Target or Wal-Mart
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I have been in a Wal-Mart exactly once in my life, with no plans to go back. It was dirty and chaotic. I live in the hometown of Target, where everything is clean, bright, and tidy. I grew up all around the country, and one of the highlights of our summer trip to Minnesota to visit the relatives was the annual trip to Target to buy school supplies.
So, a trip there yesterday got me thinking, where does everyone else shop.
So, a trip there yesterday got me thinking, where does everyone else shop.
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WalMarts are the scariest stores ever. The customers, the people working there, the creepy door greeter...blech. The only time I ever go to a WalMart is if I am in a pinch. One of those middle of nowhere places where WalMart is the only option. I feel sorry for people who live in those places. You don’t realize how bad WalMart is until you have something to compare it to. :shock:
And, I cannot stand the people who call it "Tar-jay"
Pompous azzclowns.
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Okay, here's my answer:
Target for shopping.
Wal-Mart for "services rendered."
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walmart is less expensive and more familiar. i grew up in one of those middle of nowhere godforsaken less commercialized places.
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walmart caters to a different area of the population, and that's why i think people enjoy hating walmart so much. target is for the people that can afford it, walmart is for people in rural areas, people that live paycheck to paycheck, poor people, and people on welfare that want to get the most food they can with their food stamps (which i am told come in debit cards now). from time to time the rich people drop in for, ew, "housewares" or "gardening equipment".
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that said, it's hip to shop at target; it's common to shop at wal-mart.
walmart is trying to change that now though. a new walmart was just built here (they closed an older one that wasn't a supercenter and is now considered in the "ghetto") on a very nicely commercialized thoroughfare. starbucks and my gym are across the street. the facility has a nice leisurely market air to it. there are faux hardware floors in the clothing sections, and a very nice calm brown laminate everywhere else. they even play soft rock/adult contemporary music there now instead of the televisions blaring walmart commercials.
now that there are so many super style stores (target, walmart, kmart, etc) do you think this will cause more small businesses to close? i don't think it shuts down small businesses where i'm from though, since we don't have anything there to begin with anyway.
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I would only shop at Wal Mart if I had no other option. I really don't like the way they do business and I have a lot of other options so I don't shop there. We didn't have one in my city until I was well into adulthood and I was already a diehard Target shopper by then.
I prefer Target because the selection is better, the merchandise is a little classier, and mainly because it's CLEANER everywhere I have lived.
Just because your customer base is rural and poor doesn't mean you can't keep the damned store cleaned up! In fact, it would show your customers a little respect, IMO.
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the walmarts here are clean. there are mean/rude/ugly/old/retarded people everywhere. it's not like walmart has "polite, young, clean, neat, and aesthetically and intellectually pleasing people need not apply" stamped across the bottom of their job applications.
however, i've never seen a chaotic or junky target, i can give that to them.
i also remember back when i was in grade school the richer snotty kids always saying they got their clothes from target or jcpenney or someplace and basically saying walmart was for trailer trash, black people, and people on food stamps. walmart was equated with shopping at a thrift store.
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Tar-jhay all the way.
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Do you mean Isaac Mizrahi (sp?) Kors does stuff for Dillards and other department stores, way more pricier than what IM does for Target. I bought a really cute IM skirt for $17 yesterday, I absolutely love Target.
I guess I'm just unaware of why everyone hates Wal Mart. Thats all we have here at school, Target is 30 minutes away. As college students, we DEPEND on Wal Mart for food, toiletries, school supplies...yeah it's a sketchy store but its cheap and we're poor students. Oh well.
I go to Wal-mart specifically to get knitting supplies, because they're so CHEAP!
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I think it's interesting to see how Target is perceived around the country. I've really never thought of it as upscale at all. The whole Tar-zhay thing is actually a little bit of self-deprecating humor because we're too poor to shop at the real department stores. Okay, the "pompous azzclowns" thing is apparently irritating me much more than I like to admit!
OMG, I call it that too!
Anyway, DH is currently watching a thing on PBS about Wal-Mart, how they drive businesses into the ground when they can't match their "low, low prices." And not just the competition. They don't allow their suppliers to raise prices, even if it costs the suppliers money.
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In the southern US, Target is top drawer (at least in grade school anyway!). Goes to show how different the standards of living compare to California!
I've never even seen or been in a Nordstroms. Stores like that just don't come where poor people predominate. My sister orders items from Nordstroms online though.
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I just watched this, too. They also mentioned Target, Best Buy, and Circuit City as contributing to driving businesses out of business.
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Heh, my brother calls it tar-jay galleria. He does it as a joke though. He also has a creative reference to Starbucks and Java City, the latter parts of the names being profanitys. Say it fast and no one really notices...which makes me wonder the point, I guess it's self amusement.
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Growing up we had no WalMart or Target. K-Mart was our only cheapo option. Where I grew up we were all ranging from poor to working/middle class, because nobody could afford high end (i.e. Nordstroms) stuff. There were no "rich kids" to make fun of us poorer kids
Target--I'll go there and go through every aisle whether I need something there or not. I buy clothes there or things for the house. I am much more likely to buy something on impulse from Target vs. WalMart where I go in with a purpose and leave as soon as I can.
Back when I had my first apartment, we used to joke that you'd go into Target for 1 thing and come out $50 later. Now, with diapers and little kid stuff, I never get out for under $100.
Where I'm from WalMart is the only company that deliberately goes into small towns and sets up shop. The bigger cities have a WalMart and a Target; the smaller towns are taken over by WalMart and only WalMart. My hometown no longer has a grocery store because a WalMart "supercenter" went up in the next town over (about 20 miles away). Ran the local market out of business within a year. The nearest Target is in the big city, 35 miles away.
Curlyara, I never thought I'd hear anyone call Target shoppers snobs.
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lol
that was tongue in cheek, but seriously though if it's gotten to the point of saying that people that go to and work at target are cleaner or something then yeah, i guess so.
i'm not gonna lie, i shop at target and walmart both, target more often than not. my thing is people should just be up front with what they're supporting. it's all marketing. target makes you feel good about being a consumer and walmart just shows you what you are without all of the sweet talk.
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I've been to the Walmart twice which is about a mile down the road from the Target store where I shop. Going into Walmart was like walking into the Twilight Zone, it's just creepy.
I just saw a special the other day on the Walmart empire. It was fascinating.
Walmart is the evil empire that price fixes and drives a good percentage of the economy and will probably be a major contributor to our next depression.
I still use them both. The value is there. The quaility of products is high enough for the things I get there. The cleanliness and customer service has never been an issue. I enjoy the greetings I get from the little old man in the wheelchair with the VFW hat on at the Walmart entrance. I have full confidence that he is getting everything he could expect from his employment there, to be there.
I much prefer Target simply because WalMarts around here are always overcrowded, understaffed, understocked, and most times I go there at least one item rings in at a higher price than it's supposed to.
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I think Target is trying to stay away from political charities. They also axed the Salvation Army bellringers. They donate plenty to other causes.