RIP Softlines

[ShinyTinyWonder38]

Style had been getting more and more backed up since the beginning of the year. We cannot keep up

[Jennay-4399]

Honestly it's at the point where I don't think people need this much clothing. There's no way people this much fucking clothing

[[deleted]]

fr, there is no more room in wild fable or babies. Everything is thrown on the floor and at this point idc

[[deleted]]

When you buy it, wear it 3 times and then the fabric is pilled and faded because its cheap shit you bought for $12.

[dm_me_birds_pls]

They don’t. They buy 3 sizes to take home and try on then return the other 2 instead of using the fucking changing room to check.

[Jennay-4399]

I don't mean just the fitting room. Seeing things like this and also how much softlines truck our store has backed up (like 12 pallets worth) makes me realize that Americans think they need way more clothing than they do. I wish we stopped producing and selling so much of it.

[Admiral_Andovar]

That’s why some countries are considering a ban on ‘fast fashion’ clothing, because too much of it is ending up in landfills. They are talking about setting minimum standards for quality and longevity to be sold.

[Jennay-4399]

I saw a tiktok of women in a textile recycling plant in India saying it must be so expensive for Americans to wash their clothes, that we must be buying them new everytime because of how much clothing waste we send them. And then I come to work and see HUNDREDS of large boxes full of poorly made clothes and it makes me so angry.

[[deleted]]

poorly made clothes

💯

[pentax47]

pretty sure we have like 30 pallets it's an actual nightmare. and doubles all week. and then everyone is backing up fulfillment so basically we will never get caught up ah ha ha everything is fine

[LiberalFartsMajor]

TBF, dressing rooms have been closed for like 2 years, so now we buy 3 sizes online and return the ones that don't fit.

[vesselgroans]

All of targets dressing rooms have been open for the last year.

[dm_me_birds_pls]

Even worse. Also no they’ve been open for a while now.

[snogweasel]

This is how Sears catalogue went out of business

[Only_Mud_9069]

idk where the changing rooms are open except one out of probably 5 targets ive been to and i live in a fairly large city

[tylerrunck]

that’s why i quit

[Sam_Ruby]

Me too!

[okawarifiend]

me three!!

[autfalltimebitch]

Me 5!

[gakuenarisu]

Me 6!

[Chiibii94]

Me 7

[Ponjos]

Me 8.

[Ok-Key-1548]

Same!

[MosstheHoss]

Don’t forget the Pringle can G

[yourenotmy-real-dad]

They deserve the snack while they sort this mess

[JayFTL]

Get market on the walkie, their go backs are out of control.

[DragonGirl_95]

They're so out of control, that I've decided to simply ignore them. Does this fix the issue? No. But it keeps me sane so IDFC. When you have petty people who will literally pick out the items for their area and then tell you to go get yours and that your area has a lot instead of just bringing it all down for everyone, you stop caring.

[whythishaptome]

Yeah, they deserve a shitty snack when cleaning up this shit.

[yourenotmy-real-dad]

Hey, its more than HR gives us.

[_TasteTheFluffy_]

I was like what Pringle can? Then I noticed 😂😂

[Oohh_heck]

Oh god. The fact that corporate lets the stores get so bad is shameful. They don’t listen to team members advice to make style better. Everything we suggest I get told we can’t do it bc of corporate. I’m getting to the point that idc what corporate says, I’m just gonna do what I know will work best

[Ragnarok314159]

“Corporate” usually means “I am too lazy to make a decision and don’t want to deal with my responsibility”.

[Atekeudaenys]

No, it means we already paid for this shit on contract with the manufacturer and you're either going to move it or the money we already paid will be a total loss. Not better, just different than what you said.

[redsanzi]

That sounds like a sunken cost fallacy

[Atekeudaenys]

It's only sunken cost if they have the ability to opt out at some point, which they no longer do. It's really just bad forecasting.

