If you've read any of my other reviews, you'll see that I have a love hate relationship with Target. Something in the air makes you want to make like a meme and start just throwing money at everything, and you feel amazing about it until...
Read MoreIf you've read any of my other reviews, you'll see that I have a love hate relationship with Target. Something in the air makes you want to make like a meme and start just throwing money at everything, and you feel amazing about it until your wallet spits out dust bunnies (but then you just buy a new wallet while you're there!)
So, lately I've avoided Target (sorry Target, it's not you, it's me, and my bank account.) However, I recently moved, and was shopping for new curtain rods. Curtain rods aren't something I would have thought would be very hard to pick out, but here I am to tell you, if you are picky enough, it's possible to spend a good week and a half deciding on how you will suspend your curtains over your windows.
Turns out, Target had very swanky ones (with "mercury glass finials." I don't know what exactly mercury glass is, but I can tell you it's pretty!) and they weren't so expensive that I needed to buy ramen for this week's dinners. Score. Ordered them online, with pick up at this location, since they were close and I hadn't been to this store before. (Well that, and they had them in stock.)
I placed the order around 7am, and the order confirmation said I would receive. The pickup confirmation within 2 hours. They were ready in 20 minutes. Already I was liking this store, since I hadn't even finished my coffee and these guys were ON IT.
Eventually head to the store. Now I had seen online that they were remodeling some targets, and I don't know if this is the exact same remodel that recently popped up on social media, but this store is beautiful. They have the nicer carts that I haven't seen since leaving my home Target in Chicago, and everything is just FANCY. I worked retail, I know the importance of visual merchandising, and how perception is reality to the customer, and I always felt target did really well with this. But, THIS Target? Nailing it! I can't help but browse around for awhile, and those little frequencies that, I am sure, Target sends out that are caught by your ovaries to make you throw more things in your cart are working over time. Even my young daughter randomly tells me we are playing a "shopping game" and we need to buy EVERYTHING.
Also, the employees are awesome! Every. Single. One. Addressed me and made eye contact with me. I didn't need any help during my visit, but if I did, there is no doubt in my mind that they would have been on it.
Everything went wonderfully. I got everything I needed, picked up my curtain rods, the washroom was clean, my child behaved, there was minimal traffic in the way there and back, with clear blue skies and a light breeze. Then I got home and broke one of those mercury glass thingies. While this Target earned their 5 stars, I doubt I would if rating my logistical planning of bringing all my junk inside!
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