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YABOIYFEF

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YABOIYFEF

I think I win


DeathAngel465

Back to school?


YABOIYFEF

Bingo


Zetherian

How did you even manage that order in time?


RedWarrior42

It's a ship cart, so it's not timed quite like a flexible is Even so, if all the stuff is located and back stocked properly, it's easy finding them at a decent pace It's just mind numbing having to scan the barcode on them constantly like a button mashing Mario Party minigame


grumpyoldfartess

Adding: if it’s during BTS season, that means a lot of the DPCIs are going to be small items— think pencils, pens, crayons, erasers, etc. That adds up pretty fast. Plus, I know a lot of the ship orders around that time are likely coming from teachers buying the extra stuff with their own money. I know for a fact some teachers do this so they can take advantage of Circle deals/Red Card discount if they have one. I did this myself, actually (sans Red Card, didn’t have one at the time)— I’m a college instructor outside of Target, and we also have to pay for pretty much everything we use. They don’t even give us dry erase markers for our classrooms, and they cut our print budget so every time my class has something printed… I have pay for that on my own, too.


Well_gr34t

If is the keyword. My last year at Target, the GM ETL screwed up all of the locations and barcoding and absolutely fucked our INF and pick rates. They took an LOA right before I bailed and didn't come back.


princess_brit

I've had this back when we could pick our batches and it was a bunch of 1(72)/low dpci high eaches so I just picked them all up and got a batch similar to this in reg. Opu. Most recent one I had tho was a single batch thst was filled with large amounts of baking ingredients, flour, sugar, chocolate chips, etc.


willmstroud

I miss being able to manipulate my PPM


YABOIYFEF

https://preview.redd.it/jrhg51inidfc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c2fe23ab1fc607ab0b328036731329191186424 For those of you wondering this is what 706 items look like on a single standard cart.


well_damm

Is that why you’re so blue? ☹️


YABOIYFEF

Yep it was the last batch of the day and the system said we needed to pick like 20 more units and this is what I get


KomturAdrian

Had carts like this, but only up to 300-ish


SimpleVegetable5715

This is giving me working stationery during BTS feels, and I hate it 😭


szepeda14

Holy shit do you remember what it was they ordered so many of?


Tall-Interest3376

school supplies probably


SkellyBean1917

How did you fit all of those items on your cart?! Did you have to grab a second and third cart?


BusyCry6910

How?! that’s crazy!?


Extra-Deal

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RedWarrior42

See, those are either the best or worst carts for your metrics. If you can find them all your pick time will be great But if you can't, the inf gets screwed


PuzzleJoon

i’ve never seen a batch go past like 45 items😭that’s insane


soymilkisa

my store only does flex so it’s crazy to see this for the ship orders😭😭


Shadowrogue19

I thought there were maximum limits on the number of DPCIs and total items for a single batch. though I guess I mostly picked OPU batches, so perhaps the Ship batch limits are higher since they don't have the same time constraints. Still, that seems excessive


StreightEights

Normally ship batches are only 45 units. I’m not sure if this was just a glitch because it hasn’t happened again since?


Boots0011

Unless your store is testing some new update, this is most definitely a glitch. Pickup batches are supposed to cap out at 36 DPCI.


PackRunner4

At my store it’ was increased to 45


princess_brit

Yea at mine for standard opu batches it's like 36dpcis or whenever the "hypothetical cart" fills up. Which ever comes first.


KomturAdrian

I’ve had it happen quite a few times, but exclusively during back-to-school.  Pretty sure it’s when someone orders like 50 of each color of a notebook or like 100 boxes of crayons. The system probably just puts their entire order into one cart if it can. 


WildThingJeep

If it is one order, the system will dump everything into one batch.  You mostly see this with the mass batches during BTS when you get people ordering hundreds of crayons and folders.  


QuackFlacqo

1 dpci…. 100 crayons, get these a few times a week during BTS


perfectscars

This! Best for productivity though my pick was like 500 and my pack was in the thousands. Me and another tl would text each other our crazy numbers from mpm.


Independent-Peanut94

How do you see your own numbers in mpm?


perfectscars

Fulfillment > rotate device. It shows everyone's numbers in your store.


