New annoyance at Target? Or just mine?

Our local Targets have had the phone carriers since about 2017 or so.

Cleaning supplies, soaps, detergents, shampoos, etc have been locked up for about a year now.

I hate how our Target was redone. Not welcoming and the lighting is horrible.

I do Target pick up at car and love it.

The Targets around me (there are 3 close by), don’t have anything locked up, except some of the electronic things that have always been locked up. One of the stores even made the local news for having a lot of thief. That store doesn’t open their self-checkout anymore, which bugs me. But nothing is locked up. I shop at Target for certain things because Walmart locks it up. There is an Ulta store inside, and you have to pay for that in the Ulta area, but even those items are not locked up.

The cell phone people have been inside my Target for years. I just don’t walk near them or ignore them.

I've had a love hate relationship with our Target for quite a while now. They were doing a remodel for months and months and the entire store was a wreck and you couldn't find anything, then they did something else that really pissed me off. I did not step foot in that store for 8 months!!!

I started going in around Christmas time for wrapping paper. I have always loved the home section, and now with my first grandbaby coming the baby section is my go to spot.

We don't seem to have that much stuff locked up at our store, mostly electronics. One of my sons was the loss prevention manager for several years, trust me when I say theft is alive and well. Shoplifters suck.

We have had the annoying cell phone people since before Covid.

I heard on the radio that all Targets will start enclosing a bunch of stuff... not just high theft stores, all stores.

No issues on self check except we only have four of them and usually one is broken. So the line can get long fast or you can walk past 15,984 registers to the other side of the store.

Oh and I also do Target order pick up because the self checkout is now 19 items or less and only 1 or 2 checkers open.

Last time I went 3 weeks ago with DD for her to get some make up, it was 8:32am and only 5 self check outs were open and no regular check outs. So everyone (11 people) were in line for that even though 6 had a cart full of items.

Why open with no regular checkers??

The grocery store near me has cell phone holders on the carts. I saw one person using it. I would never use it because it is so easy to grab and run, you. And you could even be standing right there.

No, I don’t leave my cart anywhere.

People who park their carts and walk away from them are RUDE and I don’t hesitate to push them out of the way. Not sorry.

Shopping at target is a pretty interactive experience, scanning things in the app to see if there’s a circle deal, so it makes perfect sense they’d have a holder.

Don't shop there regularly, but stopped at Target for travel size toiletry items just last night. They had a handwritten, whiteboard sign near the entrance that said, "Come Inside for Curbside Pickup" - that tells me a lot about the state of their customer service.

I live in Target’s hometown and there must be close to a dozen Target stores of various sizes within about a 20 minute radius of my house. The only things that are locked up here are the same electronics stuff that’s locked up everywhere (video games, phones, gaming consoles, etc.). It’s one of my favorite places to shop. I use the Target Circle app and have the RedCard and stack allll the discounts all the time. I was in there just last week and saved over $25 in that one trip alone plus got a $10 gift card for buying three household items (two packs of TP and some Swiffer refills that I needed anyway). The ones I go to most often aren’t bigger than a Costco though. I don’t think I’ve ever been in one that size. I buy most of my groceries at Costco but use Target to fill in most of the gaps for what Costco doesn’t sell.

I do think they are trying to get more people to use drive up and delivery probably because it requires fewer employees to make the same sale and there isn’t the same risk of consumer theft. The stores by me have been hurting for help for a good while now which explains the lack of cashiers, and they did put a limit of ten items or less on the self checkouts some time ago due to catching people skip scanning in those lanes.

I’m pretty sure the people hawking phone service aren’t Target employees, just like the ones at Costco selling phone service work for AT&T.

No cell phone providers at mine. But they seem to constantly stock shelves during the day causing tons of congestion. That with the locked up items keeps me from shopping at my Target.

I no longer go to Target. I can’t stand the locked areas. It takes forever to get someone to open a lock in order to get a toothbrush.

I order everything I used to get at Target from Amazon. I haven't been in a Target in years although I want to go to myshelly 's Target with the wine. I don't think she's too far from me so maybe I would hit up that Target.

I only ever do target pick up. I don’t like people. I couldn’t tell you want the inside of my target looks like or if stuff is locked up or not.

I refuse to shop Walmart

I do Ulta and Joann and home depot curbside pick up too.

I save soooo much money doing that vs going into the stores. If only Costco had curbside 😂

OMG I just said that to my DH about walmart - the are renovating our store and added a bunch of self check out stations BUT they removed the conveyer belts, so there is barely any room to unload your cart, scan your items and then bag your items. DH and I go together, but I feel for the singles and for the moms who have kids that aren't helpful. We are considering looking at other places to grocery shop bc I want to pick out my items.

I also have ZERO patience for the Target circle app and I don't have a red card. Before covid i considered maybe the red card, but now that I WFH, I RARELY go into Target. It has a grocery portion, but not enough for me to do my weekly shop (it would be all processed foods, and we try to eat more fresh foods).