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Our inbound team is being trained on a new unload process, where cases coming off the truck are going to have a new destination tag printed on the label, either backroom or salesfloor. Dedicated backroom vehicles will be added to the line, and the system is designed to minimize unnecessary cases being pushed to the sales floor when the item is marked as transition or the system predicts it’s already full stocked on the floor. It’s supposed to launch this summer for our store, along with a full time backroom team.

Has anyone heard about this? It sounds like a major structural change that would cause a lot of chatter, but so far it’s been crickets on here. It can’t just be my store since these changes would mostly need to occur at the DC level. Im pretty excited though, seems like a change that should’ve been done ages ago, will make push go a lot faster, reduce overstocking, and clean up the backroom a lot

I’m talking about the spring loaded pushing systems that keeps product at the front of the shelf. We used to have them mostly in personal care (where they make a lot of sense), but now they’re almost everywhere in essentials and it’s driving me crazy. The spring doesn’t have enough force to move heavier product (like bulkier chem stuff), plus also the backing seat doesn’t have the surface area to really hold wider product snug and keep it installed on the tray thing, so it like turns diagonal and it’s really hard to push new stock. It looks absolutely terrible too, like overlapping product that fell over because the pusher can’t hold the product right without putting lopsided force on one side turning it crooked

Is this everywhere or just my store? My store does a lot of prototyping projects for Target I believe, so not sure if this is just some half baked test idea that’ll get stripped, or if it’s a store wide thing now and the presentation team needs to redo the pushing system thingies