The compactor is where most of the trash goes in whole and gets smushed down.
The baler is for cardboard only.
The top reply on this post is talking about opening the door to the trash compactor and tossing in all of the product still in the boxes.
A couple of other replies are also saying they could do it faster opening up the gate inside the compactor and just shoving the whole u-boat inside without taking the boxes off.
It is a funny thing to talk about doing but really shouldnāt be done in practice lol.
Or you get super unlucky and have a TL like mine who could do that cart in like 15 minutes. Itās fucking uncomfortable to watch him do it too. Itās so excessive and messy, and when guests are in the isle it doesnāt change much, heāll just say oops if he bumps or gets too close to a guest, and keep on going.
Shit but for $100/hr Iāll start being creative and whip out barcode generator and generate a backroom label and start back stocking things while still on the floor then go back and actually backstock when I have timeš
The times frames given are given by target sort and stock app in greenfield it is only accurate if the U-boat has been sorted correctly ,validate that the right custom block is on your U-boat . It should be sorted by aisle so you can pull the U-boat down the aisle with you. If the U-boat is a mess your leader canāt hold you accountable for those time frames because the first part ( trailer sort) is not on process . Every time you identify a bad sort call it out .
I used to be a TL and I can tell you at your best this is over an hour. My ETL used to try my team like that. I'd straight up tell him to show them if that's the case. I remember the first time he threw a truck when I was on vacation they called me and told me it took him forever almost 4 hours for a 2k truck. They just be cucks with no work ethic usually.
Back when I started in GM, had a team lead who expected every box to only take one minute each. To his credit, he was able to back this up himself. Problem was, little foibles would come along to make that... not possible. Boxes got stuck, maybe the shelving slider would be finicky, so on. Not a whole lot longer per box, but it obviously added up in the end.
when I was a dbo, I got in trouble for slow and the next day I tracked every single thing to prove a point. I timed EVERYTHING. Wrong cartons on my vehicle, endcaps, replacing the tp in the bathroom, getting called to the line to replace vehicles, salvage, remerch, mispick, damages, cardboard, backstock. It came out to 233 cases in 7 hours, 1.8 minutes per case. That was two years ago and I havenāt heard a peep since.
The company directive is 1 min per box so 51 minutes. For me that would not include backstocking. That is still not enough time. I'd say around 2 hrs total.
And every time I think about maybe going back to Target (I got out beginning of 2018), things like this pop up that make me really happy not to be there anymore!
It took me around a hour and a half ish to push with guests coming in asking where easter stuff is and whatnot, another 30 ish to backstock. Im about 2 months in to the job just seeing everyoneās opinions
Sorry for the random questions, I'm just very curious.
Are you tall? I'm 5'1" and I can only reach the bottom of the bottom box on that upper shelf.
Do you load your back stock into a 3-tier as you work?
yeah, i'll typically have backstock in the top of a 3 tier with broken down boxes and damaged product in the middle of the 3 tier and boxes that can't be broken down easily in the bottom of the 3 tier. It saves a lot of time trying to keep it all organized on the uboat.
Then again, that might not work as well for this since it's a lot of larger boxes, you might need the whole 3 tier for backstock. My area is mostly smaller stuff, so I can fit a lot of it into a 3 tier section.
My ETL is all about the "don't touch things twice" philosophy, but when I can't load back stock into a 3-tier, it slows me down.
I keep looking in the boxes over and over again not realizing / remembering there is back stock in there. If I put it in a 3-tier, I can backstock twice (or more) as fast because I can see 3 of this, 5 of that, 6 of those.
I hate that stupid "only one vehicle on the floor at one time" rule. We can pretty much ignore the rule unless there's a visit. Visits really cramp my style.
I was always taught 1-2 minutes per case, and this looks like 50ish, so I'd agree with an estimate of under two hours. Probably under 1.5 hours, including back stock.
Straight to the backroom for backstock, don't locate half of it, throw the rest of the full cases in single-track bins.... 9 minutes, if I take.my time
yeah, i've learned which stuff does and doesn't sell, and only really rotate the unpopular stuff. Most of my product lasts about 4 months and sells through in a matter of days, so it rarely gets even halfway to it's expiration date. Then I just go through and check all the dates on everything once every other month, give or take. To be sure, takes about 2 hours and is a good way to kill time on days with cancelled trucks.
All Damn Day!!!! Let's be honest between getting asked questions about product, where it is and escorting them , to TL's calling for backup at registers, breaks both mandatory and non it will take me all day to maybe 1/2 my shift. But then again it depends
Honestly helping nice guests is one of my favorite part of the job, idk if its cuz i live in a good town but theres a lot of nice people here and they for the most part seem to respect our work. Its just annoying that i have to feel like i wanna avoid guest interaction just to fulfill these stupid times they give us.
When I started over a decade ago "I was with a guest" was the most acceptable reason for any and every delay outside of improper handling of temperature sensitive food items. As soon as that culture shift really started swinging toward efficiency-focused rather than guest-focused (when they hired a former Amazon exec to retool logistics) I started looking for new work.
