Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

[doxie71]

Um, like Chia pets.....?
Or did they mean Chai?

Nope. Chia seeds are a thing. Never had them myself though

 

[qmosqueen]

another big fdc truck a little over 1600+ for Saturday, I'm off again and sure wish the other PAs good luck. Not sure why we ordered 32 boxes of Bananas when we had 20 sitting in the back at 2PM on Friday. Well, I TPC'd the 3lb bunches to $1.00 for 2 days, Friday, Saturday.
Also since the shelf only holds 48 strawberries, that is 6 cases why do we order 40 cases for 3 days. There is only room for 2 or 3 celeries on the shelf so do not need to order more than 1 box. Our produce order was a little over 400, why when it will never be put out till late Sunday or even Monday. Also, cause the gaurdrails say order 23 cases of spears, why order that much, when we have the previous order still in the produce cooler. the shelf only holds 16 spears thats 8 cases. so I would order maybe 16 cases at the most.

After this reset a lot of things no longer have a salesfloor location and are going away, like Red and green peppers.

 

[wokkawokka]

Well, you should be ordering enough that's going to sell over three days, right? So even if your shelf won't fit it all at once, you should order more to replace what you sell. In the summer, or when it's on sale (next week!) I always order up on Strawberries...I think my order yesterday was for 42 casepacks for 2.5 days. I'll probably sell most of them, too.

And they just set the new revision in produce yesterday...I saw the tiny space allocated to celery and was like, LOL no. Got my ETL's permission to change the labels around so celery got a bigger spot on the shelf. *shakes head* Who comes up with these ridiculous planograms anyway?

 

[Cel]

so after the reset we now have 2 (4ft sections) of the naked and bolthouse jucies and the new GTS drinks, which on of the GSTLs swears by, I'll have to give them a try but
at $3.49, I guess I'm paying for the GLASS bottle. Sure they don't fall of my metros.
I know they will sell fast at my store.

Tomorrow's QMOS at my store.

We sell strawberries like hotcakes so we usually order pretty heavy, especially since they go on sale all the time.

 

[mrknownothing]

Who comes up with these ridiculous planograms anyway?

Obviously people who have never actually set foot in a store.

 

[BigEyedPhish]

I always let Plano set them, then re-make them to what I think is better. The new PFresh looked like shit until I gave it a good work around.

 

[daninnj]

A store by me had $5.99 juices the size of the small Naked juices. Forgot what brand they were but they were in a plastic container.

 

[peonTM]

Also, cause the gaurdrails say order 23 cases of spears, why order that much....

I have the same issue with the Red Hot Tomatoes, its always wanting me to order 10/11 cases, when 2 is enough.

 

[pfreshdude]

Also, cause the gaurdrails say order 23 cases of spears, why order that much....

I have the same issue with the Red Hot Tomatoes, its always wanting me to order 10/11 cases, when 2 is enough.

It seemed like there were alot of things it wanted me to order a ton of today when I came in for the order. Thankfully I know how much we typically go through and could just ignore it.

Also thanks Target for that wonderful friday truck. We have inventory in a few days and just had our pfresh revision this past week and fridays truck was 550 something pieces with 300 of it being frozen product with a whole pallet of that being transition items that set THIS week. So we had to make a pre count sheet of the whole pallet for inventory while doing the truck push...so fun....

Its funny because we have basically 4 people scheduled for C+S plus 1 person who mainly is in the back just backstocking it. Compared to the GM truck that recently came in that was 1600 pieces YET they have 20+ people. So our truck is 1/3 the size yet we only get 1/5 of the workforce...go figure.

 

[daninnj]

My god are those sandwiches packed with sodium, sugar, and fat! I also find it interesting that now PFresh stores have the deli section competing for the same sales against food ave.

I dunno if anyone remembers, but probably two years ago we had a to-go section in pfresh filled with sandwiches, wraps, and salads much like now just more of it. Didn't work out but they were good too. Maybe it was just a pilot.

