MINNEAPOLIS, MN (KELO.com) — Target Thursday shared an overview of its staffing plans for the holiday season, with a focus on keeping its guests and team members safe and offering the easy, convenient services shoppers want. The retailer will add more resources to support contactless services and safety, offer its current team more hours and training opportunities and hire broadly across its stores and distribution centers to serve guests during the holiday season.
Target’s distribution centers will send more inventory to stores than ever before to ensure Target has the most in-demand items. As a result, Target will hire more full-time and seasonal warehouse team members across the country than last year.
Target also will dedicate team members to the front of its stores who will greet and direct guests and be responsible for safety precautions like cleaning and disinfecting carts and baskets, metering access so guests can maintain social distancing and providing masks to guests who need them. To prepare for the season, Target store and distribution team members have completed more than 400,000 hours of safety training this year, with hundreds of thousands of additional hours anticipated before the end of the year.
Interested candidates can visit TargetSeasonalJobs.com to apply for store positions and distribution center roles.
- Twice as many store team members will be dedicated to contactless services, including Drive Up and Order Pickup
- Distribution centers will hire more seasonal team members than last year to manage inventory being sent to stores
- Team members stationed at the front of Target stores will focus on safety and cleaning, greeting and directing guests to help with their holiday shopping
- Team members can work additional hours in their current role, and new this year, train to work in other areas of the store
- Target will hire extensively, with seasonal team members receiving an industry-leading starting wage of $15 and coronavirus health and wellness benefits