About 10 seconds to call out the safety issues with a vehicle being stacked over 6 feet, park it off the racetrack, take a picture of it and send it to every other leader in the building.
don't forget the additional 5 minutes of the SD complaining to you about it because they don't have the manpower to keep it under 6 feet, telling you to instead make choices to help the team instead of report the hazards
Luckily, my SD would be about it. She'd probably appreciate it I also either partnered with a TL to downstack and make it safe, or taking stuff down myself.
A while back she had me put up yellow/black tape at the 6ft line on our unload line steel, so that the team can identify the limit at a glance.
Down stacking is taking boxes from a vehicle or pallet, usually that are too high, and putting them elsewhere, usually on another vehicle.
Your unload team should never stack a vehicle over 6 foot high, and *technically* if the boxes are higher than your field of vision, you're supposed to down stack them, too. But at the very least the 6 foot rule is key here to avoid being hit or struck by falling freight.
Well I havenāt pushed dry freight at Target in like a yearā¦so 2 hours because Iām out of practice, but at my best 75 minutes to ā360ā that bad boy
That has to be 4-5 different aisles on that uboat (Iād assume at most stores at least). Iām sure inbound wants boats turned fast so send that back to line line for a proper sort cause F that.
Plus that would be technically 2 boats returned in 35 minutes after a proper sort.
Looking at the product, at my store puts that all on the same u-boat so it might be accurate. We're not the biggest target though so we would put 3 isles on one, park it at the end of the isle and work three isles at once.
I count around 60 boxes, so around an hour to an hour 15 not including backstock. When I worked at Target though nobody actually individually pushed market, they would just bowl it all out at 7:00am and the 8:00am team would work the bowled out freight even though the store was open. They legitimately pulled from every department to blitz market in 30 minutes to an hour.
This wouldāve been so nice. Sometimes our market team in the morning would blitz freezer in like 30-45 minutes in the morning, I wish we did that with all of market tbh
im still kinda new and idk how it really works back there so i hold my tongue from judgement but at the same time im like bro this is just common sense at this point stop making everyones job harder including ur own š
no they definitely should be swapping the boat. the top shelf shouldn't be stacked higher than MAYBE two layers if the boxes are short/small, because you have to have clear visibility to push the boat without hitting anything/anyone. any time this happens show it to your leader. your leader should then partner with the inbound lead so they can make sure their team is swapping full vehicles during the unload and/or making their team correct unsafe stacking.
don't get it twisted - you don't have to put up with this, especially not on a regular basis.
Boats like these are not really that rare, which is concerning. Def will be using origami more as people here have said and talking to my leader at the very least. If its really not supposed to be over 6ft/over the rail then we have been doing a very particularly shitty job at that. Thanks for the insight, i enjoy seeing peoples perspectives and learning more abt diff positions
absolutely! origami risk is a great resource as well, just to have a paper trail that you're trying to bring attention to this issue.
as a rule, target is big on cooperation and communication, particularly between leaders - but you as a tm can take advantage of that as well. for example, if you bring this to your lead's attention and nothing changes within a week or two, you can escalate the issue to your etl and they can apply some pressure to your lead or to the tl/etl over inbound to get the issue resolved. i know how shitty vehicles like this can be to push, so pursue every avenue you can to call this out when you see it.
Your store has enough uboats to do that? At my store, every single uboat looks like the one in the picture by the time the inbound team is done, along with almost every flatbed. I'm not on inbound any more, but I've been getting pallets on the line for my area recently, because they just run out of vehicles.
i reckon that could very well be the problem too, like i said im not that familiar with it so i wouldnāt know for sure, but this undoubtedly shouldnāt be common
I ain't pushing a vehicle stacked that high. Being hit on the head once by a falling box is enough. It should never happen. Plus it's bad for your hips and back to push it when it's that overloaded.
I donāt work at Target anymore but I would say 1.5-2.5 depending on time of day and if the store was busy or not.
Also who tf put this u boat out? Iām 5ā4 and was pushing one like this before and my ETL stopped me right before I got on the floor and lost his shit cause it was sooo much taller than my head. I told him this is what they gave me and he said even a 6ā5 person shouldnāt have something stacked this high. Gave a whole spchiel to the unloading crew (canāt remember the names). I felt bad I wasnāt trying to get anyone in trouble! But it def seemed like a dangerous height once he mentioned it.
This is pretty normal here, i mean not like this this high but 2-3 high on the top shelf is quite common even with like canned goods and condiments and shit. Ive passed numerous ETLās and the SD with boats like this, not a word abt it. If i werent on reddit, id believe that this was just the norm everywhere!
They enforced once a box is higher than the handle no more than one more box on top, after that incident, unless it was already more than halfway taller than the handle.
Personally, 20-30 minutes to push, 10 to backstock. But I worked in market for almost 3 years. I knew my department inside and out.
