Target or Walmart

i am starting to accept that i love going to target. the way every store is the same bc target stores are always newer than walmart stores makes me feel like i am in the same store all the time even at a different location. that makes no sense to anyone. anyway i like to buy cleaning products that smell good. i get the "natural" dish soap and detergent and method stuff. i don't like to clean though!

I'm going to Target now! Anyone need anything?

target smells like plastic offgassing to me. walmart smells like newspaper recycling plant. costco smells like cardboard.

A new super Target is opening two blocks from my work, so now I can pick up grocery items on the way home. I haven't lived in a Walmart friendly area since they became ubiquitous so I have only been to Walmart once ~ 1997, on a special trip with a friend who was going for a particular thing. I have actively fought against Walmart's business practices but tbh if they open one of their city sized grocery stores walking distance from our house, I would shop there.

Since Target started one state away, we have had them forever. I remember going to Target 25 years ago, long before Wal-Mart came here.

I should clarify that there are no other grocery stores w/in easy walking distance. If there were, I would not embrace a Walmart.

Can I ask what the heck Target Commercial Interiors is? There's one near my house and it's one of those stores that feels too mysterious to enter.

it sounds like it's run by the weather underground

how do u hug a walmart with nuclear arms

We've got a Walmart Neighborhood Market next door to a Walmart Supercenter. It's ridiculous.

Target with a Starbucks inside that has a Target gift card kiosk that has a mini-rack with Starbucks gift cards

http://www.ncsx.com/2012/052812/Hungeree/timberlake.jpg

Justin Timberlake, doing his Sam Walton impersonation.

Can you use a Target gift card to buy a Starbucks gift card?

Stuff like this does not happen at Target:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/06/cops-woman-shoplifted-and-cooked-meth-inside-walmart/1?csp=34news#.T9QARcV401I

Although IDK maybe sometimes people do lines off a Michael Graves Design mirror

Liberty of London absinthe parties in the haberdashery section

if you feel bad about buying something from walmart but you buy stuff from amazon you gotta recheck your feelbad math, amazon is really worse than both these guys.

anyway I like walking around these stores. they will make great megachurches.

Amazon is pretty evil up and down the line. The stories about their warehouse operations etc., plus I've heard that they fuck suppliers over hardcore.

and they have a side project where they discovered that the market clearing wage in america is like 50 cents an hour

Too busy to read what you're saying too busy clicking on my amazon order.

I have a friend who did warehouse/back room work at Target in Minneapolis and apparently the downtown one is a coveted position and is kind of fun.

i find target as depressing as the kmarts of yore

K marts - "Joe Boxer"

Was in Kmart yesterday buying antibacterial fluid for my Swiffer. Wondered about buying a pair of Craftsman boots (or any of the other off-brand work boots they carry. Like, I don't really need a pair of Red Wings to dig holes in my yard, right?

Martha Stewart workboots

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Man-taken-into-police-custody-after-going-berserk-at-a-Sanford-Walmart.html

"private citizens"

sovereign citizens?

we have great journalists in Maine

can i tell you, recently hsbc sold off its zellers stores to target and walmart
so we started getting targets here
i like walmart. it has a pretty good "ETHNIC FOODS" section that's slightly different based on neighborhood/city and so on 118th ave, there's a section of postramadan snacks, dates, nuts, whatever, and middle eastern groceries that you don't see anywhere else, and decent produce, with a limited but still there section of local and semilocal stuff. and stuff like 4 for $2 cans of snapple.

snapple is horrible, imo

what can i drink instead?

(must be sold at walmart)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G0tPB8orgZY/TjXPIFcd8_I/AAAAAAAACrs/mquH45TZTg4/s1600/lc2.jpg

every day as i sift through more and more facebook notifications about people i know "liking" one of these, the more i hate them both

Well, so much for Tarjay being the more hipster of the two.

http://i.imgur.com/Ldc9g.jpg

I bought a Walmart brand floor lamp that has shelves built in; the picture on the box had it stacked with LPs, and Belle & Sebastian were the cover you could see.

dylann where do you live? we've no targets yet in Ontario IIRC

currently alberta/british columbia. living in alberta has provided my first positive walmart experiences.

but my target experience is all in the united states. you'll have targets in ontario eventually, right? our targets are set to open in spring 2013.

Please tell me that someone has already done this:

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5383/targetlogo.jpg

hahaha

captain canada sheild?

targeting canada

as in

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/.e1h/img/1.0/sections/mag/fortune/fortune500/2010/snapshots/target_store.jc.jpg

wow that ones unique!

i have very strong feelings about this

walmart forever

target it's like it's so red i swear i can't see when i go in there

and what kind of a name is target

walmart is ancient, classic, tradition, or something !

Targets products failed me again - crappy ice cube tray!

Target and Wal-Mart had their first stores in the same year, 1962.

well, no matter. target is not as welcoming.

what if the twain were merged? like Waltarg? purple?

terrible. there's just something about walmart and kmart that will always trump target. maybe it comes from my time in the south but those are the places you go if you want some real down home retail therapy on a bum afternoon. not target. and that's just the way it is.

no dream in yoru soul for a Tarmart?

dylan - ahh, gotcha. Your mention of HSBC made me think that the Zellers on the west coast were already Targets :) We're scheduled for 2013 stores too.