Spot on.Instead of fixing the well pump so it pumps the correct volume, we've installed a hand pump next to it so we can draw enough water for the community. We'll all take turns pumping because we've been told it will solve our water shortage. The reality is that you'll soon grow tired pumping water for someone to wash their car every other day and move on to a community that has a functioning well pump. Eventually the water problem reappears when no one else is left willing to pump enough water while outsiders stay away because your well pump doesn't work.
Yes this is one of the many issues that they didn't seem to be think thru. Salesfloor is a lower paygrade than Backroom, Price & Planogram. E2E is going to eventually have team members doing "ideally' all of these processes. I don't know if Target is trying to do this on the cheap by not paying people fairly for the work they are doing. It does however sound (in typical Target fashion) that they are not adequately training people to correctly complete the complex tasks that they are being asked to do. But I'm sure it will all work out.....
What's so hard about backstocking?
Speaking of clearance, I'd like to see it have its own area. Maybe take out the dollar area, which looks like a mess anyway and make it nicer with better merch or a seasonal focal, and then create a few aisles someplace else for all the clearance in the store. Call it Spot's Savings Wonderland or some other shit. Because seeing the random aisles and endcaps all over the store with clearance just looks low end.
OR!! ...just thought of this...when it is due for its first markdown it gets sent to a local Clearance Target warehouse store where all it is is clearance. I'd hate to work there but it would be a huge draw.
Yes this is one of the many issues that they didn't seem to be think thru. Salesfloor is a lower paygrade than Backroom, Price & Planogram. E2E is going to eventually have team members doing "ideally' all of these processes. I don't know if Target is trying to do this on the cheap
Sounds like my store.I found out today that some stores in my district are pausing the full E2E rollout.
They're going to bring back a full backroom team and pretty much double the size of their current flow team. E2E will remain in grocery, softlines, and electronics for now. But they will be giving the rest of hardlines back to the traditional flow team.
Personally I think BTS sets far too early. It in my opinion set in late July not early. Also, I don't think BTS space is valuable. Its just a shit load of paper products that people need to 2 weeks before school starts. Really, this should be a permanent part of stationary. But thats my opinion.I am talking starting the clearance process sooner. Or taking higher markdowns sooner. So the product salvages the week of the reset..... not 1-2 weeks later.
Some sets are late due to the high volume of clearance in the area. thinking Shoes, or Seasonal, or Toys. Why keep around products that aren't selling?
Why not make it easier to make space for products that are in demand (ie Seasonal Lawn and Garden clearance taking up valuable space needed for the BTS reset.)
I gather you haven't seen how the retail market currently works, eh?Part of the reason it has been paused is the pay issue. You can't have 2 people doing same work for different pay or rather have them at 2 different pay grades.
NO!All clearance BS should be up front, married with the One Spot BS.
Period.
Both are right. As people elaborated here it was implemented backwards and poorly at that.So far my store has the e2e process in beauty, groceries and soft lines ( we are a ulv store). I am not sure how the softlines e2e process is going because I don't have much interaction with them anymore. However, the groceries. Well, lets just say that went to crap real quick. To start with the guys they picked for the grocery team have no sense of urgency what so ever. They come in get there u boats push it backtock it and grab another one. I have seen one guy literally take 20 min to backstock a handful of items. When they do back stock they throw things in the wacos put open bags of candy on upper case pack shelves. They have destroyed the walk in cooler and freezer ( I am glad I don't have to bs it anymore but I took so much pride in it being nice neat and organized). I have been to my srtl who then goes to the ctl and I have seen her point out to them how they are backstocking and how it should be done. However, they don't care. They just throw the stuff up any way they see fit. The beauty team doesn't bs their own truck bs which is fine with me because as a brtm its hours. I have heard out of my own stls mouth that the e2e process is flawed at best. I also have heard that our dtl has even said its not working the way they thought it would .
exploded is kind for us. Its basically permanent flexLucky. Ours looks like it exploded.
again people aren't supposed to know that. Remmeber that. Also, what will happen is job type pay will end. All TM will get payed a flat rate to start. The rest will be age (work time age) based differences based on merit raises.Not just shift differential but you tm 'a' doing everything that 'b' is doing but because 'a' is 'style' they were being paid more.
If your stores are stopping E2E also known as store modernization your doing wrong.
When I was first told about this I was like people you be stupid.
The stores that I have been in supporting for remodel are full E2E. They run very well backroom are good and empty. The team members are happy to show you the work that THEY did.
A few notes
Yes you will have dedicated stockers we're supposed to have that already anyhow.
Your dedicated stockers do their zone, do manuals or Pog fills while waiting on freight. Once they have freight they get that done as well. When they have finished they have pushed freight, done manuals or Pog fill because we no longer pull autos or cafs. They clean up their aiske in back make new endcaps and what not.
Your unload consist of 3 people. One unloaded and two on the line. I know your thinking that's crazy. I thought the same thing. But the ideal is your working clean. Your dedicated people come get the full flat when full. They get rid of their own trash. No more trash guy needed.
Research. Stop the research. Let the dedicated team do their own and only if empty. They know the area better what they have in back. With this your instocks team goes away. Rigs still have to be done but their is a store in our area testing no rigs. To be honest we key them out 99%of the time anyhow.
Your Pog team is supposed to go away and just help when big sets. But we still have a Pog team we just don't schedule them Pog they are schedule where the work load is be it hardlines or soft lines. Their shift label still says Pog though.
Sales planners they no longer care about them. So your dedicated person has the right todo with each end so as they choose as long as not junkie looking.
Your backroom team will split up into the sales floor the backroom Tl will be a Tl of something else. You shouldn't lose headcount just shifting people around.
If it started late July that would be too late here as school keeps starting earlier and earlier. It's the first week of August here and I won't be surprised if it doesn't eventually end up being at the later part of July.Personally I think BTS sets far too early. It in my opinion set in late July not early. Also, I don't think BTS space is valuable. Its just a shit load of paper products that people need to 2 weeks before school starts. Really, this should be a permanent part of stationary. But thats my opinion.
BTS should probably set based on when school starts in the areas. As soon as we set it, people were packing it into their carts and looking for specifics.We start after Labor Day here.