Target Opening in Brooklyn MADNESS

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THIS IS CRAAAAAAAZY

― I CAN LEAD YOU THROUGH THE ZONE (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the real party is gonna be at the Red Lobster opening

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.metrospork.com/pictures/p53284b.jpg

― JAKC (ja=Ack_0FF), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

on the one hand, it sucks because it's giving money to Bruce Ratner.

on the other hand, it's Target, which isn't so bad and better than Wal-Mart (tho their corp. parent is sometimes lousy, yeah). And it means a decent place to buy some stuff only a five minute walk from my house. And anyone complaining about the "gentrification" of the Atlantic Center must be joking. That place is a sinkhole of NYC government tax breaks for Ratner.

weird photos for that, yeah. Lizzie Grubman is scary.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

They should always let people drink beer in all Targets everywhere.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

U DA MAN

― JAKC (ja=Ack_0FF), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

stence, can you check to see if they're carrying boots products?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

um, what's that?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

You'd think they could've got the White Stripes to play it or something.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

this is insanity.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(i'm going there today)

kidding.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

they should open a club bang target night.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

TARGET: THE NEW BURRITOVILLE

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

WHO DA MAN GAYGAZ

― JAKC (ja=Ack_0FF), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost to gygax! - maybe they could do it at O'Connor's, which is nearby.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

or Frank's, maybe.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

co-sponsored by Vice and Sparks.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

not in those neighborhoods.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Casiotone could play!

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

aside from P. Diddy being there, I wonder who they were targeting (uh) with those celebs. The closest neighborhoods are predominantly African-American, but that opening thing seems to be going for a white yuppie Park Slope kinda vibe.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

We could all eat "exotic" foods like Kobe beef!

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Lakers don't go over well in prime Knicks territory (even if it's where the Nets may end up playing).

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

أسامة بن لاد

― I CAN LEAD YOU THROUGH THE ZONE (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if Kobe's beef is up for grabs currently.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

if Kobe had been there, our man ddb would've been all over his beef.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

roffle

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.100megsfree4.com/outorb/sideways4/the%20alcestis%20concensus.gif

― I CAN LEAD YOU THROUGH THE ZONE (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

YES JON, WE SAW THAT ON THE NOISE BOARD THANK YOU MAYBE YOU HAVE A COWORKER WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT TOO?

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.fandom.sk/pn/dow/vtip/usama-wtc_puzzle.jpg

― eolskdf, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

man I just had felafel cart lunch in Liberty Plaza (catty-cornered from Ground Zero) and I still will never understand 9/11 tourists.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

they are the worst.. busloads

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

sometime in the past couple days I saw an entire busload dropped off on the east side of Church Street, and the tourdude was handing each one a "Tragedia" pamphlet on 9/11.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My roommate and I ended up walking by ground zero after we got in one fine summer morning from Staten Island. (OT: Did you guys see the Monarch Umbrella installation?) Anyway, GZ was hopping with befannypacked suburbanites. I didn't really pay that much attention to them though -- what do people do at GZ? There's like 2 paragraphs of text and a big hole.

― I CAN LEAD YOU THROUGH THE ZONE (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the only slightly funny thing about 9/11 tourists is they still haven't figured out that the view (of the big fucking hole) is better from the PATH station.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nycvp.com/letter.htm

― I CAN LEAD YOU THROUGH THE ZONE (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

amazing:

"Even before September 11th, Lower Manhattan was the single most historic area in all the United States."

I'd bet Boston and Philly would have something to say about that, much less, say, y'know Native Americans.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Or Colonial Williamsburg.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, thems too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

or in colonical williamsburg

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

in the stockade with you, gygax!.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear's couch

― I CAN LEAD YOU THROUGH THE ZONE (ex machina), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

HEY YA'LL THIS THREAD IS ABOUT TARGET, ITS WARES, AND HIPSTERS

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

no it is also about New York City and its neighborhood demographics.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i think people go there to try and wrap their heads around the whole tragedy of it all. the fact that the site has turned into just another stop on the site-seeing route with people not really showing any respect is a little off putting and does seems wrong. but in a way, it is very new york. i have/had plans to shoot a documentary about this.

― kephm, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

NO IT ISN'T (XPOST!)

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

start your own Los Angeles-related thread, dean?.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i live two minutes from target but i didn't go...something about it scares me

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

NO I WONT HSTENCIL (XPOST!)

