Backroom

[Abc123321cba1]

Is target getting rid of all backroom positions in all stores or is it just certain stores?

 

[BadWolf4531]

Target got rid of all backroom positions a few years ago. Their core roles were absorbed into the duties of all DBOs. Receiving expert is really the only position still around (though they are not a 'backroom' team member).

It's possible some stores kept certain team members around to continue acting in the old backroom roles, but this would have been against company directive.

 

[Planosss]

There was a backroom attendant who introduced around this past Q4. A lot of stores didn’t implement it and used the hours to fuck around.

 

[Black Sheep 214]

One of the bigger mistakes Target ever made…

 

[Spotter]

With all of the inventory issues bullseye is dealing with, we need the backroom team. If you have a good solid team like I had, backroom would be better maintained, pulls got done and on and on. Most definitely one of the worse decisions made.

 

[moninity]

We were awesome when it came to low and tight as we knew how to properly backstock.

 

[Rarejem]

We got the movable backroom aisles and now have a very small backroom team again, but have heard that there may be a TL coming so perhaps that team will be getting bigger and have more to do than they are right now. (backroom hours are very light, so they work in other areas, too.)

 

[Rarejem]

We were awesome when it came to low and tight as we knew how to properly backstock.

No longer a "thing" at our store.

 

[moninity]

I don’t think it’s a thing anywhere when team members like to have multiple locations for every item.

 

[BadWolf4531]

We're in the middle of a fulfillment remodel right now and just lost 8 aisles of light duty and a ~72-ft wall of steel. I'm not sure if we'll ever be low and tight again

 

[Sparkle5]

I don’t think it’s a thing anywhere when team members like to have multiple locations for every item.

Or no "location" at all.

 

[balthrop]

We're in the middle of a fulfillment remodel right now and just lost 8 aisles of light duty and a ~72-ft wall of steel. I'm not sure if we'll ever be low and tight again

That sounds bloody painful. and it’ll be even more so with the rather large increase of freight to the stores for yeah know reasons.

 

[IhateOPmodel]

That sounds bloody painful. and it’ll be even more so with the rather large increase of freight to the stores for yeah know reasons.

I'm curious how these stores that are going to the collapsible aisles and losing light duty shelving are going to deal with the freight. If space doesn't exist where does it go?

Do they alter the trucks and cut down on inventory?

 

[FlowTeamChick]

We were awesome when it came to low and tight as we knew how to properly backstock.

Depends a lot on the DBO, just like the floor presentation does. I've been given compliments on my BR organization, both by TMs at my own store and by some who visit. (We get a quite a few brand-new ETLs who come to my store for training.)
Really bugs me when TMs back stock product in the wrong places, despite my putting up signage.

 

[KarmaToBurn]

A few years ago, all the slack was dumped on the Receiver... at least in my store