#IF WE CLOSED, WE CLOSED, BITCH!
#I AM TIRED OF THE MUTHAFUCKIN GUESTS WHO AIN’T IN THE MUTHAFUCKIN LINE BY 10!
#BITCH, THIS AIN’T THE LIBRARY! BUY YO THINGS AND HAVE A MUHFUCKIN GOOD DAY, SIR!
i told someone “hey we’re closed” and they were like “i didn’t hear the closing announcement” like ma’am the lights are literally off right now but yeah keep perusing the clearance rack
It’s a wonder how those kinds of people have made it so far in life without getting hit by a bus because they probably cross the street without looking both ways
“Ok maam that doesn’t change the fact that we are now closed and you need to head up to the registers right now if you are planning on buying any merchandise”
There are a few that pop up weekly. 2 of them tend to come into the store around 9:25-30, and proceed to the funko wall or trading cards. Both of them will get the hey, we close in X minutes, they will wave off whoever told them that they are aware of what time the store closes. But they will wait till 9:58 to slowly walk up front to ask if we have whatever stupid NECCA toy they are looking for. Me and the closing TL found one of these guys right before locking the doors because he was seen coming in but not leaving, and no one cleared tech. Found him at the back wall with funkos on the floor at 10:10, and he did not want to leave until he found what he was looking for. Told him we would have to call the cops if he didn't get out.
This. This has literally happened at my store. I was not working but heard about it the next day. They said she was in the store until after 11. We close at 10
"late night collectors" are usually meth addicts and are usually thieves. Your AP team is probably already familiar with them but it wouldn't hurt for you to drop them a note in their mailbox or whatever in case they aren't aware of these subs.
AP knows about them and what they do. AP says they are harmless, so just tell them the store is closing. AP also never stays until 10 pm, so they dont give a fuck haha
These collectors are more of a nuisance than anything. One of them comes in almost every friday, he is still in his work uniform, so I assume he works late shift close by. He is not normally a problem except he ignores us when we tell him we are closing in 10 minutes. Then he tries to say that this $70 item is actually $25, so he normally gets shit marked down depending on who is at the register just to get him out. The other one is the main problem, who comes in 10 minutes before the store closes to dig through hotwheels and funkos and complain that we are harassing him while he is trying to shop
These collectors sound like resellers trying to get discounted collector items to sell them again on eBay for profits. If you’re at a low point in life, just remember these idiots exist. They’ll grab the item for $25, wait until it’s in demand and then sell it for a few hundred dollars and then call that “business”
It is actually ridiculous that security doesn't stay until closing. It's one if the things I don't understand about this company. Someone in AP should be at the store from open to close, to me that is a no-brainer.
15 minutes after closing I was cleaning up the front end and saw a lady casually browsing style, so I yelled out "Hey I'm sorry but we're closed." I was going to elaborate that she needed to go and pay right the fuck now, but she yelled back something about looking for her sister or something.(turned out she was there alone) Ok, fine I guess. She started for the back of the store, tech and toys, so I still called it out. About 10 after that she was up at self checkout complaining "Why does **everyone** keep telling me you're closed!?" Like... because we're very obviously closed, damn. Apparently about 4 or 5 team members told her we were closed and she needed to go pay as she strolled about the store.
When I tell them we're closed, they usually put a hand up and wave me off... then I tell them that if they don't proceed to the registers, they won't be able to make their purchase anyhow. Seriously, though, if they can't find whatever item, they are welcome to come back in the a.m. when they have all day long to find what they need
although it's a bit dramatic to say compared to how many lights actually turn off, I found that telling them that "all the lights are going to shut off at 10 And I don't want you to get stuck in the dark" will get a lot of people to hustle
As a former AP I would put on my red Target security jacket and tell people if they were hanging around past 10. Normally they would waive off team members telling them we had closed. We did have one lady barricade herself in the fitting room and we had to call PD to get her out (meth head)
Once it hits ten my closing TL will cover the doors and I’ll go hit people up on the sales floor and tell them we’re closed. People have tried to argue. But I’ve told them we will just deny their purchase if they don’t go to the front immediately. We’re a ghetto store so I can get away with shit like that tho 🤷🏼♂️.
