how has store planning lasted so long with so little impact from the layoffs? They should have been gutted with architecture and engineering back in October. This group was able to bring in three contractors on the same day we lost 1700 people. Cornell needs to take a hard look at this area and decide do we really need all these people to tell MPD how many adjancies a store has?
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For your information, Store Planning and all the other departments in Target Properties have undergone five workforce reductions (or separations or layoffs or whatever pretty word you want to interject) in the last 16 months. All the great production people are leaving or have left. All that remains are the middle management independent contributors who aren't actually working managers, and a waning few overworked stragglers trying to formulate their own escape plans. It's frantic and self serving as everyone is flailing trying to assert their relevance, the same as the rest of the company is probably doing right now too. So stop cutting good people down like admins or entire departments you know nothing about. Or just f*** off. We're all on this sinking ship together.
What a store planner wants, a store planner gets. They know how to play the ceo card. 3
Yuo need to take a long hard look and learn what Store Planning does. They do noy just tell MPD how many adjacencies a store has. A Store Planner plans an ENTIRE store, from offices to salesfloor to back room to support areas. There is a lot of work in figuring out how a store will fit on a unique site, how to plan a store at a proration of prototype, and how everything flows. Target cannot sell merchandise if they do not have the stores to do so....and they cannot bring older stores up to date without a special projects team. Stop and think before you speak. And they have been affected in the previous layoffs.