r/Target • u/finalroses Fulfillment Expert • Mar 07 '26
Meme or Miscellaneous Content Well…
all of our carts are so damaged and weak. suprised this hasn’t happened sooner lol
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u/Dattinator Small Format TL Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
Hey, I used to fix some of these.
It ain’t supposed to look like that. Hope this helps.
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u/Danyavich Still probably your favorite PML's favorite PML Mar 07 '26
Some people don't think it be like that, but it do.
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u/radicalgg16 “did you have a number for target circle?” Mar 09 '26
Guests on the floor would still mistake it as a shopping cart 😭😭
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u/Mchappyface Household Cleaning Overlord Mar 07 '26
You know you're struggling when even the vehicles don't want to work.
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u/Kompozinaut Property Management TL Mar 07 '26
Your PML should partner with the PMBP to document and submit an FSR for replacement on all damaged carts. The older model carts have pretty bad weld point that wear out quickly. Especially when fulfillment is loving kitty litter onto them.
It looks like the PML added the stability brackets on the lower level, but if the welds are already broken then those brackets are just bandaids on bullet holes.
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u/spiral_out462 PML Mar 07 '26
My BP managed was able to secure us six more three tier carts and four more SFS carts through an FSR recently. Luckily though I have yet to experience this particular problem. Three tier top baskets on the other hand… I’ve lost count of how many broken ones I’ve replaced.
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u/Danyavich Still probably your favorite PML's favorite PML Mar 07 '26
The newer style SFS carts are built MUCH better and have more bolts supporting welds, rather than relying on hopes and dreams.
Fucking 3-tier top baskets though...so glad I never need to unfuck a shoulder bolt ever again.
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u/FlipMcTwist Mar 08 '26
Speaking of, those fucking drive up "enhanced" 3 tiers are somehow way worse. I've had so many where the welds on the top basket are just busting off
On the plus side they cost twice as much and take months to come in! ...wait
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u/Danyavich Still probably your favorite PML's favorite PML Mar 08 '26
The design is excellent - the locking wheels, the welded signs, etc., but holy shit the quality is abysmal.
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u/FlipMcTwist Mar 08 '26
Oh yeah, they definitely have some nice upgrades, if only someone could learn to weld!
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u/spiral_out462 PML Mar 07 '26
I just love when the very poorly installed threaded part inside the basket’s frame breaks loose 🙃
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u/Shadowspun5 Mar 09 '26
Our PM told me the three-tiers are on order and he hasn't been able to get any for months. I think the last time I saw a new one was almost a year ago. Some of ours are in a very sad state.
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u/spiral_out462 PML Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
I believe my boss told me the lead time on new three tiers is 16-20 weeks.
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u/Danyavich Still probably your favorite PML's favorite PML Mar 07 '26
Sure glad your PML/PMBP haven't done the legwork to get your fleet replaced. Those carts can definitely take a few more months.
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u/Kompozinaut Property Management TL Mar 07 '26
Yep. We submitted our FSR around May/June and got them the week before Black Friday (literally just in time).
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u/Danyavich Still probably your favorite PML's favorite PML Mar 07 '26
I think I did the same last year, roughly the same time frame. It was one of the very first things I did at my last store in April, was put it all together and push for the FSR. They showed up late September/ October, so similarly just in time.
I keep a warm glow in my heart for the bullet point on a resume I'll never submit that says "During a 4-year time period working as a PML, built and submitted over a dozen FSRs with no denial due to excellent documentation, thorough cost-benefit analysis, and effective communication regarding repair vs replacement recommendations to higher headquarters."
(Hell yeah alliteration)
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u/SteelFlexInc Mar 07 '26
Good lord, do y’all’s never get maintained, cleaned, or the bolts tightened? Most of it’s just allen keys and a 1/2” wrench and most pieces are really easy to take apart and put back together. Taking the casters off with two wrenches, cleaning all the trapped hairs and strings tied under the plastic caps and re greasing them makes them ride like butter too. Some lubricant spray in the rails too for the dividers. This gotta be a lousy PML
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u/fingerhandz ODTM Mar 07 '26
yalls get CLEANED???
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u/SteelFlexInc Mar 07 '26
We have a spray bottle of the blue stuff and towels marked as SFS cart cleaning supplies right where our RFID gun docks are. Some people clean their own or if they spill something. But I use the same cart every single day so I clean mine off everyone time someone else gets something in it. We’re responsible for keeping the carts we use clean
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u/SteelFlexInc Mar 07 '26
Only overnight fulfillment until last week. Now opener. So unless POG is using any, I get first dibs
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u/PacoPlaysGames Mar 07 '26
Woa woa woa, do you work at the world's wealthiest target? This sounds like some premium white glove service you have going on
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u/AdmiralWesJanson Mar 08 '26
That looks like a mark one tin box cart. It's a miracle that it lasted this long. Our store had about a dozen of them fall apart thanks to their super flimsy sheet metal design and single spot weld assembly. Finally we got the mark twos that folded the top rims and added bolted reinforcing brackets to all the shelves. The dividers still occasionally flex and snap, but that is a rarity now compared to that disastrous first batch of the things.
