Thread regarding Target Corp. layoffs

Brainwashed

To all the brainwashed team members who still thinks TGT's mission is to be the "Best Company Ever":

  • The mission changed to "We fulfill the needs and fuel the potential of our guests."

  • GTKY is a starbucks-influenced time-wasting activity.

  • No matter how many stuffed bullseye you continue to have at the top of your cube collecting dust, you will be laid off anyways. And don't think about bringing your bullseyes to you future employer. You will look ridiculous.

  • If you wear a three-piece suit to a meeting and wear a $2,000 Bell & Ross watch, trust me, it will not make you more intelligent.

  • Group Managers is a layer of management designed so Directors don't have to talk to the general population in person.

  • The National Sales meetings are the perfect opportunity to sneak out to a bar after the first concert.

  • Tableau software is running out of ideas on how to milk the TTS budget.

  • Once a year have a sanity check with your former colleagues at an outside location. If you feel your conversations start to feel disambiguate, think about pursuing another position.

  • Change is good, as long as you understand that it involves doing some actual value-adding work.

Have a great weekend.

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  1. I have 20 years with Target and I agree with your assessment 100%! Thanks for capturing the moment of truth!
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Oh Anonymous136782: We were on a roll with meaningful comments. I bet you used to sit in the front of the class waiving your hand just begging to be called upon.

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Post ID: @2Fc9+CYpqEBI

I am now convinced that Costco, Sam's Club and Walmart are much better managed companies than Target. There seems to be a death wish for Target with their odd PC campaigns of anti-Christmas and gender neutral PR.

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Post ID: @2cNj+CYpqEBI

Intelligent contributors engaged in a meaningful discourse... what's happened to this site?

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Now that was a rant..... First - Target was NEVER awesome. Dayton Hudson was. Target is and always was a cheap discount chain trying to be more than than that. Second - Pharmacies have NEVER been a "cash cow." In 1997/98 they began to roll out company wide to increase visit frequency. It NEVER happened. Then in the early 2000's TGT quickly realized they couldn't compete in the prescription world so they cut price and margin and created some really cute pill boxes. They brought in minute clinic to drive traffic - fail, they created their own clinic - fail.... There's tons of data on the pharmacy failure at TGT. Region 200 had no pharmacies at all until the mid 90!s..... Lots of mature sales data. Huge overhead/incredibly low margin/fixed insurance payments= No profit - no cash cow. Third - TFS is long gone. The primary driver (TGT visa) was sold off how long ago? Well before BC arrived and directly after Ackmans run. Your rhetoric is paper thin!

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Anonymous135987 - Spoken like a lifer. Those of us who've been laid off or left the company see what's happening. They're piecing out the company for christ sake. Remember when Ackman was trying to get his people on the board and Target said they would never listen to his ideas of selling the land Target has it's buildings on and to start leasing it rather than owning it? TARGET JUST GAVE UP PHARMACIES in their store!!! They gave up a cash cow because they had "a bad year".

Bob Ulrich, Terry Scully and Ron Pearl bought TFS (now TCW) cash to run the Visa brand. Why would you sell an asset you own? Don't give me this crap of we need everyone centrally located, because if that's the case what's that building in the middle of Tempe Arizona doing? A call center that's managed from up here. You sell assets when you are in trouble and you need money.

If you like Target fine, you like it. But for those of us who left because Target is not, nor will it ever be, what it once was. Awesome.

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The brainwashing today comes from that damn Target daily briefing email sent to all team members. They think they are so cute and clever, I hate the damn spin. Lay that team off next, it's torture!

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I will never get back the 30 seconds I wasted reading this. You need counseling, apparently a new watch and to move on.

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