sigma7
Former ETL-All the Things
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- Jun 15, 2011
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Well, yes, this is how it's "supposed" to work. Except that's not real life. I've been told on some shifts by my TL to just keep pushing and someone else will do the back stock. (Which is sort of a bummer to me because I actually like back stocking. But oh well.)
And hard lines ETL told the Beauty TMs to leave their back stock because they're supposed to be out on the floor selling product.
You’re right that is how it’s supposed to work. And that’s honestly about the only way for it to really work. That can be real life if your Exec and TLs or leads and leaders whatever would just get with the program. It’s really easy for them to say it doesn’t work when they aren’t really even trying to do it and just immediately go back to the old way as soon as things get rough. But clearly the old way doesn’t work anymore either.
Again, I feel that there is a lot wrong with the implementation if modernization (most of all that Target really needs to invest payroll into a dedicated training bank so you can truly train your team), but the streamlining and total ownership of small sections makes a lot of sense. Stores just have no clue how to actually implement it and either give up too soon or never really try and whine about how it’s never going to work. I know that firsthand bc we never thought it would work at first but we committed to making it happen.
But also I’m not with Target anymore so feel free to completely ignore my point of view! I haven’t been there in several months so I don’t know what the situation is like on the ground anymore.