Point System

[Peter Parker]

Does anyone have foresight on the new point system Target plans to implement in 2026 ? They haven't told us anything yet at my store.

 

[HInbound]

More details, please.

DC policy now is to basically heavily front load the trucks for upcoming transitions. You basically get a metric buttload of product in for departments that won't be set for 2-3 weeks out, so it all has to be deboxed and backstocked. You have to be able to coordinate with your other shift counterparts to get through it as fast as possible, or your backroom will be inundated with product waiting to be backstocked.

We're not allowed to trap any more, so planning and execution has to be on point to prevent a mess in the backroom.

 

[Him]

More details, please.

Simply put, everyone is supposed to help one another in all aspects of your store 🏬. If you’re Department is Truck Unload, get your freight unloaded as quickly as possible. Whatever you were hired to do for Spot (Target 🎯), then make sure you do it well enough so that the shift coming after you can successfully move forward. Believe it or not your Stores 🏬 success is viewed by how well All Departments work together. You may be a cashier and never 👎🏾 ever work “In the Backroom”. However, making sure that you ring up all guests fast 💨. Making sure that your area is Brand, Neat and fully Stocked. That in turn helps anyone who is to push the merchandise to the floor, the product in the Backroom sells, and more work hours become available. It’s business.

 

[BKop16]

We're not allowed to trap any more, so planning and execution has to be on point to prevent a mess in the backroom.

You're not allowed to trap transition anymore? Wow.

 

[HInbound]

You're not allowed to trap transition anymore? Wow.

Our store isn't, only in dire conditions, say if we got slammed with a heavy front load and had a bunch of callouts to where it wouldn't be feasible to waste bodies on something being set a few weeks out and we didn't want it clogging the back. TL's can make that call themselves, but we have to be able to justify the decision.

Goal is to always process it ASAP. I'd love to trap it, but our dayside counterparts have been spoiled with not having to push trapped pallets because we're usually fairly efficient at getting it backstocked. If they set it without filling it though, our ETL's give them utter hell, as they should.

 

[jenna]

DC policy now is to basically heavily front load the trucks for upcoming transitions. You basically get a metric buttload of product in for departments that won't be set for 2-3 weeks out, so it all has to be deboxed and backstocked. You have to be able to coordinate with your other shift counterparts to get through it as fast as possible, or your backroom will be inundated with product waiting to be backstocked.

We're not allowed to trap any more, so planning and execution has to be on point to prevent a mess in the backroom.

We are doomed. 😕

 

[jenna]

Goal is to always process it ASAP. If they set it without filling it though, our ETL's give them utter hell, as they should.

What if it’s the ETLs/TLs tying and lying (not setting or filling). 😬🙁🙄

We’re doomed.

 

[jenna]

Simply put, everyone is supposed to help one another in all aspects of your store 🏬. If you’re Department is Truck Unload, get your freight unloaded as quickly as possible. Whatever you were hired to do for Spot (Target 🎯), then make sure you do it well enough so that the shift coming after you can successfully move forward. Believe it or not your Stores 🏬 success is viewed by how well All Departments work together. You may be a cashier and never 👎🏾 ever work “In the Backroom”. However, making sure that you ring up all guests fast 💨. Making sure that your area is Brand, Neat and fully Stocked. That in turn helps anyone who is to push the merchandise to the floor, the product in the Backroom sells, and more work hours become available. It’s business.

lol. I think it’s “every man for himself “ at my store. I am one of the few that recognize the need for a symbiotic relationship within the store.

I execute my daily tasks with that in mind, too. Have done so for years…..

 

[FlowTeamChick]

Our store isn't, only in dire conditions, say if we got slammed with a heavy front load and had a bunch of callouts to where it wouldn't be feasible to waste bodies on something being set a few weeks out and we didn't want it clogging the back. TL's can make that call themselves, but we have to be able to justify the decision.

Goal is to always process it ASAP. I'd love to trap it, but our dayside counterparts have been spoiled with not having to push trapped pallets because we're usually fairly efficient at getting it backstocked. If they set it without filling it though, our ETL's give them utter hell, as they should.

So is it safe for me to assume that your store sets POGs as soon as they drop into the work load? We've done that consistently up until recent months after a new SD arrived and said POGs weren't to be set until the week they're due. Leaving aside how bonkers that is, this new process would make things even worse.

Also, what's the rationale behind back stocking new product? I've generally collected it into its own space without back stocking, so then I don't have to pull a batch. It'd all just there. Which would seem to be what the guided POG process expects because there's a page where it says to get staged merch from the back and push it to the still-in-process new set.

 

[Peter Parker]

More details, please.

From what i heard. Stuff coming in for POGs. Ton of stuff coming in for my area.

 

[HInbound]

What if it’s the ETLs/TLs tying and lying (not setting or filling). 😬🙁🙄

We’re doomed.

Oh, they still ghost tie to meet their metrics when they're behind. Our compromise to ease frustration for Inbound was to tie it to an obvious section, say (50), that doesn't exist in that aisle. That way we immediately know we can straight backstock it and not waste time searching for something that isn't actually set yet.

 

[HInbound]

So is it safe for me to assume that your store sets POGs as soon as they drop into the work load? We've done that consistently up until recent months after a new SD arrived and said POGs weren't to be set until the week they're due. Leaving aside how bonkers that is, this new process would make things even worse.

Also, what's the rationale behind back stocking new product? I've generally collected it into its own space without back stocking, so then I don't have to pull a batch. It'd all just there. Which would seem to be what the guided POG process expects because there's a page where it says to get staged merch from the back and push it to the still-in-process new set.

They're usually pretty decent about pre-tying on time, but missed a lot at the end of Q4, so we're struggling with lots of NPT at the moment, Toys, ODL, Valentine's Candy. They set early wherever they can, but that's the exception rather than the rule, usually within a day or 2 (early/late).

Rationale is, it makes it easier for the GM/Specialty/etc. teams to set. They can just set, then pull a batch and done, instead of dealing with pallets of stuff on the floor while open. Inbound does a lot of stuff at our store that most stores Inbound don't because the other departments give up their hours to us so they don't have to. It places a lot of responsibility on us, and if we have rough patches of callouts and what not, can make it harder on the other departments to catch up, but it works for our store majority of the time.

 

[jenna]

Also, what's the rationale behind back stocking new product? I've generally collected it into its own space without back stocking, so then I don't have to pull a batch. It'd all just there. Which would seem to be what the guided POG process expects because there's a page where it says to get staged merch from the back and push it to the still-in-process new set.

Yeah, no way I will be able to backstock Transition just to pull it all - for a major set.