I had a GSA who was notorious for this on the candy racks. I'd fill them as they were designed, then he would push more candy and gum in until it looked ridiculous. Backstock is not a dirty word. Luckily, the GSTL set him straight about that.
To add to this - if you are in charge of stocking the checklanes please check them all. If you can’t fit any more Burt’s Bees lip balm on one end I can pretty much guarantee the other end is empty. Stop putting just one more Softlips lip balm on the dang peg so it falls off every time a kid looks at the LEGOs or trading cards or someone walks by and creates a breeze.
Unless things have changed dramatically in the last couple of weeks, the problem originates with too much stuff coming out in the first place, day after day after day. Just a few months ago, when I cared to try to make men's basics look nice, I was taking back an overflowing cart of backstock daily, only for the same stuff to come out again the next day, even with weekly checks to verify that yes, the capacity is right and yes the quantity on the floor is right. When the amount of work is a lot to backstock huge amounts, knowing it will be a daily task, and just finding some place to make it fit, knowing the amount tomorrow will be considerably less because you didn't backstock it......well, when time is limited, do you do the right thing which will take up a huge block of time daily, or do you squish it to keep your future workload light?
If it's folded, it could be waiting to be backstocked. Softlines gets such crazy amounts of clothing that at my store time had to be set aside for someone dedicated to backstocking the whole mess. If it's hanging, it likely is in the back room. Hanging stuff has no backroom location, no way to locate it, if My Work says it's on the floor that actually means it's in the building, could be on the floor or could be in the hanging areas in the back room.
Said cart attendant just quit without two weeks notice, leaving us scrambling to cover his shifts for the next few weeks. I wish him the best though, and he might be a student and perhaps prioritizing school over Target. I get that pushing carts can be a thankless and difficult job, especially closing but you can't just not show up without any consequences. Team lead did say that we hired a couple of new cart attendants to replace him though thankfully, they just have to go through orientation and training.
Yeah, people get all bitchy about someone telling the cashier what keys to hit, but a TM can get in trouble if they get stuff at a ridiculous low cost, it'd be looked at the same as printing out discount as is stickers to lower it from the actual price for the TM to purchase, basically fraud. I'm not getting in trouble because a cashier screwed up and changed my $6 bag of cat food to 99 cents and completely skipped my 99 cents onion. The stupid idiot got all pissed when I tried to point out the mistake and explain how to fix it and told me she knew what she was doing, I guess because it wasn't her ass on the line for knowingly paying too little.
Birkenstocks?!? They won’t even let me wear crocs anymore
If you have a Crocs store nearby, check these bad boys out. Recommended to me by a podiatrist for my developing plantar fasciitis pain. I LOVE them.
www.crocs.com
Last I checked, shoes had to have a closed toe and a closed heel. In a retail environment, I'd consider that fairly important to TM safety (Not that Spot much cares about safety anymore)