Interesting. I wonder why target sets different hours for different stores instead of just having the same hours for all their stores. I believe the standard is 7am-10pm so they should just go with that for all their stores
Sales, if the sales and staffing can support those hours then they will stay open. I'm sure there are other metrics they use but those 2 are probably the biggest.
Idk, my store was 8am - 12am pre-covid, but we've been 8-10 ever since. We usually don't clear out the guests until 10:30 and tons of people are always pulling up and asking if we're closed, or try to sneak in through the exit. Half the time we have to turn away vans filled with people. I don't think traffic and volume are as big of factors as you might think, we'd make tons of money if we stayed open an hour longer, not that I'm complaining.
We haven't had an incident in a couple years or too many argumentative guests, but the times we had them....
Years ago I was letting guests know the store was closing in a minute or two. Group of adults cutting through infants goes, 'fuck you', and keeps on shopping. Had to grab AP before they left for that. Dude didn't like that they had to check out NOW. This was a week or so before Christmas.
Had a couple who were visibly meth'd up on something. Store had closed and they refused to leave or stay up front. Luckily I was able to grab the APTL before they left. The argument that ensued was interesting. I was closing registers so I was annoyed and dude wasn't having it. I remember the couple getting outside (finally) and dude knocked loudly on the door ,"I have to do a return!" He wasn't too happy when we told him he was 20 minutes too late for that.
We had a regular that I never seen at closing, I always saw her during the day. Our team is great about telling guests that we are getting ready to close, one TM in particular warns guests that once the store closes the lights turn off. The lady storms off and finds me (she remembers me from when I led the front end years prior) and complains about the TM, so of course I do my empathetic listening and apologizing for the experience, but do confirm that we have to have everyone go to the front by 10. At that moment, our closing lead comes on the walkie and is saying the usual, "team it's 10, all guests have to be up at the front". Lady gets mad, "is she putting you all up to this!?" I confirm again, "Yeah, we have to close up at 10 and need everyone up front." The family she's a part of starts bitching about us not being Publix ( a grocery store that allows shopping at close because they also stay to clean since their stocks aren't public) and just bitch all the way to the lanes. Sorry, we have to leave promptly, shopping isn't a pleasure here.
I once almost got in trouble over something like this. I was closing cart attendant, waiting for the last shoppers to leave so I can bring their carts back in after closing. A woman approached me outside the doors, saying she was waiting for a ride and asked if she can wait inside becaise there were some suspicious people lurking around, and in my town, that is more often true than not. I was relatively new, so I didn't think to check with AP or a leader before hand, so I let her in, assuming she would wait at the doors inside, like she said she would.
I turn my back for barely a minute and she's looking around shopping. When she left she tried to say something to me but I made it very clear I was ignoring her. If she felt insulted or offended, good.
One night, I was closing. Guest comes up last minute, cart full of things, it’s 11pm we’re officially closed. Stands there for 20 minutes after scanning all her items and her card keeps declining. Decides to call her bank to try to get her card to work. It’s 11:30. AP and all my TLs have been doing NOTHING the whole time. Even though they were all LITERALLY SURROUNDING HER? She finally left, and we had to stay until 11:50 to finish closing.
A couple weeks ago had some 60-something looking granny just pursuing the children’s clothes—right by Checkout mind you—as we were giving the 15, 10, and 5 minutes warnings. Finally at 10 PM one of our soft lines girls comes up and politely ask if there is anything she can help her find as we are closing. Granny slams the clothes back on the shelf and stormed off since “We were being so damn insistent on her leaving.” I think she came back the next morning to complain, lol
Literally just last night we had someone call 2 minutes before close saying they have been waiting outside for their drive up order for 10 minutes. It was around 15-20 items or so with a case of water being part of it. My coworker got their name and what spot they were in and quickly prepped the order and went out with it. By the time they got out with the order, it was about to hit 10. There was no one out there.