I has the Italian meats one today and it was pretty good. Not that much sugar and the fat at 21g isn't thaaaat much but 89% dv sodium? I understand provolone, ham, and pepperoni is salty but damn. The cranberry chicken one is okay. The bread in both of them is awesome!

 

[looseseal]

My god are those sandwiches packed with sodium, sugar, and fat! I also find it interesting that now PFresh stores have the deli section competing for the same sales against food ave.

I dunno if anyone remembers, but probably two years ago we had a to-go section in pfresh filled with sandwiches, wraps, and salads much like now just more of it. Didn't work out but they were good too. Maybe it was just a pilot.

I has the Italian meats one today and it was pretty good. Not that much sugar and the fat at 21g isn't thaaaat much but 89% dv sodium? I understand provolone, ham, and pepperoni is salty but damn. The cranberry chicken one is okay. The bread in both of them is awesome!

We have something similar to what you just described, but it's all in a cooler right up by Food Ave. There's premade sandwiches and salads, and a couple other random things. The stuff doesn't sell well for us though. The other night one of our food ave-ers brought an entire basket full of expiring salads for us to have in the breakroom.

 

[ETHICS DEMANDER]

My god are those sandwiches packed with sodium, sugar, and fat! I also find it interesting that now PFresh stores have the deli section competing for the same sales against food ave.

I dunno if anyone remembers, but probably two years ago we had a to-go section in pfresh filled with sandwiches, wraps, and salads much like now just more of it. Didn't work out but they were good too. Maybe it was just a pilot.

I has the Italian meats one today and it was pretty good. Not that much sugar and the fat at 21g isn't thaaaat much but 89% dv sodium? I understand provolone, ham, and pepperoni is salty but damn. The cranberry chicken one is okay. The bread in both of them is awesome!

We have something similar to what you just described, but it's all in a cooler right up by Food Ave. There's premade sandwiches and salads, and a couple other random things. The stuff doesn't sell well for us though. The other night one of our food ave-ers brought an entire basket full of expiring salads for us to have in the breakroom.

Lol .. love that FFF event.. nothing encourages hard work like expired food

 

[Meli4Target]

I know this isn't a market issue, but I am a PA and i was schedule under instocks, today we rolled out the new instock process. and after 11 i went to the fixture room to print out my subs & i checked the gun to see where we were with batches & there were 43 in the gun!!! and all our PTM batches still in the gun some PTM batches were in there from yesterday! sooo frustrating. whats the point of scanning when its gonna sit in the gun. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[daninnj]

We have something similar to what you just described, but it's all in a cooler right up by Food Ave. There's premade sandwiches and salads, and a couple other random things. The stuff doesn't sell well for us though. The other night one of our food ave-ers brought an entire basket full of expiring salads for us to have in the breakroom.

Nah we have those too, but these were Archer Farmes wraps, salads, trays, and sandwiches that were brought in by a vender. We had chicken ceasar and buffalo chicken wraps, and about 4 different pre-made salads larger than the ones now and a few prepackaged sandwiches such as ham and cheese and a snack tray or two with meat, cheese cubes, and grapes. I think it was a limited test.

 

[redeye58]

When we first got pfresh, we had quite a few different AF dips & spreads. They slowly phased them out despite the popularity of several (cucumber dill dip, bacon Parmesan, artichoke dip to name a few).

 

[peonTM]

When we first got pfresh, we had quite a few different AF dips & spreads. They slowly phased them out despite the popularity of several (cucumber dill dip, bacon Parmesan, artichoke dip to name a few).

Same here, but they came back to us on this set.

 

[qmosqueen]

zone as best you can, quickly just do the 1st and 2nd 4 foot sections of most aisles.
Make sure you bring out a step stool for those high shelfs and make sure at least 1 TL and 1 ETL see's you zoning.

Go back and do your pfresh duties they are the most important, if asked about bad zoning just blame it on a guest.

you cannot blame outdated produce or yogurt on a guest. so, your pfresh dutes trump any zoning !

and don't forget to fill Milk and keep it clean.

