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Funny. I think this will lose Target some sales. Most people I talk to have the same thing to say about Target (and Costco): "I go in for one thing and end up spending $100". While it may increase the "I just need a box of diapers and how great is this that I don't have to risk toddler...

Nothing personal against you at all, but reading your post reminded me of what I can't stand about Target - all the stupid lingo that superficially tries to spin negative things postively. Coaching instead of warning, "seek to understand conversation" (it needs a name?), opportunities instead...

I disagree strongly with this. Of course a CEO could be a TM. Anyone can be a TM. NOT anyone can be a CEO. The responsibility on any CEO's shoulders is insane. While the money is astonishing, no CEO is sitting at a desk "sorting papers". Plus I'm confident that, like most high level...

I don't, but I do consider everything I buy at the grocery store "groceries". I can't help it if it makes no sense to you, that's just my mental definition of the word and it was clearly this lady's as well. I don't think she was trying to pull a fast one. She was genuinely baffled as to how...

I did my first full cashier shift yesterday and ran into the coupon complainers. The one that I really sympathized with was someone who brought in the $5 off $30 in groceries. She spent around $100 but it included laundry detergent and ziplock bags and other things and there wasn't $30 in what...

Seems like the GSTL should be the one getting coached to me . . . the TM has no duty to not talk about things she overheard. The GSTL has an obligation not to be discussing the firing a TM out in the open where anyone and everyone can hear. If I were the TM that was getting fired, I'd be...

Well, not every store does this. I was in Ulta the other day buying shampoo for myself and my daughter. The products we use had signs everywhere that said, buy two get two free and then the fine print said "on finishing and styling products" but the signs were in front of every single kind of...

TTOTM: I know your job description for the day was reshop, but does that mean you are completely oblivious to merchandise on the floor? Especially when you know that at least two softlines TM's called off and there was absolutely no one who was charged with maintaining the zone? You couldn't...

I would say that breaks are "mandatory" at my store. The truth is, everyone assumes you will take your break and no one encourages anyone to NOT take their break, so as a result - everyone takes their breaks. There is a breakout for my department each day and all breaks and lunches are...

I don't know. I sort of agree with the concept that management is management and sales floor workers are sales floor workers. Once in a blue moon, I can see a manager doing an underlying job, but not every day or even often. Their job is to manage. I don't want my airplane pilot passing out...

just curious - what do you mean by "how well the store is doing"? Does that mean how much money the store brings in or whether the scores are "green" across the board. As a basic TM, I don't have access to any info about how much money the store is making and regardless, I have no frame of...

I barely know any ETL's - except for the one who chastised me about not going up to back up cashier one day. I had just left the registers about 20 minutes before and made my own decision that it was some one else's turn to back up since my zone was trashed (there were plenty of sales floor TMs...

Most of my employed life, I was paid the 15th and the last day of the month (so 24 instead of 26 paychecks a year). Every time the pay date fell on Saturday or Sunday (or a holiday), I'd get paid the day before. Target paper check payday is Friday, but direct deposit hits on Thursday, since...

Each rack or wall is either infant or toddler (I think - they seem pretty well defined to me anyway), but they are in the same section. Toddler/Infant boys and toddler/infant girls are divided by an aisle that has the Baby Registry table, stools and i-Pads. The littlest things are generally...

My kids are past the tantrum phase, but the biggest catch 22 was when they were throwing a fit in a store because they didn't want to be there. Do you leave the store - giving them exactly what they want or do you muscle through your shopping trip to enforce the concept that "mama don't play...

We don't separate infants from toddlers - there's just girl (toddler and younger) and boy (toddler and younger). I think knowing where things go will just come with time. I don't do it often, so when I first head in, I take an overview look of everything to try to have an idea of what goes...

I hope my store is the same - I put a shift on the swap board for the week of 1/3 to 1/10 and really hope some one takes it. I could work it, but would rather not.

I'd like to see them combine market pantry/archer farms offers. 5% off any market pantry product is easier than going through and adding all those offers to your cartwheel.

I think you need to bring it up with someone. My ETL was walking by when I was checking the 1/3 - 1/10 schedule and I casually asked her - when does seasonal employment end? The gist of the conversation was that unless I said something, there would have been no conversation- I would have just...

This is what they should do. Everyone's life is different (sometimes year to year or day vs. evening) - for those who don't celebrate, working Christmas Eve is like working any other day. For some others, working Christmas Eve is an inconvenience but not a huge deal. For others, it's missing...