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    2023 New pilots?

    All that was old is new again. Lol. I’m guessing the reason being the company doesn’t have access to the kind of labor anymore that supports the tight dbo processes.
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    2023 New pilots?

    Okay gotcha. DSD was tight-lipped about it. But said the changes were substantial, and most likely not going away.
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    2023 New pilots?

    Hearing rumors of new pilots for certain groups in R400. Anyone heard anything? Themes might be HR and GM.…
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    Post Modernization

    Hearing rumors of a new pilot coming with big changes. DSD pretty tight lipped. Anyone hear anything?
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    Turn over.

    B store Fully staffed 70-80% turnover Green metrics Somewhat lucky this time around. Lot of other stores in the area are struggling.
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    Moving Up?!

    Moving up is 50% political, 25% doing a great job, 25% of right place/right time. If you can’t recognize/ or fit into the store cliche, you won’t move up. But I suppose that’s the way it is most places. I’ve seen many tms who were decent workers, and expressed interest in doing more, but...
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    Visits need to happen

    Most visits are “unannounced”. However, getting a heads up—directly or indirectly (seen both lol)—is rewarding for both parties involved. That’s why it happens. You can debate about the rightness of it, but the “spin” is still there. The DSD knows they look bad to the group/regional if a...
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    Grocery one for ones

    Food is getting clobbered right now with freight on both the fresh and dry fronts. The pandemic and Store pickup changed the business. We are getting double the amount of freight as last year, but the hours don’t seem to reflect the business growth.
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    Grocery one for ones

    You forgot the part about getting flooded with needless freight from the DC, while your counts are correct. Yes...yes, you did need more Pam and syrup. (That DC “bounce-back” tho) It seems everyone has a different variant for success—which is kind of counter to how this process equalizer was...
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    My Time as an ETL

    I agree. And Working at Target has always been a lesson in conformity I’ve felt over the years. Challenges are gaslighted as “negative”. Very much a yes-man culture.
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    A Visit

    So, regional visit? Group Food director’s boss? If it’s only market, that’s what it sounds like. Think everything modernization. How much are you on process and how well are you delivering results. The Shorter the visit, the better—less stuff wrong to pick out and talk with you about. In...
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    MEGATHREAD 2018-2019 Store Modernization Megathread

    Whoever can pull off a good appearance of the process working, they get promoted. Lot of politically savy “yes-men/women” going up the ladder right now. 5 years into this rollout, and we are still trying to rollout process time-savers to account for the short payroll. Point being: it’s not...
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    Frustrated to the point of tears

    Things in your favor: -You like what you do, and are good at it -Your leader know this, as do others -HR told you to let TLs handle coaching. (Yes this is actually a plus in my book.) These are big positives. Points you should re-examine: -the existence of sub-par team members on your team...
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    Store director bullying

    You never hear the other side to these sob stories “Best-worker-ever” doesn’t get trashed after a legitimate callout. Not an advocate for being jerks to people, but there’s usually a correlation between the “presence of a**holes” and a failure of one’s own ability to be accountable. Can’t...
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    4th quarter nation wide modernization

    I’m going to add this one too: if modernization is working great for your store, are you locationed in an area with a cheap standard of living/or socioeconomic area that avails itself to $13 part-time work w/ open availability needed? Forget the leaders, who are your dbos? I don’t know how...
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    New Food & Bev TL

    Sorry, by worksheet I mean those activity books. Leader ops? Should be like 3 of them but I forget the names off the top of my head. Target in the past paralyzed itself by overemphasizing HR stuff. It placated grumpy people/poor performers. Modernization did away with that. If you have...
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    New Food & Bev TL

    As far as the Starbucks DM, just show engagement. Don’t get on their bad side. If they give feedback, act on it immediately. Ask questions. Don’t appear like you don’t know anything, but don’t pretend to know everything either. Certification was more like gauging your commitment to the...
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    New Food & Bev TL

    Food and Beverage is hard-mode. Plain and simple. Don’t feel bad. But It may get worse before it gets better if you don’t have a good team in place. Building a strong team is the only thing that is going to make it better (but you probably already know that). Get rid of people who don’t...
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    Is this Real Life? (A Market vent thread)

    These past few weeks have been a gauntlet in grocery. G&G rollout. Beefy trucks/pulls. I can see there’s not going to be much breathing room until November kick-starts 4Q.
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