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« on: March 24, 2006, 12:18 PM »
I work at Target, but I run the overnight process (I'm an exec and salaried) so I make more than the sales floor employees who start at like $8 or $9 an hour. When we stock at night, the Target common practice is to push to the piece. For example, we got 3 cases of figs in the other night (crappy revision case, I posted the breakdown in the So Cal thread) and all 3 cases fit on the floor because we only had 3 Bib and 3 Poggle on the pegs. Now had only 2 cases fit on the floor, the other case would have been backstocked and then probably made its way to the floor later in the day had enough figures sold.
If you saw someone picking through 6 cases, then it was either someone's buddy getting hooked up or the employee just didn't care and brought all the cases to the floor that they had. In my experience with Target toy managers and the people who work in that dept., I'm gonna lean heavily toward that person being the employee's friend. There would be no reason for 6 cases of figs to hit the floor, even if the pegs were empty, because only about 4 cases will go out. Is there something else you guys were wondering about this topic? I'll answer anything I can.
As for the army building, I don't see it as hoarding if you are actually opening those figs and building an army. If someone has a stack of 20 of each Clone at home, in the package, then you have to suspect hoarding.