MEGATHREAD Hang Me (The Softlines Thread)

Ohh, I didn't know it wasn't going to be in every store. In that case, my store may not even be getting it. Now that I think of it, for Prabal Gurung I saw the racks in the back a week or so prior to it going out, but I haven't seen anything for Lim. Lim's more known... and more of this line is wearable and the bags are fab, so I assumed (yea, I know what they say about assuming)
 
sher said:
jedijenchan said:
Infants and toddler clothes had to be the worst place in the store...it was a mess! Too many tiny things strewn about!
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So this is a problem in stores other than mine!? No one ever goes over there. I used to always go, but then some of our Boy/Girls regulars left, so they send me there often, and now no one ever does infant/toddler. The tables currently look like thiss

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Anyone have inside info about Phillip Lim?? Know if the hightops only come in Men's sizes... or are there like, idk, kids sizes? I want them, but I only wear a 6 in kids/7.5 women and I have a suspicion they don't come in my size.
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That looks like our backstock in the backroom.....the ETL asked why we never backstock softlines.....its not that we don't backstock it, its that there is no room in the softlines aisles to put anything else....when you have 3 sections of mens jeans stacked full from floor to ceiling, what do you thinks I'm going to do with the other 100 pairs sitting in the tub?
 
I feel like an idiot, but I just realized that Denizen, Wrangler and that new H26 stuff all (or maybe just most of it) has UPCs printed on the tag on the inside (with the size and care instructions) that work to lookup the price. Then again, no one else I work with seems to have noticed, so maybe I'm not an idiot.
 
LOL, you're not an idiot. Its not told to us. We are trained to look for the DPCIs but Target tends to have their moments where they want to make us think, or look like fools... Congrats tho! Train your peeps on it too!
 
So I have a question for all the SLTMs and I want to apologize if I should have posted this somewhere else. Dose your softlines ETL help out with things (zone, abandons, etc.) on a regular basis?
 
We have two. One is on the floor in SL pretty often. I'd say 2-3 times a week. She's only been an ETL since January. She was a TL prior to that. The other one, maybe once a week, or once every other week haha. She's been an ETL the whole time I've been there.
 
Nope, our softlines ETL who also happens to be ETL for hardlines doesnt help us. She rarely passes by the fitting room and when she does she only asks how reshops are going and leaves. However she does help with hardlines strays by going around the store and placing it in our reshop carts.
 
our new (less than 3 weeks) ETL (GE and SL) has been in softlines( specifically the areas that is the domain of our weaker tl) every time I've seen her, other than when she was doing the schedule. I would say she is turning out to be as involved as my original TL and way more than our poor overwhelmed last one.
 
Thanks for answering my question. My ETL is never in SL, but helps out HL with all their stuff. she has even stated that abandons for SL is easy compared to HL. I was just really wondering what other stores deal with.
 
softlinesAngel said:
So I have a question for all the SLTMs and I want to apologize if I should have posted this somewhere else. Dose your softlines ETL help out with things (zone, abandons, etc.) on a regular basis?
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My store's salesfloor ETL does not help with zone or abandon in softlines or Hardlines. I haven't seen many ETLs or above help much with abandon or zone.
 
We got all caught up this week and we're actually maintaining it. I'm kinda amazed. There's no reshop in the backroom at all for the first time in months. I went in tonight and baarely had to fold tables. I just did reshop. Of course the store was empty today, but even with slow days we were always adding more to the backroom these past few months.
 
salesfloor10 said:
softlinesAngel said:
So I have a question for all the SLTMs and I want to apologize if I should have posted this somewhere else. Dose your softlines ETL help out with things (zone, abandons, etc.) on a regular basis?
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My store's salesfloor ETL does not help with zone or abandon in softlines or Hardlines. I haven't seen many ETLs or above help much with abandon or zone.
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Every store has that ETL who doesn't do much and asks other people to do their work.
 
