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Post by workingclassdog on May 1, 2024 17:43:39 GMT
I don't shop at Target, always found it overpriced. But I stopped in a grocery store near the city where I work and noticed infant formula kept locked up near the front of the store. Not sure if that's more about safety or item limits or theft?! Funny enough on most items Target is cheaper than my grocery store. I regularly buy frozen Jimmy Dean's sausage links. Target is at least .20 cents or more cheaper than my grocery store. Usually more than .50 cents to a dollar. There is a deli pub cheese dip that is always at least 3.00 cheaper than the grocery store. 8.99 at the grocery store and 3.99 at Target last time I looked. I am in the land of no discount grocery stores too. No Aldi's. We basically have King Soopers (Krogers) or Safeway. Safeway is the worst. |
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Post by lily on May 1, 2024 18:29:36 GMT
Honestly I have not stepped foot in Target in probably 3 years. I use their app and free pickup. I love that they bring it right out to the car and off I go!
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Post by maryannscraps on May 1, 2024 20:11:07 GMT
Our target is so junky. It’s not all that clean. They did a Reno and made it harder to shop as they added a whole big food section without expanding the store so they had to reduce everything else. The seasonal section usually has stuff thrown all over the floor. Close butnot quite as bad as our Walmart
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Post by teddyw on May 1, 2024 22:13:34 GMT
People who park their carts and walk away from them are RUDE I am not much of a complainer, but this, I agree with. The person who drives their cart on one side of the aisle, while looking for something on the other side of the aisle, then walking across to now block more than half the aisle so you can only squeeze through the middle between them and their cart while also trying to dodge them trying to make it back across to their cart. This might seem like a petty complaint, but I have terrible grocery store anxiety to begin with. The employees who do the online shopping fulfillment are the worst. They will block the whole aisle. It’s very frustrating. |
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Post by teddyw on May 1, 2024 22:19:22 GMT
Tell me about the wine shop. We have 1 aisle of crappy wines at ours. Mine has a little, separate room at the front of the store…about the size of a small gas station with beer, wine, and champagne. There are 4-5 aisles of shelves and 2 walls of cold cases for chilled stuff. There is always a person working in there (I don’t know if they are brand reps or target employees) at a table with a selection of wines or champagnes to sample. The sample cup is a plastic wine cup, not a tiny sample cup. You can walk around the store with the wine and shop, but you can’t take the open wine out the door. Everything in there is cheaper than at the liquor store. This sounds nice. My grocery has wine tastings once a month only. On Fridays from 4-6 PM not the most convenient. Kroger is the worse for coupons. They are one of the majority stores here. Not everyone has a smart phone. I bet elderly hate it because they plaster big sale price signs on the product. If you don’t add it to your card you don’t get the discount. |
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Post by Scrapper100 on May 1, 2024 22:42:38 GMT
I don’t think they do two day shipping and there is almost always a $35 minimum at least most items I look at only ship with $35 and nothing comes quick anymore. These seem to have changed during Covid or just before. I have a Redcard. During Covid there was definitely free 2 day shipping with no minimum. I used it frequently for stuff I couldn’t find. Flour. Box cake mix. Canned beans. It was amazing and faster than Amazon. Here in So California all of those items required a $35 order if they were even available which they often weren’t. So you would keep adding items and then they would come in multiple boxes some having just a single item often a $1 item lol. No two day here. Even items that shipped from a local store usually take longer than that. I thought having a red card was supposed to get you free shipping on most items plus two day but not since Covid started and maybe even before here. I was still happy to be able to order items but I still have a surplus of a few items I added onto orders to meet the minimums lol. |
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Post by RosieKat on May 2, 2024 19:33:27 GMT
There are 2 Targets fairly close to me. The "north" one is large, has a decent grocery section, and is in a well-traveled place, so it's very busy. They still only seem to have one or two regular checkouts open at any given time, even though they have literally something like 50 of them. It's a bit messy but far more busy, and I've not really noticed a ton of stuff locked down beyond the regular expected items.
The "south" one is smaller and is in an odd place, so it's not very busy. However, it has been in business for many years, so it must work for them. But what drives me batty is that they ONLY have self-checkout. It doesn't matter when I go or when DD goes, it's self-checkout *only*. Because I don't go to Target too often, and half the time when I go, it's to the other one, I forget that this one is self-checkout. I'll go and shop and get my 4000 items, only to end up holding up a line forever while I self-check. And of course, the kiosks are not made for it, so you have nowhere to put the full bags and when you literally have to move them to make room, the platform yells at you, and the single employee has to come override...But in response to the original question, they don't seem to even have a lot of the expected items locked up. It is in a relatively mid- to upper-middle class area, so maybe they assume there isn't as much shoplifting? Or maybe because there isn't much traffic, there simply isn't much shoplifting anyway? I just know it always surprises me. I also know where to start going if I decide to pick up shoplifting as a hobby, lol.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 5, 2024 12:43:43 GMT
Our Target is all locked up too for anything of even possible stealing/reselling value. Electronics, diapers, formula, detergents, bodywash & bodycare, toothbrush and accessories, etc. Some of the coffees and all of the energy drinks too.
They have one open person cashier. There are five self check outs, but you can only use them if you have 10 or less items.
There is an armed off duty police officer at the exit.
I just don't go anymore. Not at all.
I pretty much only order online anymore for anything. Other than Aldi groceries, and odd little things like plants at the small family owned garden center.
I am not going to spend money where I am interrogated and treated like a criminal. I'm not going to wait twenty minutes at a locked case to have the privilege of buying a $6 bottle of bodywash.
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Post by smasonnc on May 5, 2024 13:19:41 GMT
…and Bezos keeps getting richer because people don’t want to deal with this.
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Post by zuke on May 6, 2024 11:42:32 GMT
They lock up the items or groups of items that are popular with thieves. Our higher end face cream section is locked up! Stores have also found that there's a lot of items that are not checked out during self service. So it all boils down to the amount of stolen items that have occurred.
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Post by zuke on May 6, 2024 11:46:52 GMT
The locking of everything seems unnecessary. I get the most expensive items or pharmaceuticals, but not normal, everyday types of items. Having to track down an associate all the time to unlock items seems very much not worth the trouble. Our Target is in an area that has a lot of needy people. They have a high rate of items being stolen. Even though it's an inconvenience, I totally understand why things are locked up. |
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Post by jill8909 on May 6, 2024 12:19:00 GMT
nothing in my Target is locked up. The place continues to be spotless, have a wide variety and cashiers and self checkout. I'm sorry!!
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Post by cmpeter on May 6, 2024 22:03:05 GMT
I was in mine yesterday. The whole row of laundry soap is in locked cabinets. But they had all of the unlocked and open. I’m guessing the don’t have enough staff to keep unlocking them and/or the theft isn’t all the big of a factor at this store.
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