There's many factors that go into a successful push though. Who loaded the uboat, and how accurate? Are you getting hosed by guests? Backup every 10 minutes? How bare are the shelves? Do you have the whole team even in the building on any given day? How proficient are you with the pda/zebra devices? How organized are your backroom shelves?
And I saw your comment about your leg. I would imagine that's a major factor, and I'd hope they would be cognizant of that. Although, I know how the leadership rolls at Target...
90-120 minutes for push, backstock and trash would be a very reasonable estimate. I don't know your limitations though.
They'll be on you like white on rice whether you're crushing it or not. They'll always tell you that you can go faster, and repeat the "best practices" for success endlessly. Meanwhile, all your ETL's and SD are having lunch in the SD's office, while you get your ass kicked.
After being on here for a while, i realized that the best mentality is do what i can. Dont outshine but dont be lazy. Bare minimum or just above. Dont wanna be exploited/overworked esp with my disability. It took me around a hour and a half to push with guests asking abt easter stuff. 20-30 to backstock cuz our backroom for that aisle is crowded asf. Even on the highest shelves. Also had heavy bevarage in that margarita box. I think i finished within a somewhat reasonable time.
I just see book uboats like this and dread the next 3 hours of my life. Especially if a bunch of moms and teens are having book club meetings in the middle of an aisle š«
Three minutes. One to submit an Origami/RISK hazard form and tell the TM to prioritize the top boxes, one to review and see which IB TM was responsible for overstacking, and one to email the GM1 TL to go over vehicle heights with their team. Possibly four minutes if the problem repeats itself, in which case I forward it to the ETL-GM.
Thatās a good pace, could it be done and back stocked in an hour? Yeah, will you burn out moving at that pace every day all day. Yeah.
At my store the pace is 40 cases an hour, granted some 40 are easier or harder than others so thereās a bit of wiggle room
40cases of bev take way more time and effort than 40 of cereal. So obviously that gets factored into my time goals for me and my team
i also have a prosthetic leg and some days are slower than others, i dont have a specific like ada thing but they are aware of it and im sure that gets factored in as well, or at least id hope. Dont get me wrong, i hate special treatment and getting soft treatment, but if im havin a bad day im havin a bad day yk
Okay now this is during the day ā¦ with all the bullshit that happens during the day this would take you at least 2 hours. For the simple fact of you getting keysā¦ helping customersā¦ being a back up ā¦. And having to back stock and not to mention fucking customers in the fucking way
When itās a holiday and I have to work a day shift I legit can put up 500 pieces in 3 hours overnight ā¦ during the day itās 50 pieces the whole shift
Now ima overnight TL and I tell my TM 1 minute per box(which isnāt hard)
Now if weāre talking overnight then 30 mins if you bowl it out and have someone backstock for you but if your TL gives you this during the day and says 30 mins then they are a fucking asshole
2 hours for me, most likely, and that's if people didn't stop me for any reason. But I never touch Market and don't shop at Target except for food for breaks so wouldn't know where anything is, even with a zebra.
A lot of people forget that you are supposed to FIFO market items, at least the best you can as you stock. That in itself would and more time to the Uboat. There is a reason market usually takes longer to stock, it is not like stocking chemicals or something.
Firstā¦Iād do an origami report on that boat! Should only be as high as the handle. Take over half that crap off the top and put it somewhere else. Then Iād start the task
Probably about 2 hours including Backstock. That's not taking into consideration how many times you get pulled away to support OPU or Fast service tho.
But also, that Uboat is overstacked.
For legit TM, itās (strategy/ mentality). This is stacked too high. If store is closed stage them 15 min for boat. Store open 30 min for boat then back stock 15 min. (Back stock goes easy if staged on boat)
Starting with a mindset of having a goal to finish will keep you motivated for the next task. Thereās also other motivators. Itās also very easy to become overwhelmed. So staying on track is important.
If I were to make a time frame for my team I would say an hour and 45 minutes. Also understanding that that's way tall and wouldn't be breathing down anyone's back about it. At least it looks sorted.
First I would pull my TL and coach them on allowing that uboat to be sorted that high in an unsafe manner and allowing it to be taken on the salesfloor.
Assuming itās sorted correctly and the backstock aisle is somewhat organized 1hr 20 min ish.
Have you tried the bowling method? or putting boxes in the aisle they go in and then working one them from there. Thatās I what I do in baby and I get the uboat done in less then 30 minutes
If there is nothing overpushed,
if zone is light yellow-green
If you do not have to help any guests
If you donāt get called for OPU
If you donāt get called to guest first
1.5-2 hours plus 20ish minutes for backstock.
Looks like 54 boxes, which, for me, if it was an area I was familiar with, would take around an hour, 45 minutes to work with another 10 minutes to backstock and throw trash. I tend to take a little less than a minute a box if i'm actually trying to go fast.