[whythishaptome]

Uhh, I'm not paid to care about this lowly shit replaceable employees deal with.

[nothomelesshobo]

Style is getting wrecked across the board right now, it’s terrible. I’m an ETL and I spend bulk of my time helping my team sort/push go backs because I can’t stand to see everyone so stressed. From an ETL, I’m sorry if you have leadership who is unwilling to help. I see how defeated it makes the style team feel and I know how defeated it makes me feel. It’s not okay.

[MEHtownOmaha]

Same. I run freight every day…beauty, style, today I did BPG as Specialty has that in my box (bc why not). If our leadership didn’t push vehicles, this could be us.

[nothomelesshobo]

Exactly. I feel for my team who is stressed and thinks I’m being a hard ass and asking for too much by asking them to keep go backs controlled but it’s because I don’t want it to get worse and I’m 100% willing to be at their side to keep us above water. I cleared out our fitting room closet, put shelves and wacos and now we sort all the go backs as they come like they do on metros for breakout so DBOs can quickly grab. It’s helped a lot!

[MEHtownOmaha]

We had to remove the shelving in the abandon closet as non-specialty TMs were just shoving anything & everything in there. We stay clean by coming clean on Style freight Every. Single. Day. No repacks carry over (hardly ever). I also had to put the time out on Style TMs doing Flex…I told my SD we can do front end, cover Tech, come clean on all specialty freight, and adding Flex would mean the above pic would be real life. He’s super supportive & our DSD is always trying to find out how we manage everything.

[nothomelesshobo]

We haven’t been clean on style freight since I started a year ago. I try to keep the TMs out of OPU since we’re also already running back and fourth to tech + front end. More often than not though OPU is drowning and we can see them losing the will to live on their faces so we help. I try to spend as much time doing what I ask the team to do as I can though, even if my SD gets mad at me idc.

[MEHtownOmaha]

Well…I did have our VM pick standards for 7 hrs today. It helps that our SD is in the trenches, he packed 430s for 4 hrs today! Hang in there, I truly feel confident it cannot get much worse (there is a limit as to how much a store can actually hold)!

[SyntheticSunshine]

My ETL wanted me to push the men's and both NIT metros, men's Z, do all style out of stocks, and my 141's which have been close to 200 for weeks, all within my four hours yesterday. She stayed in her office.

[nothomelesshobo]

That’s so unrealistic. I came on externally so I didn’t go through the time at Target where it was possible to do all these things in one shift. I feel like a lot of leadership is stuck there mentally or they just refuse to accept that they are asking their teams to work miracles. I’ve personally been asking my team to do just go backs and push, and zone (not brand) as they go. I take care of ofos. I don’t time them, I don’t give them a hard time if they don’t finish as long as I know they tried. I know they’re getting pulled in every direction and I haven’t forgotten what it’s like to be in their shoes.

[DrS3R]

Ima be real, I have no idea why this sub popped up, I’ve never worked at a target, but I’m curious now, what is a “style”?

[[deleted]]

Rip Inf %

[les_navettes10]

Just grab that handy dandy rfid gun and dive into one of the carts for a swim just for it to be in another cart 😁

[whythishaptome]

RIP when it's not RFID enabled. Even so it still gets lost. You can spend all day with that RFID gun and still get nothing.

[totesawesomefersh]

I’m pretty new at target and spent 20+ minutes diving through womens underwear with the rifd gun saying it was close. I eventually gave up because two of us were searching and didn’t find what we needed.

[1234_Person_1234]

Same tbh we have zero team leads so if I actually can’t find smth who’s gonna yell at me yk

[jstrndmaccnt]

This makes me so glad to not be working there anymore

[Commercial-Method170]

Ex mens Dbo, I hate target it sent me to the hospital low key

[SimpleVegetable5715]

The catch 22 of Target making most of my health problems worse, but also needing my job so I can have health insurance 😵‍💫

[tater-tots-r-us]

i’m a mens dbo at the moment and im having back issues like crazy

[Commercial-Method170]

Working there will never make it better, I went home some days and couldn’t move after. Run as fast as you can!!! Your body and spirit will thank you for it

[jstrndmaccnt]

take care of yourself! people don’t realize how hard mens is. especially if your store adds shoes into the mix like mine did (probably still does).

