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Every time I've gone into a target in the last 5 years, they legit looked like they were closing down. Idk why people are boycotting them in particular when Walmart and Amazon are way worse.
Every Target I go to is nicer than Walmart and has a more curated feel of products. I agree on the last part but it's because Target was advertising itself as being more in touch with things such as DEI and then backtracked, where Walmart and Amazon never positioned themselves as much.
Target's thing has always been to be "Walmart but fancy". Fun fact, the last "T" is actually silent, and you're supposed the pronounce it "Tar-jay"
Lmao, no you're not, that's just something people started doing to literally make fun of the "Walmart but fancy" image they cultivated for themselves.
i can tell you why - because it's easy. this is slacktivism. it changes nothing about policy. it exists exclusively to make people feel better about capitulating and doing nothing to prevent their country from becoming a fascist dictatorship
"Hey! That store you don't shop at? Make sure you continue to not shop there for the next 40 days! That'll show the elites!"
Same, I get major K-Mart in its final days vibes: lots of empty shelves, stuff in dented and torn packaging, hostile and surly employees etc. etc.
Browsing through the Target grocery section has always mystified me. Not great selection and everything costs about 50% more than the local grocery stores. I have never understood why anybody would shop there for groceries.
Yeah, Kmart vibes is accurate.
There was a time when Target had a middle class demo they...targeted. But that demo is too small now. They're either going to need to shrink and market to the top 10%, competing with Whole Foods, or lower their standards and compete with Amazon. Oof, gotta love monopolies. Starting to think this boycott was Bezos' idea.
The Rite Aid near us actually was 3/4 empty all through the pandemic. They put up a sign saying they were remodeling, but closed a few months ago.
Drug stores are so fucking weird. It's a business model that apparently supports a store on every corner, yet they often go out of business too. And it's always Rite Aids going out of business, although I couldn't say what the difference is between those and the other chains.
Our Target is in pretty good shape, always busy. Wonder what the difference is…locale? Management?
you don't have to go in my wife orders in the app and they text when it's ready and bring it out to the car. usually the order is ready within a few minutes.
we are both autistic and do much of our shopping this way it's soooo much easier I dunno why anyone would go in.
I go in the store to browse. But I'm also NT so it doesn't stress me out to be in a store. My wife is ND and has to psych herself up for in-store things.
I mean besides the time that doesn't seem much different from the other 2. Walmart I'll place my grocery pickup order, select a time (usually right when I'm coming home from work so I know I won't be doing anything else) and they'll bring it out to me. Amazon obviously delivers right to my front door. Walmart means I need to order maybe 12 hours in advance and Amazon a couple days, but otherwise is there a difference?