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I need some help to one up an insufferable know it all

happyroo_bunji — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:09:01 GMT

Hey everyone

I need to know if any Tarjay stores in Australia have public toilets? I have never been in a Tarjay that had thier own public toilets, yet an insufferable know it all co-worker says that most stores do.

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*pepe — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:11:03 GMT

all the ones i have been to are a part of a complex which has public loos but the actual stores don't

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j*oono — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:11:27 GMT

I doubt it. Target stores are always in shopping centres and the rest rooms are in the shopping centre not the stores.

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icyfroth — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:17:46 GMT

Years ago Kmart in Blacktown used to have a public loo, but they closed that down years ago as well.

I think ppl were abusing it.

Kmart Blacktown is a stand-alone store, not in a centre.

I think your know- it- all friend will find, as has been stated in above posts, that individual stores no longer have public toilets, instead, ppl use the public loos in the centres.

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gleee58 — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:20:04 GMT

Nope, can't say I've ever been to a Target with internal public toilets.

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j*oono — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:20:30 GMT

The only case I can think of is if there is a store in the city that has them. I know some department stores in the city have their own loos.

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2106greencat — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:22:32 GMT

I agree, they may have 'staff facilities' (and not all shops do in a centre beleive me) but most complexes have facilities for the public and they are well signed on each floor.

Bunnings in Maroochydore do have public facilities, but this is more for the sake of keeping the buyer on site, rather than the buyers convenience I am sure LOL

Good business practice actually when you think about it LOL

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i-need-a-martini — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:22:25 GMT

I am afraid your friend is correct.

By law any stand alone store has to have public accessible toilets. And even if they are in a complex, some would have to have them depending on the size of the store and the proximity to the nearest public ones.

On saying that I have never been into a Target that had a 'Toilet this way' sign anywhere. But I have been to my local when my daughter had to go, and they didn't have a problem taking me to one that was locked but not sign posted.

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2106greencat — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:26:19 GMT

By law any stand alone store has to have public accessible toilets.

Not in Qld martini, at least not on the Sunny Coast - most of the S/Centres on the Sunshine Coast have Public Toilets, and depending on the 'size' of the stand alone store, the staff of those stores have to use the same facilities as the Public - there will be toilets marked 'staff' where a key is needed, but no law regulates a small store to have a facility on site.

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cherry*135 — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:29:41 GMT

No toilet in my local Target, in a mall complex with mall toilets. Toilets are nearby Target.

Kmart, Woolies, Coles big stores in the mall that don't have their own toilets.

Myer is the only store in my local mall with instore toilets.

Re what Martini said - we have one standalone Woolies and that does have its own toilets (NSW)

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gleee58 — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:32:38 GMT

@i-need-a-martini wrote:
I am afraid your friend is correct.

By law any stand alone store has to have public accessible toilets. And even if they are in a complex, some would have to have them depending on the size of the store and the proximity to the nearest public ones.

On saying that I have never been into a Target that had a 'Toilet this way' sign anywhere. But I have been to my local when my daughter had to go, and they didn't have a problem taking me to one that was locked but not sign posted.

The law varies state to state and depending on store size though, doesn't it?

A couple of stand alone Target stores I know of only have staff toilets and the size of the store was the determining factor (in not having to provide public toilets). The huge newish one at Belconnen has toilets nearby but not in store.

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2106greencat — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:32:12 GMT

When you think about it, it would make sense for the BIG 4 to have toilets in the stores, I can't see how it would cost much more to accomodate this, and like I said about Bunnings, it keeps you in the store.

Scenario, shopping in KMart - kid needs the loo, mum has to leave the store, and how many times does mum think, Oh Stuff it, I will come back another day without the kid's?

Money lost - for what ? the sake of a cleaner and a few toilet rolls.

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happyroo_bunji — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:32:18 GMT

Thanks everyone, its as I thought.

I was getting fed up with people coming into the store to ask if we had toilets or ask where they were. I stupidly muttered to this co-worker "WTH is it with people asking where our loo's are? Target never has public toilets", I was then subjected to a lecture about how 'most' Target stores have them. I wanted to tell him to ~insert rude words~.

Nowdays the only stores that have their own public toilets that I know of are Bunnings, Myer in Melbourne CBD, and a Spotlight in Bayswater. The Target I work at is a country Target which is in the main street of town about 500 metres up/down from a very well signposted convenience stop.

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happyroo_bunji — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:36:18 GMT

@i-need-a-martini wrote:
I am afraid your friend is correct.

By law any stand alone store has to have public accessible toilets. And even if they are in a complex, some would have to have them depending on the size of the store and the proximity to the nearest public ones.

On saying that I have never been into a Target that had a 'Toilet this way' sign anywhere. But I have been to my local when my daughter had to go, and they didn't have a problem taking me to one that was locked but not sign posted.

never heard of that law martini.

The only toilets we have in the store are the staff ones and I for one would not be happy if the public had access to them.

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azureline** — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:39:32 GMT

There are 4 Target stores in shopping centres that I go to, none have in store toilets.

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grace.under.water — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:43:19 GMT

@happyroo_bunji wrote:
Hey everyone

I need to know if any Tarjay stores in Australia have public toilets? I have never been in a Tarjay that had thier own public toilets, yet an insufferable know it all co-worker says that most stores do.

Why does it matter what she thinks and why would proving her wrong on such a minor issue, be satisfactorily thumbing it at her?

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happyroo_bunji — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:53:24 GMT

@grace.under.water wrote:
@happyroo_bunji wrote:
Hey everyone

I need to know if any Tarjay stores in Australia have public toilets? I have never been in a Tarjay that had thier own public toilets, yet an insufferable know it all co-worker says that most stores do.

Why does it matter what she thinks and why would proving her wrong on such a minor issue, be satisfactorily thumbing it at her?

Because I am sick of his attitude, and the way he talks to me. He is a Duty Manager so technically my boss.

Haven't you wanted to prove an annoying know it all wrong once?

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grace.under.water — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:57:51 GMT

Ay, it's because he's a man...

I got it....

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*pepe — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:04:12 GMT

speaking of insufferable know it alls....

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the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:05:40 GMT

I can't recally ever being in a Target store that had public toilets. As others have said - they are nearly all in shopping centres which have them.