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Shopping at Target (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BigTrout75@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

Stopped at Target to look for some shoes.

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[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 134 points 1 year ago

Customers are terrible. I feel bad for the employees who have to clean that mess.

[-] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] bakachu@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 109 points 1 year ago

Says more about the American consumer than Target.

[-] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Spot on. You don't see this at the targets I've been to thankfully

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[-] normal_user@lemmy.one 82 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 38 points 1 year ago

Never seen it in continental Europe, but Primark is on a whole different level in the UK

[-] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 26 points 1 year ago

Once you enter Primark, it's MadMax rules

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

You have my interest

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

That is true, UK super- and hypermarkets were like this when I went to some of them. The attitude of customers is just weird.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It's not an "American" thing. There are zero stores like this where I live. It's a "wherever this store is" thing.

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Me neither, nor do I ever think I've been to a shoe store that keeps boxes of shoes on the shelves like that. I'm used to display models; find something you like, then you ask an assistant what sizes you'd like to try on.

[-] nile@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

I've been to plenty of places with boxes on the shelves, and it's always been fine.

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I raise my hand- I've seen similar in Australia's Targets and Kmarts, though I must admit that was years ago. I haven't seen this much mess in yhe shoe section over the past couple years but I also haven't been shopping for shoes there lately, so all I'm saying is it can happen here too.

[-] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago

Can confirm, did a mandatory highschool weeks work experience in kmart a few years back - was the only person who cared to clean up the shoes.

Nowadays the shoe section is clean af. However I dont necessarily think it's due to the workers - more likely less customers shopping for shoes offline.

I don't generally buy shoes from those stores anyway anymore, I have very small feet so the selection sucks, but also none of the shoes last very long. Id rather spend $100 on shoes that last rather then $25-35 on shoes that fall to pieces after a month or two of use.

But when I do shop for shoes in these stores, I make a point to put the rejects back where they are supposed to go. That one week burned into my brain how painful it is to put away a mountain of shoes that people just tossed aside. So I'll do my part to not be apart of the problem, and to make it easier for our poor retail workers.

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[-] bakachu@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] chrisphero@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, don't expect me to pay Target prices if I'm getting the Wal-Mart experience.

[-] cicapocok@lemm.ee 67 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Same people who don't return the shopping cart. Absolute animals.

[-] bpalmerau@aussie.zone 55 points 1 year ago

The customer is not always right. Sometimes the customer is a douchebag.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] instamat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

We should change it to the “customer is not always a douchebag.”

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] the_q@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

A very large group of Americans are just awful people.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

A very large group of people are just awful people.

[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Check, where 'very large' can even be 2+ in worst case scenarios.

[-] turtlepower@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of kmart in the 90's.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not quite as bad as the nightmare fodder that is 2010s Kmart.

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[-] CIAtrackingaccount@discuss.online 22 points 1 year ago

Is this normal? I’m in Canada and we would never ever leave things like that in a store.

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[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

If you think it is bad at Target, go to the local Walmart.

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[-] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Literally every big box store in the US

[-] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago

places like Forever 21 also often look like this.

[-] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

A lot of retailers tbh - people don’t take time to clean up after themselves for whatever reason

[-] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 12 points 1 year ago

You ever see someone do it in person? Shit is so wild to watch someone just drop something on the ground, and then just turn and leave like it didn't even happen. They don't even give it a second thought.

[-] CodyCraftTwelve@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This is just the shoe section at every Target.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Inconsiderate wankers.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just target?

That's like most supermarkets that sell shoes for me.

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