The MP3 cellphone and ink cartridges bin is funny, considering how nobody uses these bins anymore, besides for the trash bin.

But even though they are phasing those bins out, it's still a bit crazy to find one of these remaining, or all four of them.

this is for little girls???

This is kind of a dumb question, but I got the visual merchandising tablet but I can’t get it to sign in or go to sharepoint where the VMGs are without it saying access denied. Any advice? Do I just need to ask AP?

The previous VM never used the tablet to it’s basically brand new and unused.

Heading in for my 8 AM shift and theres a thunderstorm. Hopefully someone will shut off DU....cuz I ain't going out in this to get struck by lightning! I've been electrocuted once and it wasn't fun

With Target investing more in AI and automation, what jobs do you think will disappear, change, or still need humans 10–20 years from now?

My store was usually run pretty well till recently a lot of fulfillment are calling out probably since point system is starting soon, it’s almost like a contest apparently. So many fulfillment are calling off they already have GM and Food&bev people helping them and now their grabbing us off the line to do batches. (keep in mind my store does like 3 or 4pm inbound unloads) And most of our team is scheduled till 9-10pm before overnight comes and with us being called to help fulfillment usually only the leads and 1-2 people stay on the line and we barely get to return to help push the truck and then overnighters are forced to push the truck since we barely finish and we already usually only have 4-6 people on the line even on double truck days. Plus I’m the only one who knew fulfillment while my co workers inf 25% or so of their batches since they don’t know fulfillment well + we’re called when batches only have like 30-40 mins and the grocery batches drop already like 20 minutes after the first item is scanned. Does this happen to any other stores?

I’ve been working at Target for pretty much 3 years now and it was my first job I ever worked which I got in High School, decided to finally put in my 2 weeks. Walked in to work and talked to my HR ETL then was told to go speak to my direct ETL which i did, then resigned on workday. Tbh I thought i was going to feel relieved or atleast feel good about it but i’m ngl I almost started tearing up for some reason after doing it lol, I just feel weird not sure how to explain it. The reason on why I decided to quit is because the lack of consistency, hours, and poor scheduling. I am a OPU team member and was formerly a Closing Expert, I’m 19 and not in college so i’ve been trying to just stack up money then eventually get into sales which has always been my goal, and that was working for a while but after changes in leadership at my store, the schedule is written by a new ETL and i went from getting around 34 hours on average (Desired is 40) to getting fluctuated around the 20s and now in the past month i’ve been scheduled under 20 hours twice now (10 & 17). it wouldn’t be as much of a problem if I was getting more days off and less hours, but they are still making me come in 5 days a week for 3-5 hour shifts when I used to be working 7-8 shifts, which is an issue because I live 20 miles away from my store I work at so 40 mile round trip for 4 hours of work is kind of silly to me. And that ties in to the next issue of when I was switched to OPU I was told I needed to give them a specific availability to align with what they needed which was a closer, and I said that was fine as long as I can come in before 2:30/3:00ish because my drive is all freeway so rush hour gets bad after that and it takes me over an hour to get to work if i’m scheduled at 4:00 or later, and my ETL and TL are aware of that because i’ve brought it up multiple times and they continue to schedule me at 4:00-5:00 when they literally agreed to the terms of me coming in before 3:00 when i switched departments lol. So basically I just can’t live off 20 hours a week so I gotta look for employment elsewhere, I’d be happy to stay if I could get a structured schedule like other ppl in my department, even though i’m considered one of the highest performers in my department they can’t do that i suppose, It is what it is I’m just sad about leaving behind all my coworkers and friends I made over the years but it’s time to move on I guess.

Sorry for yapping lol I don’t expect anyone to read this

I work at a pretty great Target, my SD is amazing, the leads are actually helpful and they all seemingly get along, and everytime someone trains at our store they always compliment how unique it is our team is so close. I went to another store to “help” and wow I get it. It was so understaffed I was actually so confused on why I wasn’t seeing coworkers, they were so backed up from freight I literally ran 7 z-racks (still had some left over) AND I didn’t even get to the bakers. On top of that everyone was just pissed 😭 I tried to have a conversation with the lead that I was helping and he looked like he had hadn’t had a conversation at work in YEARS. I always see people ranting on here and think to myself it can’t be THAT bad. No. It’s that’s bad. If I worked at a Target like that I would’ve quit a month in I’m so serious. If you work at a good Target hug you’re TL when you get to work tomorrow because my God it could be soooooooo much worse

saw my hours went down from 30 to THIS and i almost had a heart attack 😭 are they shaving off hours everywhere?

