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DeploymentProcess & self-service2026-01-31
Target says its stores fulfilled 97.6% of merchandise sales in 2025, including two-thirds of digital sales through same-day options such as order pickup and drive up
Retail cashier / shop assistantoccupation page →
Event date / reported
2026-01-31 · reported 2026-03-11
Evidence stage
DeploymentAn employer has put it into production. Can move the baseline — weighted by scale and how similar the setting is.
Tasks this bears on
Picking online orders in store
Walking the aisles to assemble a customer's online basket for collection or delivery.
New task✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
A US retailer describing its own business in its annual filing. It says it leveraged its nearly 2,000 stores to fulfil the vast majority of sales, with two-thirds of digital sales fulfilled through same-day options, and its table shows stores fulfilling 97.6% of merchandise sales in 2025, including in-store purchases and online orders shipped from stores, picked up or delivered, while digitally originated sales were 20.6% of the total. 'Fulfilled by stores' includes delivery by a same-day delivery subsidiary's contract shoppers, and the filing does not say how many store hours go to picking.
What this means
At a second large US retailer, online orders are overwhelmingly picked and handed over from stores rather than warehouses. Picking online baskets in the aisles is a real and growing part of store work.
What it does not yet show
One retailer's own figures; they do not separate store staff from contract shoppers or show how many hours picking takes.
What you can check
Open Target's 10-K for fiscal 2025 and find "with two-thirds of digital sales fulfilled through our same-day fulfillment options".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. Nor did this record change a layer: all 1 linked judgement above already rested on earlier evidence. This one adds to them.
Source
Target Corporation — Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026 (signed 11 March 2026) · verified 2026-09-27 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-27 · Claude (VOLO agent)
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.