No Recession at Target
On a lighter note…check out the wide selection of toys and clothing left at Target in the Atlantic Center on December 23. Recession? What Recession! More photos on the jump…
On a lighter note…check out the wide selection of toys and clothing left at Target in the Atlantic Center on December 23. Recession? What Recession!
More photos on the jump…
I’m a regular Target shopper, and this season I have noticed a significant decline in traffic there. I haven’t stood in a significant line there in the last three months, including December weekends. THAT is one of the scariest signs of the times.
As for the empty shelves, that Target always looked that way toward the end of the Christmas season. Furthermore, in the last year the Atlantic store appears to be increasingly poorly managed. Inventory is more sparse and unpredictable. Standard “ghettoification” of major chains in Brooklyn. The same thing happened to the formerly beautiful and well-stocked Walgreens on Third Avenue.
What amazes me about Target and the Atlantic Center mall is that Kings Plaza was often called “a dump” and “not a real mall” by high school friends of mine. But honestly, that place is 1000% better than Atlantic Center. The place is a few blocks away from me and I avoid it like the plague.
It does look like that almost all of the time. The only area that seems to be clean is their restrooms, but the rest of the Atlantic Terminal store can give the shelves of Zimbabwe a good run for their money.
That’s what it looks like every day of the week. It is a miracle.
LOL @ 1:33. Yeah some Walmarts are nice (in Florida or Texas I have seen nice ones). The Target in Port St Lucie Florida is heaven. Clean stocked orderly and the staff actually WANT to help you. Target in BK I have to pray, deep breathe and say a mantra when I walk in. But actually I went in on Christmas Eve and it was not bad. Lines were actually fast. Go figure.
I’m not shocked by this. Honestly, the same scene plays out on virtually every weekend. Holiday shopping didn’t change things. The Target stores in Brooklyn are notoriously under-stocked. It’s practically worthless to find anything in them.
The suburban stores don’t get the traffic that their counterparts in the city get. The suburban stores might get in one week the number of customers that Atlantic Center gets in a day. Most urban big box stores consistently out perform their suburban counterparts but the problem is that they stock all of the stores with same amount of merchandise and staff, so of course the suburban experience is easy and civilized. We should demand better. For one thing, I am tired of these places checking my receipt on the way out of the door. They don’t do that in suburbia either. Sure there are thieves in Brooklyn but no more, per capita anyway, than anywhere else.
Agree with Spndr–anytime I’ve been to the Atlantic Ave. “Target,” it looks sorta like that! Never again after it sucked royally on 2 different visits! It was truly awful. I do a “real” Target out in Roosevelt Field, and it’s night and day different–occasionally runs out of something, but overall a pleasant shopping experience by big-box standards. The suburbs may be boring, car-centric and soul-dead, but the bargain shopping is easy and civilized.
Target sucks away a slice of my soul every time I enter.