no slowdown due to tarrifs?

[targetdude1]

there hasnt been any? yet at my dc anyway. what gives? was looking forward to even more vns. instead no more vns last few weeks...anybody experiencing any?

they briefly mentioned it in a atm, didnt say anything substantive just theyre working to source from everywhere, mitigate the impact blah blah, literally a couple sentences

was supposed to take longer for the shortages to get inland i think 45-60 days, cali hit first, 30 days?

much ado about nothing?

 

[Captain Orca]

Certain aspects of tarrifs have merit but when the assholes with unlimited money fuck over Mr. & Mrs. Medium Assets and jack the price up a ton of money for a starter for their RAV4, then the shit hits the fan.

 

[redeye58]

My store had an ON team & used to average 10-13 trucks a week.
Our freight has dropped so much I'm seeing ONTMs working dayside just to get hours 😕

 

[OutboundLife]

After seven months of mandatory OT last year, Inbound is approving VLE all week long with up to a dozen people out of department. Last year VLE was nonexistent this time of year. It may be better staffing but really seems much slower. Capacity seems as bad as last year so freight may not be leaving the building. We may again have OT just for capacity support.

 

[HInbound]

Top 200 store, we're still taking ~30k cartons a week. Curious to see if we do slow down. We are getting overfilled though in the back room, so maybe the DC is clearing space?

 

[FlowTeamChick]

We are getting overfilled though in the back room, so maybe the DC is clearing space?

My store is much smaller, but yesterday's truck made me think this again. Just one example: got 9 cans of a foot care product, didn't really need any at all. But I happened to notice that it's made overseas and it made me think that Target has been hauling in everything they can that already left port so they can bulk up stock before they had to start paying the tariff. I'm expecting trucks to get a lot smaller or less frequent pretty soon.
My back room space is so full in some areas that I have trouble finding places to put new back stock. Should clear out pretty quickly if shortages start happening and panic buying kicks in.
Maybe our inventory process will be easier this year?

 

[NovaOne]

After seven months of mandatory OT last year, Inbound is approving VLE all week long with up to a dozen people out of department. Last year VLE was nonexistent this time of year. It may be better staffing but really seems much slower. Capacity seems as bad as last year so freight may not be leaving the building. We may again have OT just for capacity support.

Honestly, there hasn’t been a single year since COVID where anything has followed a pattern—OT, VLE, capacity, all of it. One year it’s slammed, the next it’s dead, then back to OT again. No real trend, just constant inconsistency. Makes it hard to plan or take anything they say at face value.