Target in Compton has its own social worker for employees

[Liberal_in_LA]

Target in Compton helps store employees tackle their personal problems

A counselor walks the aisles, listening to workers' troubles and helping find solutions. It's the retailer's way of staving off absenteeism and turnover.

The Target store in Compton has all the familiar features of the retail chain: aisles of discount merchandise, a full-service pharmacy and a small army of sales clerks and cashiers in bright red shirts.

It also has something most Targets don't: Saundra Edwards. She's the store's social worker.

At least two days a week, the 64-year-old Edwards can be found walking the aisles, talking to store employees about problems large and small. One young man is battling depression; a middle-aged woman wants Edwards' advice on buying a home.

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When Target opened its Compton store, the company expected a higher risk of crime and took steps to address it — beefing up the store's security detail and working with the city to get a sheriff's substation on site. It even built the aisles lower than usual to make it easier for managers to monitor what was happening in the store.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-compton-target-20101211,0,7741305.story

seems kinda of racist also

[eShirl]

1. every Target should have a social worker for its employees

and every WalMart