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It's not just Target, it's every store that sells software and complies to the law. If you ever are in this situation again with any other store, your best bet is to read the manual that comes with the software on how to obtain replacement software from the manufacturer. Keep in mind that many manufacturers require you to either send a photo copy or a fax of your original purchase receipt as well.

Again i have had the same problem after a couple of months my straightners broke too with them just not heating up. After sending them back to GHD they informed me that they were fake with little chance of me seeing my money again.

I have experienced the same problem, i sent my straightners off to have them repaired and i was told they were fake.

GHD told me to take this further and get my money back.

Its not their fault you didnt read the return policy. It dosent make THEM a bad company, it just makes you the typical customer with ALWAYS something to complain about.

Maybe it's the manufacturer and not Target's fault you got a crappy machine

I live in the Mesquite, Texas area, and shop at the local Target store. Most of the time your products are of high quality, but I bought an area rug ( approx. 8x10) costing around $175.00 on sale at the Mesquite store last spring (2010), and the thing is falling apart! It is a retangle-shaped braided rug, and the colors were beautiful; however, the colors have started to fade, and there are loose strings coming out of the braids all over the rug. At this rate, the rug will not last another year. It has also streached out of shape, and has a tendency to "bunch up" (this could be a fall hazzard). This is not happening because of excessive wear; only normal wear-and-tear of a household of two people. Please let me know if there is any kind of guarantee of this product, and thank you for hearing me out.

Norma Heartsill, Garland, Texas

Dear Customer,

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If you wish for any model of brand not included above, then send us your enquiry and order quote and we get in touch with you soonest.

Contact:
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sale.cashier@gmail.com
sale.manager@consultant.com

The store which you applied to may not have a true opening. They may have forgotten to update their employment kiosk signs. Target accepts applications year round whether they are hiring or not. If you applied online, it also depends on what selections you made when you applied. I would recommend going to the store and submitting an application in person from the hiring kiosk. Provided you have the availability to work when they need you, when they have an open position they will call and you will go through a set of interviews. Locally, our Target has quite a bit of older employees. One lady whom always helps me out when I buy clothes/jewelry just celebrated her 86th birthday. She and her daughter both work at Target. I don't think you were being intentionally discriminated against. Times are tough, most retailers are not hiring.

I too applied at Target for seasonal work and was hired after the holidays. I've been there for several months now and had I known the company had such a bad reputation in the public eye I would have applied at Walmart instead. Here's to you Target - [censor] you and your red target bullseye mf dog

I am a former Senior Manager for Target and I agree that they do treat you like dirt. Even management is treated poorly, behind the scenes of course but very poorly never the less. I worked their for 5 months and could not stand the way they treated me. I have been in the Army for over 20 years serving my country the best I can. Target did not care about my military commitment, they said that you are in a management position and the time off is worrying the store team leader (store manager). I hate Target I will never step foot in a Target ever again. Go Wal-Mart

Target is the worst place to work the store dose not stand behind there employees I volutary quit because I was sick of the lies I did everything by the book and they made promises they did not keep that place sucks and so do the people that come through your line they need to learn how to do some stuff them sevles because I not there mother and I just want to lodge that papermate pen in the guest neck and in all the other ### that I know so target treat your employees better expesially you ETL

while i agree that target messed up and should at least fix the bike, why didn't you just go to a bike shop in the first place?

Target Sucks!

This complaint is exactly right...I bought an item and never used it or even took it out of the box. When i finally had time to look at it I found out it was the wrong thing. I took the item, WITH the receipt, back to target, they told me the item was bought over 90 days ago and the receipt has expired. Who ever heard of such a stupid rule! So 89 days and all is OK but 91 days and forget it? I was even willing to work with them and accept a gift card but again they said "computer won't let me do it".
I can't understand how a store that is still selling this very item, I have a receipt & I'm willing to take a gift card, that I didn't want and should not have had to take, would not work with me. The customer service people were rude and uncaring.
I requested a manager and things just got worse. All she did was give me a [protected] number to call. I called and got no where with the customer service rep and then again the manager. Then I found out I was calling New Deli, India. How can anyone in India help me in Pennsylvania? This was just getting worse and I was not getting any answers.
So I waited a few days and tried again to return the item to the store with different customer service people on duty. This time WITHOUT the receipt, said it was a gift and I didn't want it. Without any problem at all the same computers worked and item was returned.
I learned my lesson! If you tell target the truth the computers don't work but if you tell them what they want to hear the computers work!
TARGET you need to STOP that 90 day expired receipt concept. If someone has a receipt and you have the item on your shelves there should be NO reason that item can not be returned. People need every dollar they work for these days and this is just robbery!
Shame on you...and I hope to see a change in store policy soon!
Please everyone who agrees with this let Target know.

