I would argue that we are still as busy as we were during christmas, at least at my store, we still are doing 2000-4000 opu units each day with now more sfs because we were such a heavy opu store during q4. Our fulfilled sales are at least 20k each day and thats only like 10% of our total sales, and our pick on time is rarely green anymore. They give us like 8 people on the weekends and our pick on time is 30%. We may not need to have more people than gm anymore because there aren't a bunch of slow seasonals running around but we need more than 6 people to not struggle everyday.
I have not heard anything not even as a gossip. I don’t know how that would be possible to be honest especially in my little store would not be fisible even if you distribute the hours to gm with everything that they have to do that’s the last thing they would need.
Please stop with the "we work harder". No, you don't. You work differently. Your expectations are different. They are different jobs. If you haven't worked in GM, you sincerely do not know what their work entails, what their routines are, or what the expectations are. The bottom line is that hours across the store are cut and those doing the scheduling are trying to figure out a way to best get the work done with those who are best able to get it done. Most, not all, but most flex tm's are not trained to do the other gm work such as pog sets, backstocking, price change, defects, etc. nop flex with store ties, so they will use tm's that are more global in their training because picking batches is very similar than pulling a batch and an easily transferred skill. Also, gm picking flex does not reflect in any way flex experts covering anyone's ass. Anyone who picks a flex will be documented in the same way so accountability is present.
Eh, that's asants. All my flex TMs are taught all of this (besides, perhaps, pog), as we do GM work when fulfillment is slow. I personally teach all of them to defect, pull, and backstock as part of regular flex training because they're often skills we need day to day as well.
Agreed! And same for my store with presentation doing the reset for beauty right now haha. It's all dependent on leadership, store and district, to interpret whatever the heck corporate is spouting.
Nothing I’ve seen officially but I would expect some structure changes after the fiscal year. I would assume additional Gm leadership around fulfillment or separating it into its own umbrella.
What is the HR leadership support?
out of that sentence you can drop leadership and support both of those are foreign concepts at Target.
Not 100% sure. I’ve heard talks for a few years of getting rid of HR ETL roles in my area but never seen it come to life. Not sure what they’ve got up their sleeves.
Yes, there is a difference between a manager and a leader. You know the ones you want to work with are leaders.
You do realize that the workload for that transition is about 205h right? I would like to see you do it without help. You can only work so much ahead and you would still fall behind.
Again you have no idea the moves and workload that needs to be done for cosmetics/skincare transition . Beauty couldn’t do it on their own even if there were 2 people or3 . Especially if they don’t know how to strategize what to set and utilizing the map. One thing is to do revision and salesplaners. And totally different for a transition when the department definitely needs support.
I know. The point of the comment was that corporate shoves duties on dbos without the bigger picture in place. Resets need a larger team, and our beauty TMs are being given that at the expense of other freight being worked. No one, least of all me, is saying beauty can or should do it alone. But since plano was absorbed into GM...kinda like they want flex to be seemingly...it's not so cut and dry between corporate policy and actual implementation.
Yes I do and I’m not disagreeing - I’m stating from what our OD stated and what stores in my area have been doing for a while, that SS/VML/Consultants should be responsible for the 150h set, yet The SD at my particular store wanted GM DBOs to handle transitions when they couldn’t even finish their normal duty of unloading and finishing a truck and resorted to GM and having a “plano” team again. Pretty sure the toys workload last week is incomplete and yet we must continue to push forward. EDIT:*their exact wording was Specialty Team/Consultants/VML Required to do set*
As a former plano Sr (a very good one, to toot my own horn), I can definitely confirm beauty is the absolute heaviest work you will do.