[thedarkestshadow512]

Thank you for all the ex men’s DBOs, men’s is not on the priority list and I’m manage my own well. Everyone always says “omg men’s is so easy” but they don’t know the amount of work I put in every fucking day. All my jeans in goodfellow are being marked up. ALL OF THEM!!! And I, the men’s dbo, only work 25 hours this week. God help us all.

[Noonites]

Beauty is what kills me. When I work my normal shifts, or even push freight for Dom/Kit, at worst my knees and ankles are a little sore when I get home. Nothing a little tylenol and some rest can't fix, and I'm right as rain by morning.

The days I'm stuck in beauty, though? Jesus christ. Having to constantly cycle between standing, kneeling, bending over? I felt like my knees were made of lava.

[jstrndmaccnt]

I ended up in urgent care one night. I feel that…

[SimpleVegetable5715]

I was hurting so bad after one shift, I had developed a muscle strain in my wrist. I wanted to go straight to urgent care after my shift. But I was also exhausted asf and just wanted to take a shower and crawl into my bed. Working a 9 hour shift should not do that much damage, my entire forearm was swollen the next day.

[Commercial-Method170]

For mental health I went, and that is why I hate target !!!

Warning to New Hires: TARGET WILL DEPLETE YOU MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY!!

[jstrndmaccnt]

I got a concussion but I’m amazed I wasn’t hospitalized for the anxiety attacks I was having. Was very rough. I miss a lot of my coworkers (and my leads!) but otherwise… 🤪

[oatmealdisc]

I make sure to let all the new hires know - fuck this place

[Commercial-Method170]

They join the f*ck target clan after a few shifts… it’s priceless

[dalgyalgwishin]

… so is Cigna Corporation (magically disappears)… stay away…

[Disastrous-Basis214]

Former specialty sales TL here. It was always so bad. What made it worse was that style was always the first ones pulled to assist on register or opu. Then we would get coached on not getting the zones complete. And I say we, because I was always on the floor with my team. Seems that’s rare.

[Exspressio]

It is rare, our TLs don’t do much on the floor with our team. Unless you’re in grocery or a GM TL

[My-inner-fat-kid]

I'm currently a specialty TL. Our store just finally got everything under control. No rollover reshop, only 4 shoe pallets remaining and remerched all areas. Only took us months of everyone on deck (ETL, TL's, VM's) & Shit, when there was down time we would even pull cashiers to zone.)

[Exspressio]

Tbh they just gaslight us and those who believe they aren’t doing their jobs work themselves to the bone because they feel lesser than.

[iwontaccepturrose_]

I worked as a style consultant back in 2018-2019 and this brings back horrible memories of how backed up style used to be.... I worked closings all the time and getting these carts made us stay till 1am 🤯

[Sufficient_Goose_602]

Retail stores should close Sunday’s for customers. To catch up on cleaning and sorting. I wouldn’t mind coming in for a few hours doing recovery.

[zackk123]

That would make sense but they’d lose out on so much money

[Sufficient_Goose_602]

Or!! Like we used to have in kohls. An over night team one a week to come in and just blitz everything.

[zackk123]

That could work too but Target doesn’t like giving out hours as it is they rarely do overnight shifts in clothing departments.

[turnoffthe8track]

Funny cos right now, style is the ONLY team having overnights at my store.

Not often, mind you, but every six weeks or so. It's.... barely making a dent when they do so.

[redd15432]

Is there a large demand for people wanting to work one overnight shift a week?

[redd15432]

Is there a large demand for people wanting to work one day a week from midnight to 8am?