Wow! Might be that particular store. I've never had a problem returning or exchanging anything at Target. But then I never tried to return a completely assembled RTA furniture piece.

90 days, read the reciept.

What brand television was it? That'd be where the complaint belongs. Otherwise, if you'd have bought the television at Walmart or Bestbuy, would they be to blame for the defective manufacturing? Not likely.

Well it does not surprise me that all this is going on.I was hired for season as tps in assets protection . Etl AP she does not no how to talk to any one including guest . She has nasty attitude if. A guess come in the store and ask a question she gets down right nasty with them and calls the cops to issue trespassing.I observed it multiple. Times. Even call law enforcement on older lady who clear had medical tags and a medical wrist saying she. Was mentally disable complained she was under the influence and tried to have her kick pout of the store 1503 . I was so embarrassed when I heard law enforcement. Tell her u didn't see her tags on her. Wow . My second day on the job which was on black Friday after all those long hrs with no break I ask ti take a quick 15min . After my break she call me into the office calling a liar and all sort crazy stuff and turn around and says good job . I was like wow. I had talk with stl and corrected until she went on family leave from work. I got work day after Christmas I receive a letter from hr stating they Aappreciate hard and would love to have me on the team as non- seasonal team. Member . I accepted only for two hr later for etl AP to come in and fire me saying she has multiple complaints of sexy harassment and videos prove it what a laughing stock this is I have a beautiful wife I love that I come home to everyday .I don't feel need to look else where. It was all so funny cause if there's a complaint its hr problem hr wasn't present. I don't mine or take I personal if u don't want to continue employment . Why have hr say one and u make up something to try ruin my name. I don't understand I enjoyed my job something needs to be done about it. Military vet after 15yrs if anyone has and answer lukane_2010@yahoo.com

Target has hired Jamin Dick, a convicted criminal for assault, in their IT dept. What a bunch of two-faced liars.

Abuse of basic employee rights and aggressive management tactics from Store managers on down is rampid in this corporation. I am most curious about the comments defending Target from so called former HR staff. The two here that state that there is no conflict of interest with bonuses for Managers. They state that Store Manager bonuses are tied to making budget and profitability among other factors. What any business person with half a brain can figure out is that the ONLY way for Store Managers at Target to make budget and be profitable to the expense number they are given is to eliminate older and more expensive employees. This is a common and unwritten practice at big chain stores. It's common sense that if an older employee of say 5 years who has earned extra vacation time...and potentially annual raises...the Store has to hire and spend that many vacations days in extra cost to have someone else cover those shifts. For example, if you have a store with all young employees who only have 1 or 2 weeks vacation at most and you compare to a Store who has half the employees are older than 40 and have an average of 4 weeks vacation...the largest expense and cost in each store is the labor and the store with the older employees has more than double the labor expense. There is NO WAY a store can make budget and no way the Store Manager gets their bonus if they have older employees. If this in fact is the unwritten policy ... to indirectly force out older employees so store managers make their bonus...it's a form of age discrimination among other things. How does a so called former HR person for Target not understand simple expense budget management and keeping labor costs low? I agree something big should be done to Target corporate and all large chains where they force out older employees mostly so Store Managers can make bonus money. That is the classic conflict of interest. I have even heard of situations where the Store HR person is also the Store Manger. Talk about a scam. That is a law suit waiting to happen.

I worked at Target and had many problems there. But when reading your post I was made to think that maybe you're either been lied to or are misunderstanding what your husband is telling you about the company. I was a Human Resource Manager at Target and NO ONE ever gets bonuses or are rewarded for skimping on raises for their employees. That's not how the system works. According to how often the compnay made budget and the income it provided the store is given a certain amount of money it is allowed to give raises off. IT HAS to be under the amount or it will never be approved from district. Manager bonuses are a joke and are not received because of meetiong this budget requirement, but is given because of where you fall on your performance review.

IN ADDITION, THERE WAS NO MINORITY QUOTA at Target. Althought Target encourages diverse groups of emplyees it is ridiculous for this man to blame Target for not being transfered because of a minority quota. When someone was denied transfer from me it was because I would feel guilty passing a problem onto another store if I knew they were a bad worker, OR if the store did not have an opening for the position.

I do agree that Target has ALOT of issues I say agian, but it's difficult to take your article seriously when there's such agregous lies about how the system works. YOu may not have meant to lie, but your information is very inaccurate.

