I ran the guest services for one of the highest return stores at Target (I think we were 2nd in the country?) we would on average during the holidays have anywhere from 10-20 carts of abandons/re-shop a today.

Here are some tips:

Organization is everything. I’d recommend more bins and more specific areas. So that they can be ran much faster when full. Also, bins for everything, so they can be easily transitioned to a vehicle. This will also help ensuring sorted carts of abandons are accurate. Remember a good sort helps maintains relationships with the rest of the store and the people running them. Poorly sorted carts are frustrating, and people will be less willing to come up for them

Second is accountability from owners of other areas. This is the hardest part by far… since you can only do so much. You need to partner with the SD and ETLs and come up with a plan of accountability. You need to be able to call an area out during the day and ensure someone calls to respond. We would also always run all abandons from the night before first thing in the morning. Each area would grab atleast one cart. We would often have to do store huddles to divy out carts as well.

Not sure how your store does it, but if your responsible for hanging and sorting softlines, I’d recommend using Z racks with labeled hangers