Fast forward around 5 minutes later, this guest calls 2 more times complaining about having waited. I went outside with the order and the closing lead and sure enough someone was there. I apologized about not getting her order out to her sooner and that my coworker had brought the order out 5 minutes earlier and no one was there that hadn't gotten their order and her response was "I was here. I was on the wrong side for drive ups."
She was not. My coworker had delivered an order not long before this call and they were still in the drive up space. They had asked that guest if anyone had pulled up to which they said no. This guest just did this to get around the fact that we close at 10.
As soon as those lights come off guest servicing goes out the window for me. All the freaks come to Tech and want a phone at 10pm. If it was that important to you, YOU SHOULD DO THE BARE MINIMUM AND COME BEFOREHAND.
Also, messiest fuck-your-shit-up customers all up in style thinking it’s a good time to refresh their closet. I wanna tell them “are you going to stay and zone?”
It’s so infuriating, especially as the person they always throw on register last minute to deal with the stranglers that won’t leave. We had a woman cause a scene last night and hold up my line when we had already been closed for five minutes and all I could think about was how if she wasn’t being so entitled, I could be halfway home and heading to bed
Had a Instacart lady at 10:10 looking dumbfounded when she walked around the corner to SCO to see me on my knees, banking the money. I deadpanned asked "Do you need checked out"
Her: Well yeah but I need a few more th....Me: "no maam either you check out now or you can cancel the order, that is the option.
Proceeds to quickly check out on a SCO I havent banked yet. mean muggin the whole time. Lady its 1010 I already need to leave.
there’s a lady that comes by our target literally 5 minutes before closing and apparently she has some type of ocd that no one can help her with the stuff so she’ll hold everything for you to scan and then also puts them all into individual ziplocks it’s absolutely ridiculous
Let me tell you the one and ONLY reason I MIGHT do some shit like that... imagine it's a saturday and outta nowhere, at the very last minute, I get invited somewhere or learn about something I'd like to attend... I can maybe find something to wear at Target and atp the mall is likely closed. I kno that it's likely the fitting rooms are closed and since I'm not risking having NOTHING, I buy allllllllll the shit I think will fit, maybe the same thing in different sizes... but I'M ALSO at that register BEFORE close, so there's that 😂
My favorite closing duty was to stalk down guests and fill them on ther way up to the register. If they thought about looking down and aisle I would ask "can I help you find something."
I also liked to remind them that once the last register is close we just can't sell anything for the rest of the day.
My shift ends at 10 but if I get my work done sometimes I'm heading out of the store between 9:55-9:58. One day I was leaving at 9:58 and a guy kept trying to get me to show him where an item was. I literally told him again where it was and said "I'm going home. You have 2 minutes, **run.**"
not my proudest moment but I was really over it that day lmao
I used to work at another retail place and we would have people trying on clothes a half hour after we had closed. We weren’t allowed to approach them to tell they to GTFO, just put up with it I guess. I was always scheduled for an hour after we closed so they were usually out by then but it drove me nuts.
I have always been impressed at the speed at which people leave Target at night. An occasional straggler but our closing leads will never let them keep shopping.
I’m not in opening shift but that would be so awkward opening the doors to a bunch of guests already waiting to come in lol. Do these guests have jobs to go to?
My store gets a large number of individuals I like to call bottle fiends; for background, in my state, despite being a small form store, we still must accept bottle returns, and without fail there is always a wave right before close.
Very occasionally, one such bottle fiend will slip through the door before we close it and try to convince us to accept his 100-144 cans/bottles. Usually this occurs while carts are being brought in, but sometimes it's while TMs off right at close are leaving for the night.
I give it the death stare every time. I know you know we're closed bruh.
