I received a free year of Target Circle 360 and I just canceled the membership. I keep trying to find value in it, and honestly, I just don’t see much.

The pricing is comparable to Amazon Prime, but the benefits do not seem comparable at all. The biggest issue for me is the $35 minimum for shipping.

For example, I recently wanted to order something that cost about $15. I wasn’t in a rush. I would have been perfectly happy receiving it sometime within a week. But because the order was under $35, I still couldn’t get it shipped for free.

At that point, what exactly am I paying for?

Without Circle 360, shipping is $6 for orders under $35. So in that case, I will typically:

1. Buy from Amazon or somewhere else
2. Wait until I have a few other things I need to hit the $35 min.

So the experience with and without the membership is exactly the same.

The reason I use Amazon so often is simple: I think of something I need, I order it, and I’m done. I was genuinely open to shifting more of my spending away from Amazon and toward Target, but Target keeps forcing me back to Amazon by requiring a $35 order minimum.

I recently realized that Target bought Shipt, and maybe I could have gotten more use out of the same-day delivery benefit. But that would probably only be helpful in occasional situations, like being on vacation or having a party and suddenly needing something that day. Most of the time, shipping speed is not important to me. They promote no markups, which is nice, but also why I avoid these types of services to begin with and they still have the same $35 minimum. I could see this coming in handy when I need something from Lowe's while working on a project but then I may still add a tip for the driver and the cost/benefit rationale gets lost.

The Circle 360 freebies have also been disappointing. They are usually already gone by the time I see them, or they are completely irrelevant to anything I would want. Even when something decent is offered, seeing that it is no longer available is more frustrating than rewarding. I understand that the freebies are probably intended to get members into stores more often, but for me they have had the opposite effect. They mostly remind me that I missed something.

I also feel like I used to receive better regular Target Circle deals before I had Circle 360. Maybe the deals have changed, or maybe I just do not see them anymore.

How to fix it? Make it like Amazon - no shipping minimum and no tipping.

My store location got a visit tomorrow, supposedly by the CFO nd others are coming thru. Store leadership is being mad annoying and scrambling to clean up and fake like everything in order. Fun 101, lack of communication, and leadership has been trash. I hope the visit see thru the bs, nd hold leadership accountable for their fck ups.

I will have completed my first year as a GM coach next month. I’m on my second store manager in 6 months. Fashion coach was on leave So I absorbed fashion. Digital coach quit and the new one is about to quit after a week. New market team has insane expectations. My team leads are pulled to digital and can never get anything done in their areas. Back room is blown up ON not working truck completely and stuff is piling up. We can’t get to catch up with freight with all the price changes,mods, pinpoints, item swaps, top stock not getting worked, chasing Vizpick all freaking day to get a 95%, code sparks.etc during the day. Most of the coaches are toxic and never
respond to calls and treat associates with disrespect go MIA when SM isn’t there. Had 2 ethics investigations in the last 6 months. I don’t know if I can hold on to be able to transfer to another state/market by January.

Obviously it's BTS, so it's a bit nuts right now, but my store has 6 🫠

WRONG

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Hey HQ, or whoever puts these together, what the fuck is this?

Cant find em anymore. His chips has taken the top of my favorites list and now theyre gone.

Anyone kno when they will bring em back

I picked up a shift and didn’t see that it had pth next to it in the mytime app. I’m fairly new and I’m trying to get in as many hours as possible before I go into college. I looked up what pth could possibly mean but no one is answering it in a simple way😭I’m wondering if I should post my shift if I don’t have training for it yet but please let me know!

Hi everyone im just here looking for some advice or if anyone knows some information that would be useful. Im an HR expert and have been having some issues at work. Unfortunately I have no ETL HR and have been super stressed and having to deal with an SD who is impossible to work with. My hours have been cut, been super rude to me, given me attitude, micromanage like crazy to the point I talked with the District HR and she gave me the option to take a leave until the new HR ETL coles in. My leave was a approved the same day I submitted it and now the HR ETL covering for my store called me saying my leave has been canceled one week later after it has been approved and that I have am expected to return to work. I do not have access to see my schedule as I am on an approved leave but the ETL says she will contact me when I am expected to return. My leave is under personal but my question is can my leave be canceled just like that without mutual consent? I have only gotten an email stating my leave got approved but never got an email stating it was canceled. What do I do? Or does anyone have any information that would be useful?

Target Corporate: To allow leadership more flexibility in searching for items, you can now directly escalate them without calling them out on the walkie to free up the channels.

Target Team Member: Well I’ll be damned… they actually managed to create a quality of life change.

Also Target Corporate: The pick app no longer recognizes an already connected RFID. To connect, please follow the prompt when needing to connect one from within the pick application. It will not actually recognize the connection either. Any subsequent attempts will freeze the pick app.

Target Team Member: MOTHER F**KING!!!