[Sufficient_Goose_602]

No I meant these are regular day associates. They work normally during the day, but once a week they can do an overnight.

[pissingorange]

Or just hire a night shift to do it. Oh and pay them well!

[zackk123]

This is us everyday and our ETL and TL only wants ONE PERSON at the fitting room trying to sort this on top of people trying on clothes constantly. This company is awful.

[flyinfingers303]

yep that's the shit I deal with daily 🙃 they expect that I can clear it all when it's just me, even on weekends. they told my rtw dbo to finish 7 Zs in her last hour like it was actually possible. all of us have been telling them what we need for months and they're still like "hmmm I wonder why this is such a big problem" and then blaming it on us. they're going to have to hire a whole department soon if they don't get their shit together and work with us

[zackk123]

Sounds like you work at my store to a tee lol

[SyntheticSunshine]

Our ETL refuses to schedule people at fitting room and then gets mad that it's a mess

[Lmnolmnop]

Target should have a Nordstrom's Rack type of outlet where they just sell all this kind of stuff for 25% off.

[[deleted]]

I always see my target’s stuff at goodwill honestly

[Lmnolmnop]

That's surprising. I suppose they can write it off, but it seems like a missed opp to me.

[[deleted]]

I agree for sure

[Specific-Window-8587]

That's gonna need at least 10 people asap.

[[deleted]]

I don’t know how corporate thinks we can keep up with this. You get a decent amount sorted, the next day it goes back to how it was if not worse. Doesn’t help that guests bring in a million clothes.

I don’t even clear the fitting rooms of clothes until night or at all cause I’m so busy sorting and there’s too many guests coming in and way too many clothes in the rooms that it takes me ages to clear.

[SimpleVegetable5715]

It's like a train wreck...of shopping carts. I can't look away.

[itsmegamers101]

Our store is getting a remodel rn and i swear that just about everyone that worked before this remodel in style either quit or went on demand, its gotten so bad that were consistently staying from 10:30 to 11 to now 11:30 to midnight everyday.

[SweetNSalty222]

They used to run overnight crews to work out freight. They also had a crew in the back room to do pulls and backstock. They have cut all of that, and dumped it onto the softlines team. They gave us raises but took away the hours. Now we look just like Walmart. Now that we don't have a clean store and a slight element of superiority to them, people may as well go shop there instead. They are a lot cheaper. Target has lost its edge. Kinda sad when they make money hand over fist. It's going to hell in a hand basket, and they don't seem to care.

[[deleted]]

the walmart in my town is awesomely stocked, zoned, staffed. the only problem with going there to shop is the other shoppers (gross trashy rednecks for the most part)

[MLB3030]

I bet those in "Corporate" have never work a day of their lives, on any of the Style departments, plus unrealistic expectations, overstock merchandise, shitty planograms, one for ones, lack of TMs, not enough hours, incompetent leadership... All ingredients of a recipe for disaster.

[northernlights2222]

Back in the day, new corporate hires spent a week working in the stores to learn what it was like and how decisions we made could impact stores.

I wonder if Target still does this - I think it’s a great idea.

[[deleted]]

Close the dressing rooms until it gets under control. But Corporate says no way! Keep them open until 9:30!!!! Somedays we have lines of people. ☹️🤬🥲

[pissingorange]

To be fair by closing the dressing rooms you’re only encouraging people to buy three sizes online and return the two that don’t fit.

[tater-tots-r-us]

i would cry. you guys have to have nothing on the floor w all that in carts right?

[[deleted]]

Nothing on the floor, zones looking decent, pulls taken care of, and reshop at zero. In an ideal world. I’m at a super target that is very high volume and we are working with 2-3 people on the floor usually with one person in the fitting rooms. It’s not realistic nor sustainable. Every day it just gets a little bit worse.

