and to be completely honest i have found some of my best tshirts at Target
― surm, Friday, 17 August 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
i'm wearing one right no
The Target store I go to the most now is built on to the outside of an old mall and replaced another about 30 blocks away on the same street. Well, not replaced, but they closed one right before this one opened and some of the staff transferred. My favorite is this sassy older black man who can scan all your items in about 30 seconds while making it look effortless. He's probably worked at Target for decades. The other cashiers at some local Targets are a balance between kids and women in their 40s/50s.
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 17 August 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
When we had fewer Target stores people named them according to neighborhood stereotypes: - Tarjay: bourgeois suburb Target - Targhetto: self-explanatory - Targentino: Italian side of town
― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 17 August 2012 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
wow, midwest target diversity
though i remember having similar distinctions about malls as a teenager
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 August 2012 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
this is the Target ad I love, mostly because when it came out my SIL and her partner were moving into a new house and my wife and I joked that this is what they did while unpacking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfqEG7ZPO1k
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 17 August 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/10/1141724/-Walmart-fuels-inequality-epidemic-taking-advantage-of-our-safety-net#
Walmart has become the number one driver behind the growing use of food stamps in the United States with "as many as 80 percent of workers in Wal-Mart stores using food stamps."
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_11/the_walmart_way_is_not_the_onl041379.php
Costco pays employees more
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Costco is a members-only place with an emphasis on bulk goods, but the Sam's Club/Costco comparison is a good one and Wal-Mart comes out looking horrible.
― mh, Monday, 26 November 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
I think the "you have to have a big family" aspect of Costco is greatly exaggerated, although you do have to have a bit of discipline in order to make optimal use of the place.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Monday, 26 November 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
In a statement from the United States, Wal-Mart said, “While we are trying to determine if the factory has a current relationship with Walmart or one of our suppliers, fire safety is a critically important area of Walmart’s factory audit program and we have been working across the apparel industry to improve fire safety education and training in Bangladesh.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/world/asia/bangladesh-fire-kills-more-than-100-and-injures-many.html
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 November 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
I worked for Walmart in 1999-2001 as a cashier and I was making pretty good money ($10+/hr by the end of it) and working plenty of full-time weeks. Though yeah that was over 10 years ago so maybe things have changed. They were pretty anti-union back then too fwiw.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 26 November 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
walmart for president
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 26 November 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Rented a RugDoctor from the kiosk at Wal-Mart yesterday. I attempted to return it today and see nothing but a blank screen at the kiosk. I ask an employee if the machine is not working, and she takes one cursory glance at it, and says "must be down", and walks away. Then I ask her what I'm supposed to do with the heavy machine I'm holding and need to return, presuming that since there's a machine in their store, they know who to contact.
Instead, she says "Be right back", then comes back with a supervisor who says "It must be down. You'll need to call RugDoctor and explain the situation to them. We'll vouch for you." They also tell me I can return it at another Walmart with the kiosks (I think this is BS - the kiosks only have enough door slots for the machines that originated at their location).
I really do not want to haul the thing back to my car and into another Walmart, as they're heavy, plus I know RugDoctor isn't going to magically 'waive' my late fees just because I call them, but I do anyway. When I call, it's readily apparently that the store is the one supposed to be calling, because the instructions say for the store to report a kiosk issue at their local district number. All I could do was leave a voicemail.
A couple comes up to rent one and I explain what's going on, and then one of them realizes THE FUCKING THING IS UNPLUGGED, so he plugs it in. Problem solved, we think, but it gets hung up at the startup menu. I found a CS manager to tell her it's plugged in, but stuck at the main menu, and she clearly isn't listening, and walks away, thinking we just need to let it boot. After about fifteen minutes passing and other employees telling us to call RugDoctor ourselves, I called corporate to complain, and one of the other customers found the manager again to tell her we still needed help, as the machine hadn't booted (since she wasn't listening).
First supervisor comes back and basically barks at me "I told you I was gonna call, didn't you hear me" (which she didn't), then finally picks up the phone to call them (it's been about 45 minutes now). The other supervisors have no idea what to do or if they even have a key to open it. Then, the manager asks the CUSTOMER to unplug it and replug it in, and after 5 minutes, it's working.
So basically, wasted an hour in a Walmart talking to five managers over a goddamn unplugged machine. This is why I never visit Wal-Marts (well that and because of the people that typically visit them!)
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Sunday, 24 November 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
Those people are just Neanderthals.
― peace on earth and mercy mild (how's life), Sunday, 24 November 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.walmart.com/ip/23127186
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
If Walmart paid its workers a living wage, the price of your macaroni and cheese would go up by one penny
but even a penny more might cause walmart to lose a customer. and walmart can't . . . bear . . . to . . . lose . . . even . . . one . . . customer.
http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/0513/more-mentalnicktoons-krabs2.jpg
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 6 April 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
i love target's fascist aesthetic; plus the one here has actual sidewalks (some of the few in my town!) extending out into the parking lot, so you can push your whisper-quiet plastic fascist shopping cart to yr car without checking behind yr shoulder every two seconds. plus there are three or four trees planted nearby! it's like versailles.
my hometown wal-mart has been a dud since i was in high school and it stopped staying open 24 hrs cuz we used to go there ~2AM to play sardines.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 6 April 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
maybe walmart does to but target has good surveillance, it p much caught this kidnapper/murderer this was an interesting/terrifying true crime ep i saw recently
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kelsey_Smith
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 February 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
Alice Walton knows where her bread is buttered
http://usuncut.com/politics/alice-walton-hillary-clinton/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 February 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
uh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EUxCGnkWcI
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8G3O0Pv.jpg
― #IMPOTUS (Sanpaku), Thursday, 10 August 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
some of the Targets near us are hilariously incompetent at delivering products.
Last December, I was over one of my close friends' houses, and Target had delivered a bunch of christmas gifts to the door, but instead of putting the toy inside a Target box, they just slapped a Target sticker on the product's box, and their daughter found it at the door so they had to give her gift early.
but today, another one of my friends ordered Nintendo Switch controllers, paying $80 for them. instead of getting a box with two switch controllers, they got an envelope with a cardboard endcap display featuring a picture of both controllers. i feel bad for the friend but i'm having a hard time not giggling at the image they shared.
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link