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General Category => Economy/Business => Topic started by: jmyrlefuller on February 28, 2020, 03:21:20 am

Title: Target raised wages. Then it cut workers' hours and doubled their workload
Post by: jmyrlefuller on February 28, 2020, 03:21:20 am
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/27/target-cuts-hours-leaves-workers-struggling (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/27/target-cuts-hours-leaves-workers-struggling)

Target workers have noted a drastic reduction in scheduled hours and significant increases in workloads as Target has increased their minimum wage and rolled out a “modernization plan” in 2019 to increase efficiency. They think that broader influences in the retail sector are responsible for their plight – notably, the actions of their hard-charging rival Amazon.

“They’re responding to what Amazon is doing,” Ryan added. “They are trying to turn these stores into their own distribution centers, using brick-and-mortar stores. We have to be warehouse workers and customer service workers.”

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Title: Re: Target raised wages. Then it cut workers' hours and doubled their workload
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 28, 2020, 07:13:57 am
Want more money, do more work :shrug:
Title: Re: Target raised wages. Then it cut workers' hours and doubled their workload
Post by: GtHawk on February 29, 2020, 04:23:10 am
Haven't cared for Target since my son worked there decades ago in high school and learned what their corporate attitude was to their employees. I see Target as trying to be an upscale Walmart but I don't think their higher prices and attitude help much as far as customer traffic, maybe that's why they took a $25 billion dollar hit when they failed in Canada.
Title: Re: Target raised wages. Then it cut workers' hours and doubled their workload
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 29, 2020, 04:41:49 am
Quote from: GtHawk on February 29, 2020, 04:23:10 am
Haven't cared for Target since my son worked there decades ago in high school and learned what their corporate attitude was to their employees. I see Target as trying to be an upscale Walmart but I don't think their higher prices and attitude help much as far as customer traffic, maybe that's why they took a $25 billion dollar hit when they failed in Canada.
That thing over the bathrooms didn't help, either.
Title: Re: Target raised wages. Then it cut workers' hours and doubled their workload
Post by: GtHawk on February 29, 2020, 07:17:32 am
Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 29, 2020, 04:41:49 am
That thing over the bathrooms didn't help, either.
Pretty sure that bathroom thing had nothing to do with Targets failure in Canada, I think Canadians would have seen it as a bonus feature.
Title: Re: Target raised wages. Then it cut workers' hours and doubled their workload
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on February 29, 2020, 02:49:52 pm
Quote from: GtHawk on February 29, 2020, 04:23:10 am
Haven't cared for Target since my son worked there decades ago in high school and learned what their corporate attitude was to their employees. I see Target as trying to be an upscale Walmart but I don't think their higher prices and attitude help much as far as customer traffic, maybe that's why they took a $25 billion dollar hit when they failed in Canada.
Yep, saw that very thing during the bathroom debacle when Target opened its bathrooms to either sex.

Remember when Target spent millions to offer private bathrooms so families could use and not suffer from men coming into women's bathrooms?

Well, my daughter-in-law went to Target with her three daughters and during the time there went to the private bathroom to use it, only to find it locked.

When my daughter-in-law asked to obtain the key, she was told that it was reserved for the employees.

So even the employees knew what a bad open-bathroom policy Target had.

None in my family visit Target anymore.