It seems like Target is trying to go for a more Amazon approach and trying to cut out the middle man and eventually own the whole process from picking the order to delivering it. Dealing with the carriers sometimes is a pain in the ass since almost every other week UPS does not come on Saturday to do their pickup. This would also make it so we don't have to sit on pallets of orders on Sunday and Monday until they can pick them up. They would either have to build new stores with SFS/OPU in mind to build respective areas since our guest service space is laughable how small it is, although we took over the old cafe space and our 1 pack station is in a corner in receiving, or take away salesfloor space to upgrade stores like ours that don't have the space to expand. What they really need to do is secure more product since quarantine bins, increased online orders, and increased in-store traffic has left some of our shelves bare and almost every style item I pick is last on-hand. It will be interesting to what they do in the future and hope that expanding fulfillment won't come at the cost of other areas of the store that are needed to make fulfillment successful and easier.