My wife has a knee with four torn ligaments, and her managers at Target refuse to give her proper breaks. They even force her to punch out for lunch but still work the half hour! Today she was basically black-mailed, guilt tripped and bullied into coming to work even though she is is so sick she can hardly stand, talk, or eat! At work she tries to go home but the same thing, being called a baby and a faker. I talked to her on the phone and though barley able to understand her she tells me "I can't come home because I don't want to be the one they talk about" Is it just me or do this seem like a grossly perverted middle school lunchroom.

Here is the kicker she works in the downtown Minneapolis store attached to cooperate and has even told Gregg Steinhafel in person about it!

I worked for target for a total of 6 days and quit. I was training as an ETL and I soon realized that what I was really being trained to do was be an hourly employee. I started thinking that I seriously took out student loans and put in blood, sweat and tears into school to climb ladders and put together shelving. I left a great paying job that I was bored with hoping that this would be an exciting fast paced environment to get some management experience. I found everyone a bit unfriendly and the hourly employees seemed to not be so friendly when I tried to make conversation. Perhaps they were use to young kids right out of college with no experience treating them like crap...who knows. I was not prepared or willing to put in effort to motivate people who were not motivated to get to know you! Everyone seemed a bit to miserable for my taste. I have always worked for companies where people were willing to get to know you and were friendly. The climate tells you a lot about the culture and the whole "fun place to work" is just a wish and not reality. The pay was only 46k a year and they expected you to work 50 hours +. When I quit I told my trainer that I thought this was a 50 hour work week but the other ETL's stated that it can be more like 60 or 65 hours a week. So divide my salary by (lets say 55 hours a week) and I am now I am making what I made right out of highschool in 2002. The trainer said that the excess hours were not true and that if that is the case they arent doing their jobs well. He then said the hours are more like 40 or 45? If these people are not doing their jobs correctly I suppose these are the people you want to train me then? So its been 3 1/2 weeks since my first day and I have yet to receive my pay check. They said it would be mailed and I would get it on October 1st or the 2nd the latest. Well I still havent received it, the store is stating it was mailed at the beginning of the week. Well they must be lying because it doesnt take a week for local mail to get to your house! I will be putting in a complaint with the department of labor because they have 2 days to get my paycheck in my hand, that would be the actual payday or by the saturday following. I called today about my check and the hr etl said it was mailed out the beginning of the week but couldnt tell me what day? She then said I should get it by Monday and I said that would be a holiday so she said then by Tuesday. Nice HR manager she is because she clearly does not no the law about how long you have to provide someone with a check. If I was told the correct information about how they are distributed perhaps I could have gone in to pick it up on friday. Instead I was lied to stating it would be mailed to me directly and here I sit with no paycheck. I havent received a a check since the beginning of september from my previous employer! Target is unprofessional and probably the most negative place I have ever worked! Thank God I found a job that same week I determined this place was horrible!

I TOTALLY agree with almost everything, that everyone has stated on here! I found this website searching for a phone number for Target headquarters to form a complaint! Its almost refreshing to see that I am not the only person having major issues with working for Target! I have been working for Target for about two years, and their human resources team is totally unprofessional. I was on a medical leave for almost two months with a serious, and now chronic medical condition. They have my doctors notes, and to this day still hassle be about my absence being unexcused. I feel that myself, at the age of only 19 could do a much better job then any of these people working in human resources. They are lacking common sense, and do not know how to run a business professionally.

i work at target. i have worked there for 3 years now. i am very unhappy there but with how things are going with jobs out there i have no other choice but to stay there. right now i am having a problem with them . i was on vacation and i dislocated my knee. when i came back i went to the doctor and he told me that i could work i just couldn't stand for long periods of time that i had to sit . i gave my lod and stl a doctors note . first the stl said she couldn't take the doctors note because they don't take notes but she would make sure that i was able to sit if i needed to. the next day i had to work but in the morning i noticed that my knee was swollen all the way to my ankle . so i decided to call out just in case . i didn't want to hurt it more. about a week later i went back to work and my team lead said she had to talk to me . i work at the fitting room . she didn't take me to the office or anything she talked to me there. i don't think that legal to do. she made me look bad in front of people . she said that because i called out the last time i worked she was going to put me on probation for 30 days and i cant call out or anything for those days . so for the next 3 days that i worked i wasn't allowed to sit either . they said they weren't going to give me special treatment. when i went back to the doctor he told me i now have fluid in my knee and that was caused by me standing at work for so long on it. i also have to miss work on friday for an MRI to be done . they were not happy i was going to have to miss that day and told me i did it for that day so i didn't have to go to work . it's funny they say they won't take my note because it's a company rule but yet they have taken them for others before. i don't know what to do .any advice?

