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When in Florida I can buy groceries at Publix, Walmart, Target, or ALDI. I avoid Publix for many reasons but I end up getting most groceries from ALDI and Walmart because Target simply doesn't have shit. Their stores are not small, but the grocery segment are always an embarrassment.
Target does lean weirdly heavy into clothes and home goods now days. Their target customers must be a strange niche.
They actually didn't expand into produce until the 2010s. Until then it was just pantry items. I remember the remodel when I worked there.
I could swear I remember freezers in the 00's but I can't remember fresh produce thinking back.
Could very location dependent and if the store is Target, Target Greatland or whatever their supercenter is called.
They definitely had refrigerated goods well before 2010.
What? That's what they've always done. They've been a combo department store and small grocer for decades. Their demographic is middle-class white women too snooty for Walmart but not so wealthy for luxury brands.
For clothes, they used to compete with Old Navy and not Walmart.
They could have a very niche demographic or maybe their just out of touch.
Recently I had to choose between Walmart and Target for a couple of needed items. I would have preferred a choice of stores with actual values more closely aligned with my own, but alas, caparilism. I chose Walmart, because it was maybe a few pennies less and a half-mile closer to where I already was.
Saying no 80% is still change. I struggle with feeling like I am not doing enough to change tides. But you are at least doing something and that’s better than nothing.
Thank you for supporting me. I feel like we have an illusion of choice but no real choice.
We do. Even if it’s small it’s a line in the sand.
Making an effort is good. I do realize that it is unavoidable to completely boycott a place. But the point is to send a message. If they get $15 from me in 2 months instead of the usual $60 a week I'm doing right.
Thank you. I do think it counts, even if ourselves are the ones getting the message.
Yes, so strange that a place that is not a grocery store has so few groceries …
Read the article
The one that only mentions groceries to say “Around half of Walmart’s business, for example, comes from groceries.”?
I mean, the fact is that Target is not a grocery store so why would you expect to find a comparable selection to Aldi or Publix?
They have auto parts too but they’re not an auto parts store. They have furniture but are not a furniture store. On and on, they’re just not a specialty store. How is that an “embarrassment”?
Let's focus on comparing a Walmart Supercenter to a Super Target, which is what I have in my vicinity in Florida. They are supposed to be an apples to apples comparison in terms of business models. These include a full pharmacy and a full grocery store. Walmart Supercenter definitely delivers there while Super Target fails miserably.
The fact that you say that Target is not a supermarket makes it clear that you are thinking of a standard Target. If that is what you have in mind then you need to compare that to a Neighborhood Walmart.
The other problem that Target seems to have is that WalMart has made it a point to reorganize the majority of their stores into Supercenters, while Target has decided to maintain their large footprint store in the stock Target model that you have in mind. This is a major disconnect with the consumer, as the article states.
I digress. The Target I was talking about is absolutely supposed to be a supermarket, and they suck at it.
Ah yeah that makes sense. I was absolutely not thinking of a Super Target.