I worked at Target as a cashier / cart attendant from 1987-1989 (not here, in Colorado) and this is exactly how I remember it. No laser scanners at the check-out line until 1988. Lots of people writing checks and having to manually process credit cards...the stone ages 🙂
@Christopher Jacobs I believe $3.75/hr. which was around minimum wage back then. As a teenager, an extra $40 in my pocket per week seemed like a fortune in those days.
lol what target are you going to? people behave the same today as well. stop living in the past thinking its that much better than it is today, it isn't
That’s crazy no music or anything. What struck me first is how quiet things are. No music no target ads playing regularly. Nothing it’s just ambient noise and people talking. Man seems peaceful. I love the old telephone ringing, and the receipts being written up!
His microphone is just not quite good enough to pick up the muzak in the background. If you notice you can barely hear the male stocker speak until he is right near him.
I worked at target in the early 2000s and corporate had a rule that no music should be playing in the store because it created a distracting environment. So I was surprised when they reversed course about five years ago and began playing background music. I also wonder if they didn't have walkies yet back when this video was recorded. That would definitely contribute to the quiet!
@@ganymededarling Definitely no walkies. Either you called the operator who would page someone over the loudspeaker or some of us had to carry beepers. How the beepers worked is that you would dial the beeper number and say something like "Cart Attendant to the front lanes" which the person with the beeper would hear. Sort of a one-way walkie talkie I guess.
Great video! While cell phones and technology has its place, I do miss the days when people didn't always have a phone in their face and actually spoke to one another. I also miss the fashions and quality of products in the 80s. I was a teenager in the 80s. Great times!
I know me too I miss those days I was a teenager back in the 80s and I agree everyone has a cell phone up to their face now I am guilty of it sometimes myself but when I walk up to the register to pay for my items or whatever it is if I'm not going through self-checkout I acknowledge the cashier just the other day I was in WinCo and this lady behind me was on her cell phone the whole entire time when we were in line nothing wrong with it but she had her phone on speaker so I can hear everything the whole conversation that she was having with her friend about her marriage problems I have no issues with someone on the phone that's fine but keep it to yourself the whole damn market doesn't need to hear your conversation anyway she was still talking on the phone you when she got it to the cashier continue talking no respect not even Hi how are you doing or put your phone down and wait till your done paying then get back on but we don't have that kind of respect anymore these days and she wasn't that young she looked to be in her forties.
@@Philitron128 Not anymore. Now days if you take a video camera into a Target or Walmart the loss prevention people escort you out and call the police.
Target was aesthetically way ahead of the times. Very modern for 1985. The white minimalistic color palettes, the ambient lighting and the cleanliness is if this video was taken 10 years ago. Compare that to the dark earth tones, crome and fake wood that was common at the time most other stores had a very cavernous layout but Target was the outlier.
I find it remarkable how little has changed. This was 37 years ago. 37 years before that was 1949. HUGE differences between stores in 1949 and 1986, but only small style differences between then and now. A lack of laser UPC checkout and paper bags and no cell phones are the only major changes I see. The rest is just styles.
And even the styles really aren’t that radically different. Think about 1949 styles compared to this. It’s like we as a society figured out what we like and stuck to it.
@@cdevidal Do you think that everything changed in 37 years spontaneously? That humans suddenly had great ideas that they were just waiting to put to purpose? The breakthroughs that changed the modern world from the late 50s forward have non human origins, of course.
People just seem more polite back then, more classy and more respectfull. I was 13 when this was filmed. It's bittersweet. I feel immense sadness , I miss those days deeply 😢
It feels like Aesthetically, Target hasn't really changed much at all. It's a lot of the same stuff, same styles of signs, and such. The main thing that's changed at the Targets I go to over the years is that the food courts are gone and photo departments. That's kind of what jumps out at me first.
In my hometown's Target, they replaced its small food court with inventory storage during the COVID lockdown. However, at a nearby college town, its Super Target's larger food court remains.
Manually typing in SKUs, old credit card imprinters, writing checks, noisy dot matrix printers, so much different back then. When I started at Sears in 1992 we had similar equipment but we already had new PoS (Point of Sale) terminals ready to replace the old NCR cash registers, which we did a couple months later and those had barcode scanners and full keyboards. A few years later the dot matrix printers were replaced with thermal printers that were quiet and printed receipts much faster. No more having to replace print ribbons on a regular basis!! How times have changed!!!