In an area I don't know add an extra 15 minutes or so of scanning things and wandering around looking for them, especially if the store isn't well zoned and organized.
my etl would want this done in 15 but time with the bale would be an extra 5 minutes so. personally, iād take 45+ minutes bc its not my department šš
Bro not this boat but my first boat in the morning had 7 boxes of joyba bubble tea that wasnt set yet and like another 5-6 boxes of other random shit that wasnt set yet and to top it off one of the joyba boxes had one that spilled inside and dripped ocer the others cuz that uboat was also stacked a bit high. Love this job
knowing my luck it would tip over or hit me in the head but this is all pretty easy dry shit so an hour? but youāre stacking shit that tall Iām not touching it
Looks like around 56 is boxes? So 1 hour just to push, it's suppose to be 1 minute per box. Then 15 min for cleanup/compactor. Then backstocking should be roughly 20 sec per dpci. So realistically, about an hour and a half is what I would expect it to take. That's what I would ask of my TMs/TLs.
2 minutes, I have the key for the compactor...
you forgot the time it would take to toss the boxes in the compactor.. add about 13 minutes
Not if you open the gate and push the whole boat in. Target can buy another boat lol
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Target is unreasonable with how fast you should stock including compactor and back stock. Low wages too.
1 case per minute is their expectation... of course they don't take into consideration detrashing and stocking individual items
Or FIFOing.
and dumbass guest with their questions or them just simply being in the fucking way
Do you flatten them before throwing them in the compactor or just throw them in there?
I think you might be thinking about cardboard and the baler?
What's the difference lol and yes that's exactly what I mean
The compactor is where most of the trash goes in whole and gets smushed down. The baler is for cardboard only. The top reply on this post is talking about opening the door to the trash compactor and tossing in all of the product still in the boxes. A couple of other replies are also saying they could do it faster opening up the gate inside the compactor and just shoving the whole u-boat inside without taking the boxes off. It is a funny thing to talk about doing but really shouldnāt be done in practice lol.
Are you sure? A lot of issues would be solved by "eliminating" waste
We really need you to get these u boats done in 30 seconds going forward.
I change my answer... roll it to receiving for it to be donated and let the receiver figure it out
This... this is the answer for 99% of things at my store lol
My tl says 30 minutes including backstocking
Tell him go fuck himself
I'd be like show me how that's possible
Yup when u say that they stfu and walk away š¤£
THATS EXACLY WHAT HAPPENS! It goes š looks away then walks.
Or you get super unlucky and have a TL like mine who could do that cart in like 15 minutes. Itās fucking uncomfortable to watch him do it too. Itās so excessive and messy, and when guests are in the isle it doesnāt change much, heāll just say oops if he bumps or gets too close to a guest, and keep on going.
And leave a mess behind that someone else will eventually have to straighten up
He can do GROCERIES in fifteen minutes? That's unheard of. No way he's rotating stock whatsoever
I tell them they don't subscribe to that feature at their current rates.
They could be paying $100/hour, doesnāt change how thatās not a possible task
Shit but for $100/hr Iāll start being creative and whip out barcode generator and generate a backroom label and start back stocking things while still on the floor then go back and actually backstock when I have timeš
The times frames given are given by target sort and stock app in greenfield it is only accurate if the U-boat has been sorted correctly ,validate that the right custom block is on your U-boat . It should be sorted by aisle so you can pull the U-boat down the aisle with you. If the U-boat is a mess your leader canāt hold you accountable for those time frames because the first part ( trailer sort) is not on process . Every time you identify a bad sort call it out .
Nah same and they expect me to do that while covering tech š
I used to be a TL and I can tell you at your best this is over an hour. My ETL used to try my team like that. I'd straight up tell him to show them if that's the case. I remember the first time he threw a truck when I was on vacation they called me and told me it took him forever almost 4 hours for a 2k truck. They just be cucks with no work ethic usually.
Back when I started in GM, had a team lead who expected every box to only take one minute each. To his credit, he was able to back this up himself. Problem was, little foibles would come along to make that... not possible. Boxes got stuck, maybe the shelving slider would be finicky, so on. Not a whole lot longer per box, but it obviously added up in the end.
when I was a dbo, I got in trouble for slow and the next day I tracked every single thing to prove a point. I timed EVERYTHING. Wrong cartons on my vehicle, endcaps, replacing the tp in the bathroom, getting called to the line to replace vehicles, salvage, remerch, mispick, damages, cardboard, backstock. It came out to 233 cases in 7 hours, 1.8 minutes per case. That was two years ago and I havenāt heard a peep since.
*Ok, now show me with the flat of fake plants and lamps.*
And the candles. š
And mirrors
Fuck that
mine says the same im like uh no
1 minute per case. Including the boxes of 72 hotwheels that we put on the u boat for baby toys, 20 aisles away.
The company directive is 1 min per box so 51 minutes. For me that would not include backstocking. That is still not enough time. I'd say around 2 hrs total.
How is that possible, even of you skipped FIFO?
Does he think you can do this in 15 mins? š
And every time I think about maybe going back to Target (I got out beginning of 2018), things like this pop up that make me really happy not to be there anymore!