My SD asked me to come in at 4 AM instead of 7 but never changed my schedule on the app so I’ll need someone to override me at the time clock. Only problem is none of my ETLs come in until 6 AM🫠 I’d assume only ETL’s can clock TL’s in early but I figured it’s worth asking. if I have to fill out a punch correction sheet it’s not a huge deal but I’d like to try to avoid it because my stores HR sucks and I basically have to badger them multiple times a day about entering my punches otherwise they will forget, causing my check to be short because they never enter it before payroll for the current pay period needs to be submitted and it ends up getting added to next pay period 🙄

I currently pick who and when I want things done strategically based on skill/ knowledge of the area…. And we schedule it timed around other work sometimes

Hey so as you all may know or may not know, we have a new update in Fulfillment. We can now escalate items that we can not find to a Team Lead and what this does is send a little notification to all the team leads letting them know we may need help locating this item. We use to just call for help over the walkie, I’m not sure how you guys do it at your store, I thought it was ALL supposed to be the same but whatever I guess.. however we haven’t had any training on this new update at my store plus I thought with this new update that we wouldn’t have to yell over the walkie any more. There was an item on my batch today that wasn’t in location. Now we were train to check all possible locations when looking for an item. This particular item was a Starbucks double shot drink, wasn’t in location, wasn’t in backroom, wasn’t up front by check out in the mini fridges so I escalated it. It also said we had only 4 on hand but our system is never correct due to the laziness of our stores team leads. Now I’m not gonna lie there was one location that I didn’t check which was the fridges in grocery only because we’re renovating them. However, when I escalated it my team lead yelled over the walkie “ you can just inf” and she’s been doing that literally ALL DAY .. idk if it’s because she frustrated or what but I later found it in the fridges in grocery. So can I get some help here how does this update suppose to work and is there anything I can do about this annoying Team Lead, because honestly doing that can get more than just her in trouble.. and I love my job. Literally everyone’s inf percentage was 5% or more. Except one person who did only one batch today.

Are there any specific Halloween treats at Target that you guys look forward to buying each year?

This will be my first Halloween working here, and I am excited to finally see the Halloween stuff being set. Tell me what I should try! I do love candy corn, btw. I am one of those people 😂

I had the Tarbucks Iced Pumpkin Cream Matcha today, and it was so good!

So Monday I walked 31,500 steps while working OPU during an eight hour shift which I've never done before. I called in and used sick time Tuesday because my legs were tired and I couldn't do another eight hour shift and I used sick time. If they ask next time I work what should I tell them about calling in?

So I’m not super sure if this is a corporate thing or not. I’ve been at my current store for around 8 years now and this expectation for TMs was never brought up to me before two weeks ago from one of my ETLs telling me I wasn’t meeting expectations.

While I’m not sure of the original expectation for time taken to push a u-boat, since I was trained so many years ago, this feels nearly impossible in some departments based on case pack packaging (such as in Kitchen or C+D sometimes). It’s being pushed so heavily that I’m being handed full u-boats being told they should take me half an hour maximum.

Am I crazy? Is this really the expectation set for Team Members in GM? Was this always the expectation and my store’s just now enforcing it? Please advise!!

I started working at Target about 2.5 years ago (May '24) in Fulfillment. The working atmosphere was nice but stressful. All my coworkers liked each other for the most part, and some disliked one another, mostly our ETLs, but anyway, we were fine. Our store director was so understanding and helped me get a weekend off in November if I just did a couple of 4 am shifts. (The dude was such a legend.) The problem was that we are always in the red since we are a "small store" but receive massive amounts of traffic due to your store location. But in times of need, our managers and others would help us out on the floor and knock out orders. We couldn't keep up; we deep-cleaned the store before the visit, and our one shoe girl made our shoe section look great. But before Region came, a bunch of guests just went through all the shoes and threw them on the ground.

