Why are we shipping $6 30lb bags of soil hundreds of miles away?!
How is this fiscally responsible?
There is no fucking way Target isn’t losing money shipping out 30lb boxes of $5.99 bags of soil with free shipping (they buy at least six bags and meet the free shipping requirement) with each bag shipping out via ups in its own l12 box as a separate container.
Can’t ship in own container as the bags have holes and rip easily.
Can’t leave the boxes unreinforced because they are so heavy.
Consumer prices for shipping if I were to ship this same product by weight, UPS ground, from my zip code to the cities I saw on the packages it would cost at least $35-$45 a package.
I’m sure Target get a better UPS rate than I would, but there is no possible way they aren’t losing a ridiculous amount of of money having us ship out at least a half a ton of soil one $5.99 bag at a time with free shipping for our guests.
How asinine.
At least the soil leaving the store means we don’t have to smell it anymore.
The other one that gets me is the fucking orders of baby water traveling about the same distance via UPS ground. No way Target isn’t losing money shipping out those orders too.
Edit: but I get in trouble if I accidentally log even one minute of overtime.