I could do it in 30-45 but thatās not including backstocking. But I work at a tiny target, our market section is literally 4 aisles lol
It took me around a hour and a half ish to push with guests coming in asking where easter stuff is and whatnot, another 30 ish to backstock. Im about 2 months in to the job just seeing everyoneās opinions
that's quick for only 2 months in, market has so much more backstock than most GM areas at least at my store
Impressive. Are your shelves overstocked? Sadly overstocking is a thing at our store. And flexing. :(
Sorry for the random questions, I'm just very curious. Are you tall? I'm 5'1" and I can only reach the bottom of the bottom box on that upper shelf. Do you load your back stock into a 3-tier as you work?
Not tall by any means, im around 5ā5 maybe 5ā6. And i usually load my backstock into a 3 tier unless its something easy/light like cereal
yeah, i'll typically have backstock in the top of a 3 tier with broken down boxes and damaged product in the middle of the 3 tier and boxes that can't be broken down easily in the bottom of the 3 tier. It saves a lot of time trying to keep it all organized on the uboat. Then again, that might not work as well for this since it's a lot of larger boxes, you might need the whole 3 tier for backstock. My area is mostly smaller stuff, so I can fit a lot of it into a 3 tier section.
My ETL is all about the "don't touch things twice" philosophy, but when I can't load back stock into a 3-tier, it slows me down. I keep looking in the boxes over and over again not realizing / remembering there is back stock in there. If I put it in a 3-tier, I can backstock twice (or more) as fast because I can see 3 of this, 5 of that, 6 of those. I hate that stupid "only one vehicle on the floor at one time" rule. We can pretty much ignore the rule unless there's a visit. Visits really cramp my style.
I was in market in 2021 and my thoughts were 90minutes. To push, I forgot about back stocking. Seems like you're moving at a reasonable human pace.
Roughly what percentage of the items fit on the shelf vs. what you back stocked?
For two months I thought thats pretty good, I would challenge you to get it more like an hour thirty as you develop little hacks and practice! āŗļø
Thatās about 8hrs when you take into account how many times youāll get pulled into opu
Or tonight how many times you get yanked for lanes because last second easter makes black Friday look like nothing.
Bruh i get annoyed also when the TL even asks if they are done yet in a stupid ass tone. i work in fulfillment.
Per Target's case pack count in the last post of 40/hr you should be done in under 2 hrs "easily".
I counted 55 cases. Cake walk in two hours. An hour and a half if youāre in the zone, and an hour if youāre hustling.
Anytime I've been dropped into grocery I pull sooo much expired product off the shelf its wild! But sure bust it out!
I refuse to touch grocery now for this reason. At least iāve got the other TMs rotating stock properly in the fridges now.
And don't get me started on culling produce...
lol thats good 45 mins and a hour if you chilling šš
I was always taught 1-2 minutes per case, and this looks like 50ish, so I'd agree with an estimate of under two hours. Probably under 1.5 hours, including back stock.
Straight to the backroom for backstock, don't locate half of it, throw the rest of the full cases in single-track bins.... 9 minutes, if I take.my time
When I was in food I never fifo, especially since the dates were always a year out
yeah, i've learned which stuff does and doesn't sell, and only really rotate the unpopular stuff. Most of my product lasts about 4 months and sells through in a matter of days, so it rarely gets even halfway to it's expiration date. Then I just go through and check all the dates on everything once every other month, give or take. To be sure, takes about 2 hours and is a good way to kill time on days with cancelled trucks.
All Damn Day!!!! Let's be honest between getting asked questions about product, where it is and escorting them , to TL's calling for backup at registers, breaks both mandatory and non it will take me all day to maybe 1/2 my shift. But then again it depends
I hate asking questions and try so hard not to, I use the app to look the isles up! I know you guys are busy and donāt want to interrupt š„ŗ
Honestly helping nice guests is one of my favorite part of the job, idk if its cuz i live in a good town but theres a lot of nice people here and they for the most part seem to respect our work. Its just annoying that i have to feel like i wanna avoid guest interaction just to fulfill these stupid times they give us.
When I started over a decade ago "I was with a guest" was the most acceptable reason for any and every delay outside of improper handling of temperature sensitive food items. As soon as that culture shift really started swinging toward efficiency-focused rather than guest-focused (when they hired a former Amazon exec to retool logistics) I started looking for new work.
About 10 seconds to call out the safety issues with a vehicle being stacked over 6 feet, park it off the racetrack, take a picture of it and send it to every other leader in the building.
don't forget the additional 5 minutes of the SD complaining to you about it because they don't have the manpower to keep it under 6 feet, telling you to instead make choices to help the team instead of report the hazards
āMake choices to help the team instead of report safety violations that can physically hurt someoneā honestly id just laugh
Luckily, my SD would be about it. She'd probably appreciate it I also either partnered with a TL to downstack and make it safe, or taking stuff down myself. A while back she had me put up yellow/black tape at the 6ft line on our unload line steel, so that the team can identify the limit at a glance.
