Archived Does Anyone Do Pricing/Price Change Now?

[BigZeek]

I work in the backroom (very part time) and over the past 3-4 months, nobody in our store has done price change batches. There are over 200 batches in the system now... Whenever I get a chance I pull some of it, but it has all been sitting in the backroom for so long, 95% of it is salvage and can't be sold. I'm just curious if this whole change everyone's role and give everyone a different title (I guess I'm a "back of store expert" or something now and not just "backroom tm") has something to do with it, or if my store in particular is just lacking hours/doesn't care about marking down clearance items. In some of the aisles in the backroom, there is so much clearance on the shelves that isn't getting pulled that there is no room for other backstock. I've never seen things get this behind like this. It's like management just forgot things go on clearance and nobody does it now. I've asked multiple times why nobody is doing it, but nothing gets done about it.

Anyone else have this issue at their store? There used to be a whole pricing team, and now nobody seems to do that role at all.

 

[Lazy]

I work in the backroom (very part time) and over the past 3-4 months, nobody in our store has done price change batches. There are over 200 batches in the system now... Whenever I get a chance I pull some of it, but it has all been sitting in the backroom for so long, 95% of it is salvage and can't be sold. I'm just curious if this whole change everyone's role and give everyone a different title (I guess I'm a "back of store expert" or something now and not just "backroom tm") has something to do with it, or if my store in particular is just lacking hours/doesn't care about marking down clearance items. In some of the aisles in the backroom, there is so much clearance on the shelves that isn't getting pulled that there is no room for other backstock. I've never seen things get this behind like this. It's like management just forgot things go on clearance and nobody does it now. I've asked multiple times why nobody is doing it, but nothing gets done about it.

Anyone else have this issue at their store? There used to be a whole pricing team, and now nobody seems to do that role at all.

Yup it's a problem here. I heard one store is so behind they have 40 tms support help for price change.

 

[Black Sheep 214]

All that salvage- what a waste...😳

 

[vngoghlvr]

We were over 100 batches behind, then they would finally get around to dropping a few tubs or pallets full if stuff, mostly salvage. Then hassle us about ticketing and pushing ASAP because there was no room for it. But between a new backroom TL, a new STL, and our ETL saying eff it and go back to pulling overnight, we are down to 3 batches people. 3. 😊

 

[SitSpotSit]

I can tell you what's up with us...6 months ago we had a great routine. We could ticket the floor and backroom and keep up with labels. That's when we had hardlines and softlines. Then they changed the truck unload which really changed the backroom and our batches stopped getting pulled regularly. The manpower was there they literally couldn't and still can't get to it.

Now we don't do softlines anymore yet we are falling more and more behind because of the backroom issues. Oh, and if somehow a batch can get pulled, first we have to find it, then we ticket it and it sits there because nobody pushes it (can't blame anyone, they probably don't want to take 20 minutes to get it out of the backroom) we eventually ticket it again and then it goes salvage.

It's crazy to hear it's not just us. Truly part of what is sucking up our time is just how long it takes to do anything. Just to get our stuff ready for the day takes moving vehicles around because our stuff gets buried after we leave. Then at the end of the day it's more of the same plus doing salvage in receiving which is another dance with vehicles trying to make space to create a pallet. What used to take us 15 ish minutes we now need about 30 which is time lost to our workload. It is really frustrating.

So that's my story. I'd love to hear how it's going for other price change teams.

 

[BigZeek]

So the common theme is hours/manpower and role changes with pricing getting put at the bottom of the priority list. Like I said, I'm very part time (2nd job) so I don't really get a feel for what is going on at the store, but it seems like every dept is lacking. The backroom has been a wreck for months. Target bumps everyone's minimum pay up by a few bucks and mysteriously we have no hours... that idea didn't work out very well.

I used to just pull the batches and other people would come print the clearance labels. Now, when the lead doesn't have other tasks for me and I do get to pull the batches, they need me to also label everything and scan salvage out of the system as well, so it takes forever.

The other thing I'm curious about is does this cause Target to really lose money or not? Anyone have insight on that? I've roughly counted the batch sizes by DPCI and easily it is over 1,000 different items (not eaches, but unique items) that have/are going salvage because they didn't get pulled in time to try to sell at a lower price.

 

[qmosqueen]

No.

 

[BigZeek]

No.

Can you elaborate? No, as in it isn't an issue at your store, or no as in you disagree with something said?

 

[YourPPTL]

Sorry if I offend anyone, but the backroom is a mess. Back stock everywhere, autos not worked. Truck not finished. Who has time to pull price change? My team finds theirs on random pallets in the back room labeled ( price change) I'm lucky they do come clean at the end of each week. Not a fan of the new system.

 

[15 Sec. Remain]

Let's see. With my responsibilities of being a DBO.

- Daily truck push. (Almost everyday)
- CAFs
- Backstock push, and maneuvering the backroom can be a chore in itself.
- Revisions/Plano
- Salesplanners that have fallen behind due to Truck/CAF push.
- Reshop/Zone properly (because some TMs don't give a crap)
- Signing/labeling.
- Know sales for area. (Daily, weekly, Month to month, and Year to date)

- But, guests first!


- Price change? Sure throw it in there, hopefully I'll get to it.

Sorry, Modernization/E2E blows.