The skeleton crew thing is getting really old really fast

[HardlinesFour]

I dumped every share I had in this company over two years ago, and honestly, I haven’t looked back. I’ve only been in a Target store a few times since, and every time I walk through the doors, I’m hit with the same feeling: I made the right call. The guest experience is pure garbage, and the stores and merchendise are not even marginally better.

This isn’t the same company I believed in. It’s not even close. Target is a sinking ship. At this pace, it won’t be around by 2035, and may even be gone by 2030 —and that’s not an exaggeration, that’s just where the numbers and the reality are pointing.

The only real value left is in the real estate—leases, owned buildings, whatever. The brand itself? It’s been dragged through the mud and lost nearly everything that once made it matter. The trust, the image, the culture—it’s all gone. The "leadership" at the company, couldn't save the brand if their lives depended on it.

Give it another couple of years of shrinking sales and lost market share, and shareholders will do what they always do: cut their losses and start shutting it all down. Liquidation won’t be some shock twist—it’ll be the only logical next step.

I honestly feel bad for all the store team members and corporate employees who built a life around this place. People who gave it years, even decades. I was proud to be part of Target back in 2007. It actually meant something then. But now? It’s just sad.

I wish the best for all of you. It pains me looking at what this company has become.

 

[Unleashed Dog]

Skeleton crew’s so real, my current store has literally no fulfillment schedule and OPU just leeches off GM/FB/Style. This was foreign to me, as even at other non-SFS stores Im used to seeing a fulfillment schedule.

 

[employee 626]

Skeleton crew’s so real, my current store has literally no fulfillment schedule and OPU just leeches off GM/FB/Style. This was foreign to me, as even at other non-SFS stores Im used to seeing a fulfillment schedule.

Do you know why you don’t have SFS at your current store?

 

[FlowTeamChick]

Don't know what was going on, but there were no closing experts at my store last night. Pulls weren't done, much less left staged for the morning crew. Reshop either wasn't collected or if it was in some areas, it was just left heaped in triple-tier carts behind GS, no attempt at sorting.

Good thing our truck was relatively small today so we could get those things cleaned up. Hope this isn't a new thing.

 

[flow4areasonuno]

Skeleton crew’s so real, my current store has literally no fulfillment schedule and OPU just leeches off GM/FB/Style. This was foreign to me, as even at other non-SFS stores Im used to seeing a fulfillment schedule.

This would be unthinkable at my store, they rob every other department for fulfillment.

 

[Uberdead]

Just rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic...

 

[FlowTeamChick]

Reshopped a very full, unsorted triple-tier cart this morning that took me all over the store, except for Style and Market. My store is a mess. The aisles facing the racetracks look pretty good. But get any deeper into a department and most of them are a wreck. I don't really go down aisles in areas outside Essentials and Market when I'm shopping, so I was really surprised by what I saw. I could have filled up several carts collecting reshop from Toys, MMB, Domestics, Stationery. I did pick up quite in the block where I set ad.

If I came to the store just as a guest, I'd wonder what was going on.

 

[jackandcat]

Trusted friend told me their Target recently lacked a cash office closer and the next morning (due to a call-out of a well trained TM) no cash office opener. It seems like there are very few cash office backups. Told this is not common but it's alarming.

 

[HardlinesFour]

I wish the best for all of you. It pains me looking at what this company has become.

Two days after posting this, the company announced it was laying off 8% of its corporate workforce and suspending all new hiring for open roles — bringing total cuts to roughly 10% of its overall staff.


It doesn’t make me happy to be right, but the writing is clearly on the wall. I just hope someone in the C-suite has a come-to-Jesus moment and finally opens their eyes. If this quarter doesn’t go well, the company is in serious trouble.

 

[FlowTeamChick]

Foot traffic is way down at my store, as a TM and I were noting today, and we agreed that the DEI pullback was a huge mistake. Where we disagreed is that I think a new CEO starting early next year would have a good opportunity to admit it was a mistake and bring it back. She said no, it'd be worse to look like a flip-flopper. While I see the value in holding strong to a decision once made, doubling down on a bad decision doesn't make it good. And it sure doesn't increase guest traffic.

 

[employee 626]

Trusted friend told me their Target recently lacked a cash office closer and the next morning (due to a call-out of a well trained TM) no cash office opener. It seems like there are very few cash office backups. Told this is not common but it's alarming.

My store has two trained for that. They want to train one or two more. It’s normal I think. Although I am talking about the machine not opening/closing the registers

 

[flow4areasonuno]

Foot traffic is way down at my store, as a TM and I were noting today, and we agreed that the DEI pullback was a huge mistake. Where we disagreed is that I think a new CEO starting early next year would have a good opportunity to admit it was a mistake and bring it back. She said no, it'd be worse to look like a flip-flopper. While I see the value in holding strong to a decision once made, doubling down on a bad decision doesn't make it good. And it sure doesn't increase guest traffic.

Sadly they are probably correct. Didn't the beer company (I forget which one) flip flop and then lost both sides?

 

[Ultimate Floater]

Trusted friend told me their Target recently lacked a cash office closer and the next morning (due to a call-out of a well trained TM) no cash office opener. It seems like there are very few cash office backups. Told this is not common but it's alarming.

We only have 2 trained employees for cash office opening so that means some days I have to come in on my days off just to do cash office. I don’t understand why more people won’t train to do it, it’s really easy.

 

[Him]

We only have 2 trained employees for cash office opening so that means some days I have to come in on my days off just to do cash office. I don’t understand why more people won’t train to do it, it’s really easy.

Really easy maybe to you. I’m not familiar with cash office. I will say the job sounds very critical and seems to require a lot of concentration and attention to detail. Things of that nature tend to draw people in the opposite direction.

 

[MrT]

Really easy maybe to you. I’m not familiar with cash office. I will say the job sounds very critical and seems to require a lot of concentration and attention to detail. Things of that nature tend to draw people in the opposite direction.

Its something that would obviously have to be done by someone trusted to not be a dumb ass even though there are cameras everywhere., but it is definitely not a difficult job, especially since they've got the machines now instead of how it all used to be done years amd years ago.