers and the GSA.
 
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