I picture the same thing. Expand this idea even further though, not just furniture. You could remove a majority of the gondolas throughout your "home" sections, and leave gondolas standing for your backwalls and one aligned with your breezeways to create natural dividers. Along these tall gondolas can be your "general accessories" such as the most popular lamps, tv stands, toss pillows etc... Inside each "area" would be your departments such as furniture, bedding, bath, domestics, kitchen... These areas can be mixtures of what global bazaar looked like and the Electronics Experience fixtures (the 8' long tables, but wood on top instead of black) where displays of towels, bedding, shower curtains, etc are all displayed on top, and product is aligned underneath. If a guest cannot load the item into their cart themselves, there is not a good reason to keep the product on the floor both as the display and the box stock. Along all these items as well, the signage should read something like, "Call a TM to retrieve these items here OR Use your Target App to Scan here and Ship directly to your house!"
I also agree on the staffing piece though, do not get me wrong! I do not want to just slice payroll, I want to stop wasting payroll on things that are not productive. By reducing the unnecessary replenishment of items that can ship straight to guests, we reduce the need to stock as much on our shelves, reduce the clearance, while still driving sales for Target itself.