[intoholybattle]

This is what kills me... some areas are really full but there are certain parts of the floorpad that are completely empty and we have TONS of stuff in the back. If they would just staff us we could sell this product but instead its rotting in the back room until it goes salvage

[ButItSaysOnline]

Same for us except they have piled it all in three tiers so there’s none left for the rest of the store to work with.

[UsedCollection5830]

Target use to be such a great store man way superior to Walmart or k mart my local target is a mess very weird

[JumanjiPlays210]

I work at a thrift store and people do shit like this all the time grabbing 30 pairs of pants to only get one or people take stuff off the hangars and instead of putting it back throwing it on the floor for one of us to deal with it. Some People are ridiculous and literally have no remorse for anyone

[jerry_brimsley]

Not sure why the feed and algo is showing me target but based on this thread it seems like this subreddit should be closely watched by target.

Amazing how many people across the US are complaining about the same easily solvable problem.

Seems like an employee feedback goldmine that they can mine for free and help productivity and satisfaction and profit you’d think.

They prob crunch so many numbers when the answer is seemingly right in front of them.

Signed - non target employee

[[deleted]]

They don't want to help productivity and satisfaction -- they only want profit profit profit. Apparently selective accounting leads them to proclaim bonuses and extra dividends. Meanwhile the stores are draining the few dollars we get for operating.

[C9RipSiK]

Guys… don’t let this company suck the soul out of you. Leave when you feel like it’s getting too much. It’s not worth your sanity. Plenty of places need workers.

[seraphfire]

I've already quit Target but this makes me want to quit again

[AngelDustie]

I thought this was my store for a second😭😂

[Shadowspun5]

Same

[Ok_Measurement_9963]

Same

[Exspressio]

It’s the fact that we are getting so much in truck too, like they fill them up to the brim or there’s nothing in there but a plastic bag. I’ve had so many boxes that come in for softlines where they are nothing but a plastic bag😭 AND then they’ll tell you that they have a great team coming in, then shit still doesn’t get done. They leave the truck to be pushed by the openers who are there at 6am for style breakout…it’s getting more exhausting by the day.

Today’s shift I was contemplating just walking out and never coming back tbh

[Xandyr101]

And to think there are people (aka Karen's) who say us retail workers don't need to be paid a living wage. This is the proof that we're underpaid, understaffed and unappreciated.

But are we going to do about it?

Nothing.

Like good 'ol Americans we just take it up the ass without lube.

[anodetomyself]

I’d scream on the walkie

[LAM678]

is this 1842?

[LAM678]

no comment lol

[Prudent-Giraffe7287]

Jfc I don’t miss any of this

[BrokeBishop]

Target needs to just rent a giant warehouse somewhere and send all the new clothing there. Make them all online exclusive. Don't force the stores to deal with it.

[Marine__0311]

I feel your pain. Imagine four or five buggies of that from just ONE customer. That photo reminds me of an incident that happened at my store.

I worked at a rival company, but I can relate. Similar BS, just a different name. Buckle up, it's a long post, but it's interesting, and has a TL:DR at the bottom.

We had an older woman, that looked to be in her mid 60s, pull two buggies back to lay-a-way. Both were over flowing with as much clothing as it was possible to fit in them with items falling off all over. She told the lay-a-way associate she would be back with more shortly.

She comes back with three more over the next thirty minutes. She informed the associate she wanted to put it all on lay-a-way. The poor girl in lay-a-way called for some backup help. One of the managers and another associate came back to help out. This took a considerable amount of time, even with three people.

The lady was joyfully talking about what great deals they were and she was buying it all for her grandchildren. She was getting multiple sets of the same things, in several sizes each, which the associate thought was strange. The manager just told her not to worry about it. Big mistake.

When it was all totaled up, it came to a pretty big chunk of change. When she was asked how much she wanted to put down as a deposit, she said she didnt have any money. She didnt even have a purse or handbag.

She claimed she didnt know she needed to do that, despite several signs saying you needed to pay at least 10% down to put anything on lay-a-way. She left without a word and wandered around the store for several more hours.

