Recent content by scbman

Yep. I’ll avoid going to a store even if I know they have what I’m looking for if I expect the checkout experience to be awful. I’ll order it on amazon instead. What was frustrating for me was seeing our best sales floor TMs who would always go the extra mile and help out other work centers...

I don’t think anyone is arguing that the front end isn’t important, or that backup should never be necessary. The front end also shouldn’t feel guilty for receiving adequate payroll. But if my store was anything to go by, GM is woefully lacking in payroll. Most GM TM’s would be fine going up...

I was meaning items on the SDA list lol

Especially when half of them aren't even grocery items

Mid shifts everyday was one of the reasons I left. One of the few benefits of retail was extra time during the weekdays to take care of things I needed done. I'd either have whole mornings or whole afternoon/nights. That disappears with mids. You already have my weekends let me keep my time...

In my experience vendors will stop trying to push you around if you show them the ISG and that what they are trying to push on you isn't there. But don't treat vendors like shit unless needed. Part of their job is to try and get stores to set up displays for new products/specials, and I've...

This is why I was against them going from a 5 rating system to a 3 rating system. I used to get EXs and once they switched to the new system got DIOs and a lower percentage

Judging by the lack of equipment at my store, I’m surprised the company as a whole even has that many

Biggest advice I can give after being a Food SrTL for 4 years before I left, is know you will always have to fight the other departments/your ETLs on the importance of food safety/freshness and doing those processes thoroughly. They will underestimate how much time it takes and will only care...

Exactly. Why would I want to be a DBO at Target, when I can have the same amount of responsibility elsewhere with a guaranteed 40hrs a week and benefits? The people who don’t need that many hours and want to work less than 20hrs a week don’t want the stress/responsibility being a DBO requires...

That happened to a fellow TL at my store. Asked a question about certain priorities and the DTL gave a complete non answer, TL explained that they wanted to make sure their priorities aligned with upper leadership as they would be held accountable. DTL gave the same non-answer then after the...

Yup. And the STLs go along with it because the DTL could throw them under the bus to save their own ass. God forbid DTLs accept reality and see how a store is actually running, get feedback from the STL, and then develop ideas to improve At the company I work for now, whenever someone from...

When Target got rid of the VIBE, our DTL told us in a TL meeting and laughed "you guys remember the vibe? what a joke, no one liked the vibe", when 2 months earlier they were harping on about how important the vibe was. I'm predicting a similar thing in a couple years unless Target decides to...

Especially because most people don't think everything about the idea of modernization sucks, it's just that if you bring up how certain parts of it aren't working and could be improved, you're branded as resistant to change, when you are literally suggesting how something can be changed for the...

I had ETLs at my store like that. They wanted entire aisles flexed (active items not just discontinued/clearance), instead of just endcaps/sidecaps. Even if you showed them they were coming in on the truck tomorrow. "If DTL came in and saw outs they would be furious". No matter that they had...