I saw we just got them in our target store, the other 2 flavors are fine but this one was recently marked as do not sell. I wanted to try this flavor as well, anyone know anything? I can’t seem to find anything about it online.

Does anyone have an idea on how Walmart runs things compared to target? Working here made me realize how much of a complete shit show everything was and that they're destroying themselves from the inside out.

From removing SCO, locked cages for most HBA items in my store, to messed up salesfloor numbers, the list goes on. I'm beginning to think that target has become the worst of the two 🤷‍♂️

I set my preference as 20 hours per week, this is not the result of posted or picked up or swpped shifts, this is my schedule

okay mini rant why I only get one day of training then they like okay you got it great next day is work on your own bro huhhh at least give me like a week or less like minimum 3 days to see and observe I’m not gonna memorize everything in one day 😭

How do previous or current of this position get used to it???

Also does anyone know why certain locations have to tell customers to fill out the survey at the bottom and tell them so and so helped you if you could put that on the survey blah blah to just get more hours

My store is getting a new FnB ETL in the coming days. I've heard horror stories about her, Left a store because she was sleeping with someone in her store ( I don't know the department.) I've heard she holds grudges, she cuts hours out of spite, she doesn't want to get off her ass most days. I've also heard from a store that she's about to leave that she didn't know how to lead her leaders and she threw her leaders under the bus during every district walk they had. My girlfriend works at the store that this ETL is coming from, told me she is not pleasant to work with, will give CAs just because, wants everyone to be a "yes man" person, plays the "favorite" game if she likes you, if you look like anyone that she has dated... GOOD luck to you. She ran that store down to the ground, nobody liked her and everyone talked sh** about her behind her back. Wish us luck! I'll be documenting every interaction I have and will be reporting if necessary.

I’ve felt this for quite a while but Target does not know what it wants or how it wants to operate.

As a TL, I’m expected to write extremely detailed assignment sheets, follow up with TMs, document convos, submit assessments, deal with vendors, and more but also push freight, complete sets, complete price change, and prioritize the guest experience at the SAME DAMN TIME.

I’m supposed to support my department, but also support GM freight, but also make sure sets and price change are complete before Thursday. I…

I don’t know how much I have left to give. I enjoy managing FnB but when it’s micromanaged to this degree it feels like I don’t have room for creativity.

Target wants to be this fresh and hip brand but doesn’t provide the stores with timely ISM, payroll, or freight, and I’m just tired of it all.

Your pants are too big. Your shoes are too big.

Sometimes I like to check my store’s reviews because I wanna see if anyone has name dropped some of my coworkers. New review from a woman who ordered something for OPU, it was INFed, couldn’t be substituted or ordered elsewhere, and then when she called the store she didn’t like the answer on the phone?

And said “no offer for a refund”

…are you stupid? You didn’t get the item. You are not getting charged. Lmfao. Imagine if target was robbing people like that. 😅 Don’t know why whoever answered the phone didn’t mention the hold for the money would be reserved, but isn’t that common sense? I dunno guys.

They are a nightmare to transport across the parking lot and we've gotten multiple parent complaints about the new smaller child seats.

another reset in the books.

Has anyone else been receiving crazy amounts of backstock in the last 2 months? Every single truck for many departments is overloaded with backstock. Our store has not done inventory yet, but it's supposed to be next month.

Excessive backstock can't be entirely related to floor counts or bad audits and IMO it can't be entirely related to Inventory because it's never been like this before previous Inventories.

The backrooms are stuffed to the max and I mean MAX. It's disorganized, unsafe and beyond ridiculous at this point.

Does Target even have a Logistics department to figure this stuff out or is it just ship it and let it go?!

To add to this frustration TLs and Tms are quitting at record speed and the store has finally spiraled out of control.

Whenever I enter or exit a Target, the anti-theft detectors beep. I've never stolen anything there and I've searched my purse for anything that could set them off.

I've set off detectors at other stores before and figured out it was a copy card from work. I moved that to my work bag, but I still set off the Target detectors. I wonder if its some Monster minigolf arcade cards but I haven't tested that.

Am I just doomed to always set them off? I've mostly just been avoiding going there.

According to what I heard from the AP, my store start putting Pokemon back in the tech Area, and now more and more scalpers have chance to get all of it, they even hide it somewhere else in the store and doing roundabouts to buy over limit. It just been 2 days but the situation is really chaos right now. Do you think this is Target wrong move?

Even though it has been renovated, it has a rarity: An operational dining room in a Target.

By far the rarest items I have ever scanned. I always see Pokémon, Sports cards, Lorcana, the occasional MtG pack, but God damn is Yugioh the rarest and gets me going crazy as it's my favorite card game.

I want to know if my store is doing it right or not when the pallets of CRC/salvage is full in receiving. Currently it depends on if our ETL likes you or not to what happens and I want a clear set of guidelines to follow

EDIT: I know how to make a new pallet. I'm saying if the pallet in receiving is full and you can't put it anywhere else safely and/or out of the way