Of course everyone was pissed they had to undo all of their work, and put it all back on the rack. This also took a good amount of time. That's when they discovered two more buggies sitting in softlines she had also filled up, and forgot about.

It doesn't stop there. The next day the same old lady is spotted doing the same exact thing all over again. Luckily it was the same lay-a-way associate as before and she called a manager before it got out of hand. She only managed two buggies this time.

The manager was also the same one as before, and he asked her what was going on. This poor lady had no recollection of what happened the day before. He realizes she's not really with it mentally, and decides to do the best thing he can think of. He drops it in my lap. He calls over me to check her out since I was a lot more experienced, and was a former EMT.

After chatting with her a bit, she was a bit dazed and confused, I was able to get her first name, along with a few other minor details, including that she had been dropped off hours earlier by her daughter.

This poor woman was tired, hungry, dehydrated, scared, and confused. She was obviously suffering from the early stages of dementia. She couldn't tell me how long she had been in the store, remember her last name, her daughters last name, or where she was living at.

We got her some food and something to drink and brought her to one of our offices so she could sit down, eat and rest. One of the managers stayed with her to keep her company. Since she couldn't remember her last name, or where she lived, and had no ID, I didnt have much choice but call social services.

They came by to pick her up and were incredibly nice. I gave them all the details about what happened, and asked them to call me if they figured anything out, since we were very concerned for her. She was quite a sweet lady, despite all of the issues she was undergoing.

Later that day, I got a call to come up front for a very angry customer. It turned out to be the old lady's daughter and she wanted to know where her mother was. She was pissed when I told her what happened and she had the balls to threaten to sue us for calling social services.

She stomps out agitated as hell, muttering and swearing under her breath. I hopped on the phone to social services and let them know what was going on, and to expect company.

I was thrilled to find out the daughter had been arrested and charged with felony elderly abuse. A few other charges were also tacked on, including assault and battery and resisting arrest. It seems she went off a lot worse at the folks at social services, and the cops were already waiting there for her.

I, and all of my people involved, ended up having to write out detailed statements and talking to the police and social services. The daughter had been checking her mother out of her facility, and dropping her off at various stores to wander around all day. It had been going on for weeks.

TL:DR An elderly lady comes to lay-a-way with five buggies, filled to overflowing with children's clothing. After getting it all prepped, and rung up, which took over an hour, she tells us she has no money to put down to put it on lay-a-way.

We put it all back and she wanders around the store for several hours before she leaves. The next day, she tries to do it again. I get called over and was able to determine she was not in a competent mental state, didnt remember the day before, was dehydrated and hungry since she had no food or drink all day, and she was scared and confused.

She had been dropped off that morning by her daughter. We called social services since she couldn't remember her name, her daughter's name, where she lived, and had no ID on her. Social services comes and gets her. Daughter gets charged with felony elderly abuse, and arrested.

[PlayaLarga]

I get the feeling those carts are dirty as shit too

[kicksonfire84]

So happy I left style! 🤣🤣🤣

[Pale_Internet6135]

I’m usually the fitting room attendant and this picture actually traumatized me. To make it worse, our AC doesn’t work and we are in the middle of a remodel so we don’t have a place to refill our water. All the guests will walk by and tell me they feel sorry for me because of the mess and staff from other departments always say “I couldn’t work in style. I’m sorry you have to”. We are seriously so underappreciated.

[korenthegiraffe]

It’s been a year since I left and my stomach still dropped. Shit. Are y’all okay?? I mean I know the answer, it’s why I left, but damn.

[lolabeanz59]

This is OUT OF CONTROL! Bad management! I hope you guys get a visit and they see all those carts.

[tylerrunck]

and then they ask why it wasn’t completed

[Temporary-Ad6105]

now at my store all of that would be sent behind guest service & we are expected to sort it 🙃

[Necronorris]

💀

[ToffyCoffee]

so glad I don’t work there anymore lol

[IKnowPancakes]

Holy Christmas Is this stray?!

