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?
HA canal street jeans moved to brooklyn? i remember when it was in downtown manhattan and then closed down
&*Bfly*
That store sees more people in a day than some suburban stores see in a week but all of the stores are stocked the same. Urban stores have to be better stocked and renovated/cleaned more often than counterparts doe to the numbers of customers that they service. If I go to Target, I go the one at the Junction (Flatbush & Nostrand) and then I stop by Canal Street Jeans which is right up the block. That Target is not as crowded and they don’t run out of stock as often.
I’ll back DIBS up. The Target in Philly is terrific. Actually, many Targets across the country are clean, well-stocked, and well-run. The Atlantic center one just isn’t one of them.
For the record, with my kitty litter story, we would’ve totally found someone and alerted them if the place had not been a screaming hellhole. It was like a scene from Apocalypse Now or something in there, just completely overflowing with people, merchandise littered everywhere, etc. We decided it was better to just get out than to try to do the right thing, in this instance.
I say we do this….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwzFfDg0QoI&feature=related
I don’t think the place is so bad really.
The target in Philly is really a great place to shop compared to this, any Walmart and most other places I’ve ever beeen in. They are not all run the same. I suspect the manager’s a complete idiot.
The employees depicted in that video are worse than the ones in the Philly WalMart which I would never again enter during the rest of my life.
Is this indicative of the quality of the other stores in the Atlantic Mall????
it’s a Tar Jay in the ghetto. what exactly do you expect!?!
*rob*
My experience:
Wandering through with my father (helping me move) and my wife. We stop in the pet aisle to pick up some cat litter, and I grab a one of the big 10 lb cardboard cartons with the plastic strap built on.
And I’m like “Hey, this is pretty heavy, I could lift weights with it” and lift it up like I’m doing a curl, and as I’m bringing it back down, slowly and with no great force, the plastic handle snaps and the box falls four feet onto the floor and blows kitty litter all over the aisle.
My wife, my dad and I all stare in horrified silence for a few moments, and then my dad starts cackling and goes “THAT WAS AWESOME!” and my wife goes “Let’s get the hell out of here”
And we head for the cash registers …
“I wanna say Target can suck my motherf-ing d*k!”
pretty much sums up the attitude/values of all the employees there.
corporate has insights into out-of-stock reports, so its not like they dont know whats going on.