Closing Bell: FIPS Goes Undercover
FIPS goes undercover for a four-part series to expose the Target in the Atlantic Center Mall (or also known as “The Seventh Level of Hell”). What is your experience with the store?
FIPS goes undercover for a four-part series to expose the Target in the Atlantic Center Mall (or also known as “The Seventh Level of Hell”). What is your experience with the store?
I’m also surprised to hear that this many people from this blog shop at Target. The same people, who no doubt at dinner parties claim to shop at their local stores and use cloth diapers.
I don’t set foot in this place. I would also rather pay an extra dollar or two to shop at Super Savers or Neergaard or others in the neighborhood. The extra money is worth the time and effort wasted in a place like the Atlantic Center Target, in my opinion.
Good customer service went out the window with the advent of the computer age. People simply don’t know how to interact with other people anymore on a human level. They were raised watching tv, playing video games and updating their myspace profiles. The computer age has done so many great things for society, but it has also made us all a lot more disconnected.
Truly probing expose.
Maybe if they’d said “comforter cover,” a term used by many people, as opposed to “duvet” they might’ve gotten a better response. So obnoxious.
This is funny, and surely race enters into it. Dig the soundtrack.
I didn’t see the employees as unhelpful, they did their best. wtf is a duvet is right on. You want a duvet, go somewhere where they speak French.
And what cracks me up is all the people that claim they hate the big box stores, yet everyone seems to shop there.
I’ve been there exactly once in all the years it was open, cuz it ain’t my speed. But if you really want shit service, try Circuit City and PC Richards over there.
The normal consumer-retailer exchange since the evolution of societal structure around the time of the Sumerians:
Retailer: Hello.
Consumer: Hello.
money exchanged for goods
Retailer: Thank you.
Consumer: Thanks, goodbye.
The more recent politically correct/urban form of the transaction:
Retailer(angry cashier): passive aggressive silence combined with 1000yard stare.
Consumer: Hello.
money exchanged for goods while hearing the sound of pins dropping.
Retailer: angry stare denoting your obvious guilt for every and all historical slight since the antidiluvial age.
Consumer: silent retreat with resigned and self-conscious feelings of guilt mixed with relief that the tense situation is over, until the next time you need double A batteries.
best thing about this video is the guru joints during the interludes. is everyone in park slope this corny? if so, things have changed even more than i thought. hopefully they’ll get stabbed in part 2.
“I’m willing to spend a few more bucks on pet food or diapers at the local bodega or grocery to keep another Duane Reade from moving in.”
The local bodegas and groceries don’t carry diapers in any reasonable size or price range.
I don’t want my bodega’s and groceries selling diapers. I want food, decent coffee, Ben and Jerry’s, and some good fresh fruits or vegetables (which are rather hard to find here compared to Manhattan). I’m willing to overpay for all of these things if I can get them nearby and with good service.
I just ordered some diapers from Amazon.com, so we’ll see how that goes. I may have some trouble if no one is around when UPS shows up, but I qualified for free shipping, the package shipped in less than 24 hours, and I didn’t have to ride any escalators, stand in any lines, or get annoyed after a long day at work by someone who thinks it is my fault they have a crappy job.
Guys:
My best friend’s dad said that he could never live in Brooklyn because you have to be strategic about things like parking, going to the grocery store, to the movies and trips to Target. The Target at Atlantic center has been in the top ten for sales of all Targets from the very first day it opened. It just confirms what we already know, the demand far exceeds the supply. On more than one occasion, I’ve walked away without an item on my shopping list. Clearly, Columbiatch has figured out one of the delivery days
So in Target at Atlantic Center’s defense here are some things to consider.
Actually, the Target receives stock thrice a week. No doubt there is a measure of attitude but let’s look at the other side.
Imagine, having spent the better part of two hours stocking and straigthening an aisle to discover that some inconsiderate customer has just bombe the aisle with kitty litter.
Last, grousing among fellow posters will get you nowhere. Can you send this post to Executive Customer Relations at Headquarters. Bet that will get the local district manager’s attention.
And by local shopkeepers, you do of course mean the places that have been in business for less than five years and stock goat cheese, arugula, and Seventh Generation products.
I like to go after work – at like 8pm on a Tuesday it’s fully-stocked and pretty empty. Would never go near the holidays or on a weekend.