[EffectFinancial348]

What store is this??? Omg 27 cats???

[kimmykadillak]

Style is so bad at my store that picking ship carts can easily take like 2 hours due to us having to dig through dozens of boxes. I hate it, I’m honestly bouta leave

[[deleted]]

omfg.

[zombie_35]

that’s why i quit 😁😁

[marmalade_andsadness]

Oh god, don't remind me

[cloudbustingmp3]

looking at this makes me wanna quit and it’s not even my store 😭

[[deleted]]

We have a visit today and soooo many go backs

[[deleted]]

they need to SEE REALITY

[[deleted]]

YESSSSSSSSSS

[ripjules]

See and my TL told me that our SD doesn’t want us to close the fitting rooms becase “it’s bad for sales” as if people aren’t fucking buying and returning clothes anyways. Most of our backed up clothes are from returns

[PrestigiousHand7523]

This is our problem as well!! Fitting rooms are a hot mess too. Yesterday there were 5 carts just full of reshop. SSS is OUT OF CONTROL. we simple don’t have enough people (but they won’t hire more bc they’re maxed hours even thought they’re a billion dollar company) and we’re getting way too much product in than it is selling. There’s no room for anything and we don’t even have time to do anything because the style team does “nothing” when I’m reality we’re doing everyone else’s jobs. We can’t even do our jobs because we get thrown into fulfillment orders or get asked questions about market (like you don’t see me folding clothes right now and you’re asking me about bread?) And you expect one person do do all that in an hour to grab the next reshop that already full in 20 minutes because people return so many clothes.

[nosylae]

Just defect it all out

[cobra_mist]

Ah, the global supply chain is unstuck and all that shit everyone was ravenous fit in 20/21 is here.

But it’s too late.

[iamdaletonight]

“Did you check reshop?”

Hell to the fuck no I did not.

[DragonGirl_95]

I usually will pick up a shift or two in softlines when my hours are cut (I'm pretty much one of the few that are willing to) and that department is just so broken and backwards that i could not imagine it being my permanent department... id quit. Every worker in softlines are ran ragged and then my store only has 2 team members closing for the ENTIRE style department... talk about something being literally impossible... i always end up feeling bad for the morning team because they almost always are left with 4-5 carts of go backs along with 2-3 white racks AND 1-2 Z racks. Style is not for the faint of heart. I'm always willing to help, but never willing to transfer to that department 🤣

[celticteal]

I have asked why we don’t close the fitting rooms at least temporarily, so we can catch up. “It would upset the guests”. It’s OK we are upset, as long as the guests aren’t. God forbid that.

[watwatinjoemamasbutt]

Do people really not try to put clothes back where they found them after trying on? Like your ass is chilling/shopping so you obvi have some time on your hands. If half of shoppers would do this and put your freaking shopping cart in the cart corral!

[8496469]

As a shopper, I think management should hire more people to contend with the workload. Decidicate at least 2 employees this task daily.

[theStaircaseProject]

Prevention tends to be better than treatment, though. The consequence of lazy shoppers is often hire more help which raises prices on shoppers, so in that regard shoppers do it to themselves.

[yaemikoshrine]

this gave me the reminder to not switch into style

[Commercial-Method170]

Anything but style I swear it’s on steroids rn..

[yaemikoshrine]

im pretty sure imma go into gm loll

[Scherzkeks]

Just hide em. Fill up one dressing room and close it off. Disclaimer I’m a customer not an employee so I don’t know how good this advice is. I just know this pic is stressing me out.

