Target or Walmart

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.

Walmart is the place you go when you want a practical thing - like a cooler, or a camping stove, or windshield wipers

Target is where you go when you want notebooks or a fun new backpack for a trip, or you're buying a birthday present for a not-close friend - they also have better towels than walmart imo

Of course Wal-Mart is more down home, they originally expanded through rural areas throughout the south, while Target tended to cluster around more urban/suburban areas, iirc.

Looks like the Target I went to as a kid was probably there since 1972. The first Wal-Marts in the state were rural ones, and not until 1983. I remember my friend's parents would go to one in a small town a half hour away occasionally and we bought silly string one time.

I guess if you want sewing stuff or guns, Wal-Mart is your choice, Target never seems to have too much of that stuff.

i had no idea target had been around so long. i've been to target like maybe 5 or 6 times in my life, so it still has a novelty factor for me. and cuter stuff and maybe better lighting than wal-mart? i can hardly deal with wal-mart.

maybe even just 3 or 4 times

target

I remember my mom letting me chill in the area that had magazines while she shopped when I was a kid. I think it was a bigger section than it is these days. I think I flipped through every video game magazine in the store once every couple weeks for years.

A few weeks ago we went to Walmart for some camping essentials and it was in the middle of being remodelled. Oh. My. Christ, what a mistake. We gave up halfway through because we couldn't find anything and the stuff we did find we found by accident. Seriously, it was like someone tipped it upside down and shook it. Bad idea.

Somehow Target has tents and inflatable camping mattresses and all that stuff now! I had no idea.

They do! Though the few times we've tried them they seem to have less of a complete array than WM. But maybe that's just us shopping at a smaller than normal target idk

my friend recently wanted to rent a car to go to the walmart on long island

which is pretty much my favorite fantasy ever

yeah it seems like the key to never going to these stores is to live in the urban-residential core a big, possibly Canadian city and not have access to a car

sometimes going to walgrens is like my friday night activity

i know they're not related but i do what i can

I think a lot of people casually buy stuff at walgreens, which is probably why they have the weirdest selection of shit

Hey surm... this is the second-closest Walgreens to me right now - http://winnetka.suntimes.com/business/9908814-420/sushi-at-walgreens-new-state-street-store-offers-urban-format.html.

I work for a publishing company that put out a 50th anniversary commemoration of Walmart. Check it out for some goofy pictures.

http://www.pageturnpro.com/Arkansas-Business-Group/41134-Wal-Mart-at-50/index.html#1