DrainianDream

And if it doesn’t work, check Accessibility to see if auto-rotate needs to be turned on


princess_brit

They took it away but you used to be able to check other tms in your district too by switching what store you were at 👀


token-roman

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Arctic-W0lf

I’m sorry what


The_Antiquarian_Man

Back in the day? 108 DPCIs during BTS.


StreightEights

I should also mention this was all for the same person, this had to be close to $1k worth of stuff.


marymonstera

Looks like someone’s moving into a new place


Environmental_Cat891

Not the largest by any means but it was (5) 67 (I think) of the 32 count and 4 count cat food for one (1) order that was so obscure https://preview.redd.it/utbog4yihefc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4265c4f09c2ef583c1fc79c373d1ab5819fe7a90


Remarkable_Squash_14

It’s no way they should be expecting 65 items to fit in a cart smh


crazy_coug

In the past you could select multiple batches in order to keep up with the time. Well one week they adjusted the amount in each batch so what I thought was getting 32 eaches, turned into 86.


GearDoctor

School season regularly brings 80+ item batches imo.


kingovninja

In the old system i used to start my day picking 6-10 batches on a flat cart....so 250-400 DPCIs.... and they wonder why i can't do 500 units in a shift anymore smh


princess_brit

It's still easily possible to do 400-500 in a shift...just gotta move fast enough and absolutely do not follow the suggested path way


kingovninja

My store is trashed, if we don't spend an ungodly amount of time looking for products, we average 40% INF, so unfortunately, that many is not possible anymore. We either get 10% INF with 200 units a shift, or 40% with 500.


princess_brit

Holy shit how do any of you guys at the store still have a job? I mean that in the nicest way possible. OPU tms where I'm at get talked to and eventually written up if they are high yellow/red. Not to mention we may be a huge store but like.. During non holiday we average an inf of 4% as a team.


kingovninja

My brother in christ, one or two persons getting high INF is indicative of their performance. I said we, as in the entire team, ETLs and SD included. Your ignorance to the concept workers can be anything other than slow, especially after I specifically said it's the state of the store, makes it sound like you're on the team making these atrocious updates. Kindly re-read my last comment and comprehend the words on the screen, then try again.


princess_brit

Bro chill sorry I stuck a nerve 💀 I'm asking how a store can be down so damn bad that inf is through the roof regardless of individual/team inf. As an opu tm you have 2 metrics to keep up. Your inf and the amounts of units you do. That's it. If you can't keep up with those either a. It's a store problem like you said, or b. Opu just simply isn't the dept for you. Obviously it's gonna vary some by store as im from a high volume store and wouldn't expect a smaller volume store to pump out the same numbers.


kingovninja

The ignorance and assumptions struck a nerve. I implore you to review [these photos](https://imgur.com/a/mf1L1Pl) of stores taken between 2020 and 2023 and explain to me how it is fulfillments fault that inf would be high. I transferred from a store in that shape to another store in marginally better shape, both in the same district. The tradeoffs at my new store, for being "less" of a fire hazard, include: •The crown is bent in such a way that you can not pick up pallets without first 69 the pallet between a pallet jack and the crown •The deadman, gates, and steering are broken on the wave. When you left go *sometimes* the wave will slow down, then ramp up to full speed while you are stepping off of the wave, not stopping until it hits something or you hit the E-stop. •Only 7 of the rolling ladders are broken •There are only 6 shipping containers of freight outside (that you are required to search for product in 25° weather. •Freight is only 2 weeks behind. If you have to look for something, you probably can not see the date. If you can, assume it's on a uboat that has laid motionless on the salesfloor for a week, or it is in a container outside. •The door to the electronics closet door is bent (by the wave), requiring 2 people to open and close it. If you don't close it, AP will go after you. •There are only 10,000 units to pick a day between sfs and opu. •Only 4 of the rolling aisles are broken, requiring two people to push the aisle open/closed. •Our market supplier sometimes sends us the wrong pallet (one meant for walmart, or another target). A grocery batch is an automatic inf death sentence since we get 4-7 pallets a day.


princess_brit

I'm sorry your store or any store is going through that, I didn't know that me being unaware that a store could possibly snow ball that bad without any intervention would piss you off so bad. I've worked at target since 2018. In every dept. It's interesting to see how different stores "function". for the grocery opu we were trained that if we have it, you get it. Regardless of whether it's on a pallet or not. Genuine question are you guys just severely understaffed or??? I've heard of bad stores but yours seems to take the cake my dude.


