From cute commercials to well-lit, well-organized stores to products that people really want to buy, Target is a well-run retail company that keeps itself hip yet relevant in the customer's shopping mind.
Products I really like that I find at Target:
1. C9 by Champion for men
2. Mossimo
3. Target's bedding lines
4. Cliff Bars (the cheapest by far, even cheaper than TJ's)
5. Dollar store - every so often, I'll find something really useful there like flipflops, squeegees, polycarbonate water bottles, and batteries
6. Market - Archer farms, wine cubes, etc.
7. Timex Ironman watches
8. Wine bags
9. Infant lines
Things I wish Target would improve on:
1. C9 line for women could be better. Some of the stuff you get look like scrubs, not workout gear
2. Automotive - this section is extremely limited, at least at the targets I have been to.
3. Target still suffers some amount of trivial theft. You see it in open boxes missing parts, or ripped tags lying around the floor. As an investor, I find such theft worrisome.
Also, store management at Target is quite good. I can usually find people working at the store who know where things are located. Clothes are usually folded nicely, items placed in the correct bins, with the correct price tags, and so on. Shopping carts are in-store and the people hauling carts back from outside use powered cart pushers - nice. Lastly, checkout lines are usually short, even in the busiest of times. In fact, sometimes I can check out faster when the store is busy because new cashiers show up out of nowhere.
Seasonal staff though tends to be hit or miss, which to be honest is about par for the course. If you were planning to work at Target for only two months, would you really put in the time necessary to understand how the store products are laid out? Would you go the extra mile to serve the customer?
$57.37 (01/08/07)