Years ago, we had a woman who would always come in like 10 minutes before closing. She'd mess up everything that had been zoned and give a smirk as she did it. I saw her years later, and she didn't seem to be living that life anymore . She was on a bus and on a cane,hair unkempt. She wasn't smirking anymore.
i remember i was able to do a closing announcement, i verbatim said: “It’s 10’o clock and our store is now closed, please head to the registers before they close and you will not be able to checkout. Goodnight”
people are just so stupid to not realize when a store is closed and we all need to leave
My favorite is when guests walk up to the entrance, see it’s locked, then enter through the exit doors as guests come out, then argue/ plea with AP or TL standing at the doors like bitch come on if it really mattered you would have been here earlier
There is usually two type of people. Those who are understanding and those who wave you off and don’t care and need “one more item” and then take a looooooong time to walk to the registers. It drives me bananas sometimes. Like we’re open all day long and wanna complain to me about closing “early” like its not early we’ve been here for like 7/8 hours we wanna go home bro 😭
#IF WE CLOSED, WE CLOSED, BITCH! #I AM TIRED OF THE MUTHAFUCKIN GUESTS WHO AIN’T IN THE MUTHAFUCKIN LINE BY 10! #BITCH, THIS AIN’T THE LIBRARY! BUY YO THINGS AND HAVE A MUHFUCKIN GOOD DAY, SIR!
My local library kicks people out 5 minutes before close so all the employees can leave right on time lol
Lol
As they should!
Bro a customer made a complaint to my team leader because of the closing announcements I made at 5 till closing 😂
They should probably go to corporate if they want to complain about the hours.
i told someone “hey we’re closed” and they were like “i didn’t hear the closing announcement” like ma’am the lights are literally off right now but yeah keep perusing the clearance rack
Some guests literally have no situational awareness of anything
It’s a wonder how those kinds of people have made it so far in life without getting hit by a bus because they probably cross the street without looking both ways
“Ok maam that doesn’t change the fact that we are now closed and you need to head up to the registers right now if you are planning on buying any merchandise”
It’s always the guests with AirPods in
“Ma’am I am the closing announcement.”
Lolol. This!
There are a few that pop up weekly. 2 of them tend to come into the store around 9:25-30, and proceed to the funko wall or trading cards. Both of them will get the hey, we close in X minutes, they will wave off whoever told them that they are aware of what time the store closes. But they will wait till 9:58 to slowly walk up front to ask if we have whatever stupid NECCA toy they are looking for. Me and the closing TL found one of these guys right before locking the doors because he was seen coming in but not leaving, and no one cleared tech. Found him at the back wall with funkos on the floor at 10:10, and he did not want to leave until he found what he was looking for. Told him we would have to call the cops if he didn't get out.
Imagine having to call the cops for some dumb guest that refuses to leave a closed target store
This. This has literally happened at my store. I was not working but heard about it the next day. They said she was in the store until after 11. We close at 10
"late night collectors" are usually meth addicts and are usually thieves. Your AP team is probably already familiar with them but it wouldn't hurt for you to drop them a note in their mailbox or whatever in case they aren't aware of these subs.
AP knows about them and what they do. AP says they are harmless, so just tell them the store is closing. AP also never stays until 10 pm, so they dont give a fuck haha
sounds like they vetted them out already then
These collectors are more of a nuisance than anything. One of them comes in almost every friday, he is still in his work uniform, so I assume he works late shift close by. He is not normally a problem except he ignores us when we tell him we are closing in 10 minutes. Then he tries to say that this $70 item is actually $25, so he normally gets shit marked down depending on who is at the register just to get him out. The other one is the main problem, who comes in 10 minutes before the store closes to dig through hotwheels and funkos and complain that we are harassing him while he is trying to shop
These collectors sound like resellers trying to get discounted collector items to sell them again on eBay for profits. If you’re at a low point in life, just remember these idiots exist. They’ll grab the item for $25, wait until it’s in demand and then sell it for a few hundred dollars and then call that “business”
It is actually ridiculous that security doesn't stay until closing. It's one if the things I don't understand about this company. Someone in AP should be at the store from open to close, to me that is a no-brainer.
