***Update 9.2.07
Lord, the clue phone was ringing here, and apparently I wasn't picking up. That, and I didn't even take my own advice.
I put my 3-year-old son in the car today to head over to Target because we were out of m&ms (a rare tragedy in my house,) plus I needed some more laundry detergent, diapers were on sale, etc. etc.
I went around and around looking for the detergent I use (all natural Seventh Generation stuff - perfectly biodegradable and fabulous,) and I've always been able to find it at the Target on Bellflower. Guess what? Out of stock. They also had advertised diapers on sale, and they were out of them too (the size and brand they listed.)
Please see photos of the large swaths of missing products on the shelves. Shot these today.
Once again I enlisted the "assistance" (hell, if you can call it that) of the manager, who I'm pretty sure was about 17, named Angel, and he was less than helpful. He said that they've had inventory problems for a while now while they've tried to "re-do" the store. I told him I've been having problems with them for nearly 2 years now.
He also said they've been getting a lot of complaints.
Lovely.
And so, dear readers, I am done. I'm not going back; I've given up.
I now have to get back in the car and head over to the Target on Bellflower which is what I should have done in the first place, dammit.
I beg you not to patronize this place, and if you have the misfortune of finding yourself there (and likely wandering around wondering WTF you go there,) COMPLAIN. Not that it'll get you anywhere.
***Original review:
Oh, where to start?
I discovered this location when I moved up near El Dorado Park, and quickly learned it was the nicer store over the ghetto-ish one on Bellflower. I'd shopped there for years (so much so that friends called me from the entrance and said "where do I find lightbulbs?" and I'd walk them through to the section over the phone.)
This place was MY Target.
Then, suddenly and without warning, they changed the floorplan around, and then for months, there were these huge gaping empty sections of the store, particularly (or seemingly so) in the sections where I needed stuff.
I was particularly perturbed to see that they were always out of our cat litter, and Yelpers, for those of you who have a fussy puddy, well, you just can't be switching litter on them.
So that was the start of it - cat litter, then our deodorant, kids' juice boxes, then they told us they didn't carry slips (the undergarment) in the summer time, and all this weird stuff.
I came to realize that I had no idea why I was still shopping there, and it was a huge blow, let me tell you. Well, in all my hormone-fueled third trimester fury, I sat down with a manager and told him my woes. His excuse was that they were making way for some seasonal stuff, but that was such a load, since it was about May by then, their Christmas stuff gone, and fully into the summer swing of things.
So, if I need the assurance that I'll be able to get something in-stock (like litter if we're out,) then I trek over to the Bellflower Target, which isn't as bad as I'd remembered.
I miss my Seal Beach Target though. I hope someday they'll get their shit together and give me a call.
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