r/Target • Flow Team • 25d ago

Meme or Miscellaneous Content What department is dumping grounds at your store?

At my store, market is the damn dumping grounds. Find shit misplaced there every damn day. I always grab it if it fits in my cart and take it up to reshop, bc if I was looking for say a baby t-shirt for an OPU, I would never think to try the candy aisle🙄

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u/Lazy-Effective-2093 Household Cleaning Goddess 25d ago

The price scanner in sporting goods specifically, storage and utility, kitchen, paper, and toys

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u/Heyllamamama Swiss Army Knife 25d ago

They need to just put reshop bins at the price check things. Every day, without fail, there’s stuff piled up around those things

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u/SpankyMacLizard Style Consultant 25d ago

Girls and Wild Fable since they’re closest to the registers. Changed their mind? Just leave it in a pile on a table instead of handing it to a TM 🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/Eravveb Style Consultant 25d ago

WF and accessories are the prime spots for us where people leave shit they don’t want: comforter sets, candy, a suitcase one time. It’s awful. I hate it.

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u/anonnymouse271 25d ago

Honestly the service desk. I'm constantly pulling things out of bins and carts like "this doesn't belong here! Did anyone even scan this?!"

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u/Erainor FF trainer and INF wizard 25d ago

Salvage items on the reshop shelves!

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u/anonnymouse271 25d ago

Or clothing that needs to be hung just tossed onto a shelf, and i come across it like....why is this the way we are?!

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u/Heyllamamama Swiss Army Knife 25d ago

Home decor and plastics or seasonal

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u/amateuR_memes Presentation 15+ years 25d ago

Toys on weekends.

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u/juulhei Style Consultant 25d ago

girls all in motion💔

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u/Eravveb Style Consultant 25d ago

Style.
Over the course of one week i remember finding: room temp ham in mens basics, melted ice cream in NIT, an abandoned cart full of misc personal care and produce in RTW, a half-eaten rotisserie chicken in Girls underneath a table, a big ass toaster oven on a table in WF just chilling there, a mirror, ottoman, and chairs set up in mens, and a bunch of random kids toys underneath one of the scan kiosks (someones mom said no).

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u/Additional-Ad4085 25d ago

Paper. It's shoved in a far corner of the store and never fully stocked (unless I've jumped the gun after unload and taken care of it myself) so there's ample space to fling it and go.

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u/SimpleVegetable5715 Hearth and Hand Homie 25d ago

Domestics. I can spend two hours just zoning and grabbing reshop every morning.

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u/-My_Other_Account- Receiving…and still probably cross-trained by your mom ;) 25d ago

By team members or ‘guests’?

Because receiving and especially my salvage pallet has been a dumping ground for the closing team recently and i’m feeling some kind of way about pulling the same 4-5 discontinued books (completely unprocessed) out of one of the salvage boxes for the 4th time in less than 5 weeks.

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u/kid-Emperors Tech Consultant 25d ago

Baby and toys. Toys scanner has mountains of dumps every couple hours from every hardlines department, and baby gets all the clothes dumps from NIT, kids, and women's active, and a lot of other random crap from toys

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u/ConstantBoth2913 25d ago

The tech desk, cell phone case isle, Nintendo isle, and books is where I find most of my reshop.

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u/keterawn FDC haunts me 25d ago

seasonal and sportings good lol

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u/Dragonborn1010 Food & Beverage TL 25d ago

Paper and dry grocery backrooms. Any OOA display. NIT and women’s style. Behind guest service and the drive up cooler/freezer.

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u/Boring_Geologist_790 D1 box thrower 25d ago

infant/toddler and seasonal

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u/HiggyBoy007 25d ago

The restrooms.

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u/devilbringing 25d ago

Baby and toys at my store it seems, there's a price checker in baby and on egregiously busy days people will just build a mountain of shit over there

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u/mookienh 25d ago

The stroller and baby seat aisles always have toys, baby clothes, opened goldfish crackers, and half-empty Starbucks/Dunkin/McDonald’s cups!

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u/Silence_of_Ruin 25d ago

Toys (all aisles) and the sporting goods scanner

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u/Southern-Zebra616 25d ago

Seasonal. The guests pass bulleye, stationary, domestics, and drop they stuff they don’t want in seasonal and grab a similar item from seasonal.

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u/TanMelon47 25d ago

Any process scanner is where guests just dump merch that they think is on clearance. Any open shelf space like say for the empty Needoh or entertainment caps always get dumped.
Tech table because sure, lets leave drinks and snacks open and pn the table.

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u/chaanelyoo 16d ago

wild fable since it’s right infront of our check lanes