Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

signingminion said:
You shut your foul mouth...my pptl is on vacation that week...last thing i need while babysitting the team is a huge aisle swap.
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Early set notes dropped, Large chunks of freezer are swapping. I need to look again to see if meat/dairy are for my prototype but I wouldn't put it past them. I'm just happy I cleaned that crap recently.
 
I am no sick and F***ing tired of people over stocking produce (especially the apples) and bakery.

I have thrown out so many apples (bagged & singles) because people think they need to stack them on top of each other. Dont people understand gravity? Apples on top of each other will cause them to bruise & go bad faster than they should. Plus it looks horrible over stocking apples.

As for the bakery, my stupid TL thinks the bakery table always need to "look" full. So he over stocks the hell out of the table. This results in throwing out so much bakery items.

How do I stop people from over pushing the apples?

How do I stop my team lead from over pushing the bakery table?
 
Holy cow. Hours have been cut so horribly here and now our new hire appears to be bailing out on us! We haven't been able to do production properly in about 2 years, closers are coming in later, we're pulling another person from another area to do the truck on Deli hours every morning, and the lack of coverage is being exacerbated by the fact that the bakery and produce/meat TLs refuse to let their TMs be cross-trained in Deli (just let me train them on the slicers FFS! Corporate policy is making it pretty clear that this needs to happen...). And no, I'm not going to do the Team Trainer computer work to be an official trainer unless I'm offered something in return. My workload is already too high to take on anything else without compensation!

How can corporate justify cutting a production area from 250+ hours/week (2 years ago) to 150?! I'm... flabbergasted.
 
Brewhaha said:
I am no sick and F***ing tired of people over stocking produce (especially the apples) and bakery.

I have thrown out so many apples (bagged & singles) because people think they need to stack them on top of each other. Dont people understand gravity? Apples on top of each other will cause them to bruise & go bad faster than they should. Plus it looks horrible over stocking apples.

As for the bakery, my stupid TL thinks the bakery table always need to "look" full. So he over stocks the hell out of the table. This results in throwing out so much bakery items.

How do I stop people from over pushing the apples?

How do I stop my team lead from over pushing the bakery table?
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I've seen this at about every target I've been to for the last two years. Either I don't understand business, or the waste is made up for somewhere else.

The biggest complaint I have about overstocking is probably on bell peppers at my super. Green sells. Red sells ok. Orange and yellow? Maybe 10 peppers a week. Give them a two foot section?! You're wasting ~3 cases each a week the way they're packed out.
 
callmetaylor said:
Do you guys have smart huddles every day?? Is that common? At my store we have smart huddles maybe once a week, if that, and it's only when something has really exploded. Like we had 7 vehicles of backstock in the cooler and we just brought the entire store over to repush all of it- my store mostly views smart huddles as an easy "reset" button to utilize when things have reached a critical point. We'll also normally have smart huddles when we reset seasonal/mini-seasonal, just to try to get all of the stuff out ASAP.

But aside from that, our huddles are just 5-10min info sessions...and even those are super rare and mostly just involve Salesfloor TMs.
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YES EVERY SINGLE DAY.....a few days in a row we were pushing out 4 or 5 full z racks...mostly to ready to wear....
 
DoWork said:
With the stuff I've seen you post, I'm baffled by how your management gets by.
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Because despite some of the stuff that goes on in my store everyone including leadership works their ass off and we have a really good crew. Its not uncommon for my STL to be backup cashiering or covering electronics here and there
 
Produce Queen said:
Worked a closing shift and I PTM'd the crap out of the freezers. I have an actual sense of accomplishment after a shift at Target. Gonna write it down somewhere to remind myself it is possible :p
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That is my project for Sunday Monday Tuesday opening shifts. We just got in a ton of freezer transition and we arent setting it until the 2nd week of may.....so its either going to sit there for 3 weeks or needs to be flexed out. Problem is we really dont have much room in the freezers. Sure there are a few holes here and there but for the most part right now it looks pretty full
 
Also despite some things I have said all target has to do, or at least my store, is just give market more hours. This isnt a hard concept. Give us a mid Friday and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday and have the closer work a full shift as well. Maybe then some cleaning would actually get done as well as all the other small things that never get touched.

