Thoughts from target workers?
tylerj1462
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I work at Target and have just a few things to say about the company. I am not management just a backroom guy so I don't have any inside info, just observations.
I have noticed target makes a real effort to be diverse. Not only the easy stuff like hiring people from many backgrounds. Target has a strong relationship with the Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Alliance. They also allow workers to have visible tattoos and piercings.
Over the last year and a half target has made a valid attempt to go green. The best example is the new policy on moving product from the district warehouse to the stores. In the past trucks would make a delivery 5 days a week no matter how full the truck was. The new policy only allows full trucks to be delivered, so if the automatic orders don't fill the truck it sits until its full. This cuts down one or two long round trip semi truck drives per week. Saves a ton gas and carbon emissions.
Target is also heavily involved with the united way and other local charities.
That said. Pearl Jam doing an ad for target still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I have noticed target makes a real effort to be diverse. Not only the easy stuff like hiring people from many backgrounds. Target has a strong relationship with the Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Alliance. They also allow workers to have visible tattoos and piercings.
Over the last year and a half target has made a valid attempt to go green. The best example is the new policy on moving product from the district warehouse to the stores. In the past trucks would make a delivery 5 days a week no matter how full the truck was. The new policy only allows full trucks to be delivered, so if the automatic orders don't fill the truck it sits until its full. This cuts down one or two long round trip semi truck drives per week. Saves a ton gas and carbon emissions.
Target is also heavily involved with the united way and other local charities.
That said. Pearl Jam doing an ad for target still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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They have to be on Conan, have a video game, play live, sell bootleges of every show...
Let's not forget that they decided to allow the music to speak for itself without videos... that means the biggest marketing tool for bands is gone... MTV doesn't touch them, nor does VH1... This isn't 1992 anymore, Pearl Jam is now an 18 year-old band.
If doing a commercial for Target (and you admit it's a pretty forward-thinking company) is a way to stay in the public consciousness and sell records so they can keep MAKING records.. I'm fine with that.
I don't mind corporation sponsorship through a particu;ar store. With Piracy the way it is, it makes sense. Only selling at 1 retail store will draw a bigger sales number, however all retail chains will carry it eventually. It's nothing but a Marketing ploy with a particular retail outlet. My friend told me he saw "Black Ice" by AC/DC at Best Buy and when first released, was only released through walmart. Which leads me to believe, that it's a ploy to not only increase sales through a particular retail outlet, but the band will make more money (suposedly) if only distributed through a particular retailer for a bit.
Truth be told burning cds and piracy killed the album sales, sad but true. Bands have to do what they feel is best given the direction slaes have taken due to technology advancing.
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What an idiotic statement.
Sure there's always one :roll:
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That it so damn funny!! Before I saw your reply, I was thinking the same thing..." Maybe if I email this guy, he might be able to snag me something when the release comes! "...LOLOLOL...Sick I tell you...SICK!! :-)
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If it put food on the table and the paid the bills, I wouldnt call it senseless! I have a pretty good job and some stability, but if I were to lose that, and Target...Wallmart or fucking Mcdonalds had a place for me that would help me to keep my house or eat, I am on board. Dumbest thing I have read all morning, and I have been here 2 mins!
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I know its so funny.....I still shop at walmart time to time.....I am not going to lie I buy my fruity pebbles, and cinnamon life cereal. Its mad cheaper at walmart then local supermarkets. Yea yea i know thats how they are killing small shops.....but i only care whats best for me not pathmark. But the girls are hotter at target
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Nice statement. :roll:
says the person who probably had everything given to him and never had to work a job so beneath them, before..............
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Amen.
i'm thinkin the same thing. they almost always have some kind of "special edition" nonsense with their dvds/cds that are exclusively sold or promoted there.
My question is this. Not sending a truck until it's packed has to save them money. Would Target do this if it cost them MORE money?
Maybe they would. Maybe they wouldn't.
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Maybe not. But they do keep the policy in place even if the truck is full of sale items late in the week. This past week they did not send a truck Saturday even though it was full of crap that was no longer going to be on sale the next day. Target makes most of its money on sale items.
And Im glad the promo stuff was brought up. I end up tossing most of that sort of stuff out, so Im sure I could walk out with a lot of it.
So would you say you've got some if we need it?
for the least they could possibly do
Pearl Jam has always been able to walk the line between giving to the fans while still managing to make money. Those tour busses don't drive themselves, you know.
They saw many of us fans spending $40+ on awful bootleg recordings of their live shows and instead gave us much higher quality, lower price bootlegs to buy and still managed to get paid. We all won.
With this deal at Target, they'll get their CDs into every area... not just major cities with record stores but rural areas that only have stores like Target. They'll get national distribution, they'll get promotion on network television, they can probably get a single played on the radio.
Better distribution means more sales which means more new fans meaning bigger venues and more tour dates in smaller cities.
We all win again.
Lmao! I’m picturing Ed’s head on the floor now……….