I was born in January 1986, I just turned 37 a few weeks ago. It is certainly something to think about. Although, we had caldors and bradlees where I lived
I'm 38 and can remember my local Target and K-Mart looking similar to this. Another thing I remember is the smell of cigarettes! Way more people smoked per capita back then, and you were allowed to smoke virtually anywhere except church. Although there are some conveniences about living in 2023, for the most part, the 80's and 90's were a wonderful time to be a kid.
It says this was in Edina, Minnesota, it boarders Minneapolis. One thing I noticed was the low amount of stress there. People were focused on each other as well as the time they spent there. No cell phones or technology to distract you. You can feel it in the atmosphere even in the video. I remember it too!
Wow, i enjoy watching these vintage videos. I used to work for Target in the 1980s and it was a fun place to work. My favorite part of the store where we had the clearance end caps in the electronic department. I would work in automotive and the hardware section. I would straighten out the isles making sure it was presentable to our guests. One thing I learned it to never refer the shopper as a customer but refer to them as guests. My other jobs were answering phone calls on the floor when a gust called in about a product. I would also do what we call “go backs” I would get a shopping cart loaded with merchandise from customer service to where I had to put back each item back in its proper department.
It's new years eve and all I can think about is how these people are just out here existing. Not connected to any sort of mobile device. I wish life were still this way
People seem so polite back then. So much more respectful and decently dressed in public. Paper bags instead of plastic. People writing checks...nobody on their cell phones and SO MANY people shopping. When retail outlets still existed. People we have to stop so much online shopping, and we can keep our local people in a job.
Since this is news footage, I'm assuming that this may have been a new store, so I assume that more people are going there to browse, rather than trying to get in, get what they need, and get out. And the store looks far less full than most of them today (although I'm more accustomed to Wal-Mart, and don't make it out to Target often, despite finding the place a pleasant shopping experience). But, I will concede that even with all of the technology that makes mundane tasks so much faster, more convenient, and easier, it constantly feels like we are somehow forced to rush more and more. Even compared to 20 years ago when I was just entering adulthood, the pace of life feels far more frantic.
No smartphones, longer attention spans, people actually aware and present. We'll never live in times like those again. It's sad that some targets and other stores are closing due to theft.
Target was hands down my favorite store back in the 90's! They had great prices and inventory and you could get everything there! Clothes, food, toys for the kids, pet food, and fresh popped popcorn!! Miss those days 😢
Wow!!! The lady in line in under a minute is writing a check almost nobody does that anymore. When I see the older customers it’s sad to think they probably have passed on.
Some people are so stupid and easily irritated/impatient now that they barely understand easily used debit cards and tap to pay on a phone. Lines take way longer than back then.
6:03 been there. “I don’t need a buggy, I’m just grabbing a couple things” **proceeds to purchase half the store but stoically sticks to the decision to remain sans buggy
I worked at Targer from 88 to 90. We had to get cigarettes from the cigarette case for the customers, even though they could have grabbed them themselves. Stocking the cigarettes and candy was our job as cashiers. We wore our own clothes and a name tag, while people in the departments wore smocks over their clothes.
Target stores back in the 1980's looked a lot different than today. Before Target introduced colorful department signage and funky neon lights, all Target stores in the 80's had red stripes on white walls along with plain department signage. This scene reminds me of the 1991 movie Career Opportunities. Even the bullseye on the Target logo signage outside looked different, as the entire bullseye (outer red ring, middle white ring, and center red dot) would glow at night and stand out perfectly. By the 1990's, most of the Target stores that opened in the 80's or earlier were given the funky neon interior with colorful department signage. Today, Target stores are now heavily remodeled with newer red or gray walls with new red department signage.
@@jackietaylor5035 Absolutely. In Los Angeles and San Diego CA, and Tucson and Phoenix AZ. Target's debut in AZ and CA was in 1983 a year after FedMart closed. Target also opened in some former Woolco and Zody's locations in AZ.
Look at some of the old people. Even if they were 80 and not 90. That means they were born before cars. Their grandfather could've served in the civil war.
It is sad. I was thinking the same. When I saw that most of the elderly in this video would have been around the same age as my grandparents at the time, I almost shed a tear.
