Target perfectly fits the description of a company experiencing culture rot. Bad leaders that are more interested in promoting their own careers than they are developing teams. A working environment that feels competitive, not collaborative. Increasingly confusing “shared” values internally and externally. An in-store experience that is confusing and disjointed. Items out of stock or locked up. Nothing feels unique about Target. The company continues to alienate its key consumers. Target is a company rotting from the inside out. It is impossible to change the direction the company is going without acknowledging its current failings.
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Food is what drives growth in retail, but Target is stuck in its 1990s ways of driving our business. Time to gut the GM side of the stores and expand Food and Beverage and think of stores as local depots rather than a shopping experience if we want to survive the next decade.
Getting laid off from Target is the best thing that can happen to you. Those cut in the 2015 purge in my area all have 3-4 promotions if they were at Target at MUCH more successful companies where they get more comp and better stock that doesn’t chronically collapse like $TGT.
Those of us who stayed? You don’t get promotions or anything. This is not Target specific. You have to be moving companies for promotions unless you accept confiscatorily low pay.
Well, you wouldn't need to wasting thinking about Targets sold called Culture Rot, if it even exists, if you got off your lazy behind and moved to West Virginia to accept a Coal Miner job.