Your realistic options are a 2nd job, a cheaper place, or a roommate (I'm excluding illegal activities of course). You could try selling some things on Facebook, Nextdoor or Ebay to help temporarily. Your HR at Target might have some ideas (and maybe even some cash) for you.
Tech jobs pay more...
I know one thing to be true. There will never be a sustained overall increase of hours for team members. It will always be decreased or remain the same with some things being automated
There was a survey about the Chain of Custody process a month or so back. I wrote in the comment section requesting this exact thing (and a couple other things, like expanding the report for past due license plates). Sooo happy it's being implemented. I'll have to look tomorrow
They did 20 years ago when I started at Target. Can't say for sure if it's normal now or not, but I imagine we have plenty of applicants and turning away the few who wouldn't want, or wouldn't pass one, would not hurt our hiring.
It's a BEWARE OF DOG sign. But there's no dog. Probably just a scare tactic. They WILL write up people who have often been calling out, or NCNS, and say its because of the "new policy" but it was going to happen anyway.
TTODTL if the stores' scores are consistently varyingly bad Yellow, and they all go up to 100% at the same time across the board. It's not because they did something right. It's because whoever's supposed to be reporting the failures is not doing their job. Congratulatory email is not deserved...
Special Target t-shirts, public acknowledgement (like when team huddles used to be a thing, "Praise in public criticize in private" as the saying goes), "___ of the week: TMNAME" award/photo/just written on the whiteboard
If the case pack is one item, I've been putting the CRC sticker next to the UPC barcode on the outside of the case pack. If the case is multiple items, I access the UPC barcode for each item and put the CRC sticker next to it, not fully detrashing.
HQ Speak. It IS very different than what we usually use around here which is more casual and conversational, fewer buzzwords and phrases. "Circle back around", track, log, "jump in". LOL