Recent content by zoned2deep

Haha, Market has been like this for a while now. Welcome to hell.

One thing I was told by some friends who worked at Walmart is that Walmart does more promoting from within, at least compared to Target, where almost all ETLs are hired right out of college, and it's almost impossible to move from Sr. TL to ETL. Also, they told me that fewer sales floor...

We have three carts at Guest Service: one downstairs hardlines, one downstairs softlines, and one for upstairs stuff (sometimes the first two carts are merged). When a cart is full the Guest Service TM calls for that workcenter to grab their reshop cart at their earliest convenience. Whoever...

Yup, it's basically a nightmare every weekend. The number of untouched C&S pallets leftover by the time the Sunday shipment arrives still continues to shock me, even though it happens every week. When I first started working in Market, this basically never happened. C&S pallets would get pushed...

Wow, this is utterly fucked. That is so wrong, I can't even. There are definitely some TMs that skip breaks in my department. It always kinda annoys me. If enough people start skipping their breaks, it becomes the norm, and then anyone who doesn't do it seems like a slacker in comparison. But...

I mean, I'm glad that Target is increasing base pay. It seems to me there are two main possibilities: 1) The changes to Market were always intended to be a way to justify huge cuts to payroll by pretending that the new system represented a massive increase in efficiency. (I do genuinely believe...

Oh yeah, we've gotten yellow on our last several Steritech visits, and that's only because of cutting corners and such (like one TM quickly falsifying cleaning records a few minutes before the Steritech guy looks at the binder), we deserved to get red, I think. Fortunately, I'm going to be...

Yeah, I understand the reasons for unlocating the backrooms, I believe most grocery stores use that approach. But if you are 4+ pallets behind in C&S and 6+ uboats behind in dry, there's no way in hell you are going to be able to challenge the metros. So unlocating the backrooms for us just...

Market at my store has now become an absolute shitshow. There were 4+ pallets leftover from Thursday's C&S load when we received today. We are about that many pallets behind almost every time a shipment comes in. Similarly, there are usually at least 4 uboats of dry truck that roll over every...

My store stopped doing PBJ during Q4 ever since when our old ETL HR left a couple years ago. :( I was bummed, I totally ate it a lot before.

My main concern is that if they continue to cut hours to the bone in order to staff the store as little as humanly possible and in order to make sure fewer people working 30+ hours to qualify for benefits, then a large increase in minimum wage won't actually end up benefiting TMs very much. If...

Why do vendors always leave their cardboard on the sales floor? Even when they do take it to the baler, there is always at least a few boxes or wads of plastic wrap left behind on the sales floor. Or, my favorite, they just leave 1-2 boxes of product on the floor next to the 4 ft section they...

Lol firing people at Target. People almost never ever get fired at my store, you have to NCNS multiple times, throw something at a guest, or steal, those are the only ways I've heard of. (AP gets fired easily, but that's different.) There's so much turnover and they are desperate to hire and...

Y'all didn't even mention the stuff that's done which actively undermines the store going forward. Flexing everything and making instocks suffer greatly, unlocated displays put up at the last minute, lots of product flexed into endcaps about to reset, that sort of thing -- the negative impacts...

Apparently the person who did the AMA commented today and said they ended up spending 111 hours stuck in the store.