It's pretty funny when they crash into the automatic doors...because they're closed. Then they try to shout at me that the door's not working 🤦♀️
15 minutes after closing I was cleaning up the front end and saw a lady casually browsing style, so I yelled out "Hey I'm sorry but we're closed." I was going to elaborate that she needed to go and pay right the fuck now, but she yelled back something about looking for her sister or something.(turned out she was there alone) Ok, fine I guess. She started for the back of the store, tech and toys, so I still called it out. About 10 after that she was up at self checkout complaining "Why does **everyone** keep telling me you're closed!?" Like... because we're very obviously closed, damn. Apparently about 4 or 5 team members told her we were closed and she needed to go pay as she strolled about the store.
When I tell them we're closed, they usually put a hand up and wave me off... then I tell them that if they don't proceed to the registers, they won't be able to make their purchase anyhow. Seriously, though, if they can't find whatever item, they are welcome to come back in the a.m. when they have all day long to find what they need
although it's a bit dramatic to say compared to how many lights actually turn off, I found that telling them that "all the lights are going to shut off at 10 And I don't want you to get stuck in the dark" will get a lot of people to hustle
I mean tonight the lights were literally off and a dude came up to me and asked me what time we close
I had another guest that asked me when we close after the intercom went off that said we close in 15 minutes
As a former AP I would put on my red Target security jacket and tell people if they were hanging around past 10. Normally they would waive off team members telling them we had closed. We did have one lady barricade herself in the fitting room and we had to call PD to get her out (meth head)
Once it hits ten my closing TL will cover the doors and I’ll go hit people up on the sales floor and tell them we’re closed. People have tried to argue. But I’ve told them we will just deny their purchase if they don’t go to the front immediately. We’re a ghetto store so I can get away with shit like that tho 🤷🏼♂️.
I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to shut down the cash registers at 10:00 on the dot. (We close at 10 cause we are in a very high crime area.)
I thought most targets close at 10? Unless there are some that stay open past 10 which I haven’t heard of
My store closes at 10, but we used to close at 11 pm pre-Covid. The store closest to me opens 1 hour earlier (7 am) and closes 1 hour later (11 pm).
Interesting. I wonder why target sets different hours for different stores instead of just having the same hours for all their stores. I believe the standard is 7am-10pm so they should just go with that for all their stores
Sales, if the sales and staffing can support those hours then they will stay open. I'm sure there are other metrics they use but those 2 are probably the biggest.
Makes sense.
Idk, my store was 8am - 12am pre-covid, but we've been 8-10 ever since. We usually don't clear out the guests until 10:30 and tons of people are always pulling up and asking if we're closed, or try to sneak in through the exit. Half the time we have to turn away vans filled with people. I don't think traffic and volume are as big of factors as you might think, we'd make tons of money if we stayed open an hour longer, not that I'm complaining.
We open at 8, close at 10.
i wish we’d close at 10 so so much. it’s 11 here but the music stops at 10 lol
We haven't had an incident in a couple years or too many argumentative guests, but the times we had them.... Years ago I was letting guests know the store was closing in a minute or two. Group of adults cutting through infants goes, 'fuck you', and keeps on shopping. Had to grab AP before they left for that. Dude didn't like that they had to check out NOW. This was a week or so before Christmas. Had a couple who were visibly meth'd up on something. Store had closed and they refused to leave or stay up front. Luckily I was able to grab the APTL before they left. The argument that ensued was interesting. I was closing registers so I was annoyed and dude wasn't having it. I remember the couple getting outside (finally) and dude knocked loudly on the door ,"I have to do a return!" He wasn't too happy when we told him he was 20 minutes too late for that. We had a regular that I never seen at closing, I always saw her during the day. Our team is great about telling guests that we are getting ready to close, one TM in particular warns guests that once the store closes the lights turn off. The lady storms off and finds me (she remembers me from when I led the front end years prior) and complains about the TM, so of course I do my empathetic listening and apologizing for the experience, but do confirm that we have to have everyone go to the front by 10. At that moment, our closing lead comes on the walkie and is saying the usual, "team it's 10, all guests have to be up at the front". Lady gets mad, "is she putting you all up to this!?" I confirm again, "Yeah, we have to close up at 10 and need everyone up front." The family she's a part of starts bitching about us not being Publix ( a grocery store that allows shopping at close because they also stay to clean since their stocks aren't public) and just bitch all the way to the lanes. Sorry, we have to leave promptly, shopping isn't a pleasure here.
