Target Groundbreaking, Marty And All
The Brooklyn Downtown Star reports on the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Target store at Flatbush Junction. As usual, the center of attention was borough beep Marty Markowitz: “I’ve been telling people to invest here for years,” gloated Borough President Marty Markowitz. The beep was wearing a ceremonial white helmet, and holding a shovelful of…
The Brooklyn Downtown Star reports on the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Target store at Flatbush Junction. As usual, the center of attention was borough beep Marty Markowitz:
“I’ve been telling people to invest here for years,” gloated Borough President Marty Markowitz. The beep was wearing a ceremonial white helmet, and holding a shovelful of already loose dirt near the State Senate district he represented for over twenty years…”If you look at a map,” diagrammed Marty Mark, “this is the heart of Brooklyn. So goes Flatbush Junction, so goes Brooklyn.”
3rd Target on the Way [B’kln Downtown Star]
Targety Goodness for Flatbush [Brownstoner]
And now we are getting an IKEA causing congestion in the surrounding neighborhoods with the same wonderful customer service from the projects.
Gotta agree, if you’re gonna go with a chain resto, Legal Seafoods beats the others cold. It’s the only place I’ll tolerate when I go out to my mom’s on LI a/k/a strip mall paradise (assuming we don’t go to the locally-owned Japaense place where they’re always charming and the food is not too bad either!).
I love living in Brooklyn, but shopping there is truly an experience..Besides food I shop in Manhattan. Atlantic Term. Target = always out of stock
I always avoid the madness in that Target by going to the registers near the elevator on the side instead of the registers in the front. that used to work for me but I haven’t been there in about a month or so, maybe that doesn’t work anymore.
Wow I have never had a bad experience at the Atlantic Target. I do agree that there needs to be more cashiers there. As far as the staff being nice they are always pleasant and helpful to me. I do notice that some of the customers can be extremely nasty to them and most of the customers will not even say please or thank you.
Years ago, I recall reading an interview with an exec from some retailer (Neiman Marcus?) and they said that they would not open a store in NYC because NYC labor pool did not meet their requirements for courtesy and customer service.
I no longer shop in the B’klyn Macys due to their abysmal customer service and lack of cashiers. Back in the day when I work at Herald Square Macys you always worked the cash register first and foremost and did floor clean up during lulls. But the B’klyn Macys mgmt. seems to think floor clean up is more important than register and anytime you want to buy something you have to have at least 3 floor clean up workers in 3 depts. to point you further and further to an open cash register. What happened to having staff that can pick up a sweater and work the register?
It’s frustrating to try and shop local and get such crap service.
I sorry to say that I have to agree with the experiences of the last two posters. Some customer service training and implementation of such training would be great. They have the traffic, they should get it right and keep the volumes up as a result.
Yes chuck you’ve met some of our wonderful residents proving why buisnesses must be bribed to hire locally
the Atlantic Terminal Target has gone soooo downhill since they first opened.
Ahhh…. I remember those first few weeks… a happy cashier says hello and looks at me, smiling…. looking for bedsheets, a store associate is right there to help me find them. neat aisles. full shelves. balloons. that dog with target spots.
Snap back to reality. Last Wednesday I was yelled at by a cashier — by the cashier! — for failing to prevent someone from butting in line. Sorry, did my Target paycheck get lost in the mail?
🙂 Only in New York.