 

[pfreshdude]

I will try the zone your way and use your ideas.

I am not sure how most p fresh stores are set up but my dairy cooler is in C1 and our door closest to the dairy cooler is C50. Pushing around 500 pounds (milk gallons weigh roughly 8.6 pounds) or 128 gallons of milk 1/2 way across the store takes up time. So on a close, that is less time on the zone.

I am going to focus on p fresh first (routines are the most important) then work on any dry if I am time. If they ask why, Ill tell them i was doing my routines. I will say they could train me to do all they ask then I would get everything done.

Also, my store has started doing smart huddles and 4 by 4s in the morning. They want us in p fresh to stop doing our routines and participate in the smart huddles and 4 by 4s. They are taking up to anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour away from my tasks. Presentation and pricing dont participate in these activities.

Does p fresh have to participate in these activities or does our routines let us be excused from them?

I understand p fresh should go to huddles.

I know how you feel..My milk is on the backwall by G6 and to get to the backroom you have to take the main aisle down to G39 and turn left in front of seasonal and then our door is through mini seasonal a few aisles down from when we turn. Receiving is on the total opposite corner of Pfresh as well. Always makes it so much fun when we have to go through seasonal sets everytime we have to go into the backroom and the only other TM the guests ever really see over there are down in electronics 20 aisles away

I typically go to huddles in the morning but at night we usually only have a few people and half the time dont even have a huddle or if we do it is right during when I need to take a lunch.

And our store started doing the 4x4 walks as well. It is probably one of the most useless things I have ever done at Target. Even my STL thinks it is totally pointless and a waste of time but the higher ups came down on our store for not doing it I guess.

For closing I make sure to take care of Pfresh, Coolers and Freezers before anything else. If I dont get some part of dry done than I just let them know. Sometimes stuff happens and you fall behind, doesnt matter how much training you have. If you have to backup cashier a few times, or keep getting pulled away to help guests or have massive pulls theres nothing you can do.

This week dry market has looked like a tornado went through it every couple hours. On Monday we had someone in to help zone from like 10-2 and when I went back to zone dry around 6 it was a disaster again...sigh....probably because we have $10 off when you spend $50 in Market right now so lots of guest traffic.

I dont typically close anymore but when I do it always takes me a while to go through the zone because the other TMs and TL are all average to below average at zoning. I dont think its a coincidence when I zone two nights in a row the second night I usually get the zone done in half the time which has happened multiple times. My advice to you if you close multiple times in a row is to make sure you pull more forward than 1 deep on items if possible. When you only pull forward 1 deep and the product is bought the zone goes bad really fast. Typically I pull forward 3-4 deep and it makes it pretty easy to go back through and zone the next day.

 

[doxie71]

@Pfreshbackroomguy Wow. That is insane. I always considered myself lucky that at my store we never zone dry market. Heck half the time I don't even do the freezers because there's other stuff that needs done. I always do everything else though. They keep piling crappie on with less time to do it and wonder why everyone keeps leaving.

 

[doxie71]

@Pfreshbackroomguy Wow. That is insane. I always considered myself lucky that at my store we never zone dry market. Heck half the time I don't even do the freezers because there's other stuff that needs done. I always do everything else though. They keep piling crappie on with less time to do it and wonder why everyone keeps leaving.

@doxie71. How can I be coached/talked by my TL via an ETL who has never worked p fresh ever? Also, how could I be told that I am not working fast enough when I have 45 minutes to finish the EXTRA tasks they assigned me?

If there was any issues, why the hell didnt this etl come directly to me?

@Pfreshbackroomguy as we have determined at my store, target logic does not equal actual logic.

 

[doxie71]

@Pfreshbackroomguy Wow. That is insane. I always considered myself lucky that at my store we never zone dry market. Heck half the time I don't even do the freezers because there's other stuff that needs done. I always do everything else though. They keep piling crappie on with less time to do it and wonder why everyone keeps leaving.

