Spring Sales Meeting

[NXT]

Does anyone know anything that was discussed at the Spring Sales Meeting (DSDs and above go)?

 

[gsa4lyfe]

Theme of the year was nothing new*. Small asterisks there because there is a new payroll system rolling out in June but no operational changes, best practice changes or store structure changes. The whole meeting was a lot on how to improve and things we essentially just need to be better at.

New payroll system is called workforce management and in an extremely simple way of explaining it is stores will earn payroll based off workload not sales. For the most part this won’t affect the baseline of hours and most stores will see a slight increase while high volume will see a slight decrease. Biggest difference is earning flex payroll throughout the month based on added or increased workload like fulfillment or even things like trucks above average size or number of transactions completed on a belted lane etc.

Also starting mid April the schedule will be posted 3 weeks out vs 2 weeks out.

 

[Jayunderscore]

Also starting mid April the schedule will be posted 3 weeks out vs 2 weeks out.

Oh, does this mean that stores who are in special municipalities (Chicago, Kansas City) can actually write a schedule without having to guess how much payroll they’re getting?

 

[gsa4lyfe]

Oh, does this mean that stores who are in special municipalities (Chicago, Kansas City) can actually write a schedule without having to guess how much payroll they’re getting?

We were told that store attributes were taken into account and DSDs had to manually input unique attributes like remote drive up, multi store backroom, remote stockrooms, dual entrances, mall stores and such to allow a more accurate payroll plan per store.

 

[TurgetCirkl]

We were told that store attributes were taken into account and DSDs had to manually input unique attributes like remote drive up, multi store backroom, remote stockrooms, dual entrances, mall stores and such to allow a more accurate payroll plan per store.

“Unique attribute: please 😭”

 

[gsa4lyfe]

“Unique attribute: please 😭”

What? Every store is a little different.

 

[employee 626]

New payroll system is called workforce management

Is that a 3rd party software company or what Target calls it

 

[employee 626]

but no operational changes

Rumor has it that Circle Cards are getting rid of the check requirement. Is that true?

 

[TurgetCirkl]

Is that a 3rd party software company or what Target calls it

I think it’s target software. All of the myTime APIs have always been referred to as WFM (Workforce Management)

What? Every store is a little different.

No lol. it was a joke for stores to just put “please” as a store attribute

 

[BKop16]

Also starting mid April the schedule will be posted 3 weeks out vs 2 weeks out.

Does that mean the rdc forecast will be 3 weeks out as well?

 

[gsa4lyfe]

Is that a 3rd party software company or what Target calls it

Workforce management is in return for the way stores earn payroll. What’s changing is behind the scenes and the data target inputs into Kronos and other software to get payroll. Then sometime in 2026 my time will be changing as well to be more an efficient software because the current software we use is 15+ years old.

Does that mean the rdc forecast will be 3 weeks out as well?

Yes trailer forecast and all other forecast related reporting will be a minimum of 17 days out.

 

[Ringwraith917]

Just another week of plans that have to change when something unexpected inevitably happens

 

[SigningLady]

Just another week of plans that have to change when something unexpected inevitably happens

I was thinking the same. It's cute how Target is pretending they can be proactive when we all know good and well, that's not who it is at the core. And never will be.