I left Target @ 5 years ago after 10 years of working there.
Honestly, I could write a book full of ‘wonderful’ stories about the level of incompetence I saw there.
Here are just a few:
1.) The last couple of year there I worked as our store’s receiving associate.
Our truck crew routinely broke things threw them away, then wrote down the UPS and quantity.
Problem was many items that were damaged has to be sent back to our DC our processed as hazardous materials. Talked to Team leads, talked to E. Team Leads, etc. No one seemed to grasp the concept. Doing this not only broke company guidelines, also broke state law by throwing away hazardous materials. It was finally solved when a District Manager witnessed chemicals being thrown in the compactor. People were fired and the situation was resolved.
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(1) I go to pick up an order at one of the Target stores in my area on 1/15/25. It takes some time, as usual for anyone to notice me. Not only that, the employee that scans my barcode takes FOREVER to find my order which was only 3 items while another employee who scanned another customer who came in after me comes right back with their order. What makes it worse is that the employee who brought me order DID NOT have one item in a bag when I requested that the store use THEIR BAGS (WHICH THEY HAD PLENTY OF THAT DAY). He then had to get a bag and put that one item in it. Second, after I picked up my order, he obviously DID NOT scan it as picked up because today, 1/17/25, I get another email this morning from the same store telling me that the order I ALREADY PICKED UP was “ready for pick up”. I had to immediately get in touch with Tarshit’s chat system to get this straightened out so that I wouldn’t be double charged for this order. Of course, the ‘associate’ I spoke to was no help. All they did was ‘assure me’ that I wasn’t going to be double charged for the order & told me what I already knew that the ‘team member didn’t mark it as pick up’ & that the ‘tracking’ woud update soon. This is utter BS!!! I have NO FAITH WHATSOEVER in what I was told & I’m expecting a hassle with my CC company if TARSHIT winds up double charging me. What angers me most is that this is NOT the first time that store has done this to me!!!
Likes(5)Dislikes(5) Target has steadily gone down hill since COVID. 75% of stuff is now locked away. Constant closures and those that managed to stay open in my area, have stopped carrying almost everything we buy on a daily/weekly basis causing us to search literally all over for another store who sells it or have it delivered. As if that weren’t bad enough, now their fricking app no longer lets you track orders. They got rid of the track order option so now you have to either track it through the website or the track order link in the shipping email.
Likes(3)Dislikes(1) After all this time signing up for Target’s crappy circle, they went and “made it better” by 1) getting rid of the lousy 1% back for non Red Card holders, 2) Auto enrolling circle members into Shipt WITHOUT permission, & 3) removing the ability to enter missed purchases. Before this unwanted & unnecessary “overhaul”, you could either scan a receipt or enter it manually on the app. Now, ALL attempts to scan receipts throw up an error and manual entry has been removed from the app AND the website. Yet the bozos in charge of said site STILL HAVEN’T updated the help section to reflect these changes since it STILL says to either scan or manually enter receipts for missing purchases. So basically now, if you forget to enter your phone number or if someone else in your family doesn’t give the number, you’re out of luck. š”
Likes(14)Dislikes(0) There was an update for their already crap app earlier today (at least it was for me–apparently it had been out for a couple days for others), which was slow as molasses after I signed in (plus I had to enter my searches SEVERAL TIMES for it to give any results at all), that had added a duplicate app icon to many users’ phones, mine included.
I wasn’t aware of this issue so I was lead to believe that the problem was with my phone instead of the app and was on the verge of doing a factory reset since I couldn’t figure out as to why this happened (I’ve never had any Play Store app updates put a duplicate icon on my devices before) or to get rid of it.
So annoyed that yet again another greedy app developer had yet again rushed out an buggy app update without properly and thoroughly testing it! ????
I’m just glad that they didn’t drag their feet and pushed out another update the same day that fixed the icon issue which saved me from erasing my phone.
Likes(1)Dislikes(3) a few weeks before writing this post, a customer at 6:30 pm on a Saturday wrote a fake report on me saying that I āmade them uncomfortableā and gave them a bad experience. I donāt know if this customer is a male or female one, but I swear that I didnāt do anything to hurt or make this person uncomfortable in any way. Honestly, for the past month Iāve been extremely careful with how Iāve handled customers and emphasized greetings, small talk, and thanking customers when they leave. Iāve been working there for almost a year and have already signed one corrective action for getting in arguments with customers and making scanning mistakes some items.. but this was in April so around 4 months ago and I have been better at my job since then.
Likes(16)Dislikes(6) If you live in Australia, you’re safe.Ā Despite the identical logo, Target US and Target AU are two completely separate companies.
With that out of the way, allow meā¦ ahem.Ā Once upon a time, we were shopping at Target as usual.Ā Everything was fine until we checked at the self-checkout.Ā I was really young, so I didn’t know any better, but I was scanning things and putting them back in the cart.Ā We then quickly lost track of what we scanned and just left.Ā We thought we scanned everything until…Ā BEEP!Ā BEEP!Ā BEEP!Ā Target’s alarms went off, and they only let us take half of the stuff we had in our cart.Ā And no, we didn’t scan half of the items in our cart, we scanned almost everything.Ā We were then forced off their property for 2 years or so.
GO TEAM WWW.IHATETARGET.NET!!!Ā (the “www” standing for Walmart, Walmart, Walmart!)
Likes(13)Dislikes(21) After training at two separate locations it became immediately clear that Target runs a LEAN operational strategy (using the least amount of employees needed & keep those employees just below breaking point everyday).Ā Target management will explain this away as a “live up to the challenge” moment but in reality, it is a consistent case of always filling in and falling behind.
Likes(36)Dislikes(3) I’m a guest advocate and my store is basically not doing anything. I got yelled at by my team lead to clean my belt bc of COVID, and all she gave me was the generic spray. No disinfectant or anything. In fact, my whole shift, my belt and area never gets disinfected ONCE.
People are getting all up in my face and GSTLs are not helpful when people are literally up on top of me. We’re seriously supposed to be social distancing and I’m in one of the most infected states. Just putting stickers on the floor doesn’t do anything.
There’s guests just walking around the store and coming in large groups. I’m sorry, but now is not the time to buy a bikini or foundation.
My store has also not given masks or gloves to me. Only to the people doing the “cleaning” shifts, who aren’t even rly cleaning anyway.
Likes(38)Dislikes(3) The Target store I worked for got new management in this last year.. and they are all lazy. We got a new SD recently and she turned out to not only be the laziest most useless human but also a complete bitch. They all complain and bitch about team members not getting things done but they sit in the office all day talking bad about team members instead of helping or trying to make changes.
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