Reading through these posts I'm a little dumbfounded at how widespread these problems are. My wife is a current employee of Target and I found this website while I was searching for a way to file a complaint to their headqaurters. The Target my wife works at is a fairly busy 2 story store and they are constantly under scheduling the closing shift. They will have as few as 6 people to close the store and get it ready for the next day. They work the employees like dogs and get mad when things are not being taken care of properly or quick enough. Does anyone know of a way to file a formal complaint with the headquarters?

I must say, I can sympathize with each of you. As far as dating another team member, our store has a Team Lead (hourly) dating a team member, but since Target ensure she does not report to him, then they say it is OK. Well, when he is the TLOD, is she not reporting to him? of course she is.

They went a far as telling the team leads and ETL's that they "highly discourage" them from being freinds with Team Members on Facebook! Talk about a violation of the first amendment!?

Well my wife works as a Team Lead (or I should say worked) and she filled out a punch correction sheet for me, since I have Rhumetoid Arthritis and can not always write. She did so on the 24th of December to ensure they were in for the end of year. I asked her to complete it while I was in the Back of the Store pulling their CAFs so they would not be in the "Red" for the day. She signed it for me and submitted it. She did not approve it, just submitted it.

They brought her in and asked her, she told them she did. Without asking why she did other that the posted note, they terminated her. No previous warning, all her evaluations were above average and she was a "company player".

When asked about the appeal process, the store manager said :we do not have one, sometimes these things happen because people make an honest mistake". There was no benefit realized for either of us because of her actions. I had worked this time and she gave the correct time out punch.

Did I happen to say this was after she attempted to go to work with pneumonia for two weeks (during holiday schedule) and four days after I filed a harrasment complaint against a different hourly team leader?

Well here I am at 5am, attempting to find someone I can write to so they can review this actions before some further action is taken.

They differ not only state to state, but district to district, from store to store and team member to team member. Far and equal treatment has never been something they can say they do.

I am looking for information which a similiar scenario may have taken place in a different Target store.

Any one have anything?

Thanks

"HOW CAN A RECEIPT BE EXPIRED? I told them that they gladly took my green money in March, without any indication that I had only 90 days to return it if I planned on so doing!"

You know when you get up to register at some stores and the clerk says, "do you know about our return policy?"
Well that's because there are so many people like you running around with the assumption that we can just take things back when we're done with them or when we get around to returning them. If it doesn't work when you get home, turn around and return it (don't forget your receipt). If it breaks after 90 days, take it up with the manufacturer. If you don't want it anymore, sell it or give it away.

And above all, if you want high quality, don't shop at places like Target and Wal-mart! You. Get. What. You. Pay. For.

I worked at a store without a time limit on returns. At least twice a year we would have people return really old stff..like 20 years old. I'm sorry but 3 months should be plenty of time. If it's a manufacturing issue, take t up with that company

the receipt says 90 days not 104 days. There has to be some cut off. Otherwise what is stopping people from returning stuff that they bought from target 10 years ago?

I totally agree - I too, attempted to return a bed comforter last week that I purchased in March. (It didn't end up working into my redecorating that has been delayed.) I fully expected to be able to return this item as :
1. It was never used, it was still in it's original packaging.
2. It was shown in their weekly sale flyer as well. (Obviously current merchandise!)
I was told that there was absolutely nothing they could do since my receipt was EXPIRED!

HOW CAN A RECEIPT BE EXPIRED? I told them that they gladly took my green money in March, without any indication that I had only 90 days to return it if I planned on so doing!

Having had a retail store of my own before, I know how important good customer service is. Due to their lack of it, I suspect that the hand writing is already on the wall...

They were totally inflexible with their customer service. I too, will not shop at Target again. There are too many competitors that are out there to be treated like this. With stores closing almost daily in today's economic climate (and some major ones at that) I would think Target would realize that nothing lasts forever... When the announcement eventually comes that they are "re-structuring" or are closing their doors, it won't surprise me a bit, and quite honestly I will feel like a little justice will have been served.

You sound like a crazy person. Why would you think they were having an affair? I bet you are a horrible customer.

Wow, that's pretty crazy to jump to the conclusion that the two people were having an affair. Makes me discount your entire account of the customer service at that store. I bet you were really rude to the employees.

Affair? Thats reaching...