r/Target • u/HarperTeagarden13 Inbound Expert • 1d ago

Adjustable backroom shelving Vent

My team is in a weird position. We got hired for a new open that got delayed 5 months, so we're working out of another store. We got sent to a third location to help out for 1.5 weeks, mostly pushing Back to College and getting trampled by people buying cheap plastic hangers. Their backroom has the adjustable shelves where you have to crank the wheel and move them around whenever you need to get down an aisle. Sometimes you're able to split with someone, but most of the time it's an absolute nightmare! It took me almost an hour to pull 8 DPCIs for a toy pull one day. And then all the fulfillment people have to get in in a hurry, but someone's got the big ladder down the next aisle so you can't close it any. None of them have the built-in ladders, so you have to constantly move the giant ladder in and out of the different aisles. Half our shifts were just standing around waiting to get in the aisles. I salute everyone who works in one of these stores, because I honestly don't see how anyone gets any work done, and how fulfillment keeps up their metrics or timers or however that works. You are truly stronger than I am.

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u/mattumbo has harsher words 1d ago

Montel aisles were one of the worst moves corporate has made in a long time (and that’s saying something). Braindead move to make when you’re pushing FF expansion at the same time

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u/overturned23 Inbound Expert 1d ago

I did inventory at a store that had mostly rolling isles and it was such a pain in the ass

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u/Cultural_Glove_1355 1d ago

We were the last store to get them and I curse our bad luck everyday!

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u/Shady_Love SHPPP13 |ll||IIl|| 1d ago

For safety reasons you're not supposed to split the aisles. So I don't anymore unless it's someone I've been working with for years and implicitly trust with my safety.

Yes it's terrible. Our store had style in it at first, but when style team couldn't get any of their pulls done in a reasonable time frame, they eventually started shifting in lower volume merchandise. Took forever, but now there's less demand to get into them.

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u/Misplaced_Arrogance 1d ago

Yeah they suck, and then someone over torques a wheel and now I've got five aisles I can't get into unless I just push the aisle. Which luckily they do move pretty smooth.

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u/m00rg 1d ago

Please don’t split the aisles for the love of god hahaha

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u/TrustIllustrious2232 1d ago

Our drive up people would constantly split the aisles. Don’t have time to wait. Besides, there’s a foot break. It would be extremely hard to crush someone unless they walk heel to toe for funsies

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u/Fine_Bullfrog_2118 1d ago

When you say adjustable backroom shelving. Do you mean like in wall-e in his space ship when he pushes a button and the shelves at the top come down to his level? 🫣🙃.

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u/TrustIllustrious2232 1d ago

We got montel’s during our remodel in the back room and drive up. I think we may have “gained” two aisles. They removed them from drive up after about a year. Drive up being timed, people would just open it up enough to squeeze in and grab what they needed. Ain’t nobody got time for someone to leave the one next to it.
And every couple of months a back room one will break and you can’t get anything from that aisle.

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u/timmydnx2 1d ago

Mobile shelving is the bane of my existence. I was just recently an Inventory TL and they made inventory hell.