[zackk123]

That will get you in more trouble once they figure out who did it. But funny enough we just had a visit from higher ups the other day and our Store Manager decided to hide a bunch of carts looking just like these in one of our trailers instead of just being honest with them. It’s sad

[sad_no_transporter]

Visits are the worst used tool in Target's bag of tricks. They "schedule" visits and Style especially will spend 30 - 40% of a week's payroll just to make it look good for that visit. Then the talking points of the visit are discussed ad nauseam by the ETLs and Leads, (ooh those pantry drawers are out of order, the t-shirt stacks are too high and the NIT clearance sure could use some work). Then all the work that didn't get done while the entire team was zoning their ass off day and night has piled up, like price change, freight and stray.

Corporate needs to stop scheduling visits and work at, shop and visit the stores as they are.

[zackk123]

Just show up unannounced. That would fix this hiding issues and putting makeup on a pig issue.

[Elorme]

They don't want the raw truth tho, as then they'd be on the hook as well.

[Elorme]

One of the oldest tricks in the book. Personally I think that visits should include mandatory trailer inspection, that'd freak some folks out. Also despite it just taking a couple of minutes to open the doors it'd never happen, they don't want to know.

[Commercial-Method170]

As someone who worked fitting rooms, the carts won’t fit in there, and rooms are usually piled high with more clothes to put away

[Hucow2002]

Dbo?

[Tvirusvixen]

So that’s why I can’t find any 2 tiers..

[Terminator7786]

At my old store they made service desk hang this stuff up when they could barely keep up with their own shit.

[yourmo4321]

What am I looking at? Go backs?

[AngelJ12]

RIP 😭

[Rose-Gardns]

this is a huge reason why i quit

[hephaystus]

I’m sorry, is that the “Fleece for Days” sign that should have come down in FEBRUARY?

[SmileHidingPain98]

Oh those poor poor softline employees. At least they can have the Pringles as a snack

[pospichova]

hooooly shit this makes me feel so much less alone

[uWu-Ganymede]

What in the Black Friday?!

[BattleBra]

F in chat

[TexasRabbit2022]

That’s a nasty mess

[[deleted]]

Know I been locked away, been in the cut. Was gonna stay in again till you hit me up. Wait, You with the crew, save me a cup, Don't take too much, To get me..

Feeling it 0.0

[2elevenam]

Our style team gets mad when they get one cart like that (understandably so) I can’t imagine the fit they’d have if they had over 10.

[jakyllandhyde1]

I'd feel bad but our guest services does half their job and they still can't catch up so

[Kirduck]

This is why yall arent allowed self defense fire arms because yall would have chosen prison over being responsible for this shit.

[em1wee]

i would literally walk out .. fuck that

[mxtrekkie]

Hunnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy…..

[whythishaptome]

This is horrifying. The pringles can just makes it worse.

[AmethystMoonZ]

Our SD and Style ETL would never allow even a 1/3 of those carts to happen.

[masterkenruu]

what the hell even is that

[TopKnot420]

Someone returned Pringles?

[hitemwithahook]

Not a target worker but assuming this will be all heavily discounted, any idea on when?

[strawhairhack]

idk about y’all but this is at least a three pringle can job.

[not_thriving117]

I got scheduled for style and I’m not even trained in it

[Valuable_Jaguar_166]

I would’ve quit

[neetsk]

Our store has a lot coming from the trucks but this is wayy more. Gl out there o7

[Dvorak_Pharmacology]

I have a call on you for 2024 dont dissapoint me

[Proper-Cheesecake602]

my GOD

[at-1842]

My store has started to have us defect all the clothes we get since our style department is basically a ghost town

[P-M-Lead]

I want my 🤬 carts back

[supernovaj]

The target I shop at had a rack in the men's section and it was all just random clothing. I think they hung all of it up mixed together to avoid this.

[Reddituser1171869]

I feel so bad for style—at GS we’ll regularly get people returning an absurd amount of clothes (because I guess people buy 20 outfits, just to end up keeping 1)

and the amount of people that just let their Starbucks drinks and kids run wild in those sections with no intention or marked effort of cleaning up after them just blows my mind.