Which is better. Ahhh ummm I don’t know. I went to K-Mart today for the first time in months and it didn’t seem as good a walmart. Wats yer opinion?
I usually head to Wal-Mart for most stuff, like school supplies, cosmetics, shampoo, etc. Plus I like to sew, and Wal-Mart is the only one of those stores in this area that has a fabric and crafts section. If I go to Wal-Mart I can get what I need and look through the new patterns, too. 
I have to say that I like Target for clothes and shoes. Especially for shoes. I’ve picked up a few good pairs of sneakers there really cheap.
Tar-Jay! Although we don’t have one here. So I go to WalMart. It sucks. Pity me.
Target.
Can’t stand walmart, and really can’t stand Kmart.
Target is da bomb.I was there earlier, and will be back again today. 
[rant]If you are concerned about women’s rights, please do not patronize K-Mart. They, along with Domino’s pizza are actively anti-choice. All pro-choice Americans need to send a message to these stone age mentality corporations. Please do not shop there.[/rant]
If I have a choice, it’s Target. Otherwise, it’s Walmart.
In the area where I live, Kmart has always seemed to be more of a redneck or white trash store–generally dirty in appearance, scantily-cut clothes, etc.
Walmart, on the other hand–even the non-Super Walmarts–have always seemed a bit nicer (albeit more cluttered) to me. If there’s no Target, I go to Walmart.
Back when I was in college, they built a Super K-Mart near the town. Groceries, clothes, household goods, auto shop and the rest of the works. It wasn’t there for two months when Walmart decided to build a Super Walmart right next to it. Once completed, the Super Walmart got about 75% of the Super K-Mart’s business and the once thriving store looked like a vacant shell. A friend of mine once said that on a still night, if you listened close, you could hear the life being sucked out the the K-Mart by its neighbor. I never saw a world of difference between the two and always shopped the K-Mart because I felt sorry for them.
If I have a choice though, I shop Target like a few others have said. It always seems much nicer and cleaner than the local Walmart or K-Mart (and we have all three within easy access to my home).
Same here jeep.
I’ll take Target (or Tar-zhay, as we say here) any day over Walmart or Le Mart du K.
Target is cleaner, has employees who actually give a damn about helping customers find stuff, and has better quality merchandise on average.
Kmart never seems to have much of the advertised items in stock, and Walmart here anyways is dirty, cluttered, and never has more than one or two lanes open, no matter how many people are waiting in line.
–tygre
All the way. They have an unbelievable variety of stuff in there.
(However, for clothes/housewares, Target is of course a superior choice. I refuse to buy clothing at Wal-mart, it tends to fall apart quite easily.)
I like Wal Mart. The Kmarts up here are really skanky, unkempt and have very poor selection. They constantly have this picked-over, scavenged look of undernourishment. Ghettomart. Wal Mart is clean, brightly lit and cheap. We just got a Tar-zhay and I like their shoe selection, but for everything else it’s wallyworld.
K mart. The Wal-mart near me is alway so packed it takes fifteen minutes to get through the checkout. At K mart, however, even when it’s crowded I’m in and out quickly. Because at K mart, when a line gets long, they open up another register immediately. My experience with K mart has been much better, so that’s where I go.
Really? Hadn’t heard this. Is there a K-Mart shareholder who gives lots of money to fight abortion, or something?
K-Mart, FWIW, was the first big store to open in my home town. My mother got a job as the store detective and got quite good at sneaking up on me from behind.
Well, if were were in the Pit I would tell you EXACTLY what I think of K-mart. Suffice to say, I don’t like that place a lot.
I have a trifecta I go to for bargains and oversized boxes of Tide:
K-Mart, Walmart, and Target.
If they had shorter checkout lines, I’d buy lots more there.
The last time I was in K-Mart, they had a loudspeaker sale on short sleeved tops. (Like people don’t wear them all year?) So I got 6 at $3-$4 each. Once thrown into the closet, no one can tell them from any other clothes. They get borrowed as much.
I WORK at KrapMart.
Pepperlandgirl-please, let’s hear your stories. I hate it there so fucking much.
Can someone tell me what the deal is with Target?
I (and zillions of others I know) had never heard of them before they decided to burst on the NYC shopping scene about a year or two ago. Their commercials were (and still are) very, very hip, young and with it; it looked as if they wouldn’t even let you in the store unless you could show a younger-than-21 ID. When some friends and I took an excursion to the new Queens Target I was prepared to be very intimidated by mondo coolitude.
When I got there… YUCK! It was like a Woolworth’s with a petuitary gland imbalance: a megastore yes, but selling the same old crappy, cheesy knock-off Tupperware and plastic diploma frames that 99-cents stores peddle. My grandmother would be embarrassed to shop there. Even the fixtures and decor of the place reeked of the Eisenhower administration. Bleaaah.
I think they should be sued for false advertising.
OUr local Target is great! It has great stuff and the decor is actually pretty decent.
The Kmart I work at is horrid-our manager INSISTS that freight must be put out immediately upon delivery…and then he pulls the stock guys away to do something else, and then gets pissed because our store is a mess. I hate it.
There’s no K-Mart where I live and I haven’t been to one in years. If you ask me to choose between Wal-Mart and Pamida, I’d say Wal-Mart. Of course, I worked at the Pamida in town for a while. Do with that information what you will. Did you know that the name “Pamida” came from the first two letter of each of the founder’s son’s names? (Pat, Mike, and David.)
Target is tops… but I still go to Walmart for some stuff. In my town, both are right across from each other, but they are on the other side of town. I have a Kmart nearby, but I only go there if its an emergency or whatever.
I find it amusing how Walmart promotes the “clean” lyrics and no curse words and junk like that, but I bought a CD there, that had f*** in each song at least once. Maybe it’s because I bought it in Durham, NC, when I was there. It’s partially a collegetown.
Tis all for now.