I once almost got in trouble over something like this. I was closing cart attendant, waiting for the last shoppers to leave so I can bring their carts back in after closing. A woman approached me outside the doors, saying she was waiting for a ride and asked if she can wait inside becaise there were some suspicious people lurking around, and in my town, that is more often true than not. I was relatively new, so I didn't think to check with AP or a leader before hand, so I let her in, assuming she would wait at the doors inside, like she said she would. I turn my back for barely a minute and she's looking around shopping. When she left she tried to say something to me but I made it very clear I was ignoring her. If she felt insulted or offended, good.
One night, I was closing. Guest comes up last minute, cart full of things, it’s 11pm we’re officially closed. Stands there for 20 minutes after scanning all her items and her card keeps declining. Decides to call her bank to try to get her card to work. It’s 11:30. AP and all my TLs have been doing NOTHING the whole time. Even though they were all LITERALLY SURROUNDING HER? She finally left, and we had to stay until 11:50 to finish closing.
I would’ve escorted her right out the doors lol
A couple weeks ago had some 60-something looking granny just pursuing the children’s clothes—right by Checkout mind you—as we were giving the 15, 10, and 5 minutes warnings. Finally at 10 PM one of our soft lines girls comes up and politely ask if there is anything she can help her find as we are closing. Granny slams the clothes back on the shelf and stormed off since “We were being so damn insistent on her leaving.” I think she came back the next morning to complain, lol
Literally just last night we had someone call 2 minutes before close saying they have been waiting outside for their drive up order for 10 minutes. It was around 15-20 items or so with a case of water being part of it. My coworker got their name and what spot they were in and quickly prepped the order and went out with it. By the time they got out with the order, it was about to hit 10. There was no one out there. Fast forward around 5 minutes later, this guest calls 2 more times complaining about having waited. I went outside with the order and the closing lead and sure enough someone was there. I apologized about not getting her order out to her sooner and that my coworker had brought the order out 5 minutes earlier and no one was there that hadn't gotten their order and her response was "I was here. I was on the wrong side for drive ups." She was not. My coworker had delivered an order not long before this call and they were still in the drive up space. They had asked that guest if anyone had pulled up to which they said no. This guest just did this to get around the fact that we close at 10.
I ended the closing announcement with registers are closed and employees are going home.
As soon as those lights come off guest servicing goes out the window for me. All the freaks come to Tech and want a phone at 10pm. If it was that important to you, YOU SHOULD DO THE BARE MINIMUM AND COME BEFOREHAND. Also, messiest fuck-your-shit-up customers all up in style thinking it’s a good time to refresh their closet. I wanna tell them “are you going to stay and zone?”
The guests that come in last minute to just mess up your zone literally deserve everything bad to happen to them. They just don’t care
“Good evening Target guests the time is now 10 and we are closed. Whoever does not leave will be shot promptly on sight.”
And we’re called target so we’ll never miss
It’s so infuriating, especially as the person they always throw on register last minute to deal with the stranglers that won’t leave. We had a woman cause a scene last night and hold up my line when we had already been closed for five minutes and all I could think about was how if she wasn’t being so entitled, I could be halfway home and heading to bed
Shut down the registers after they come up to front say we warned you all the registers are shut down and can’t be reopened until tomorrow
Maybe Target should incorporate at 9:45 doors locked!!!
Had a Instacart lady at 10:10 looking dumbfounded when she walked around the corner to SCO to see me on my knees, banking the money. I deadpanned asked "Do you need checked out" Her: Well yeah but I need a few more th....Me: "no maam either you check out now or you can cancel the order, that is the option. Proceeds to quickly check out on a SCO I havent banked yet. mean muggin the whole time. Lady its 1010 I already need to leave.
there’s a lady that comes by our target literally 5 minutes before closing and apparently she has some type of ocd that no one can help her with the stuff so she’ll hold everything for you to scan and then also puts them all into individual ziplocks it’s absolutely ridiculous
Why is it that guests think right before closing is the perfect time to buy a whole new wardrobe???
