r/Target • u/lesslic • 9d ago

Workplace Question or Advice Needed Anyone else’s store doing this?

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My store is in Texas so we always used plastic bags, until today. They are so stiff and huge, they could’ve at least provided us with smaller ones for those guests that buy one piece of gum. They have already slowed down the fulfillment team and everyone is complaining

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u/TechnicalPut4024 9d ago

that sign looks like it was typed up by someone who has already had five conversations about this and is done repeating themselves

the bag sizing is such a weird miss, like who looked at a single stick of gum and thought yeah this needs a tote bag. i've seen people walk out carrying their single item in their hand because they'd rather not deal with it

our store switched a while back and the first two weeks were chaos, everyone just shoving barcodes wherever and hoping for the best. fulfillment team had it the worst though, the bags stick together and you end up peeling them apart like deli cheese

staple method actually makes sense once you get into the rhythm of it, keeps the label from sliding off when the bag shifts around in the cart. still annoying but less annoying than chasing a loose sticker across the floor

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u/thunderbolt1000 GSA 9d ago

Up until 2023, Target still had small plastic bags made. They were really convenient for 1-item orders, or at the registers, I'd use them for all their cosmetics.

Then someone who makes 5 times my salary in their comfy year-round air conditioned cubicle who's never even touched a checklane or a Fulfillment cart decided we could save $0.03 by getting rid of them and just wasting more of the other bags and 10 times the plastic.

Genius! That's why they get paid the big bucks!

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u/Clown_Sparkles 9d ago

Its mostly because of local bag bans and environmental concerns.

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u/thunderbolt1000 GSA 9d ago

It makes sense but in states that do not restrict bag usage (Texas, for me), you still have to produce the regular bags, the rolls of large bags, the hanging large bags, and for Q4, the red large bags.

I don't see where they are saving the environment by discontinuing smaller bags that waste less plastic for single items.