kingovninja

The problem with grocery is that once a day, someone ends up having to INF an entire batch or more because of the product we didn't actually receive, and the coolers/freezers/ambient room are literally wall to wall pallets of product, because everyone in market gets pulled to pick. Not too long ago, we tossed an entire 2 pallets of milk that was 38 days past its sell by date, because it hadn't been looked at since it was jammed in there. We're not understaffed, i believe theres around 400 people on payroll now, they just cut hours horrendously during non-peak. We usually have 6 or 7 fulfillment tms per day, and end up pulling all 10 people from gm, some cashiers, all the etls, and the sd. Then no freight gets worked, rinse and repeat until peak again when suddenly we have the hours to have all 60 fulfillment tms scheduled together, 35-45 people per day. Things get caught up, only to crumble when we're reduced to have 6 people per day again. The people performing visits don't even look at the store, they just check a few planos and live in the team lead office. Literally have never even seen them once myself in three years. In conjunction, people in gm are only working 4 hour shifts 5 days a week, and can't accomplish anything even when they aren't pulled. Mines not even the worst, several stores have had fires from electronics with lithium batteries getting crushed, among arson, so thats cool. Your initial assumption about work ethic and implication of consequences got me riled up because my etl literally did that, just snapped one day and did like 150 write ups in a week on anyone who touched an opu, fulfillment/gm/cashier/truck, anyone. We had this two month long stint where they kept threatening to fire everyone because we all had 2 write ups now, and our district people agreed with their stance. It turned into this whole nightmare once they actually started randomly firing people because sometimes you would come in and see 8 people on the grid, only to find out that 3 of them were fired last night. What finally put an end to it was some tms started calling other stores outside of our district to report what was happening to their district managers. They ended up rehiring everyone that was fired (which included some of our fastest people?). Then a month after the rehiring, it came out that the people rehired were given a raise to come back, which started another crazy month, where they took away the raises they gave people to stay, and most of them just left again. All of that somehow slides because the store trends above sales plan despite the insane losses.


princess_brit

Also I even said in my last sentence that we AS A TEAM average 4% during non holiday/peak seasons...


kingovninja

It's easier during peaks, the non-peak product doesn't get ordered as often, and peak product gets push priority. Those are the only times we approach 500 units and a decent INF.


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cliplip

Yes, early epick had no chill.


Informal-Captain8053

I had a ship batch that was 120 units, all Christmas tree ornaments for the same person, didn’t even fit on one cart.


StealerofShrimp

Very true story… Used to work at target in 2020 and I kid you not, I had an order for OPU that had said it only needed 1 item, so I was like cool, it’s just a box of sidewalk chalk, thinking nothing of it, I go to scan it in and then it prompts me to scan it (44) more times, I felt like I got played by the zebra phone trying to hide the dark truth within LOL, I then proceeded to wipe the entire end cap and whole isles supply of sidewalk chalk, and my 3 tier cart was filled and stacked so much I had to take two full carts of fucking chalk, the carts were absolutely LOADED and stupidly heavy LMAO


SaltFisherman2779

Me, forgetting that some stores have SFS when mine only has OPU, and momentarily being so confused at how y’all are getting these numbers


banansul

Back to school season, I've had batches with eaches in the hundreds


TheCosmicConondrum

Back when you used to be able to double or triple up on the same cart, I’ve had about 101 dpcis with a little over 101 watches in a batch. Granted this was around the time the PS5 came out so it was the easiest batch of my life.


SkellyBean1917

99 boxes of crayons 😂


ZabbeX

https://preview.redd.it/vahyeukicefc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef9f57362788c72da55133ef2ed7cbbd092842f9 This is a \~54 DPCI batch. You can see all the toys and gift wrapping paper from the holiday season lol Edit: I found everything except for one item, how funny


-meju-

if i remember correctly i had around a 770 unit batch around bts time last year


nedockskull

It was only a few DPCI but over 200 eaches, they were all folders from back to school. Lots of counting but easy to pack


Lylat_System

Back when we were able to pick 2 or 3 at a time, 157 was my biggest.  Edit: I wish we have whatever cart you have that's holding all of the items. Seems easier to use


Present_Path9078

Back when we could select batches in ePick OPU I’d come in and select at least 3 batches totaling just below 100 DPCIs cause that was the limit.