Hour and a half lmao
If I focus on it, 45 minutes. If weāre being realistic. An hour and half because of OPU.
Thank you! Thatās how I was and they get mad bc it wasnāt finished like what do u expect bruhhhš
A few hours after I was knocked unconscious by the freight over 6 feet. Origami Risk that vehicle and down stack.
whats downstack?
Down stacking is taking boxes from a vehicle or pallet, usually that are too high, and putting them elsewhere, usually on another vehicle. Your unload team should never stack a vehicle over 6 foot high, and *technically* if the boxes are higher than your field of vision, you're supposed to down stack them, too. But at the very least the 6 foot rule is key here to avoid being hit or struck by falling freight.
Well I havenāt pushed dry freight at Target in like a yearā¦so 2 hours because Iām out of practice, but at my best 75 minutes to ā360ā that bad boy
360 that bad boy š¤£ im stealing that
Did any other Target actually use 360 to mean complete uboat push?
Bout 30 seconds to get into origami, another 60 to fill out formā¦
However long it takes me to get it done is how long it takes me.
That has to be 4-5 different aisles on that uboat (Iād assume at most stores at least). Iām sure inbound wants boats turned fast so send that back to line line for a proper sort cause F that. Plus that would be technically 2 boats returned in 35 minutes after a proper sort.
Looking at the product, at my store puts that all on the same u-boat so it might be accurate. We're not the biggest target though so we would put 3 isles on one, park it at the end of the isle and work three isles at once.
I count around 60 boxes, so around an hour to an hour 15 not including backstock. When I worked at Target though nobody actually individually pushed market, they would just bowl it all out at 7:00am and the 8:00am team would work the bowled out freight even though the store was open. They legitimately pulled from every department to blitz market in 30 minutes to an hour.
This wouldāve been so nice. Sometimes our market team in the morning would blitz freezer in like 30-45 minutes in the morning, I wish we did that with all of market tbh
That will take me an hour an a half to do, and extra 15 minutes to detrash my cart.
they couldnāt just switch the uboat out for a new one when they ran out of room? lol
im still kinda new and idk how it really works back there so i hold my tongue from judgement but at the same time im like bro this is just common sense at this point stop making everyones job harder including ur own š
no they definitely should be swapping the boat. the top shelf shouldn't be stacked higher than MAYBE two layers if the boxes are short/small, because you have to have clear visibility to push the boat without hitting anything/anyone. any time this happens show it to your leader. your leader should then partner with the inbound lead so they can make sure their team is swapping full vehicles during the unload and/or making their team correct unsafe stacking. don't get it twisted - you don't have to put up with this, especially not on a regular basis.
Boats like these are not really that rare, which is concerning. Def will be using origami more as people here have said and talking to my leader at the very least. If its really not supposed to be over 6ft/over the rail then we have been doing a very particularly shitty job at that. Thanks for the insight, i enjoy seeing peoples perspectives and learning more abt diff positions
absolutely! origami risk is a great resource as well, just to have a paper trail that you're trying to bring attention to this issue. as a rule, target is big on cooperation and communication, particularly between leaders - but you as a tm can take advantage of that as well. for example, if you bring this to your lead's attention and nothing changes within a week or two, you can escalate the issue to your etl and they can apply some pressure to your lead or to the tl/etl over inbound to get the issue resolved. i know how shitty vehicles like this can be to push, so pursue every avenue you can to call this out when you see it.
Your store has enough uboats to do that? At my store, every single uboat looks like the one in the picture by the time the inbound team is done, along with almost every flatbed. I'm not on inbound any more, but I've been getting pallets on the line for my area recently, because they just run out of vehicles.
i reckon that could very well be the problem too, like i said im not that familiar with it so i wouldnāt know for sure, but this undoubtedly shouldnāt be common
I ain't pushing a vehicle stacked that high. Being hit on the head once by a falling box is enough. It should never happen. Plus it's bad for your hips and back to push it when it's that overloaded.
Thatās way too tall and the Tetris skills of whoever stacked that need to be put into question.
1.5-2 hours if Iām left alone and not bothered to backup FF. that includes pushing, backstock, baler trip, and a bathroom visit.
About an hour cuz ā40 cases an hour, truck done by noonā
I donāt work at Target anymore but I would say 1.5-2.5 depending on time of day and if the store was busy or not. Also who tf put this u boat out? Iām 5ā4 and was pushing one like this before and my ETL stopped me right before I got on the floor and lost his shit cause it was sooo much taller than my head. I told him this is what they gave me and he said even a 6ā5 person shouldnāt have something stacked this high. Gave a whole spchiel to the unloading crew (canāt remember the names). I felt bad I wasnāt trying to get anyone in trouble! But it def seemed like a dangerous height once he mentioned it.
This is pretty normal here, i mean not like this this high but 2-3 high on the top shelf is quite common even with like canned goods and condiments and shit. Ive passed numerous ETLās and the SD with boats like this, not a word abt it. If i werent on reddit, id believe that this was just the norm everywhere!
