Target Is Closing As Many Stores As It Opened Last Year

[J-D]

I refuse to shop at Walmart.. but I did give Target a chance a few times. Not having a website with products and stock levels was a big negative, IMO. I went to one in December and they were sold out of just about everything I wanted to buy - the milk fridge alone looked like it was robbed

[Seth1968]

Originally posted by ZenOps
They just were totally unprepared for reality. Reality is a $15 pineapple in Nunavut because thats how much it costs to ship it.

I'd like to know how they pay for those snowmobiles as well.

[btimbit]

Never once went into a Target in Canada. No reason why, just never did

[Serria1]

Originally posted by Sapo
IOn unrelated note, does anyone know what is going on with store/space vacated by Rona in Hidden Creek ?

Reno Depot as low cost Rona owned store.
should be open late March or April new install just starting the week of Jan 19. office staff has already started to set up
We working on the Data and Electrical.

[cancer man]

They were against keystone good riddance.

[ZenOps]

Originally posted by Seth1968
I'd like to know how they pay for those snowmobiles as well.

They don't, its cheaper to use dogsled.

[botox]

I blame shitty management. Prices were high and the employees just did what they were expected to do and nothing more. I had a friend work in one and if there were any decent specials, it was cleared out by the employees and the scraps left for customers. I'll probably visit them more now to look for any deals

[benyl]

Originally posted by J-D
I refuse to shop at Walmart.. but I did give Target a chance a few times. Not having a website with products and stock levels was a big negative, IMO. I went to one in December and they were sold out of just about everything I wanted to buy - the milk fridge alone looked like it was robbed

They were sold out from day 1. Their supply chain management is what killed them.

How can you make money on overpriced goods when you have nothing in the store to sell?

[syscal]

Originally posted by benyl
How can you make money on overpriced goods when you have nothing in the store to sell?

Rona's been doing it for years!

[schocker]

Originally posted by syscal
Rona's been doing it for years!

Not at creekside though

Now we get reno depot which hopefully is priced like home depot

[rage2]

Originally posted by J-D
I went to one in December and they were sold out of just about everything I wanted to buy - the milk fridge alone looked like it was robbed

Milks a problem in all stores in the NE haha. Still love this WA video with Surrey residents raiding the Costco.

Originally posted by botox
I blame shitty management. Prices were high and the employees just did what they were expected to do and nothing more. I had a friend work in one and if there were any decent specials, it was cleared out by the employees and the scraps left for customers. I'll probably visit them more now to look for any deals

Originally posted by benyl
They were sold out from day 1. Their supply chain management is what killed them.

How can you make money on overpriced goods when you have nothing in the store to sell?

CBC interviewed a backroom manager or something this morning, he mentioned that the backrooms were full of stock, but none of the employees took the time to restock shelves because they weren't told by management to do that. Baffling.

[revelations]

Originally posted by rage2


CBC interviewed a backroom manager or something this morning, he mentioned that the backrooms were full of stock, but none of the employees took the time to restock shelves because they weren't told by management to do that. Baffling.

Apparently there were HUGE issues with bar codes and SCM control. Essentially came down to the fact that the SCM company had very little knowledge of what was where and they ended up with full warehouses of material.

While Target acknowledged this issue last year, looks like the fixes would cost too much or come too slowly for the shareholders' liking.

[SKR]

Too bad, I just went into a Target this week. It was a ghost town. As someone who hates people I thought it was awesome going there.

[ZEDGE]

Originally posted by 01RedDX


I said the city, not outside the boundaries of civilization.

FU

Its the multicultural mecca of Calgary.

I usually go the new Walmart on 17th and Stony now though.

Not surprised at all by Target closing, stores were awful. Walmart in Canada is much better and not crap holes like their US counterparts.

[clem24]

Originally posted by ZEDGE
Not surprised at all by Target closing, stores were awful. Walmart in Canada is much better and not crap holes like their US counterparts.

LOL Wut? Canada Walmarts are crap holes.. US Walmarts are fucking awesome.. And open 24 hours a day.

[ZEDGE]

Originally posted by clem24


LOL Wut? Canada Walmarts are crap holes.. US Walmarts are fucking awesome.. And open 24 hours a day.

Theres a stigma associated with walmarts in the US as redneck hell holes.

It has a whole meme "shit you see at walmart" going on.

Sure their stores have great selection of guns, booze, etc but the ones in Canada don't carry that stigma.

[bjstare]

Originally posted by ZEDGE


Theres a stigma associated with walmarts in the US as redneck hell holes.

It has a whole meme "shit you see at walmart" going on.

Sure their stores have great selection of guns, booze, etc but the ones in Canada don't carry that stigma.

Clearly you haven't spent that much time in Canadian Walmart.

[Ca_Silvia13]

Originally posted by cjblair


Clearly you haven't spent that much time in Canadian Walmart.

No kidding.

I did a bunch of my Christmas shopping at Marlborough Walmart. Holy Shit that was an eye opener. Straight out of those Walmart gag reels, just less guns and booze (on the shelf, everyone else was probably packin')

[botox]

Originally posted by rage2
CBC interviewed a backroom manager or something this morning, he mentioned that the backrooms were full of stock, but none of the employees took the time to restock shelves because they weren't told by management to do that. Baffling.

Yup, like I said, shitty management. It's a pretty simple concept, stock isn't going to move if it's not on the shelves being sold. They should of called The Profit, Marcus Lemonis to get their shit together.

[fourrings]

I still believe that the main reason Target failed was their extremely unplanned deployment in Canada.

At that the time they started converting old Zellers locations we ran into so many problems with electrical supply. Company I contracted with was installing & commissioning backup generators for all the sites in Alta/BC/Sask. The US employees of Target ordered the wrong generators to ALL the sites, wrong phases, wrong transfer switches, wrong voltages. Also half of the generators were not up to CSA requirements, especially when it came to bifuel storage & Nat Gas installations.

Target ended up eating more than 10x the cost of getting their sites commissioned because their US employees did the purchasing for the Canadian sites. They sure acted like they had endless money to throw at their mistakes, not surprised to see they failed so quickly