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Due to enough housewives complaining about not being able to shop at Target after they drop their children off, it seems T2431 in Milton, GA was the first P2P store to revert the store hours back. There's an entire "southern bell" invitation-only website that was up-in-arms over their beloved...

It's very rare that TMs think these pilots are good ideas. ETLs and STLs (and some TLs) all remain positive about these pilots no matter the faults because a negative leader is not promotable. When the DTL asks a TM what they think about it, and gives honest feedback, since the entire...

The problem lies that there are 11 zones (or more depending on how the store pilots it), however none of the 3 testing stores have enough team members to cover all these zones, so team members have to double-up on the zones until more can be hired. The "opportunities" I've heard so far are...

This rolled out to the 10 stores on April 27th, however one store has been participating in the test since 4th quarter. The stores are almost all SuperTargets that were next in line to be shut down due to low profits. I know for sure three of them are located in the metro Atlanta area. It's...

This was piloted a while back, called Source to Fork (every pilot needs a weird name and acronym). With everything located, it's all auto-replenished from the FDC, and backroom has to pull and backstock. I assumed it went to every store by now, but I can assure you it is truly a real pain for...

Pathway to Profitability is a pilot that's goal is to make ULV stores more profitable, and at the moment stores are allowed to make a lot of these business decisions themselves (with the DTL of course). Ten stores are participating in this pilot. The focus is mostly on SuperTarget food...

I searched and couldn't find any discussion on this pilot. A new pilot launched to a total of 3 stores, code-named "Project Viper" begins April 29th. This project basically removes the Instocks team and the Backroom Day team and places them on the sales floor. The store is divided into 11...

We call it "Power Hour," which is supposedly the busiest time of the day. We're supposed to walk around and just ask CIHYFS to people. I'm sure it makes guests consider going to other stores when they can't even shop without every TL and TM in the building aggressively asking if they need help.

I really find it interesting that they chose to do this test going into Q4, where we normally build the loyalty of new guests. Now we're going to alienate them with no service in the Deli/Bakery and basically no choices at Food Avenue.

Several ULV SuperTargets are about to start their test where just about all production is stopped in the food departments. Bakery, Deli, and Food Avenue are the big targets, but it's a store wide thing to also reduce TL headcount and store hours. Each store is piloting it themselves, and I'm...