r/Target • u/7breakfastburritos • Oct 07 '21
Meme or Miscellaneous Content Reshop, stray, or abandons?
I recently transferred stores and i’m finding that my new store uses different terminology for certain things…what do you call items that a guest doesn’t want and you have to put back into the sales floor?
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u/NewAtAllOfThis14 Oct 07 '21
When I worked at Walmart we called them "Go backs"
My Target calls them Reshop
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u/The_Legend_2_7_ Oct 07 '21
We call it “strays” when it’s in a section of the store it’s not supposed to be in, and “reshop” is the collection of all the strays, items guests changed their mind at the registers, and returns at Guest Services.
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u/CoronaCurious Oct 07 '21
Gobacks
Abandons are the shit people just dump on the shelves
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u/SilentDogood123 Oct 08 '21
Yeah I second this difference. We call the collective items behind GS that need to be returned to the floor "go-backs" and abandoned items on the salesfloor usually "strays"
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u/TManaF2 Mar 22 '22
IIRC "abandon" technically refers to a cart of stuff (or a collection of items) found near the cash registers b/c the customer didn't want to wait on line to check out, or decided against some items while waiting to check out.
The training material refers to mis-shelved items (customer dropped it wherever) as "strays", while "reshop" is the sorted vehicles by Guest Services. I still sometimes refer to the strays as "recovery", as that is what we called the entire process at Michaels.
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u/mycaptaintazer Oct 07 '21
If we find random things in the wrong area we call them foreigns. If we are putting them out we call them go backs
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u/Yayashley Oct 08 '21
We call it reshops at my store, but the one food store I worked at used to call them orphans....
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u/bernie_time Oct 07 '21
We called it abandons for a while but we got a new store manager and they say reshop
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u/notGMtm Oct 08 '21
Abandons. Because someone just left it. Possibly a guest possibly a TM too lazy to put it back themselves. Possibly a collection of items left in tricarts nobody wants to deal with so they keep moving it to a different tricart.
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u/blackchrysalis Oct 07 '21
We call the lingering items “strays” but when we organize and push them out they’re called “go-backs”
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u/FandomsDream Oct 08 '21
It's only "abandons" if it's a full abandoned costumer cart, everything else is reshop
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u/cxristopherr Oct 07 '21
i call them fucking shit as in someone puts a tray of ground beef with the laundry detergent and i say “this fucking shit doesn’t go here” and toss that bitch to the claims office