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 !
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Targets products failed me again - crappy ice cube tray!
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
Target and Wal-Mart had their first stores in the same year, 1962.
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
well, no matter. target is not as welcoming.
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
what if the twain were merged? like Waltarg? purple?
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
no dream in yoru soul for a Tarmart?
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
maybe even just 3 or 4 times
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
target
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Somehow Target has tents and inflatable camping mattresses and all that stuff now! I had no idea.
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
my friend recently wanted to rent a car to go to the walmart on long island
which is pretty much my favorite fantasy ever
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes going to walgrens is like my friday night activity
i know they're not related but i do what i can
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
I think a lot of people casually buy stuff at walgreens, which is probably why they have the weirdest selection of shit
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
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, 16 August 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― pplains, Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
One of the Walgreens stores near me sells Argo tea in the refrigerated case! I hadn't seen it anywhere else around here.
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes good beer sales at Walgreeens/Longs etc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
tbf, you're from Target central
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
Have you been in the newly-remodeled ones? They're trying, they really are.
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:31 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
I love Walgreens, I can't lie, and that big Walgreens is miraculous to me.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
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
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Heard the full version of "Fools Gold" last time I was in Walgreens. Beats the hell out of hearing Captain & Tenille on the PA.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 16 August 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
:)
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 16 August 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
Anyways Wally World wins for me. It was my first job and it was dead easy and by the end of it I was making pretty good money ($11/12hr back in the late 90s), and yeah maybe it has something to do w growing up in the south. Just seems to have a far less formal vibe, like you can forget to dress properly and go in the store and it doesn't matter. Every time I go to Target I feel like it's full of people who get dressed up to go shopping.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 16 August 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
Also one of my friend's uncles recently was on People of Walmart looking insanely white trash. So that's classic.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
I just go to Target looking how however. I mean, I guess I don't wear tank tops and camo shorts on the reg, though
― your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
could be a good look for me, I'll think on it
this is indisputably classic
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
i go to the Target dressed to the 9's
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
just kidding i don't always do that . . . . just on special occasions
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
will readily admit tho that target had one of the best commercials of the last 10 years with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFBsxwKHT14
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
You see, I take several points off of Target for that.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
I think I'm the only gut at my BB who buys CD's. Last weekend when I started walking to the computer section to buy speakers for my laptop several employees, in a panic, wondered if I was lost.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
It's weird the difference in cashiers hired at these two giant national box store corporations:
Target, I get the hip kid who has to work four hours a night for his drug money. At the end of one transaction, I throw a box of diapers from the cart onto the belt (notice that it's on the cart's right at Target, for some reason) and dude says, Yo, he didn't even see those and he probably wouldn't have caught that if I catch his drift. *wink* -- I get charged for the diapers.
Walmart, it's usually a female who has to work 38.25 hours a week to feed her kid. Hey, there's some cokes on the bottom I tell her as she wordlessly starts running my items over the scanner. The five-year-old tears off for the drinking fountain, I'm putting the bags back into the cart myself, the cashier has to call the manager over to sell me the four-pack of Old Milwaukee, I forget to give them my coupons and when I get out to the car, I realize that I still have the cokes on the bottom of the cart, never scanned.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
that's hot
― surm, Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link