@@GeemailMailboxx hope you have the concept when standing in a long line at Disney world waiting for a ride or better yet in a traffic jam, will you still have “a stop and smell the roses 🌹 “ mentality
@@jogmas12 I always do. I never sweat the small things. I've learned to enjoy my life, not rush through it. I even make time to be thankful and meditate every day. It's like living in a different world. Especially when I see everyone so stressed out over nothing these days. I find it strange you stress out at Disneyland "Happiest place on earth " of all places 💖.
It’s crazy how much the inside of a target has not changed that much. Just updated models on posters but layout of the store and shelves all still look the same
I remember hand punching numbers. Before that in the hardware store we hand wrote all the numbers that had to be reordered and then hand punched the numbers into a machine and then we called the supplier on Sunday night and one fit over the receiver and we electronically sent the order. If you didn’t have it sent by 8:00 pm no order that week.
Paper bags in a Target? I never knew Targets used paper over plastic (then again Target didn't come to my area until 1995). kinda quiet, NO Karens and the employees seemed happier, darn I miss the 80's.....
I use to be a cashier at Target and there's always that 80ish yr old WW, who still pulls out a checkbook to pay for her purchase, "if it was good enough in 1972, it's good enough now" 🤣😆😂
@Derrick Langford...Here in recent years I was with a friend in Old Navy and was wondering what was taking her so long looked in her direction and she was writing a check. I said to her don't you have a debit card use that it's a lot faster through check out.
@rachelc.5463 Actually, while everyone behind them has this facial expression 🙄, it brought back memories of me growing up in the 80's and my aunt paying for groceries like that 😊
@@rachelc.5463 - My mom would love it if she could write checks at the store. She doesn't trust digital tech. She generally pays cash when she has enough. Otherwise, she depends on me, with my cash/debit card, since she sometimes shops with me. :) The last time she had a credit card was in the 1970s. She used to have a gas card she'd use at Exxon stations (essentially a store credit card).
@@derricklangford4725 in the 80s everyone did it to me since I grew up poor it made people look rich and sophisticated and a credit card was rich rich to me lol
I used to have to ask how they were going to pay prior to ringing them up. If they were paying by credit card, I’d have to insert one of those green slips in the register prior to ringing up the first item.
It seems like life was a lot better back in the 80s. People seem to dress more modest in these department stores. Women seem to be in modest clothes, no tattoos in faces or no one sagging there pants.
The bane of my existence when I was working at Target was having to refold all the towels that people unfolded and tossed wherever they pleased… people sure love to trash a store. some things never change 🙄
I was born in 1989 and loved growing up in the 90s. Wish I could've experienced a bit more of the 80s. So interesting to see all of this that existed before I did. Even the babies are now older than me!
I was 10-19 during the 80’s, it was incredibly awesome, especially later teen years like 15-19.. Buddies, girls, beer and a little herb and we had a blast! Haha
It’s interesting because of the books on the display in the music and maybe some of the fashion, I could tell it was around 1986, but no later than that. I’m surprised they didn’t have automatic scanners to scan all of that. But I checked on the bull’s-eye view of the target timeline history. The UPC scanning stuff didn’t come into existence until 1988. This is wild. Thank you ever so much for sharing this with us.
Wow! My first thought was I know all the old timers are dead by now. No one seems to be rushing. Thanks for posting I love vintage videos. They actually have music playing. Target now days are so dreadfully quiet. Except for the squeaky wheels.
I worked at Target 1999-2000, and plenty of people were still writing checks. The only things that really aged this video were the fashion and the registers. Otherwise, this could have been any Target through probably the early 2000’s.
I literally squealed out loud when I saw the kitchen section with the aprons, oven mitts, etc! Do you know how much I have to pay for this vintage stuff on Etsy or eBay now?!? Oh to have a time machine and some really big duffle bags! Wait, who am I kidding? If I had a time machine, I'd go and not come back! It was one of the happiest decades of my life.
1980s- I never even heard of a Target store till sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s. We have one around here, but I don't think it's terribly old. Anyway, I enjoyed seeing this window into the not-so-distant past.
