Target or Walmart

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

we used to buy weird shit at Long's while we were wandering round waiting for our prescriptions to be filled. They have the most random food items.

Now that it's CVS I feel less inclined to wander.

One of the Walgreens stores near me sells Argo tea in the refrigerated case! I hadn't seen it anywhere else around here.

sometimes good beer sales at Walgreeens/Longs etc

I can't even begin to imagine living someplace where Target worse than Walmart. Every Walmart I've ever been in has been the fucking end of the world.

tbf, you're from Target central

well yes, this is true; I've been enjoying both Target and Best Buy since I was a small child

altho Best Buy sucks super hard now

Have you been in the newly-remodeled ones? They're trying, they really are.

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.

― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:31 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love

Best Buys are no fun anymore

They're like suburban furniture stores now, where you're swarmed by 900 employees just as you realize the store has nothing you could possibly want to buy

I love Walgreens, I can't lie, and that big Walgreens is miraculous to me.

when the sax music starts playing and i have been looking at face washes for half an hour is officially when i transcend into 7th heaven

Heard the full version of "Fools Gold" last time I was in Walgreens. Beats the hell out of hearing Captain & Tenille on the PA.

xp This Walgreens has a whole huge fancy makeup and skincare product section full of brands I've never even heard of. You would love it. I hope you come to Chicago one day and check it out.

:)

Every time i've gone into a BB in the past few years it was like the total number of customers in the store was lower than the number of blue-shirted dudes and dudettes wandering around chasing them and trying to appease their bosses, who were being pretty non-discreet about standing there and looking all boss-like. Honestly, you could have run that store with 1/4 of the people that were there.