Target or Walmart

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

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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.

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.

Also one of my friend's uncles recently was on People of Walmart looking insanely white trash. So that's classic.

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

could be a good look for me, I'll think on it

Also one of my friend's uncles recently was on People of Walmart looking insanely white trash. So that's classic.

this is indisputably classic

i go to the Target dressed to the 9's

just kidding i don't always do that . . . . just on special occasions

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

You see, I take several points off of Target for that.

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.

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.

that's hot

bamford has a target joke. i wonder if target is ok with it.

the joke is more about how unsuccessful her awful high school nemeses are, but the punchline is they work at target.

The most aggravating thing ever about working at Target is that they for some reason expect you to buy into all the hype that they are awesome and sell the best stuff a cheapo big store can possibly sell & they are sooo into diversity and all their cool stuff like that.... except its just like any other shitty retail job. I dunno, the best thing about working at Target IMO was the pricing guns and walkie talkies. Also, their POS system is not terrible.

best part of working at target is no walmart chant and no squiggly yeah?

er walmart cheer

We didn't have a cheer but we would do weird countdowns and stuff like we were about to go out and play a basketball game or something. I honestly don't know what you mean by squiggly, so I guess we didn't have whatever that is.

i remember one time i was waiting for my prescription, and this group of target employees like did one of those hand things? you know where you all put your hands in a circle and cheer?

it was invigorating, i felt moved

and to be completely honest i have found some of my best tshirts at Target