If you are asked to clean the floor of a department or clearance section, do you just pick it up and bring it to your fitting room attendant, or do you fix it and hang it while you're there?

I'm asking because almost everyone I work with, me included, will pick up the empty hangers and re-hang things. A few of my coworkers (two "brand specialists" and my TL) do not do that. I closed with the shoe specialist Wednesday night. We're now being asked to do enough of the reshop that we don't take any to the back at night and we typically just have to maintain/touchup a zone that was finished mid-day. This coworker was unhappy with my pace and said that cleaning the floor of the Girls' clearance should've taken me 2-3 minutes. Everything was on the floor and I went for backup twice before I even finished hanging everything.

She also says going up for backup isn't an excuse. I would've walked out that night and just been done with Target if I wasn't in poverty. She grinds my gears. Every time we close together, there's something she takes issue with! I had such a bad night between all of the pressure she put on me and all the damn backup calls. I had 2 guests say nice things about me, though, so it wasn't all terrible. Just sent my resume out to 7 different jobs. Here's hoping I get to tell her to "shove it" in the near future.
 
For me and currently the only other closer who is able to work every weeknight we pick up and hang. We only bring things to fitting room if they need a tag or something else. And yes going to back up twice is a good excuse, how are you supposed to get your work done if you are helping the lanes, that time away from what you are supposed to be doing. If this has been happening a lot or they say something again to the effect that backing up isn't excuse, I would talk to an ETL that you trust and can really talk to.
 
We're so short in my store. I did a 4 hour shift and one tm was a NCNS. My TL asks the LOD if she should get someone else in and he goes "after monday, [team member] is all we need for tonight!" Buut, monday night she didn't close by herself. That was one of two nights that she didn't close alone. I helped and we had a fitting room attendant who wasn't so busy that she had to stay inside. She was folding RTW when I left at 8. I left infants immaculate that night, too. It was great. I'm not mad about not getting any credit, but they're just gonna pile a bunch of work on poor, [team member] because they're idiots. When she came in and noticed the callout, she asked if I was staying late. I told her they didn't ask and I told her what they said and she was angry. They're expectations of what can be finished in such a short time are just getting out of hand.

And the new fitting room rules? They're the worst. Not because being nice is so horrible, but because they're increasing the workload without increasing the incentive.
 
I thought the new fitting roioom rulers were only for a few stores. Pfft. It takes a lot more work then neccasary. And how are you guys feeling about guest centric holiday hours? My to was the only one closing tonight, and with all the abandons we have, it's not like our mid shifts get to help out much.
 
just got done with SL closer and we still had 4 carts of reshop i think we did alright for 2 new people on SL (3 people called in tonight) hang me is right i miss my HL:\
 
According to the training sheet I read, it was tested already with good results, so they're keeping it.

When I left work today, the FR attendant was taking two carts of unsorted to the back and bringing a z-rack to put kids and baby on. Adding the extra responsibilities when the rest of the workload hasn't been lowered is crazy. We don't even have to do the operator thing from the FR most of the time (usually only 2 hours each weekday between the tsc/hr TM shifts and during their 15s and 30s), so I can't imagine what the extra stuff is like in stores where the fitting room attendant is the operator all the time. I don't think they thought this through.
 
The FR attendants at my store do the operator duties as well as the new duties....they are defnitely NOT happy!
 
Did I miss something? What are these new fitting room rules that I hear talk of?
 
Hardlinesmaster said:
Check on guests for clothes qty & left over clothes in the rooms per ap. repackage, reshop, help guests, & answer phones..
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My store has always done this. We take care of RTW zone, phone, fitting rooms, sorting reshop, putting away RTW abandons, etc, etc. Recently though my store has lost five people two of them in softlines. So for closing it's just me, the new girl, two TLs and another TM that is only available weekends. We are hardly getting any applicants so this holiday season is going to be stressful for my store.
 

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