Target to shift to larger 150k square foot prototype

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Re: Target to shift to larger 150k square foot prototype

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Nobody wants to work in Reno?
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jamcool wrote: November 23rd, 2022, 11:12 pm Nobody wants to work in Reno?
The employee pool that normally works in retail, restaurant, fast food, is all working in warehouses. Warehouses are doing sign on bonuses, free bus out to the warehouses (since they are mostly in not convenient locations), and very high starting wages crossing $20/hr now. Or in the case of restaurants, the employees who really want to work at restaurants know which restaurants to go work at and earn high tips.
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I'm hearing echos of 1980s Detroit, Michigan where the UAW wage scale buoyed all hourly earnings throughout the region...famously UFCW wages were sky-high.
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storewanderer wrote: November 24th, 2022, 1:44 am
jamcool wrote: November 23rd, 2022, 11:12 pm Nobody wants to work in Reno?
The employee pool that normally works in retail, restaurant, fast food, is all working in warehouses. Warehouses are doing sign on bonuses, free bus out to the warehouses (since they are mostly in not convenient locations), and very high starting wages crossing $20/hr now. Or in the case of restaurants, the employees who really want to work at restaurants know which restaurants to go work at and earn high tips.
I assume those warehouses are primarily supplying Northern California, which is similar to what is happening in Phoenix- many warehouses/distribution facilities being built on the Westside (along I-10 and Loop 303)
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Re: Target to shift to larger 150k square foot prototype

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jamcool wrote: November 24th, 2022, 8:48 am
storewanderer wrote: November 24th, 2022, 1:44 am
jamcool wrote: November 23rd, 2022, 11:12 pm Nobody wants to work in Reno?
The employee pool that normally works in retail, restaurant, fast food, is all working in warehouses. Warehouses are doing sign on bonuses, free bus out to the warehouses (since they are mostly in not convenient locations), and very high starting wages crossing $20/hr now. Or in the case of restaurants, the employees who really want to work at restaurants know which restaurants to go work at and earn high tips.
I assume those warehouses are primarily supplying Northern California, which is similar to what is happening in Phoenix- many warehouses/distribution facilities being built on the Westside (along I-10 and Loop 303)
Exactly - these warehouses support California, Nevada, and the Northwest. I looked to see where Target's NorCal center is, and it's in Woodland, which is just to the NW of Sacramento. It's about a 2 1/2-3 hour drive from the DC to the Reno/Sparks stores, so not impossible, unless it's during a time when I-80 is closed over Donner Pass. Walmart, Chewy, PetSmart, Amazon, Tire Rack, JCPenney, among others have huge DCs in the area.
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