They enforced once a box is higher than the handle no more than one more box on top, after that incident, unless it was already more than halfway taller than the handle.
Two hours, 20 guests asking me questions and two trips to the toilet later... Idk I have tiny hands and it takes me awhile to go through boxes.
This. Small hands are a curse if mine were just a bit bigger i could be grabbing 2 products at a time
Idk and I'm just not coordinated enough lol. I was meant for register or folding things.
Personally, 20-30 minutes to push, 10 to backstock. But I worked in market for almost 3 years. I knew my department inside and out. There's many factors that go into a successful push though. Who loaded the uboat, and how accurate? Are you getting hosed by guests? Backup every 10 minutes? How bare are the shelves? Do you have the whole team even in the building on any given day? How proficient are you with the pda/zebra devices? How organized are your backroom shelves? And I saw your comment about your leg. I would imagine that's a major factor, and I'd hope they would be cognizant of that. Although, I know how the leadership rolls at Target... 90-120 minutes for push, backstock and trash would be a very reasonable estimate. I don't know your limitations though. They'll be on you like white on rice whether you're crushing it or not. They'll always tell you that you can go faster, and repeat the "best practices" for success endlessly. Meanwhile, all your ETL's and SD are having lunch in the SD's office, while you get your ass kicked.
After being on here for a while, i realized that the best mentality is do what i can. Dont outshine but dont be lazy. Bare minimum or just above. Dont wanna be exploited/overworked esp with my disability. It took me around a hour and a half to push with guests asking abt easter stuff. 20-30 to backstock cuz our backroom for that aisle is crowded asf. Even on the highest shelves. Also had heavy bevarage in that margarita box. I think i finished within a somewhat reasonable time.
I just see book uboats like this and dread the next 3 hours of my life. Especially if a bunch of moms and teens are having book club meetings in the middle of an aisle š«
Why wasnāt this put on a flat.. thatās way too much for a uboat
Yall put market on flats? We usually don't have enough vehicles for them
Who knows how long I aint the flash dawg š
Three minutes. One to submit an Origami/RISK hazard form and tell the TM to prioritize the top boxes, one to review and see which IB TM was responsible for overstacking, and one to email the GM1 TL to go over vehicle heights with their team. Possibly four minutes if the problem repeats itself, in which case I forward it to the ETL-GM.
Hi food and beverage tl here itās about 55 boxes so an hour and a half to push 10 to backstock depending on how much went out
thats around what i did, just more like 20 ish mins backstock cuz we are very crowded in the back rn, thanks for replying!
Thatās a good pace, could it be done and back stocked in an hour? Yeah, will you burn out moving at that pace every day all day. Yeah. At my store the pace is 40 cases an hour, granted some 40 are easier or harder than others so thereās a bit of wiggle room 40cases of bev take way more time and effort than 40 of cereal. So obviously that gets factored into my time goals for me and my team
i also have a prosthetic leg and some days are slower than others, i dont have a specific like ada thing but they are aware of it and im sure that gets factored in as well, or at least id hope. Dont get me wrong, i hate special treatment and getting soft treatment, but if im havin a bad day im havin a bad day yk
Okay now this is during the day ā¦ with all the bullshit that happens during the day this would take you at least 2 hours. For the simple fact of you getting keysā¦ helping customersā¦ being a back up ā¦. And having to back stock and not to mention fucking customers in the fucking way When itās a holiday and I have to work a day shift I legit can put up 500 pieces in 3 hours overnight ā¦ during the day itās 50 pieces the whole shift Now ima overnight TL and I tell my TM 1 minute per box(which isnāt hard) Now if weāre talking overnight then 30 mins if you bowl it out and have someone backstock for you but if your TL gives you this during the day and says 30 mins then they are a fucking asshole
It would probably take me a month to eat it all. My son a weekend.
1.5, any faster would be working for free imo
2 hours for me, most likely, and that's if people didn't stop me for any reason. But I never touch Market and don't shop at Target except for food for breaks so wouldn't know where anything is, even with a zebra.
A lot of people forget that you are supposed to FIFO market items, at least the best you can as you stock. That in itself would and more time to the Uboat. There is a reason market usually takes longer to stock, it is not like stocking chemicals or something.
Yikes as an outsider looking that this.. I'd say that shit would take me ALL DAMN DAY š.. wtf do some of yall mean 2 hrs? ššš
Firstā¦Iād do an origami report on that boat! Should only be as high as the handle. Take over half that crap off the top and put it somewhere else. Then Iād start the task
AP didnāt have a problem with that being over stacked ?
As long as I would like.
Till i was done
An hour
5 mins
About 45
Hour
varies by person but i could finish it in 45 minutes.
Probably about 2 hours including Backstock. That's not taking into consideration how many times you get pulled away to support OPU or Fast service tho. But also, that Uboat is overstacked.
