Stopped at Target to look for some shoes.
Customers are terrible. I feel bad for the employees who have to clean that mess.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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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
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.
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Says more about the American consumer than Target.
Spot on. You don't see this at the targets I've been to thankfully
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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
Never seen it in continental Europe, but Primark is on a whole different level in the UK
Once you enter Primark, it's MadMax rules
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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I'm American and I've never seen this in a Target ever. They must be severely understaffed at this location.
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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.
I've been to plenty of places with boxes on the shelves, and it's always been fine.
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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.
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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Yeah, don't expect me to pay Target prices if I'm getting the Wal-Mart experience.
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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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.
Even if it took 5 minutes. When I try on clothes, I usually bring back anything I dont want back to its original place and do my best to fold it/hang it how I found it.
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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.
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)
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The customer is not always right. Sometimes the customer is a douchebag.
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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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.
Is this normal? I’m in Canada and we would never ever leave things like that in a store.
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Reminds me of kmart in the 90's.
Literally every big box store in the US
places like Forever 21 also often look like this.
A lot of retailers tbh - people don’t take time to clean up after themselves for whatever reason
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.
Inconsiderate wankers.
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
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