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

They should make drinking in Target standard practice.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

geeta you don't live three minutes away from me!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 40 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

the Frango mint was a famous Chicago-made confectionary, sold in Marshall Field's (right?) which is owned by Dayton-Hudson. In '98 or '99 D-H closed the Frango factory.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait:

In the 70-plus years that the candy has been made on the 13th floor of Marshall Field's flagship store on State Street, it has indeed, in many parts of the country, become synonymous with Chicago. When officials wanted to lure the 1996 Democratic National Convention here, they plied them with Frangos, among other goodies. When a Hollywood party for Chicagoans was held, the flown-in fare included Vienna Beef's Chicago-style hot dogs, Eli's cheesecake and . . . you guessed it.

It is partly why such an outcry has arisen over the decision by Field's parent company -- Minnesota-based Dayton Hudson Corp. -- to shift production from State Street to a Pennsylvania candymaker. That, and the 157 employees who have lost their jobs.

Mayor Daley, a Frango fan himself, plans to talk with the president of Marshall Field's and "the people in charge at Dayton Hudson" to keep the candy's production here.

"It's quite charming," said Jean Godden, a city columnist for the Seattle Times. "I guess we're kind of amused that . . . one of the big old cities back east . . . is claiming our product."

The history of the Frango began not in the Windy City but the Emerald one, around the turn of the century at a now-defunct Seattle department store.

The Frango, it turns out, first appeared at Frederick & Nelson Co. in Seattle as a frozen dessert served in its tea room, said Spector, who also has written corporate histories on Eddie Bauer, Nordstrom and Chevron Shipping.

The candy form, introduced a few years later and an immediate hit, was made from cocoa, distilled oil of Oregon peppermint and 40 percent butter, he said.

It was on June 12, 1929, that Frederick & Nelson sold the rights to the candy to Marshall Field. But contrary to what many might think, Frango Mints still are made in the Pacific Northwest.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(referring to original linked article)

the brunette in the jeans skirt is cute.

do you think maggie gylenhaal and chloe sevigny will ever be in that target again? or any target?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

well Maggie was starring in a play at BAM for a while, maybe she liked Ft. Greene so much she moved? (I hope so, anyway.)

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah it's complicated. D-H owned Target and the Dayton's and Hudson's dept store chains (and Mervyn's, i think). Marshall Field's was picked up late 90s i guess. D-H renmaed itself Target Corp in 00 after its biggest earner. in an unpopular-at-home move (since we didn't have 'em in MN) ALL the dept stores were made Marshall's for brand unity, and have subsequently been sold to [some other retailer] on condition that they stay Marshall's.

sorry about the mints.

xpost -- corporate histories! clearly those are up my alley; who is this Spector?

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought marshall field's just got a new corporate parent??? i think this was in the tribune recently....

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Spector, Seattle resident and author of The Legend of Frango Chocolate.

gotta be a hot seller.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah amst that sale happened not too long ago

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd read it! come to think, i read was a book review of a novel that was a fictitious corporate history; it sounded interesting. a soap company i think? kind of to johnson & johnson what 'citizen kane' is to hearst.

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously i need to move to brooklyn

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

if you don't put my baking sheets in the oven, you can sublet.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

does a job come with that offer?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

how the hell do you bake if you can't put the baking sheets in the oven????

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

kyle, ovens should not be used for storage, esp. when we've got approx. 15 MILLION CABINETS.

amateur!st, you could clean my room.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

WAL * MART PARTY !!!

http://www.adpc.purdue.edu/BGR/HTML/images/walmart.jpg

http://student.fortlewis.edu/MRGROSS/walmart.jpg

WOOOOOOOOT!

http://www.david-baldacci.com/images/gallery/walmart02.jpg

Oh, this lady got so out of control, it was crazy....

http://www.funmansion.com/images/walmart.jpg

Hahaha, uh what?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 22 July 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the wal-mart in hilo, hawaii was voted "most fun place to shop in hilo" by the local newspaper.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cineposters.com/home/Posters/91-21.jpg

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Whenever a Walmart ad featuring people with non neutral accents comes on TV, it makes me an angry east coast rich liberal full of RAGE!

― gwilx (ex machina), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

As a northerner I am also given fantods by Walmart commercials: "Y'all come on down to Walmart now, y'hear? YEE-HAW!!!"

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the one in LA where all the black people are all "WALMART SAVED OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH DEAD END JOBS."

