I first shopped here on opening day. It was great, well stocked and organized. The employees were polite and helpful. I USED to do most, if not all of my household shopping here. I want to start out by saying that the staff is great, they are trying very hard to deal with a bad situation and it shows. Formerly happy, helpful employees now look harried and rushed, dashing around madly with no time to help a customer. It looks like there are whole sides of the store with maybe one person working in it. Why you ask? My guess is that about 6 months ago or so the corporate geniuses at the top must have had a brilliant idea that they could increase profits and save $$$ by cutting the staff in 1/2 or even down to 1/3, cut the stock down to almost nothing and fill the store with overpriced useless items that no one wants or needs. My last trip here, I found NONE of the staple items on my shopping list, the same list I have always used when I used to shop here. I used to spend $70 to $100 a week here. Now it is just a wasted trip. I ended up driving down the street to Kmart to shop. I knew the store was in trouble when they first tried to force "up and up" items on you instead of name brands which they slowly and sneakily eliminated. Forget about looking for Tylenol, Motrin, or any other over the counter medicines, many of the shelves lie bare week after week. Looking for Aveeno? look elsewhere. Dashed in for coffee? Dash on out of here. If you ask an employee when the shelves will be restocked, they look embarrassed and just shrug their shoulders and tell you, Sorry, but we don't know in advance what is coming in in the trucks. I don't know how these poor employees are dealing with this disaster, but clearly they are doing the best they can under very bad circumstances. They eliminated stock that was selling to make room for products that sit untouched? They were wrong. What a shame that corporate greed has destroyed a formerly great concept for low cost shopping. I hope Target fires whoever ruined the stores and Ihope they can recover, but in the meantime, I will be at Kmarts. read more