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My Pfresh sucks in all attributes... product selection, appearance, freshness, you name it. We are a busy one, but only the 6th busiest of the group! We've been open for almost two years now and every other Pfresh I've been at is neat and has a much better variety.
I'll start with product selection. We are very limited to what we sell compared to other Pfreshs I've been to, urban or not. We are an urban store which is located on the city limits and halfway serves poverty to middle class city dwellers and rich people. We have little organic product and no wacky stuff I've seen at most other Targets (Hempmilk, for example). We also serve a huge college crowd so stuff like that would be popular. Being urban, we also sell lots of chicken but don't have parts other Targets do (no wings, ground, double packs, etc) I was also in the Target by my parents' house this weekend and their produce and bakery gondolas are twice that size of ours! Sure, theirs was done a year after ours and their aisle is wider but still.
Appearance: We cannot be zoned; it is impossible. Other Targets are always filled and zoned in dry, dairy, frozen, produce, and meat but ours looks like a hurricane hit it. Doesn't matter if it's inside the city or outside, they still like better than ours. We have four order days a week which usually range from 9 to 14 pallets and we usually have at least 10 dedicated people working on the order or backroom between 5am and 1pm. Most times it doesn't get done. Overnight zones dry. And Fresh and Full by 4? HA! Never
Our order days usually:
6 people at 5am (1 PA, 2 backroom, 3 pushers)
3 people at 7am (1 TL, 1 backroom, 1 PA)
2 people at 9am (1 backroom, 1 endcap person, although she pushes usually)
1-3 people at 11-12pm (1 dry push, 1 to 2 pushers)
2 people at 4pm (closing)
2-3 people at 11 (overnight)
ETLs who have transferred from lower volumes were dumbfounded about our team; they never saw that many Market people. I don't get how we're not the busiest Pfresh yet we look like crap compared to the others. Frozen is all over the place even if I zone to POG cause we are NEVER full!
I'll go on at a later date but I want to mention that our backroom is at the complete opposite end of the store. I know many stores have that, but many stores also have backrooms right near Pfresh and even coolers you can fill from behind. We don't! I feel like we've got the short end of the stick!
UGH!!
I'll start with product selection. We are very limited to what we sell compared to other Pfreshs I've been to, urban or not. We are an urban store which is located on the city limits and halfway serves poverty to middle class city dwellers and rich people. We have little organic product and no wacky stuff I've seen at most other Targets (Hempmilk, for example). We also serve a huge college crowd so stuff like that would be popular. Being urban, we also sell lots of chicken but don't have parts other Targets do (no wings, ground, double packs, etc) I was also in the Target by my parents' house this weekend and their produce and bakery gondolas are twice that size of ours! Sure, theirs was done a year after ours and their aisle is wider but still.
Appearance: We cannot be zoned; it is impossible. Other Targets are always filled and zoned in dry, dairy, frozen, produce, and meat but ours looks like a hurricane hit it. Doesn't matter if it's inside the city or outside, they still like better than ours. We have four order days a week which usually range from 9 to 14 pallets and we usually have at least 10 dedicated people working on the order or backroom between 5am and 1pm. Most times it doesn't get done. Overnight zones dry. And Fresh and Full by 4? HA! Never
Our order days usually:
6 people at 5am (1 PA, 2 backroom, 3 pushers)
3 people at 7am (1 TL, 1 backroom, 1 PA)
2 people at 9am (1 backroom, 1 endcap person, although she pushes usually)
1-3 people at 11-12pm (1 dry push, 1 to 2 pushers)
2 people at 4pm (closing)
2-3 people at 11 (overnight)
ETLs who have transferred from lower volumes were dumbfounded about our team; they never saw that many Market people. I don't get how we're not the busiest Pfresh yet we look like crap compared to the others. Frozen is all over the place even if I zone to POG cause we are NEVER full!
I'll go on at a later date but I want to mention that our backroom is at the complete opposite end of the store. I know many stores have that, but many stores also have backrooms right near Pfresh and even coolers you can fill from behind. We don't! I feel like we've got the short end of the stick!
UGH!!
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