I have a Target 5 minutes from my house and a WalMart 15 minutes away, I usually shop WM to avoid the perpetually offended soccer mom type shoppers.
Here’s the list of Target stores slated for closure:
Austin North East (Austin, Texas)
Suncoast Pasco County (Odessa, Florida)
Casa Grande, Arizona
Victorville, California
East Flint (Flint, Michigan)
Columbus Southwest (Columbus, Ohio)
Northridge (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Superior, Wisconsin
Springfield, Ohio
New Ulm, Minnesota
Ottumwa, Iowa
Anderson, Indiana
Dixie Highway (Louisville, Kentucky)
Good riddance. I haven’t shopped their in five years since they bent over for the sexual deviants.
It was on Gotham Comedy Club,
where someone said that K-Mart
was like Target with AIDs.
But the Wal-Martians don't bother you?
Our local one has peacocks running wild in the lot, so maybe NBC is taking it over.
I just moved next door to a Target in the summer. Before then, I had shopped at Aldi and Walmart for the most part. Target shoppers have a completely different attitude. They wander into people, take up entire aisles without concern for other shoppers, and as a whole seem much more self-absorbed.
I have had to keep myself from smarting off to people as they were checking out for the rude way they speak to the cashiers and the insane amount of time it takes them to use the credit card machine.
Obama! Yes we can (ruin the economy)!
Retailers seem to always hit financial trouble after bowing at the altar of left wing cultural deviants. i.e. JC Penney, Angie’s List, Target. Just coincidence, I’m sure.
Serves them right for letting gay activists push the Salvation Army bell ringers off their properties some years ago. I have never shopped there since; and many others like me did the same.
Never been to one, is it basically a Walmart w a French name?
We had one close in a part of Orlando that is in decline. The moved5 miles away. Ghetto creep will catch up to them again in a few years.
Target has a pretty good marketing ploy in its little red cards, whereby shoppers are “rewarded” with a modest discount for shopping at Target (the card is only good the target store).
However, I will never return to Target, since Target plainly does not want my business.
I was left standing on line while the computer kept saying TILT to my red card. Clerk had no idea what to do. Manager unavailable. Finally, I paid with, as I recall, an Amex card for my modest purchase.
Later wrote to Target asking for the matter to be corrected.
No response whatsoever.
Just don’t ask anyone to get something off a top shelf because racism (according to moochelle.)
5.56mm
Nope......because I don’t have one.....lol...never been to one.
The Milwaukee one was built in a neighborhood that once had a thriving large mall, but the neighborhood got overrun with badness. The mall folded years ago and Target was just hanging on. Walmart has come in and the hood rats and their peeps would rather shop and shoplift from there.
My target isn’t closing but as far as I’m concerned it might as well. You would search for days trying to find a simple religious sympathy card and never find one, but right down at kids eye level they stock homosexual cards.
They JCPenniezed themselves with sucking up to the 1 % of immoral sodomites so they’ll just have to do without my money.
A lot of this is pretty common sense stuff.
1) If you sell common products that many other retailers sell, but you sell them for more, eventually customers will wise up.
2) If you sell inexpensive products, you have to move a LOT of them. If your products are expensive, like cars, you may only need to sell a dozen a month. If you sell a balance of products, they still need to sell based on their value and the floor space they take.
3) Quality is also an issue. You can sell cheap mixers for $15 each, or top of the line KitchenAid mixers for $350, not including its numerous adapters. But you have to ask: which of them will not just give you the best profit, but the best profit *margin*.
4) Target used to have a good formula, its suppliers giving it cheap knock off products that were almost the same as high end models; unique enough so that only Target sold them.