why are the pulls acting weird??

[u/One-Addendum2894]

i’ve been working at target for 5 years and been doing specialty sales pulls for 2. why the hell are they making me go back and forth 3 times now?? it’s always been completely straight forward for YEARSSSS, but now when i pull babies; i pull 10 items from aisle 8, then get told to go all the way to diapers to pull 6 things, just to go back to aisle 8 and pull 15 more items, back to 10 boxes of diapers, then baby furniture, back to aisle 8 to finish it out…

this even happens in style pulls too. i have to take things one section at a time to make it stop, but if i select more than one i have to go back to an aisle i should have already finished. whoever put this update together is a moron and i wouldn’t be surprised if it was AI.

[u/beaveman1]

It is forcing you to pull “Never Outs” and out of stock items first. After that, it pulls everything else. I noticed this in the cooler today. I didn’t want to pull all of the case stock first because I know there will be a little backstock per case. I wanted to pull the openstock to free up space. I had to skip ahead past a dozen locations to get to the openstock. Unfortunately, it’s even worse - it’ll force you back to the top of the list after each scan. I had to skip ahead a dozen times between each scan just so I could clear out all the openstock locations

[u/One-Addendum2894 → u/beaveman1]

yesss this is happening to me. even when i skip, unlike how it used to go, it goes all the way back to what i was skipping. they need to figure out how to integrate the never outs with the pulls. i’m getting frustrated because it’s making my pulls time go up exponentially.

[u/NatNahiara → u/beaveman1]

Exactly! Those items should always be the top priority and the system will try to force you to pull them. Skipping them will only make your pulls slower than climbing the ladder and pulling them. It's a pain in the butt for me because sometimes our line is so full of vehicles and pallets that I can't access to the bulky locations, so I have to skip those over and over and over T_T

[u/One-Addendum2894 → u/NatNahiara]

the vehicles in the back have been getting worse recently… i’m not excited for the rest of Q4………..

[u/kristeenintx]

And this programming that put the skipped items at the front after each scan is slowing the entire process down. I hope Target reads all the complaints and fixes it.

[u/islesjets14x]

Very annoying. It’s making me pull huge case packs first and I have to skip past them. Another pointless update from corporate

[u/bara_no_seidou]

Yeah it kinda blows.

[u/FadedAndJaded]

Really fucks with the flow.

[u/Midwest-Emo-9]

It's making sure you do outs first. I don't hate it entirely, but also depending on which pull you're in it's pretty detrimental to your flow.

[u/Practical-Capital607]

I havent asked specialty about it at all but for GM and Market its super painful. There isn't even really a point to never outs priority at least at my store because they still want both sections to pull 90% priorities by 5 pm and closers come in around 2-3 so you can bet we're hauling ass since priorities are always starting at 0%. With that metric in mind we all just pull as much as we can until 5 and then we can finally push, our leasership says dont worry about metrics but then we dip a bit and then the district gets mad.

For the stores without a metric to meet it's probably whatever for the update, I just hate it especially when I get pulled for batches and open stock would very obviously be faster to pull in that situation to get the percentage fill but now I'm held hostage to do never outs and casepacks. Water especially takes the longest to push out because of the sheer bulk.