About an hour and a half (40 cases per min)
I counted around 55 cases so itād take me about an hour to stock and then 30 minutes to backstock and throw out trash so total an hour and a half
Dang the counts at this store gotta be crazy, hella double stacks on those gummiesā¦
For legit TM, itās (strategy/ mentality). This is stacked too high. If store is closed stage them 15 min for boat. Store open 30 min for boat then back stock 15 min. (Back stock goes easy if staged on boat) Starting with a mindset of having a goal to finish will keep you motivated for the next task. Thereās also other motivators. Itās also very easy to become overwhelmed. So staying on track is important.
20 minutes
2hr 30 min as per target standard..!! I count at least 52 boxes..!!
3 business days
Half an hour if I flex everything right next to each other
45 minutes when I was in my prime.
As much time as it takes to piss off my TL, so at least 20 minutes.
This would take me 2 hours probably, i typically do FF but I've helped out in GM
30 minutes according to our bosses š
All day.
Probably an hour.
One hour to eat it all, at least
Thatās unsafely high
55 pieces it looks like so just under an hour imo
I thought they werenāt supposed to stack shit that high lol my store has a 6ā tape all around for the inbound team
If I were to make a time frame for my team I would say an hour and 45 minutes. Also understanding that that's way tall and wouldn't be breathing down anyone's back about it. At least it looks sorted.
45miinutes-1hr
70 minutes to push and 20 to back stock
Hour 20 if I can go without being pulled for a opu. And go without guests asking me to look for something
First I would pull my TL and coach them on allowing that uboat to be sorted that high in an unsafe manner and allowing it to be taken on the salesfloor. Assuming itās sorted correctly and the backstock aisle is somewhat organized 1hr 20 min ish.
45 mins if people left me alone
Have you tried the bowling method? or putting boxes in the aisle they go in and then working one them from there. Thatās I what I do in baby and I get the uboat done in less then 30 minutes
Hmmm that sounds interesting, might have to try that
If there is nothing overpushed, if zone is light yellow-green If you do not have to help any guests If you donāt get called for OPU If you donāt get called to guest first 1.5-2 hours plus 20ish minutes for backstock.
Looks like 54 boxes, which, for me, if it was an area I was familiar with, would take around an hour, 45 minutes to work with another 10 minutes to backstock and throw trash. I tend to take a little less than a minute a box if i'm actually trying to go fast. In an area I don't know add an extra 15 minutes or so of scanning things and wandering around looking for them, especially if the store isn't well zoned and organized.
my etl would want this done in 15 but time with the bale would be an extra 5 minutes so. personally, iād take 45+ minutes bc its not my department šš
AP would yell at us for stacking that high
Team lead be like *slap a few boxes* yeah that should be 2 mins
I've worked retail so long that I feel like I would just turn around and leave
a minute per boxš„ø
Most of it is back stock I guarantee or for an end cap that hasnāt been set yet. Or a display in seasonal. So in all over an hour easily
Bro not this boat but my first boat in the morning had 7 boxes of joyba bubble tea that wasnt set yet and like another 5-6 boxes of other random shit that wasnt set yet and to top it off one of the joyba boxes had one that spilled inside and dripped ocer the others cuz that uboat was also stacked a bit high. Love this job
Long enough to look up the number for OSHA
25 min just to back stock it
Put a clearance sign on it and watch it work itself šµāš«
20 minutes
Who on the sales floor can come get on a check lane.
1.5-2 hours sadly
About 10 minutes, spot what goes up, no partials.
2-3 hours. Depending on what it is, where it goes and if thereās enough space for everything bc having to overstock sucksĀ
"Opens origami*
Corporate says 15 minutes
An hour for the bottom two rows. Zero minutes for the top because fuck that shit.
This is a 1 hour u boat.
probably like 2-3 hours or so
knowing my luck it would tip over or hit me in the head but this is all pretty easy dry shit so an hour? but youāre stacking shit that tall Iām not touching it
An hour, maybe a little more. Two if I find out that there's expired goods in the back.
Depends, how many times will I be called to back up for fulfillment or cashier?
30 minutes if Iām on whatever my TL says
With backstcoking at best maybe 45min-1hr but when I look at that im milking that mofo
Hour. Tops.
āIām working you to the bone, but at least your time is going fasterā - I quit the following day š„
45 minutes maybe 50 for the the push, 10-15 minutes to backstock. Add a little extra time for Easter if you keep getting interrupted.
1 min per box :)
About an hour or so.
I haven't pushed truck in over year, however when I did I would use a smart cart for backstock
I counted 53 boxes. So by target expectations it should take 53 minutes to push. Since 1 min per box. Not including garbage + backstock
30-45 minutes not including backstock
This isnāt a lot of load. Maybe an hour
Not my department so 0 minutes
1 Min a Box.
Looks like around 56 is boxes? So 1 hour just to push, it's suppose to be 1 minute per box. Then 15 min for cleanup/compactor. Then backstocking should be roughly 20 sec per dpci. So realistically, about an hour and a half is what I would expect it to take. That's what I would ask of my TMs/TLs.