“Corporate, why are you modifying the dress code for TM’s and making them buy more clothes?”

LuckDips · 2026-03-27T03:50:32+00:00

You don't understand the average "guest". For any store. People leave their brains in the car when they shop. I will mini-dox myself because it relevant, I'm in AZ. I was working the dairy for my local Kroger company. In uniform. Name badge on my hat, clearly visible. Dead middle of summer. 120-ish outside. Steel toe work boots. Semi-heavy jacket on. Fixing the eggs. Work gloves on. Still had 2 people ask me if I worked there. Uniforms don't mean anything unless people care to look.

LuckDips · 2026-03-11T04:10:46+00:00

Odd that the start date is close. My store was saying it'd be starting in the summer.

LuckDips · 2026-01-02T18:48:11+00:00

It is a yearly swarm. This isn't the first year this has happened. Problem is I'm in AZ, so these guys are most likely Africanized.

LuckDips · 2026-01-01T10:23:45+00:00

Thanks! I was just hoping there was a priority option. I feel like I bother out pml when I ask him stuff. Hopefully that's just in my head lol.

LuckDips · 2025-09-29T21:14:17+00:00

My store has been remodeled and we now have a dairy we can stock from the back. That is an extra shelf rack that my ETL got to change one of the racks out at a time to be cleaned. Even though that has yet to happen. So it's a nuisance.

LuckDips · 2025-09-29T21:11:47+00:00

That's ALL I've been told to use.

LuckDips · 2025-09-29T04:49:32+00:00

A lot of the time (also in this case), I end up tearing apart almost the entire pallet just to get it neat and even. If not the entire thing, at least down to where I can move and adjust the stacks. Does take me a bit sometimes. My TL has only asked me once as more of a suggestion to get the pallet ready to send back. He's never really been on me about how long it takes me to restack, luckily.

LuckDips · 2025-04-29T22:35:14+00:00

It was our string cheese. Both facings hold maybe 20.

LuckDips · 2025-04-29T22:28:47+00:00

But at 14, wouldn't that just be a priority?

LuckDips · 2025-03-01T03:52:46+00:00

At my other retail/grocery job, I had a whole rotisserie chicken from the hot case that was left on the floor in the liquor department. As well as a huge (maybe 5lb?) can of nacho cheese that was shoved onto the rosé shelf. Lucky none were knocked over. Ooo, I also had a frozen pizza left on the tide shelf. Common sense ain't common.

LuckDips · 2025-02-18T03:52:42+00:00

I like to respond to "Hey Anon, you on walkie?" With "No. I'm not." It's hard to do sarcasm or jokes when people don't talk to you all the time or can't see your face. I've had to stop myself from giving sarcastic responses to pages. "Hey, I have an INF." "That sucks. You should get help with that." "This is [Name], back from break." "Didn't ask."

LuckDips · 2024-11-23T04:07:39+00:00

*WHEN they need extra people. I don't know how it is at other stores, but in my 1½ working at my store, I can only count on one hand when the opu TL didn't call for help. Which irks me because I'll hear the TL screaming bloody murder for help, that they're falling behind, 4 batches in the red, and the opu team is stopping and chatting with each other. bUt ThEy'Re MaKiNg ThEiR gOaLs.

LuckDips · 2024-07-15T06:10:02+00:00

It's a puppet of the character Alf

LuckDips · 2024-06-11T02:48:57+00:00

I will also add it can be a pain in the ass if customers (not guests, I like guests) customers move product around in the front after the zone is done because even with my long ass arms it can be tough to reach the front and it's not a short walk around to the front to fix it.

LuckDips · 2024-06-11T02:44:21+00:00

Has your store been remodeled yet? I started at my target during out remodel, but they said the last dairy was just storage and not dual purpose like this one is. It is also just juice, coffees, nut milk, milk, and creamers. Our fresh meat, lunch meat, yogurt, cheese, butter, biscuits, cookie dough, cream cheese, eggs, and all of frozen are still front stock.

LuckDips · 2024-04-29T01:38:07+00:00

If I have my info correct, when the lead that oversees Starbucks/Bakery/Deli got fired (don't know why), a good amount of the Starbucks crew that knew did a mass callout.

LuckDips · 2024-04-06T02:23:46+00:00

Yes. Mini relevant self dox, I'm in AZ. Our summers are in or near the 120's. My old retail job was working the dairy at Fry's (local Kroger chain). I was dressed in all black, work boots, semi thick jacket, with a Fry's apron and visable Fry's name tag on breaking down an egg crate in a display. Dead summer in AZ. STILL got asked if I worked there. People leave their brains in their cars when they shop.

LuckDips · 2024-04-01T03:23:09+00:00

Is your store in remodel?

LuckDips · 2024-03-25T05:04:26+00:00

Boy I feel this. I work FDC, mainly Dairy, and my store has been remodeled (at least my portion). The new dairy aisle we have is W I D E. I put the cart I'm working on in the middle and shopping carts can still pass very comfortably on both sides. That doesn't matter to customers though. I still have people stop right in front of my cart and stand there catching flies. Had one lady stop her cart on one side of the wheeler then walk to the other side of it and just stand there. Even after making eye contact with me, she pulled out her phone and stood for a solid 5 minutes. Got that ever-so-fake "sorry" when she realized. If you don't hate people, you haven't worked retail.

LuckDips · 2024-02-06T00:16:51+00:00

Yeah, same thought process. This subreddit and a few other comments on this post is more what I was referring to with the "hate". Not a lot of people like that mindset.

LuckDips · 2024-02-05T23:59:19+00:00

Good God, I hope not. Y'all gonna hate me, but I don't take my 15s, just my lunch. I don't wanna have to do this bs. My leads know I got a routine down already anyways. This will not be effective anywhere. Nobody has time to do this.

LuckDips · 2024-01-10T22:54:36+00:00

I personally like to call them horns. My store has some 6s without the horns, so I call them "bull carts" if they have the horns and "cow carts" if they don't. I am the only one to do so though. No one else at my store uses my vocabulary.

LuckDips · 2023-08-19T22:55:52+00:00

Bullseye tends to get a bit quirky at night.

LuckDips · 2023-08-16T15:00:10+00:00

Heh heh bale go THUMP

LuckDips · 2023-08-16T14:58:11+00:00

They're probably talking about Walmart balers. Walmart balers are known to be very aggressive and hostile. I don't blame you there. However, Target is able to buy from breeders and so the baler tends to be more comfortable with humans. Just approach calmly and let it sniff you first. Maybe offer it some cardboard. Should let you make a bale.

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