Pathway to Profitability is a pilot that's goal is to make ULV stores more profitable, and at the moment stores are allowed to make a lot of these business decisions themselves (with the DTL of course). Ten stores are participating in this pilot.
The focus is mostly on SuperTarget food departments. All production is to be removed in lieu of PFresh options.
Bakery no longer produces products (breads, bagels, donuts, cookies, pastries), except for the cake decorator. Great reduction in hours, opening at 9am and closing at 3pm.
Deli no longer produces salads and sandwiches, slices meat, fries for the hot case, or makes rotisserie chicken. Reduction in hours from 9am and closing at 7pm.
Produce no longer cuts fruit.
Target Cafe/Pizza Hut reduces hours to 11am to 7pm, with a limited selection of products.
Fitting Room/Operator position is eliminated, instead a designated Softlines TM will carry a phone around with them, and the fitting room has a call-button.
Store hours reduced, opening instead at 9:00 am.
The goal of this change is to minimize any possible 'waste' of controllable expenses, and to try to make the Deli and Bakery profitable (Deli and Bakery are loyalty-driving loss-leaders).
I posted something like this a while back when it was first decided at HQ, but it was only going into effect at 1-2 stores, and now it's going live in all 10 of the pilot stores.
The focus is mostly on SuperTarget food departments. All production is to be removed in lieu of PFresh options.
Bakery no longer produces products (breads, bagels, donuts, cookies, pastries), except for the cake decorator. Great reduction in hours, opening at 9am and closing at 3pm.
Deli no longer produces salads and sandwiches, slices meat, fries for the hot case, or makes rotisserie chicken. Reduction in hours from 9am and closing at 7pm.
Produce no longer cuts fruit.
Target Cafe/Pizza Hut reduces hours to 11am to 7pm, with a limited selection of products.
Fitting Room/Operator position is eliminated, instead a designated Softlines TM will carry a phone around with them, and the fitting room has a call-button.
Store hours reduced, opening instead at 9:00 am.
The goal of this change is to minimize any possible 'waste' of controllable expenses, and to try to make the Deli and Bakery profitable (Deli and Bakery are loyalty-driving loss-leaders).
I posted something like this a while back when it was first decided at HQ, but it was only going into effect at 1-2 stores, and now it's going live in all 10 of the pilot stores.