Most of my complaints about target these days is how much they keep cutting on hours...and then they cut some more. Its not MY fault corporate is incompetent and failed in Canada. Maybe we should cut some corporate positions, hours, and pay wage and they can just work harder to accomplish the same work. I dont understand why our hours are going lower and lower at my store yet we have been killing sales since january. We arent hoarding hours either. We constantly come within a few hours of what we are supposed to use including flex. One week were were 4 or so hours above otherwise we would of overspent.

Also how they cut a bunch of TL postions. My direct TL is a SR TL that is in charge of literally the ENTIRE floor both softlines and hardlines. That is too much for one person considering we used to have at least 4 maybe 5 TLs covering that same space just a few years back

My store itself and the people that work there are great. My store gets a ton of new ETL and TL trainees and is considered the best in the district by the higher ups and we always have great visits. I try to not be negative but my problems are more global to target itself than my actual local store
 
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Brewhaha said:
Dumb question but how do you PTM? I have been with target for 6 years and have never been thought how to PTM
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When an aisle goes MPG before it resets, you want to get all of the discontinued product out of the backroom as soon as you can. It helps sell more of it before it goes clearance, but mostly it helps the price team to have it on the floor and not in the backroom. As items go clearance and sell through, you're left with holes. My freezers had entire shelves that had sold through and were now empty. I haven't hardly received any new product to flex, so I moved tons of stuff around, spreading it out and made labels. Basically just making it look full.
Do you know how to look up a backroom detail report to see what's backstocked in an area? That's a way to see the d-code and nop products that you need to get out on the floor.
 
Produce Queen said:
I've never heard of that one. Where is it located?
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On workbench, formally known back room qty report. Type in nop, select the first one, open tab. It will say related reports on upper right side. Select back room quanitiy report. Wait for a minute or 2(slow startup). Then pick your dept, qty amt, regular price between 1.00 to 500.00. Hit enter or run report(?)
The report will come up with dcpi's, qty, name, active or discontinued status, back room location, on sale, etc.
It's a fast way to flex products for ptm or filling an empty shelve.:)
 
those damn 8lb oranges in the AD this week and again cannot still order them ... ZERO on hand

... WTF i my supported them 2 weeks ago when they were in the AD and nothing came of it, oh well !!
 
qmosqueen said:
those damn 8lb oranges in the AD this week and again cannot still order them ... ZERO on hand

... WTF i my supported them 2 weeks ago when they were in the AD and nothing came of it, oh well !!
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For us, it is the strawberries. We recieved no strawberries yesterday and they are on AD
 
We got a bunch of orange peppers that are sold by weight, even though we sell by the each. A TM tried to create a barcode to sell them with, but it wouldn't accept it because it was sold by weight or something. Now they just sit in a basket in the produce cooler until they get thrown away, I guess.
 
zoned2deep said:
We got a bunch of orange peppers that are sold by weight, even though we sell by the each. A TM tried to create a barcode to sell them with, but it wouldn't accept it because it was sold by weight or something. Now they just sit in a basket in the produce cooler until they get thrown away, I guess.
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Donate them please that is what I would do
 
qmosqueen said:
those damn 8lb oranges in the AD this week and again cannot still order them ... ZERO on hand

... WTF i my supported them 2 weeks ago when they were in the AD and nothing came of it, oh well !!
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I can see Target paying a supplier for oranges and not noticing they never delivered them to the FDCs. Then two weeks later someone at HQ sees the FDCs have no oranges in stock and thinks oh wow they must have sold great at that price! Let's do it again!
 
zoned2deep said:
We got a bunch of orange peppers that are sold by weight, even though we sell by the each. A TM tried to create a barcode to sell them with, but it wouldn't accept it because it was sold by weight or something. Now they just sit in a basket in the produce cooler until they get thrown away, I guess.
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We donate any random food items that we can't mark for sale. Every so often we get items that are meant for food production, and are not sold as packaged.
 

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