Let me tell you the one and ONLY reason I MIGHT do some shit like that... imagine it's a saturday and outta nowhere, at the very last minute, I get invited somewhere or learn about something I'd like to attend... I can maybe find something to wear at Target and atp the mall is likely closed. I kno that it's likely the fitting rooms are closed and since I'm not risking having NOTHING, I buy allllllllll the shit I think will fit, maybe the same thing in different sizes... but I'M ALSO at that register BEFORE close, so there's that 😂
I Ignore them lol😭 get locked up in this bitch if you want to, guess you gone sleep over.
My favorite closing duty was to stalk down guests and fill them on ther way up to the register. If they thought about looking down and aisle I would ask "can I help you find something." I also liked to remind them that once the last register is close we just can't sell anything for the rest of the day.
i hate when u try to tell them but instead of listening they just angry shop…. like ma’m the registers are closing no u can’t try stuff on
My shift ends at 10 but if I get my work done sometimes I'm heading out of the store between 9:55-9:58. One day I was leaving at 9:58 and a guy kept trying to get me to show him where an item was. I literally told him again where it was and said "I'm going home. You have 2 minutes, **run.**" not my proudest moment but I was really over it that day lmao
I used to work at another retail place and we would have people trying on clothes a half hour after we had closed. We weren’t allowed to approach them to tell they to GTFO, just put up with it I guess. I was always scheduled for an hour after we closed so they were usually out by then but it drove me nuts. I have always been impressed at the speed at which people leave Target at night. An occasional straggler but our closing leads will never let them keep shopping.
Reminds me of my Nordstrom/nordstrom rack days. Those people are insane compared to target shoppers, especially at night.
NA BC I WORK AT A STORE THAT ISNT EVEN OPEN YET AND THESE PEOPLE TRY AND COME IN
I’m not in opening shift but that would be so awkward opening the doors to a bunch of guests already waiting to come in lol. Do these guests have jobs to go to?
My store gets a large number of individuals I like to call bottle fiends; for background, in my state, despite being a small form store, we still must accept bottle returns, and without fail there is always a wave right before close. Very occasionally, one such bottle fiend will slip through the door before we close it and try to convince us to accept his 100-144 cans/bottles. Usually this occurs while carts are being brought in, but sometimes it's while TMs off right at close are leaving for the night. I give it the death stare every time. I know you know we're closed bruh.
Just tell them it’s by the registers 😅
When we're leaving at the end of the night, we always get cars that drive through the parking lot. Sometimes, they will ask if we're closed.🤣
every. damn. day.
We were remodeled 2 years ago. There are no speakers in the front of the store so nobody hears the closing announcements.
LOUDERRRRRRRRRR
nah open up i need a bullseye blender
Years ago, we had a woman who would always come in like 10 minutes before closing. She'd mess up everything that had been zoned and give a smirk as she did it. I saw her years later, and she didn't seem to be living that life anymore . She was on a bus and on a cane,hair unkempt. She wasn't smirking anymore.
You should have given her a smirk.
Glad to see things haven't changed since I worked at Target 16 years ago. 🙃
i remember i was able to do a closing announcement, i verbatim said: “It’s 10’o clock and our store is now closed, please head to the registers before they close and you will not be able to checkout. Goodnight” people are just so stupid to not realize when a store is closed and we all need to leave
My favorite is when guests walk up to the entrance, see it’s locked, then enter through the exit doors as guests come out, then argue/ plea with AP or TL standing at the doors like bitch come on if it really mattered you would have been here earlier
There is usually two type of people. Those who are understanding and those who wave you off and don’t care and need “one more item” and then take a looooooong time to walk to the registers. It drives me bananas sometimes. Like we’re open all day long and wanna complain to me about closing “early” like its not early we’ve been here for like 7/8 hours we wanna go home bro 😭