@doxie71. How can I be coached/talked by my TL via an ETL who has never worked p fresh ever? Also, how could I be told that I am not working fast enough when I have 45 minutes to finish the EXTRA tasks they assigned me?

If there was any issues, why the hell didnt this etl come directly to me?

@Pfreshbackroomguy as we have determined at my store, target logic does not equal actual logic.

@doxie71. I going to HR about this. There is no reason for me to be talked to/coach, especially when I had plenty of time to finish the tasks at hand. Plus, no ETL or TL whom has never worked in p fresh has any right to tell a p fresh team member they are working slow when they dont know how the department runs.

@Pfreshbackroomguy That last statement. Seriously. Can I tell you how many times I've gotten into it with the ETL Log over p fresh issues and him telling me how to do my job? Can't stand the man. All he does is bitch at the PAs about random crap that needs done or things that we gave on our list but haven't gotten to yet. Can't tell you how many truck mornings he has been up my ass about filling bananas & getting the pallet off the floor while I'm in the middle of my SDA.

 

[qmosqueen]

@doxie71. I going to HR about this. There is no reason for me to be talked to/coach, especially when I had plenty of time to finish the tasks at hand. Plus, no ETL or TL whom has never worked in p fresh has any right to tell a p fresh team member they are working slow when they dont know how the department runs.[/QUOTE]
@Pfreshbackroomguy That last statement. Seriously. Can I tell you how many times I've gotten into it with the ETL Log over p fresh issues and him telling me how to do my job? Can't stand the man. All he does is bitch at the PAs about random crap that needs done or things that we gave on our list but haven't gotten to yet. Can't tell you how many truck mornings he has been up my ass about filling bananas & getting the pallet off the floor while I'm in the middle of my SDA.[/QUOTE]

Luv this I hate him too !!

 

[qmosqueen]

we got 1 extra pallet yesterday from a store that is converting to pfresh but not setup yet. We were suppose to get 3 extra pallets on top of our normal 10 pallet day and I think the other 2 are coming on the next delivery, thanks that is the biggest delivery day alrready add to that and it will be one hell of a Memorial day !!!!

Anyone else receive extra pallets from other stores in their area that are not finished seting up for prfesh yet, but they are pushing the pallets to those stores.
Just leave the stuff at the FDC. We will sell the stuff, but there is no room for it in out coolers.

 

[pfreshdude]

@Pfreshbackroomguy That last statement. Seriously. Can I tell you how many times I've gotten into it with the ETL Log over p fresh issues and him telling me how to do my job? Can't stand the man. All he does is bitch at the PAs about random crap that needs done or things that we gave on our list but haven't gotten to yet. Can't tell you how many truck mornings he has been up my ass about filling bananas & getting the pallet off the floor while I'm in the middle of my SDA.

lol my old ETL log used to do that too....God help me when they were LOD for that morning as well. I always said..."yes, I will put that on my list but I have X ammount of other things to do before I can even get to that". I think it takes someone that can deal with a ton of stress and is a very hard independent worker to make it in Pfresh. I hope whenever they add new members to my team they are all HI-Potential TMs

 

[pfreshdude]

we got 1 extra pallet yesterday from a store that is converting to pfresh but not setup yet. We were suppose to get 3 extra pallets on top of our normal 10 pallet day and I think the other 2 are coming on the next delivery, thanks that is the biggest delivery day alrready add to that and it will be one hell of a Memorial day !!!!

Anyone else receive extra pallets from other stores in their area that are not finished seting up for prfesh yet, but they are pushing the pallets to those stores.
Just leave the stuff at the FDC. We will sell the stuff, but there is no room for it in out coolers.

Haha we didnt have this happen but we have had 4 or 5 pallets of freezer come in around thanksgiving and our freezer is tiny so basically there was almost no room to even do pulls...had to squeeze through to get to the pulls. It was so miserable for the time it was in there