I'm not gonna hold back here....this Target is not one I will be returning to anytime soon. We went there yesterday out of convenience. I needed to make a Target trip and a Famous Footwear trip and figured these two are right next to each other, so let's just go to THIS target store. We are leaving on vacation this weekend and I needed to pick up a few last minute things: casual shorts, flip flops, a few snacks and a few miscellaneous items.
I realize you have to deal with the space you have, the best you know how but I have never felt so lost inside a Target store. And to any manager of this store that reads this, please take what I have to say to heart. The store is incredibly disorganized. Hence the reason I believe it to have been like a library in there yesterday AND we went shopping at prime time 6pm. It was dead silent.
I started by going through the clothing section in hopes of finding some casual shorts for our trip and the section went from juniors to ladies to maternity and completely skipped over women sizes. I actually wander around the women's section (and i know it was the women's section because of the GIANT SIGN that read WOMEN'S) could not find one item that was a "plus size", if you will. There were XXS mixed in with XL...neither of which will work for me. Shorts? Forget about it! Not one pair of shorts anywhere near my size. Gave up there.....
Tried to find some computer speakers so we can watch movies on our laptop on our trip they had I believe 2 on display, the speakers blown and I immediately walked away from that section.
Could not find the shoe section. Now, I'll admit, I didn't look that hard, but I guess it was because I was turned off by the whole feel of the store. I did not see one employee in any department the entire trip through the store and we were there for atleast 1 hour.
Made our way over to the Automotive section for some car air fresheners cause we are driving the boyfriends car on this trip and it's a boy's car to say the least. It needs a good cleaning before we leave and we will be utilizing some air freshening devices on our 9 hour drive. The automotive section was not too bad. We were able to find what we needed without too much of an issue.
I am a gal with coupons, so when we made it over to the food section because I wanted to find some granola bars I had some coupons for, but they were in 2 different aisles with about 2-3 aisles between them. CONFUSING!!! The food aisles are short, so I know they have to make due, but c'mon. Put the same items together! Hello!
I wanted to grab a bottle of wine, but honestly, I glanced down the aisle and I don't know what it was, but it just was not inviting. I'll admit, I compared it to my Target in Schaumburg at Schaumburg Rd and Barrington, but I just did not even have a desire to go down the aisle. Perhaps it was the fact, and this may sound silly, that the wine I wanted was on the bottom shelf, but, hey, I had a hard day. :)
Got up to the cosmetics dept., and it was just fine. No complaints.
My final thought it this: when I made it up to the check out. There was one "Express" line open and one regular check out open. My boyfriend needed to use the washroom and I whined because then he would not be there to help me unload the cart, not that there was much, but he went anyways. And by the time he got back about 5 minutes later: I had not moved. What slow moving check out lines....We laughed about it, because we both were just annoyed by that point. The cashier was friendly, so that was appeasing but I felt like there should have been a self check out to expedite the process if they are only going to have 2 registers running. Overall, not going to be back there unless I absolutely need to be. Quite a disappointment.
ps. when you walk through the front entrance on a sunny day, and your eyes take a second to adjust, you could almost kill yourself walking into the security detectors when the automatic doors open up. That needs to be changed.... read more