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Consumerist Here's part 2 of FIPS investigation into why the Target at the Brooklyn Atlantic Center is the Worst Target Ever Created. Their video crew probes more into the shelves that are at best, disheveled, and at worst, empty. When we posted the first video, some said Target should get a break, they're recovering from the holidays. Well, this one was shot 15 days after the holidays. It still looks like crap. It also looked like crap before the holidays too. The real culprit? Management that doesn't care and poorly trained employees. C'mon, Target Corp, you need to send an attack squad to fix this store. It looks like a freakin' TJ MAXX. Video inside [NSFW, curseywords].
The Target is actually worse than the video shows. It's so bad, that sometimes you can't buy things there. You just give up and leave. Having lived three blocks away from it for three years, fellow editor Meghann Marco says she was only able to ever buy anything there four times, and her trick was to take her purchases to the pharmacy. She bought Guitar Hero from Target at the pharmacy.
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rottenseedAs a former Target employee I can say that this is, in fact, due to horrible management. It's an easy fucking job to do when everybody has their tasks. Our Target would have never looked like this. Yea, sometimes the work is tedious and rushed, but it's a craptacular job. They do really try to instill a sense of teamwork and pride in the work you do. Of course, the west side is way better than the east, so it doesn't surprise me that they can't get their shit together
youmakekittymadseriously, there's nothing misleading about this. i live 10 blocks from that target. i moved to the neighborhood in december and chalked up the bare shelves and bad service to the holidays, but i've been back many times since, and nothing is different.
honestly though, most stores like this are awful in new york city. the tax break isn't the only reason everyone shops in jersey.
mrk871says...Can someone put this in context for me? Who cares if a store looks shit, the shelves are empty and blah, blah...
Can't you choose not to go there? Am I missing something? Isn't retail just soulless and shit anyway? Isn't this more amusingly bad than some kind of humanitarian crisis?
I mean Jesus, if these are your problems.
"Oh no. There's no snow storms of the statue of liberty on display. And someone has left a Starbucks empty coffee cup on the shelves - I think I'm going to die."
It's not like Zimbabwe where they queue all day for bread only to find that at the end of the day the price has quadrupled and there isn't any left anyway.
It's true that the more people have, the more they expect, but really someone just needs to slap some sense into people sometimes. Appreciate what you do have, or go somewhere else rather than feel the travesty of this despicable mismanagement.
Pprtsays...How much would you like to bet that this store has a black manager? The condition is a direct representation of the quality of the employees.
This is affirmative action.
EDD^Yeah, cuuuz white folk are NEVER lazy/bad managers.
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