Reply #20: As a former manager at Target

[TwixVoy]

I find it amusing how people who don't work retail (and may have NEVER worked retail) make judgements about how well a store is doing by the parking lot being full as so many on this thread have done.

If you go back to when I started posting on DU you will find my posts indicating that sales nation wide at Target had fallen off a cliff. (this was before most people had any clue what kind of financial disaster was on the way) I was called a liar by many people because the store they visited was "full of people". I suppose having access to the internal nation wide sales numbers that said otherwise just wasn't good enough compared to "the parking lot is full here".

I still keep in touch with some of my former co-workers in Target management spots. From what I have heard from all of them sales have NOT gotten better, and are generally worse than they were at this time last year. Too bad most people don't realize that is the figure that matters... not "how many people are in the store".