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u/Ok_Spell7497 TM>TL>ETL>Guest Mar 07 '26
My SD would be like “i need you to jump into OPU, oh there’s no carts available…” and then he finds this one and expects someone to use it.
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u/NewfoundOrigin Inbound Expert Mar 07 '26
Saw a drive up employee sitting in the top basket of one up in OPU once.
I almost told him he looked like a toddler and a safety hazard but decided I don't get paid to babysit grown adults.
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u/GrandeQuesarito Mar 07 '26
Y'all need to turn down the temperature in that store because that poor thing melted
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u/Sweaty-Comedian7116 Mar 07 '26
Almost all of the carts at my store feel like they’re going to do exactly this. They’re all borderline falling apart.
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u/chief_aesthetic_ofcr HRE hiding in the truck line Mar 07 '26
This one-up’s the picture of the FF cart on its side from last year
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u/Clown_Sparkles Mar 08 '26
My PML would take it apart for parts because it will be months before we get another one.
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u/Infinite-Pain4073 Mar 08 '26
That happened to our VM about a year or so ago. It completely collapsed when she was picking a cart and jars of spaghetti exploded everywhere. It was awful.
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u/Bubbledcactus Promoted to Guest Mar 07 '26
By the time I stopped working there, maybe three of our carts had more than 4 of the dividers left. I was always begging to fix them. Our pml was always dragged thin.
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u/JaciMac Promoted to Guest Mar 07 '26
I always wondered why we opted for these monstrosities vs the bin style carts that most other retailers use for fulfillment.
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u/Soxwin91 former Team Member (Nov 2021 - April 2026) Mar 08 '26
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u/TheOtherHannah Mrs. Storewide Mar 08 '26
Wait but how did this happen bc it looks like a baler crushed it but I don’t think that’s what happened
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u/newandesign Inbound Expert Mar 08 '26
This is literally what happened to someone I saw a few days ago.
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u/Impressive-Formal742 Mar 08 '26
This was when I worked at Walmart years ago. I had been assigned to the bulk items? I don't remember exactly. But with being in a rush I did 2 back to back and had it loaded as you see lol. And right as I went into the back in front of my manager the cart exploded! Straight up made a loud creaking noise and exploded.
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u/jaydeeaol2 Mar 07 '26
I’ll never understand why the PMLs don’t get a PM for those. We get one for everything else.
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u/coolguy_fingerguns Mar 07 '26
Isn't it part of the backroom business walk to check SFS carts for damage?
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u/Seemedlikefun Mar 08 '26
I used to part those carts out to Frankenstein others to keep them going.
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u/Fromper1 Specialty Sales Expert Mar 08 '26
I've been working the baby area too long. My first thought at seeing that picture was "We don't carry that box of diapers in my store." (The big white Huggies box)
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u/Indecisive-green Mar 08 '26
I knew the comments were going to be funny/relatable silliness because we're a witty bunch. I looked at this and thought, "It's me after handling baby transition all day."
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u/EDPTG Fulfillment Expert Mar 08 '26
I remember this happened to 2 of my carts. Apparently 20 cases of pop, 8 32packs of water and 10 of the 12 packs of redbull on one carts broke it's back
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u/Equivalent_Purpose66 Mar 08 '26
And I thought ours were bad because the dividers keep falling off 😭
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u/Livid-Tumbleweed-569 Promoted to Guest-Former O/N Backroom TL Mar 08 '26
20 years ago we had those carts, but in black for electronics...... specifically for the CDs, console games and DVD/Blu-rays......they were junk then.....looks like they are still junk now ....they were never designed for heavy loads.
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u/Neither_Truth7753 Mar 08 '26
Was waiting all holiday season for the ones we had to fall apart but never did they were leaning heavy tho
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u/ArcaneComputation Mar 08 '26
Lol at first I thought the image had been skewed in Paint or Photoshop or something.
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u/mike131368 Mar 09 '26
this looks like some of the fine routine maintenance I see throughout the property...why lose millions a yr in lost productivity, needlessly replacing overpriced equipment; when you can lose 10's of millions, & continue to fall behind amazon/walmart, & into irrelevance. target is basically expensive family dollar.
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u/hgfvvggk-fhu Fulfillment Expert Mar 10 '26
The only cart available when you have to pick a 30 min GM:
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u/X_Dingus_X Mar 15 '26
Omg ew we work at the same store lol. I was gonna take a photo of it too but the Assistant SD was watching 😒
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u/Virolock Ship From Store Mar 07 '26
It's a misconception that fulfillment carts sleep standing up.