I dislike being referred to as a ‘guest’ at any store, 'cuz I’m not. Hosts give you stuff. STores make me pay. If you work there, you’re a cashier, or an employee, or something like that. Law firms have associates.
But yeah, all that aside, Target rocks. It’s kinda like Wal-Mart (though I have a special place in my heart for Wal-Mart, since it was my only tie to civilization for over a month this summer), but higher-class. You can always find something that you really don’t need or even particularly want, but nevertheless will pay thirty dollars for it.
I just came from Target–went to look at patio furniture, left with the new White Stripes album. (I’m usually adamant about supporting my local independent music store, but I was there and it was on sale.)
When I got to the registers (er, “terminals”), they had exactly two of the eighteen “terminals” open, with six or seven people with full carts at each one. They rallied everyone with a pulse in the store and opened a few more lines. One line was manned by what appeared to be an Alpha-Associate. While the other cashiers were trying to get the lines moving as quickly as possible, the Alpha-Associate was pointedly loudly asking everyone, “Would you like to save ten percent on all purchases today?”
The other associates just ignored her and tried to get the angry customers (er, “guests”) taken care of. As I was leaving, she said, loudly, to the other cashiers, “Y’all need to be asking everybody if they’d like to save 10%!”
I said, in her earshot, “You mean they’re going to hold these people up, who’ve already been waiting for a long time, while people fill out credit card applications? Jesus!”
Gotta chime in here. Along with several of the posters here I hate the term “guests” for customers. I love ntuckers “loop-hole” idea…because well…it’s right. What feckless, PR idiot first came up with this “guest” drivel anyway?
This is a business fer chrissakes! They don’t give a rat’s patootie about me…they want my money and that is ALL.
I absolutely loathe being pestered about filling out credit card aps when I’m checking out. NO, I DO NOT WANT TO PAY INTEREST ON MY PURCHASE A MONTH LATER!
Slight hijack here…my mother (poor her she needs to be able to retire!), works at a well known jewelry store. New, go get-em district manager came in. All “associates” are now required to make 100% contact and pester people about filling out credit aps. If they fail to get requisite amount per month and are written up three times for that failure, they are FIRED! 'Scuse me, if I want credit I will ASK. Do not ask me. Point is, this whole credit card thing IS IRRITATING. I want to buy my shit and GET OUT. Anyway off the hijack. sorry…
Finally, I hate Target (we say Tar-Che…like Bon Marche) here. It is always crowded, always dirty and they jam everything so tightly together there you can’t push your cart through, much less your body! Same for Wally-World, crowded, dirty, long lines, mass confusion.
Hey! As a dude who has lived in the Vermont inner-city, let me tell you, it’s nothing to laugh at. Hundreds of wealthy college kids living in slums disrespecting their neighbors and living off the allowance they get from their parents! If that’s not inner-city trouble, I don’t know what is!
(Not that we don’t have our city-esque problems, but they’re just on a much much much smaller scale).
Where the Hell do you come off with this unmitigated steaming heap of 100% pure, USDA inspected, genuine, prime cut, ranch style, grade AAA, jumbo size, 24 karat, pure, uncut, Heinz 57 variety of horseshit?
I’d wager that kids who go hunting from a young age handle guns more safely and are less prone to gun related violence. I don’t have a cite but it sure seems like it is these wannabe ninjas and pseudo-military types that do most of the underage shooting.
Get a frickin’ clue. Unless you can provide cites to support such blatant tommyrot, consider your credibility to be permanently damaged.
Where does most of the kids killing kids happen? In the inner city. The only thing these kid regularly hunt are cockroaches! I can’t believe you managed to slip this under radar in this thread. Someone else should have called your sorry excuse for an ass on this long ago.
IN OTHER NEWS:
The shit-for-brains moron (see above for an example) who came up the idea of calling used cars “preowned” is the one who decided to have stores call customers “guests.” Let us all hope his sphincter locks up until he explodes in some lonely telephone booth.
Even worse in this regard are the “dollar stores.” I always get a claustrophobic feeling when I am in one…like there is just not enough room to move around in the aisles, and I am always in someone’s way (or someone is in my way).
I hate going into dollar stores, I always get depressed seeing all those haggard looking mom’s with their five kids running around screaming, the ghetto “fabulous” chicks that’ll try to kick your ass if you accidently make eye contact and the families that come from countries with drastically different ideas of acceptable personal space that practically hump my leg when i’m in line (and when I try to scootch forward to get away from them, they move right along with me). I steer FAR away from those places.
Target (with the french accent of course) is my own personal playground though. I can spend a whole damn day in that store. Mmmm Target…I think I may have to make a stop after work…
Target and Home Depot are the two chains I’ve noticed most that seem genuinely shocked that they actually have enough customers to open more than two lines even though they both have about 18 to 20 “terminals” in each store. I never bother going to Home Depot anymore cause I can never get out of the place.
I hate Target. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing wrong with the business or anyone who works for the company. It’s the color red I hate. I get a headache every time I walk through the front door.
I try not to shop at Target simply because it’s owned by the Dayton Corporation who seems to have a greasy paw in everything in Minneapolis. (shudder)
And what’s with their wannabe upscale advertisements introducing “world famous” designers and the new bin liners in style for the season? Why the hell would I want striped bin liners? Or why would I buy a potato masher because it looks nifty?
blech.
but I go to Target also.