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It reminds me of the WhackArnolds bit on the Chappelle show.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that a lot of northeasterns do react negatively to the manner of speach employed in many Walmart commercials as well as the Middle American war-sow women and their Wonder bread fed Christian Aryan piglets. Does this company test commercials in "blue states" ever?

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://hogwild.net/images/Balloons/2004.01.04/walmart-american.jpg

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.visionflow.net/travel/nm/roswell/misc/walmart.jpg hmmmm

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(bugger)
http://www.visionflow.net/travel/nm/roswell/misc/walmart.jpg
http://www.moynihaninstitute.org/walmart.htm

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

becha five bucks that photo's from west of the mississippi or south of the mason/dickson |

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

err, dixon.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Its from ROSWELL

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

HAW HAW HAW HAW I GET IT!!! ROSWELL'S WHERE ALIENS MiGHT SHOP NEAR AREA 54!!!

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I get really angry at Walmart ads. I am a bigot

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

can this thread be summarized by the phrase: Ilx0rs be snobbin'?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

thought so

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The McDonalds radio blaxploitation one are way worse than anything Walmart has to offer: I clench and unclench my jaw whenever they're on, and each time I hear them I go off on a tirade.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Look, we need to stop our regional fustering and join hands united in opposition to the one truly evil demographic embroiled in this imbroglio:

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― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I really enjoy Target. If I had loads of money, I would spend it all in the boutiques near my house, but since I don't, I occasionally go to Target to buy little fun things I can afford. Like, the other day I went there and bought 4 tops for less than $40 total, which is how much just one shirt would cost at a boutique. And I'm wearing one today! It's a striped polo with purples, blue, white, gray, and black stripes.

I'm lovin' it! Crowin' like a rooster... What does that crowin' like a rooster bit MEAN, anyway??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought marshall field's just got a new corporate parent???

The May Corporation.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still at a loss as to why women refer to shirts and whatnot as "tops." Must have something to do with that Sparks song.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the only walmart adds i've seen have happy smiling employees saying how grateful they are to be working at walmart OBVIOUSLY WHILE OFF-CAMERA MANAGEMENT HAS GUNS POINTED AT THEM YOU NLRB-DEFYING SONS OF BITCHES.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

There's that one Wal*Mart commercial where the floating incadescent smiley face flies past this one African-American youngster, and the kid just lets go with the most GOOGLY-EYED, JAW-DROPPING, NOSTRILS FLARING, TONGUE-WAGGING expression seen this side of Tex Avery and Steppin Fetchet.

I mean, my reaction would probably be the same too if a big smiley face did a fly-by upon MY head in Aisle 26, but sheesh. Get that off the air.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Which reminds me...

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Saturday, May 8, 2004, 5:22 a.m.

Know what my sister does for a living? Spelling tests. When Timmy gets nineteen out of twenty, she goes on top of the paper. She is the mark of accomplishment. And what do I represent? A store that found a John Cougar Mellencamp album cover too provocative. (You're next, Hornsby.) What else? Lemonade-stand wages. A corporation that prices independent retailers out of existence and rewards complicit communities with a couple of jungle gyms. I know I should try to laugh all this off, but I can't. All I can do is smile.

Smiley Face does existentialism? I smell a pink slip a-comin'

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 24 July 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

another Target opened this weekend in the Bronx but I guess that borough doesn't have the same "hipster cachet."

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 26 July 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

a shame that it doesn't ... there are some nice parts of the bronx w/ KNOCKOUT apartments and homes that are pretty cheap by NYC standards. (and some knockout apartments/homes in the not-nice parts.)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

With Target opening all these new stores while its sales are falling off (they are forecasting only 1% to 2% comparable sales growth this month, and had a really bad month in June), I'm beginning to think that their reach exceeds their grasp. Things at the low end of the economic food chain are getting worse, not better, and that could mean big trouble for Target.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the smiley face was invented in worcester, mass.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you know Worcester is the birthplace of barbed wire, the monkey wrench, smiley face, and the space suit?

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

barbed wire, the monkey wrench, smiley face, and the space suit

someone please come up with a riddle using these five items

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What causes you to stop, frequently dropped, is a seventies prop, and without it, you'd pop?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Things at the low end of the economic food chain are getting worse, not better, and that could mean big trouble for Target.

Looks like Target is shelling out $850 Million for a slice of HBC. Things can't be too rough to take over Canada's oldest corporation.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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