Stopped at Target to look for some shoes.
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Customers are terrible. I feel bad for the employees who have to clean that mess.
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
Honestly? You can take those bad feelings and shove them, messes like this will be made regardless of how you feel so instead of feeling bad for us maybe you should suck it up or shop somewhere else. We don’t want your pity, we just wanna work and go home.
Nah, I haven’t seen a mess like this in any of the stores in Belgium.
Almost like normal customers will clean up after themselves instead of behaving like a spoiled toddler and claiming people like you are getting paid to clean it anyway.
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
You have my interest
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 work 4 on 4 off days then nights, which means I can go to the cinema off peak when there’s only a few other people there, it great.
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I still have ptsd from some primark shops in uk…
Scenes I saw are now how I picture the locust plague.
How can some people be so unaware of basic society rules?
I’ve never been into a Primark, but this looks very much like TK Maxx (which is what TJ Maxx is called here in the UK).
I raise my hand- I’ve seen similar in Australia’s Targets and Kmarts, though I must admit that was years ago. I haven’t seen this much mess in yhe shoe section over the past couple years but I also haven’t been shopping for shoes there lately, so all I’m saying is it can happen here too.
Can confirm, did a mandatory highschool weeks work experience in kmart a few years back - was the only person who cared to clean up the shoes.
Nowadays the shoe section is clean af. However I dont necessarily think it’s due to the workers - more likely less customers shopping for shoes offline.
I don’t generally buy shoes from those stores anyway anymore, I have very small feet so the selection sucks, but also none of the shoes last very long. Id rather spend $100 on shoes that last rather then $25-35 on shoes that fall to pieces after a month or two of use.
But when I do shop for shoes in these stores, I make a point to put the rejects back where they are supposed to go. That one week burned into my brain how painful it is to put away a mountain of shoes that people just tossed aside. So I’ll do my part to not be apart of the problem, and to make it easier for our poor retail workers.
In general, I feel l like Europeans experience a healthy amount of shame in situations like these, like USians completely lack.
I’d lie awake at night for the rest of my life because of the shame I’d feel knowing I left something behind looking as trashed as that.
It’s not an “American” thing. There are zero stores like this where I live. It’s a “wherever this store is” thing.
Well it sort of us getting there. But I think the stores sort of encourage that behavior.
Used to work retail so I feel this. Crazy thing is that sometimes it only takes one or two customers (and their gremlin children) to cause this kind of chaos. I’d go into fitting rooms and shit would be thrown all over the floors. Every now and then there would be extra surprises…like food or drink containers, or used diapers, or urine in the wastebasket. Fun times.
Some people are really disgusting and simply don’t care about others… it’s a shame, really and that’s the reasons we can’t have nice things.
This is the most unfair part and it expands to many areas of life. You can have a whole bunch of decent and normal people and just a handful of douchebags make it bad for everyone.
I wonder if higher fines, maybe relative to the person’s income, would help or just lead to different problems…
Anecdotal, but it seemed like 80% of the time it was the poorer folks doing this shit. Have a sister with 4 kids, super close to welfare level and her and her kids do this shit (mostly her kids do this and she just lets them). Shes just tired and inattentive all the time. What I’ve noticed gets her attention is when a store clerk or other customer calls them out and shames them.
So public shaming may help the problem, but in today’s world some of these people may turn rabid Mama bear on you. Some stores make you count items on hangers going in and then going out. That actually might work. But I’d rather see societal behavior change instead.
Side note: My sister has worked years of retail before so no idea how tf she does this.
My husband worked retail for a long time. The ones who did this in his stores were always the ones well put together and well dressed with money.
Assholes come from all income levels.
I can agree with this. Assholes from all walks.
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.
Because cutting costs is a very quick way of showing you are improving the bottom line in the short term and you get a bigger bonus that quarter. It is very easy to show savings from things like layoffs. Improving sales is harder to identify (was it the products? advertising? a mystery trend?) and take longer to appear on their charts. You’ll likely jump ship for the next job before the damage from your cuts shows up anyway.
I find that privately held companies tend to be better because the owner identifies personally with the business, it is “their baby”. They want to see it grow over their lifetime even if it means going slowly but steadily. With public companies the execs and board are brought in to increase profits regardless of the means and their timeframe is by the yearly quarter. There isn’t a strong mechanism to push them to focus on long term growth or stability. An exception are private tech startups that seem to focus on growing just enough to get the attention of a bigger company to give them a nice, fat offer and sell out and ditch the employees and customers.
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.
Everything is a K-Mart these days.
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.
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)
Same people who don’t return the shopping cart. Absolute animals.
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.
That is still a stupid way of looking at that sentence.
Shops should stock whatever they want.
Just because shoes are suddenly all the rage doesn’t mean they should stock shoes at coffee shops.
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.
A very large group of Americans are just awful people.
A very large group of people are just awful people.
Check, where ‘very large’ can even be 2+ in worst case scenarios.
People are just awful.
Most single specimens are acceptable, but in groups they tend to get worse. (or at least a lot louder)
It also depends on your own ability to handle them though, in some cases here even encountering 1 is to many. (I like my space and quiet surroundings)
True. But some cultures produce a bigger proportion of “awful” people.
American. Can confirm.
Woah easy on the racism pal
I’m pretty sure “American” describes a mixing of a bunch of different races. Unfortunately not harmoniously enough.
Reminds me of kmart in the 90’s.
Not quite as bad as the nightmare fodder that is 2010s Kmart.
I like the post apocalyptic Kmarts that are almost barren but there’s like one parked car out front and most of the windows are boarded up but the store is some how still open.
Is this normal? I’m in Canada and we would never ever leave things like that in a store.
Lol workers in america are not paid enough to give a shit.
In Britain, if you take something off the shelf and then decide you don’t want it, you put it back rather than just dropping it on the floor.
Despite their being no punishment for being a dirty, lazy bastard. Nor a reward for being tidy and considerate for the people that come after you, it’s basic self governance that makes things nicer for everyone.
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This is just the shoe section at every Target.
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
Just target?
That’s like most supermarkets that sell shoes for me.
Where trash place do you live in? I have never seen that.
I bet Ross is way uglier than that.
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Some ugly fuck
