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A fan of Target? — Brooklynian

A fan of Target?

brooklynjournalist
brooklynjournalist
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Looking to talk with people who shop at Target or Walmart to help me out on a story I'm working on.

In an e-mail response, please let me know:
  • 1. Which of the two stores you shop at?
    2. What you usually buy there?
    3. And, if you've always shopped there or started shopping there because of
    the recession
    4. Your name and age
Send to: [email protected]

I will follow-up with responses that will likely make the story, which will be posted here: Economic Watch.

Thank you for your help and participation!
-David

Comments

  • tybur6
    tybur6
    Sort of a bad "sample" of folks to ask... Brooklyn folks have access to 3 or 4 Target stores, but no Walmarts.
  • dw438
    dw438
    Brooklyn people with a car can access Walmarts on Long Island and in New Jersey, Westchester or Timbuctoo if they so desire. Or even use this newfangled internet thingy to access walmart.com
    Don't know why or how, but they can.
  • veets
    veets
    BrooklynJournalist... you have come to the wrong people! Those of us who have been afflicted with Target... mostly reject the idea and Walmart has not come to our earthly borders yet.
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    instead of walmart how bout 99 cent stores. just my two fen.
  • booklaw
    booklaw
    I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I bought something online from Walmart.com.

    It was a discontinued product I could not find anywhere else. But Google found it at Sam Walton's electronic grandchild.

    I have never ever ever shopped at Target, or in any Walmart store.
  • ljnd
    ljnd
    When I visit my mom, in southern DE, we have to shop at Walmart. Because there are no other options.
  • tybur6
    tybur6
    And if you were reading into my comment above... I shop at BOTH Target (regularly here in Brooklyn) and Walmart (when I'm elsewhere)

    I'm just saying that for folks that live in Brooklyn and work somewhere in the 5 boroughs, shopping at Walmart can't really be a *regular* activity.
  • ringrunner
    ringrunner
    But we can look at Walmart people

    http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
  • veets
    veets
    ringrunner wrote: But we can look at Walmart people

    http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
    What a way to start the morning by looking at those pictures.

    Do people get dressed up to visit Walmart and hope they will be photographed? When you live in Brooklyn it is easy to lose track of how odd the rest of America is.
  • jimmy
    jimmy
    veets wrote: Do people get dressed up to visit Walmart and hope they will be photographed? When you live in Brooklyn it is easy to lose track of how odd the rest of America is.
    Ha, yeah, 'cause folks in Brooklyn are completely normal and sane. Right.
  • opossumqueen
    opossumqueen
    veets wrote: [quote=ringrunner]But we can look at Walmart people

    http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
    What a way to start the morning by looking at those pictures.

    Do people get dressed up to visit Walmart and hope they will be photographed? When you live in Brooklyn it is easy to lose track of how odd the rest of America is.

    Haha..I'm with Jimmy. This sentiment goes both ways :)
  • tybur6
    tybur6
    Yeah - but in Brooklyn people pay a lot more to look ridiculous...
  • jimmy
    jimmy
    tybur6 wrote: Yeah - but in Brooklyn people pay a lot more to look ridiculous...
    Indeed. As an alternative to peopleofwalmart, perhaps latfh.com, and let's all try to dial down the smugness just a notch.
  • drunken revival
    drunken revival
    I love the Target at the Atlantic Center.

    The only down side is that even on its best day the place looks like LA after 3 days of looting..... clothes everywhere, small fires burning in the frozen food section, and people who are neither outsiders nor exactly misplaced just glaring out you as you navigate an isle coated in almost dried Orange Crush.

    It's like an urban safari ....on the hunt for high thread count bed spreads.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    DR, don't forget the swearing and arguing that that goes on between the competing customers and occasionally the cashiers.
  • jimmy
    jimmy
    whynot_31 wrote: DR, don't forget the swearing and arguing that that goes on between the competing customers and occasionally the cashiers.
    Ooh, or the cashiers that let you wait in their line for ten minutes and then inform you, oh so politely, that their line is closed and your sorry ass is going to have to find another one.
  • drunken revival
    drunken revival
    I avoid the cashiers altogether.... I just walk out with the stuff and mail a check to the Target corporate headquarters.

    Nobody seems to mind.
  • jimmy
    jimmy
    Drunken Revival wrote: I avoid the cashiers altogether.... I just walk out with the stuff and mail a check to the Target corporate headquarters.

    Nobody seems to mind.
    Mind? I'm pretty sure the employees would very much prefer you just walked out with the stuff. Less work for them, free stuff for you, everybody wins.
  • eggcream
    eggcream
    I've never been in a Wal-Mart since the powers that be in liberal NY said no. No Union, No Wal-Mart. Screw the poor people of NYC who would greatly benefit from a Wal-Mart not to mention the hundreds of jobs that Wal-Mart in NYC would provide. Ikea, check. K-Mart, check. Costco, check.

    Target, I'll shop occasionally online. The one in the Atlantic Center is a garbage pit.
  • drano
    drano
    Awful place, but I do go there occasionally. Get a new story every time, too. My favorite was walking into the pots n' pans aisle to find that some cretin had "tagged" most of the nonstick pans by etching his emblem in them with a knife/nail/whatever...must have taken some time, but then again the employees don't seem too involved...
  • jimmy
    jimmy
    Drano wrote: Awful place, but I do go there occasionally. Get a new story every time, too. My favorite was walking into the pots n' pans aisle to find that some cretin had "tagged" most of the nonstick pans by etching his emblem in them with a knife/nail/whatever...must have taken some time, but then again the employees don't seem too involved...
    It was probably an employee. I hate the employees at that Target, in case it wasn't obvious.

    They're a couple spots below Time Warner right now on my list (of things that make me disgusted with life, not like a Billy Madison-style "people I'm going to kill" list).
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    been to the supermarket once in Atlantic center. awful place. target there is also awful. worse customer service ever and people sucks too.
  • prezst
    prezst
    is there any chain store that doesn't suck in brooklyn?
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    prezst wrote: is there any chain store that doesn't suck in brooklyn?
    The Target by Brooklyn College is nice.
    ...well stocked and everything, just like the 'burbs.
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