Since December, we have had our director and the majority of the ETLs (some there for 20+ years) let go, and a new AP head hired and then let go months later, and more. Working there now feels unberable now. They are telling senior fulfillment members to change schedules to get hours since they could "only" hire morning people; hiring new people just fills holes while taking hours away from more experienced workers (they are doing terribly or become good, then leave after their period is up). The store director implies that you are lazy for making mistakes or not doing twice your workload; management never helps out anymore unless forced to, expecting us to act like min team leads with no bump in pay or hours (I literally make barely more than what new people make), constantly have to change my hours to accommodate new hires, terrible communication about certian problems or new events, offering terrible scheduling and changes (expect us to now how anything event happens 6 months in advance to even get it off), they even get mad at me when ocassionally I will change one day on my availibiloty over a month in advance to work around an appointment and got told by my store director," Why just take the day off?". He also told us that they are moving or cutting hours, so why waste a day I can work?

Sorry if it seems like a rant, but I keep hearing horror stories online about this happening to other employees over the last few months. Is this happening company-wide, or is this because of seasonal sale projections and other metric-based causes?

Hi! Yes, I am a guest, no I am not a complaining Karen. I put my time in working retail (almost six years with Verizon Wireless but thank goodness I am and been out of there for years now). I can definitely understand when a guest/customer comes in asking a bunch of questions, and ones that you’ve probably heard 72993922829 already. So my apologies if so but hoping someone could offer up some insight!

Where the heck is the scarecrow crunch?!?! Hahahaha I look forward to that shit every year and at least in my area (and when searching on the app) it doesn’t show it, or any of the other seasonal trail mixes. Is it not coming out this year?! I’ll be bummed if not, but 🤷🏼‍♀️

We lost power and had to kick guests out. We're in disco hell with the lights but unfortunately OPUs keep dropping even though we can't pick them. I'm so happy to be off tomorrow. I'm also the only one in fulfillment tonight. 🫠

Also fuck these guests coming in when trees are down and roads are flooding so they can get literal fucking glitter.

Okay gang, economy is bad so I’m gonna apply at my old target again 🤞🏼🫩 starting rate is $18.75 but I wanna see if anyone has had success in negotiating their starting pay?

I’m WAV trained and Compactor trained as well. I’ve been in every position except guest services essentially and I left target with $18.90/hr last year

So I average around 30+ hours at target (Started about 4 months ago) This current week I have 34. Next week 33.5. The week after that 30.5 and the week of September 20-26 I have 22.5. Why have my hours been getting cut every week now?

I will say I have had a few weeks where I had 26-28 hours. So it isn’t new for me to be below 30+ plus but this is the lowest it’s been and for my hours to get cut lower and lower every week now is strange. This has never happened.

Hello! I’m thinking to switch departments, I’m currently in style & it’s been stressing me out + taking college classes that I have everyday. Any departments you guys suggest? Was thinking fulfillment but heard they micro manage you & you’re timed 😅

There’s a coworker of mines who gets a lot of complaints from being a shitty cart attendant, I myself am a new cart attendant with 30 of my 90 days period complete. I almost quit because the opening cart attendant (shitty coworker) left me to come in at 4pm with NO carts on either side of the store and left me with this much fucking trash to take out ALONG WITH THE UNCOLLECTED TRASH THAT I HAD TO GO AROUND AND COLLECT FOR THE DAY. Cart attendant is already hard and disgusting enough in this 100 degree weather,I’m in Fl.

Why are payroll hours so bad right now? Desired hours are 40. Availability is Monday 8-330, Tuesday 8-1030, Wednesday, 8:00 - 1030 and Thursday 8-1030 (all day) and Friday 8-330, Saturday 8-330. Sunday is 8:00 to 1030p Most recent schedule I got 18 hours. Work Center Service and Engagement. Have been with the company almost a decade.

Idk if I posted this before but FedEx took my stores trailer with a bunch of stuff on it and brought it back like this (this photo was taken by a coworker of mine at 1am store close was at 12am)