Target Sucks - We Hate Target and We Know We're Not Alone.

August 30, 2014 - dtlhater

Problems Persist

Went into 4 Vancouver, BC area Targets this week and same problems are continuing to occur despite senior executives insisting in media that notable improvements are happening. There are huge out of stocks in toys, back to school, baby, storage, home and basics. Market freshness is embarrassing as there are rampant out of date products (found several that are from July???) and out of stocks. Store conditions are not strong as denim and apparel tables are a huge mess. Few staff and fewer customers even in week leading up to back to school- which is a key retail season (2nd busiest period in the year). If this was to be corrected prior to fall and holiday season – a loooooonng way to go and not likely to happen. Store closures likely ahead in the great white north!!

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  • disgusted says:

    Like the commenter said : Store closures likely ahead in the great white north.....YEAH!!!! Good bye, Good riddance!!!!!! Let's make sure that happens Canada, keep staying away from tarshit!!!!!!

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  • Silverfox says:

    except they don't wanna leave. Apparently they are determined to win canadians back. Hard to do that right now given the crappy conditions most targets in canada are in right now though xD

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    • dtlhater says:

      They've given themselves thru the xmas season to turn around their issues according to their promises in the media (instocks, product composition, pricing). If it doesn't happen by then (and it won't) - then store closures are likely. They do not have enough staff to do the planogram changes necessary to change the product composition. They aren't close to fixing the instocks issues so not sure how they can fix in the next three months what they haven't done in the past two years and I don't think they are entirely clear as yet to what the systemic issues are. And... they can't adjust their pricing too aggressively to make a difference on the pricing perception as their profit margin is already in serious trouble (18% vs a 30%+ goal). It's to bad as they have a lot of great people that will have job security issues as a result and the weight of the Canada problem will likely force them to also close down poorer performing stores across the U.S as well. Dumb fkrs!!

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      • TargetGrunt says:

        Man, talk about high expectations. They honestly think they can turn things around by the end of the year? With all the money they've lost and the animosity they've gained so far I'm amazed that they still think they can succeed. Then again, this is Target we're talking about.

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      • Silverfox says:

        from what's been posted here, No matter how high they pay they can't keep employees. People keep leaving even being paid at @ $13.50 in alberta. People are really using them as something to bring income in until they find something better considering how badly they are treating employees out there. Plus don't forget, It's an worker's market in alberta, Target will likely want to pull out of alberta where they can't treat employees like slaves, but at the same time they don't want to leave because it's a wealthy province and target wants to earn it's piece of pie from alberta and doesn't want to give it up to walmart. And as for the instock's issue some of it, I'm probably wondering if maybe greg's stupid annoucement that they want people to buy more grocery items at target might be it. Sobey's supplies the food to target plus they are also a competitor in grocery. Imo greg's annoucment sounded like he wanted to muscle in on sobey's niche. Plus studying their online flyers, I noticed they sell bread brands that is owned by loblaws. Recently a news article mentioned that target pissed off their suppliers. Is it any wonder that maybe their suppliers are having enough of tarshit and their shengians

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        • Silverfox says:

          Target wants to gouge canadians but canadians is having none of it.

          Apparently Brian's big idea is to give canada the target usa full shopping experience. Somehow i'm thinking aren't target canada employees already getting the full target employee treatment experience?

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          • dtlhater says:

            Sobey's appears to be using Target to remove it's dated product. Checking one of their stores - their product is all dated properly. Going into Target stores, I'm finding product last week that was dated from July (bakery, packaged meats, juices and yogurts) - already expired a month. Every delivery my store receives has product already expired or near expired product. Team all laughs about it now as it's been passed on to those that should matter (DTL, Ops BP and beyond) but nothing changes. Staffing in Vancouver area is tough as well and we are losing people to jobs paying less but at least guaranteeing minimum hours for these people. Turnover will end up being ridiculously high for this year and at every level - TMs, TLs, ETLs and STLs. But like the Sobeys dated deliveries - nothing changes... ridiculous.

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  • Silverfox says:

    maybe target is being cheap and asking for near expired groceries thinking they can push them out before it expires. Never saw near expired groceries at zellers though

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  • Silverfox says:

    somehow i'm glad i got let go long ago from zellers before it got sold. And found a new job before i was tempted to apply at target. Wages were much higher than mcdonalds that's for sure. I was offered 8.25 at mcdonalds. At zellers i was offered 8.65 when the min wage was 8 dollars an hour. And that was during training.
    I dropped by my local target since I was bored and killing time as I got off class early and saw my old cash supervisor from zellers at target. Wonder how it feels working in the same location that previously had the shelves filled to the rim with stock. So much product you could barely see Pallets and pallets of stuff on the floor. Now devoid of that. Diapers were usually on a pallet since you can't fit that much on the shelf. Non expired stuff shipped from sobeys. Plus a much heftier discount. I think she had more than us. We only had 10%, she had 15% or more. Sat mornings were usually crazy. Don't think so anymore. Can't get crazy with no stock. Though the school supplies section looked dingy as usual. No change from zellers to target..

    I think they missed the boat. 😉 Earlier this summer there were busloads of people buying diapers and baby formula and they didn't care how expensive it was as long as it was the real deal. Could have re-couped losses from there. Except without stock how can target recoup sales?

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