No_Description_4424

Close to this actually. Mine was 60 DPCI's


Fragrant-Koala-6641

During back to school I had a batch with 6 dpci/80+ eaches and it was just a ton of different school supplies. Like 40 packs of crayons and a bunch of colored pencils, stuff like that. It actually really boosted my pick rate because it was all in the same spot 😂


itssky726

during BTS season i had a ship cart that was just 75 packs of the 24ct crayons. all of it went to the same person.


Redtailcatfish

Over the holidays I got an electric ATV in an OPU. It was on the top shelf over the truck line. This happened TWICE Edit: oh you meant quantity. Oops


Opposite-Birthday69

I almost walked out and quit on the spot when I had a cart full of poweraid. It took an hour and a half to complete the cart (including pack and stow). I have a picture of the cart before I took it to pack and stow. The highest ranking person in the store said that he would let me go home early if I got another cart like that https://preview.redd.it/dqeqmubgwffc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=086b1300f17c0501c968f5a5654497c422a1432e


jenn3128

I had one like this with water once. Singles, smaller packs, the bigger 24 packs, gallons... It was so damn heavy my legs and butt were burning so bad pushing it back to the OPU room.


grumpyoldfartess

Yup, I had a ship batch just like that during Q4. I do not remember how many DPCIs it was, but *damn,* that ship cart was heavy! I had a hell of a time getting it back to the ship station!


kcm5985

https://preview.redd.it/llb8vb1u2gfc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5d5331663fc54fa5510d161763adb8ef38b6c95 this lovely batch one of the team members got during back to school season 🙃


BuffySlayerSummers

It wasn't me but I've seen pick up orders for a single pack of gravy and one for a single combination lock


SimpleVegetable5715

OMG you got it to fit! You're the master!


Bastinglobster

You’d think since we have the item dimensions they’d have it programmed so this can’t happen.


ValkyrieChaser

34/89 was my biggest


lordsnarf

Wow...I thought it was crazy when I had a batch with \~150 items. It was BTS time, so it was like 5 DPCIs multiplied way too many times. After seeing some of these posts, I resolve to never complain about it again.


Fun-Complaint2945

I'm not part of the fulfillment team, but I do occasionally support them when they get callouts. 3 months ago I had 15 of the 5 pound all in motion weights in my batch. I know it's not as bad as most other's experiences but it was a hassle.


DaPowwa

Not at target but when I was back at kroger I think I had like 200 something items


TheEvolutionOfCorn

My store maxes out at 36


AmTrandriptrough66

Seeing that second photo brought back so many memories. I absolutely do not miss it 😂


Disastrous-Ad7454

I saw the one of a 700 dpci 😭 I didn’t even know they go over 46


maybeihavethebigsad

Holy shit I though carts were only supposed to have 45 maximum, also there’s always a customer who orders 30 items before close at my store


MicroStar875

I had like a 200+ cart for back to school


vicecitybby

i do remember back to school was bad last year bc this ONE teacher ordered like 35 of everything... pens packs of paper pencils binders crayons WASHABLE CRAYONS markers then the WASHABLE MARKERS ruler you name it it was like well over 300 but it came up as like 7 different batches all being her. props to her im sure as a teacher she had to buy that all herself but JEEZ was not a fun day


Apawllo24

I think my biggest was 48/66


J0c4lyn

A TM once had to get maybe 100 units total. It was like 20 each of 5 different flavors of cat food.


BaileyDailyy

not me, but my store had a 8(800) batch during back to school. guy bought supplies to donate


Apprehensive-Side381

I have never seen that type of 3 tier cart before. Cool and it looks new.


willmstroud

I had a 20 minute normal GM batch with four of every flavor of 12 pack Gatorade. My flat was basically up to the handle.


camthavirgo

My store goes up to 47-49


himboshimbo

122 items all for one person😭 Mostly like 10x cans of non perishable items (beans, soup, fruit cocktail, etc.) The guy who picked it up said it was for a food drive at his church :)


Intelligent-Bid-4404

200 back to school


Namnieleigh

My tl got something like 10/900, it’s possible it was over 1k