MEGATHREAD End to End team PILOT

And it drags them through the store. Passing many other sections to build the basket. Same reason milk and bread are often far apart in grocery stores
 
Flow Warrior said:
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.
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Or put a smaller bts set in mini. With no dual locations. Only new items after season put on plu. No moving a shit ton of product back to home and backstock. Bts nightmare for plano and price teams will be over. No ticketing..win win tons of payroll saved..
 
YourPPTL said:
Or put a smaller bts set in mini. With no dual locations. Only new items after season put on plu. No moving a shit ton of product back to home and backstock. Bts nightmare for plano and price teams will be over. No ticketing..win win tons of payroll saved..
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What about your Signing Guys nightmare :(

Had to build all mine during a Dual A&A 2.0/ Home Innovation Remodel this year, (I am Signing Specialist for both).
 
What about your Signing Guys nightmare :(

Had to build all mine during a Dual A&A 2.0/ Home Innovation Remodel this year, (I am Signing Specialist for both, both as in, for the rest of my store at the same time.).
 
Ace33 said:
Not hard at all, just sharing that the E2E TM are cutting corners. They are not given enough hours to complete all tasks requested so something has got to go. Backstocking seems to be the choice they are making.
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I wouldn't say that backstocking isn't hard. Some things are easier to bs than others .However, Iwould never say running up and down ladders all day toting boxes is easy .
 
We have full E2E but our Receiving backroom and the line still tends to be clogged up with pallets so we don't get much ahead with this process. On top of that, without a Presentation team, we have multiple pallets of grocery transition fixtures that were sent to us 4 months ago just sitting around. Hopeful though that when SFS goes live for us, that will help clear out some inventory
 
Frontlanegirl said:
Same with ours. Problem is keeping it filled. Not sure the profit margins, but very little dollar merch is ever returned
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Come work in my store. Suburban moms buy shit loads of it, have a party or a project and then return over half of what they bought. Usually goes straight salvage. I have done $100+ returns for just one spot crap.. "Oh we changed our mind."
 
Flow Warrior said:
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.
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Not too early here as several of our schools are year round and kids are already back in school. Plus, the teachers get their shopping done early because they know if they wait things might not be available
 
Bosch said:
Come work in my store. Suburban moms buy shit loads of it, have a party or a project and then return over half of what they bought. Usually goes straight salvage. I have done $100+ returns for just one spot crap.. "Oh we changed our mind."
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Yes, I get the occasional return you just mentioned, but they are few and far between. We would sell more if Spot kept our shelves full.
 
So no official announcement yet (we haven't had a morning team huddle in weeks) but word from an ETL is that E2E/DPO is over at my store. Same with the TLs being over aisle blocks.

Now considering a quarter of the flow team (and a good chunk of leadership) has quit and our backroom team is still dismantled... I don't know what that means for us. Looking at the BR, I'd guess a hell of a lot of recovery.
 
I'm not in the store enough anymore to have the full experience, but this is starting to shape up to be a perfect example of how target leaders fail in honest feedback and accountability. This is hardly a pilot if it's at nearly every store (haven't heard of any stores NOT doing E2E at least somewhere in store). When leaders scramble to make the store pretty for DTL visits it just makes it seem like E2E is working then it gets rolled out company wide and now stores are so deep in a hole they're going to need DTL support to dig out. Too many TMs have left to bounce back without support from all leaders. I hate watching leaders being afraid to give feedback. The DTL wants to give their boss the true story. If they get fed lies and bullshit, that's how it makes it up the chain.
 
Word at my place is that they are aiming to go E2E in September, at least for grocery. I haven't been asked about it yet, but others have. Originally they told us anyone moving to 4 or 6 am would keep their shift differential and it would become your new base pay. Apparently, now, that is no longer the case...which gives me even more incentive to leave. Looks like it's time to start putting in some applications elsewhere. *sigh*
 
I get that HQ thought oh ok here is a way to save money. We can combine this team and that team creating a new team and saving money in the process. However, what looks good on paper and what looks good at a few pilot stores doesn't mean its ready company wide. HQ needs to get out in the stores seek feedback not only from leadership but from tms as well. EVEN if the e2e process was the greatest idea ever and was to have worked miracles the way it was handled was crappy at best. Spot needs ( and has to) work on its communication. From HQ , right on down to the store level instead of getting better it keeps getting worse.
 
Apapaia said:
I was going to make a throw away account to give as much detail as possible but it doesn't let me authenticate it. My plan B is to give you some important information but I will try to protect myself a little so forgive me if I do not include a lot of details.
The document opens with:

"We are implementing business owners that will own a particular area within the store. Each team will be involved with every process as it relates to their specific area of the store creating elevated efficiencies and accountability."

The teams of salesfloor, backroom, instocks and flow will be unified under one team. The team will take care of 3 key areas: Essentials, HL, Stlyle, Front End. So the team will unify the roles and divide the areas they are responsible for.

Responsibilities:
  • Service
  • Zone/Brand including reshop
  • Stocking Accurately
  • Backroom replenishment (auto, manual, ptm fills)
  • Inventory accuracy, planograms, revisions, sales planners
  • price change, signing
  • Ad prep, set, and audit
  • Cashiering
This new approach is supposed to bring better results on the sales and instocks front. The guide gives some general lines on the scheduling but most of the planning and method of execution is left to the store at this time.
I believe that this method could work well IF the performance management is on point and if 100% of the team is performing well.
We are not clear if or when the paygrades will change. My wild guess is that they will not change for the TMs that are enrolled now or will be enrolled for the next months. If they decide to roll out the new system for the whole company then I foresee Target choosing a middle paygrade for the team (my guess is PG05) and adjust those TMs that are lower, leave the ones that have a higher PG at their current pay, and enroll the new one under the new PG. (Does that even make sense? I hope it does)
Our store is supposed to work on this new roll out for the next 8 months.
I have more info about org charts if you want but honestly the ETLS and TLs are not going to change their job by too much, they will just take responsibility for one area of the store (our LOG TL will be responsible for essentials, Salesfloor TL for style+cosmetics, etc).

I am super tired so I hope this is clear and makes sense. I will try to answer questions as I find out more information. Please keep updating if this happens in your store.
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What would this mean/change for the POG Teams? Would it cut our teams down? Since our job is to reset aisles, pull, push and research all areas of the store I am thinking our dynamic may change as well...any thoughts of knowledge on this from anyone?
 
Battkatt said:
What would this mean/change for the POG Teams? Would it cut our teams down? Since our job is to reset aisles, pull, push and research all areas of the store I am thinking our dynamic may change as well...any thoughts of knowledge on this from anyone?
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There is no more POG team
 
DaveHorton said:
There is no more POG team
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ASANTS. Stores are different prototypes and volumes, thereby at different stages of E2E. Some stores haven't even gotten the market team, or if they have its not been for long. POG isn't going anywhere. They'll just get regular hours in a department and be used on big sets for now and train departments as things go on. Everyone will be POG team on this idea system
 
graffiti said:
So no official announcement yet (we haven't had a morning team huddle in weeks) but word from an ETL is that E2E/DPO is over at my store. Same with the TLs being over aisle blocks.

Now considering a quarter of the flow team (and a good chunk of leadership) has quit and our backroom team is still dismantled... I don't know what that means for us. Looking at the BR, I'd guess a hell of a lot of recovery.
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the hell is DPO
 

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