Standard Target location in the City of Norwalk, but not so standard is the cleanliness, at least on my last visit. Yikes!
I was planning to get lunch at Paddison Square on the northwest corner of Imperial and Norwalk, but it was 9:30 AM when I arrived, way too early for lunch! I spent an hour or so at this Target, which is the anchor store facing Imperial Hwy.
Upon entry, I needed to use the restroom, but none of their soap dispensers were functional! I tried all three, but nothing came out from any of them, so I couldn't totally clean my hands here. I went out and found a hand sanitizer dispenser, and guess what? Nothing came out of there too! Suddenly, it felt like this Target location didn't believe in clean hands?!
Luckily, there were some cart wipes available near the entrance, and that was really my only way to keep my hands clean. Unfortunately, I noticed that the trash receptacle next to the cart wipes was full! Seriously, it felt like they were trying to do everything possible to make sure my hands wouldn't be clean while inside the store.
At this Target, the entrance is on the left side of the building, and there is no entrance on the right hand side. For the most part, the foods are located on the far end of the store, so you'd have to walk quite a long way to knock off even one item off your grocery shopping list.
The electronics are in the rear of the store, but I was intrigued they had a Pac Man arcade game, which I believe you could actually play inside the store! I hadn't seen that before at any of the Target locations I've been to, so I thought that was kind of cool!
However, while I was looking through the shampoos in the hair care section, a couple of the bottles looked gross! Like ugh! How many people touched these bottles or how old were they even?! Of course, that's not to say all their other shampoo bottles were filthy on the outside, but I still can't believe all these missteps at maintaining the cleanliness of the store!
The associates on the store were working hard, but one almost bumped into me while moving merchandise around! I even saw an unattended U-Boat blocking a handful of merch in front of some shelves. How much more carelessness can there be?!
Near the exit, I saw a podium that asked "How friendly were we today?" I almost felt tempted to hit the red button on the far right to express my dissatisfaction overall, but I couldn't tell what would happen if I hit any of these buttons. Would someone have popped out of nowhere and interrogate me?! Who knows? I didn't even want to try lol.
There are two Target locations in Norwalk: this one and one on Firestone just off the 605 freeway. Based on my experience at this location in Paddison Square, I'm led to believe the one that shares a parking lot with Chick-fil-A on the other side of a mini golf course would be the superior Norwalk location. And with so many other locations closer to me, it would take *a lot* for me to even step inside this one again. read more