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Target CEO says shoppers are pulling back, even on groceries
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People just aren’t buying from Target
Among my peers (early/mid 20s to early 30s) everyone explicitly avoids grocery shopping at target because it’s so much more expensive than other big box retailers. Target is for the occasional home decor items or household items, but very rarely food in my experience.
The only thing I have noticed is that every piece of men's clothing I have bought from them has worked out for me. It didn't die quickly or have some weird defect. I tend to shop there for clothing for that reason.
The last time I went to target it sort of skeeved me out. I bought two bookshelves, and once I paid there were two employees that seemed to want to get really close and follow my wife and I out the door. So I paid for something and probably ended up in their database as a shoplifter.
Are you sure they weren't just waiting to see if you needed help lifting the bookshelves into your car?
If they were doing that, they could use their word-noises like adult human beings.
And they didn't help, so your comment doesn't make sense.
Not always, friend. Being a human/communication is hard. It's also entirely likely that they had walkies in and their manager was telling them to keep an eye out for you in case you did need an employee nearby to ask for help. I think your original comment assuming conspiratorial malice instead of just much-more-common awkwardness is the comment that doesn't make sense.
Yes, I have the same experience there. It's ridiculous. I rarely go there anymore because of that, and everything being expensive.
Edit: sorry, this comment was meant for someone else! Lemmy tacked it under yours for some reason.
Yep it's getting skeevy. I think Target is the next Kmart.
I go there to window shop and never ever buy anything. I visit around this time of year because I know less people will be there and I can have peace - just never buy there. Now they get traffic and not a purchase, whoopsie.