Customers are terrible. I feel bad for the employees who have to clean that mess.
I feel bad for the employees who have to clean that mess.
especially because 1) it will be trashed again in 30 minutes, and 2) they get paid crap
My wife works at Target and usually the managers take turns with the gross cleanups. That can include vomit, piss and shit but sometimes creative stuff you wouldn’t think of like a customer put a package of meat back behind a shelf so no one knew it was there until it was rancid, started leaking and smelling like a dead body.
That's awful nice of the managers to take that on. I honestly think that anything that involves biohazard should not be handled by store employees at all.
Says more about the American consumer than Target.
Spot on. You don't see this at the targets I've been to thankfully
Used to work retail so I feel this. Crazy thing is that sometimes it only takes one or two customers (and their gremlin children) to cause this kind of chaos. I'd go into fitting rooms and shit would be thrown all over the floors. Every now and then there would be extra surprises...like food or drink containers, or used diapers, or urine in the wastebasket. Fun times.
Some people are really disgusting and simply don’t care about others… it’s a shame, really and that’s the reasons we can’t have nice things.
I'm still in grocery retail and this is incredibly accurate. Corporate set expectations to be "Grand Opening Ready" throughout the entire day. Customers dig and dig through the produce department like there's going to be a bag of salad that is magically better in the back of the case. If expiration dates went down to the second, they'd look for the furthest from expiry.
It's super frustrating because we get 7 trucks a week for produce, so we have a very healthy turnover on our stuff.
This job has changed me (especially going through COVID in the South). People are animals.
As wages and the number of employees per store has decreased (not just target but everywhere), the more of this kind of shit I see.
When there's only two people running a whole store while making 10 bucks an hour this is the quality you get. Your next quarter earnings might be great but your entire chain of businesses will go fucking bankrupt when everyone starts avoiding your locations.
I'm seeing this with retail and fast food places. Man I used to love Boston Market but I don't step foot in there now. Same with Dunkin Donuts, total shithole, every one of em.
Almost like moderate gains and taking care of employees takes care of the business. I'm baffled at how many CEOs force bad decisions in terms of immediate profits.
Yup. Lack of employees and the "broken window effect". People see unmaintained areas and it just snowballs from there. This aisle probably had a few slobs leave boxes open and later customers figured no one cared and they got lazy too.
Yeah, don't expect me to pay Target prices if I'm getting the Wal-Mart experience.
Is this only an American thing ? I don't think I've ever seen something like this in the European countries I've been in
Never seen it in continental Europe, but Primark is on a whole different level in the UK
Once you enter Primark, it's MadMax rules
You have my interest
That is true, UK super- and hypermarkets were like this when I went to some of them. The attitude of customers is just weird.
I'm American and I've never seen this in a Target ever. They must be severely understaffed at this location.
This tells you more about the people who go to buy shoes there.. It takes 10 sec to put back the shoe to it's box and the box to it's place.
Even if it took 5 minutes. When I try on clothes, I usually bring back anything I dont want back to its original place and do my best to fold it/hang it how I found it.
Probably the same people who leave trash on the ground literally within a few feet of a trash can. Right up there with the people who drop bottles and cans (you were able to carry the full one), dump their car trash on the ground (saw a woman do this at a beach parking lot), etc.
Probably had shit parents who never taught them about basic respect and decency when they were growing up (which they'll now pass on to the next generation of dropkicks they squeeze out)
The customer is not always right. Sometimes the customer is a douchebag.
Fun fact, that's not even what "the customer is always right" is supposed to mean, although it's how it's used most I guess.
It was coined in relation to what shops should or should not stock - if customers wanted to buy something, then the shop should stock it, regardless of what they thought of the product.
It's not meant to mean everything the customer says is correct.
Probably the same lazy slobs who leave frozen meat on random shelves in supermarkets because they changed their mind but are too lazy to put it back.
Is this normal? I’m in Canada and we would never ever leave things like that in a store.
This is just the shoe section at every Target.
Inconsiderate wankers.
This is how a couple of my local targets are in all sections all the time. Thankfully it’s not all of the targets so I can go to one of the decent ones if I need something
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