Regardless of how hard I was hit, I would fall to the ground like a ton of bricks. Then I would sue the living pants off of the guest that hit me.
Good luck with that. Most guests that would hit a TM are usually ghetto trash thugs on welfare... you would be lucky to get $5 from them because that's all they have.
The moment anyone puts hands on me, it's on. I've done it before and lost a job. But guess what? The moment anyone puts hands on you, it is already an "incident" and 99% of the time even if you punk out and run away you are still getting fired. So, my logic is, make them pay for it when you have the chance.
(Don't think Target won't fire you... the moment a guest is touched - even if they are the ones doing the touching - Target will fire you even if you run away like a punk. I have seen it happen to TMs who walked away and did nothing in response to it) The one any *only* exception I can think of this not happening was with a seriously mentally handicapped cart attendant we had who was assaulted and hit back. The only reason he wasn't fired was because he could have easily sued for disability discrimination alleging that his mental disability prevented him from understanding how Target wanted him to respond to the situation.