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?
Wow, someone really blew the cover off here. People got all sweaty when there was a posting about a mugging the other day and they don’t mind this unclever crap? I guess it might be funny to others, but it’s a store in an urban area that moves a lot of product and has employees who make minimum wage. People who know how and when to shop can figure it out, others can go to Short Hills and avoid black people altogehter (isn’t that the subtext, really?. I’m not sure wtf a duvet cover is either. Teriffic piece.
Bessie: “I’m always kind of amazed when the big discount chain stores feel more like a Salvation Army after a bag sale than a store store.”
Totally. And that Old Navy in Atlantic Center also always reminds me of going to a thrift store.
Bessie….the most annoying part about retail help is when they stand there talking to each other and there’s a customer waiting. I ran an NAPA auto parts store years ago and that was the first thing they were instructed about.
total armchairing here. zero credentials on my part.
Brooklyn and Manhattan have a lot less retail sf per capita than other parts of the country. I’ve been in that Target at non-holiday time where the express line goes back almosts to the refrigerated cases. Still, I’m always kind of amazed when the big discount chain stores feel more like a Salvation Army after a bag sale than a store store.
Management should be way more strict. I’d be embarrassed to be in charge of a place where employees are clumping together socializing in front of the merchandise or yammering on a cell phone in a less trafficked part of men’s apparel. And that sea of partly filled carts at the top of the escalator is always there.
hmmm that’s a pretty valid way of looking at it goldie.. never thought about it that way!
*rob*
goldie….your analysis, armchair as it may be, is spot on!!!! LOL
The lines suck, but I always find what I want – bedsheets, silverware tray, underwear, wineglasses. I actually got some good help once.
Fexleycb…right on regarding the Pathmark. Funniest announcement overheard on Pathmark p.a. system: “Tyrelllll! Bring me back my cell phone! An’ you betta not have used up all my damn minutes or called no long distance!”