One thing I’ve noticed right away is the age of the customers. More elderly people. Nowadays it’s a bunch of moms like me with their Starbucks in hand 😂
We didn't get a Target in our area (Vancouver, WA) until the 90's. It felt so modern. This video from the 80's feels just as modern, it must have been like living in the future going to a Target in the 80's. Especially compared to going to K-Mart.
imagine being 85 years old in 1985 and seeing how much the world has changed since atleast the 1920s
My Great grandma lived to be 100, was born in 1905 and died in 2006, she was really fun and clearheaded until the end.
That’s what I was thinking too!!
The oldest living person in 1985 was born in 1871.. now they've seen an insane amount of change.
My great nan lived until 104 years old she was born in 1900 and got to see so many changes in the world
I'm 51 and feel like that now.
I worked at Target as a cashier / cart attendant from 1987-1989 (not here, in Colorado) and this is exactly how I remember it. No laser scanners at the check-out line until 1988. Lots of people writing checks and having to manually process credit cards...the stone ages 🙂
I would gladly trade the technology of today to live in a better time!
@Christopher Jacobs I believe $3.75/hr. which was around minimum wage back then. As a teenager, an extra $40 in my pocket per week seemed like a fortune in those days.
The Retro Decade Revival Project can help with it.
🤣THE STONE AGES
What happened if the checks bounced?
People behaved so well in public back then. That’s what I noticed right away.
Yeah where are the Karens?
this is ONE video. how do u come to such a general conclusion after seeing ONE video of 1986?
@@diegoaespitia Because that's how it was....
We weren't racially divided. Ask yourselves who did it.
lol what target are you going to? people behave the same today as well. stop living in the past thinking its that much better than it is today, it isn't
The fact they have kept the same font is amazing to me, even for the sale signs etc.
Noticed that too
And the shelving system, it's the same exact one used to this day
Yes! Much of the original spirit of Target is very much alive today. Still exciting and love to go to Target.
@@stayupouttheirspacesIKR!
Target looks pretty much the same today - aisle markers, signage, everything. I don’t know why but I could watch footage like this for hours.
The only difference is that you couldn’t get groceries from there back in the day
I noticed that too.
@@ramon78433 right reminds me of Kmart in the 90s but they had a
Concessions stand !
Yup and had they not added the grocery piece to their inventory, they would’ve Paris just like Kmart did
Just keep rewatching this video all day.
5:14 nice to know fucked up baskets have always been a timeless thing lmao
Carts*
@@dissolved5920 buddy
lmfao 😂
😂😂😂
I especially hate the ones that slowly go to the side as you push 😂😂
Seeing the old folks is heart warming! They're all gone now, but sure brings back memories of my grandmother and her friends...
A few might still be alive
They are not gone....now we are them!
There's lots of old folks. Statistically there are more than ever both numerically and per capita.
That’s crazy no music or anything. What struck me first is how quiet things are. No music no target ads playing regularly. Nothing it’s just ambient noise and people talking. Man seems peaceful. I love the old telephone ringing, and the receipts being written up!
His microphone is just not quite good enough to pick up the muzak in the background. If you notice you can barely hear the male stocker speak until he is right near him.
I worked at target in the early 2000s and corporate had a rule that no music should be playing in the store because it created a distracting environment. So I was surprised when they reversed course about five years ago and began playing background music.
I also wonder if they didn't have walkies yet back when this video was recorded. That would definitely contribute to the quiet!
@@ganymededarling Definitely no walkies. Either you called the operator who would page someone over the loudspeaker or some of us had to carry beepers. How the beepers worked is that you would dial the beeper number and say something like "Cart Attendant to the front lanes" which the person with the beeper would hear. Sort of a one-way walkie talkie I guess.
I thought I heard the Eddie Money song "Take Me Home Tonight" playing in the book section lol
Get you a hearing aid. I hear music in the back.
Target still looked like this through the 90s and maybe even into the 2000s. I would have actually guessed this footage later than 1986!
90s/00s Target was neon all over the walls.
@@ecoRfan I worked for various Targets from 1999-2003 and some stores still maintained the older look. Others were definitively 'neon'.
My local Target in Illinois looked like this until the Mid 00's.
Target still looks like this
@ecoRfan Yep I remember the neon ribbon lights as a kid. I wish they still had it.
Great video! While cell phones and technology has its place, I do miss the days when people didn't always have a phone in their face and actually spoke to one another. I also miss the fashions and quality of products in the 80s. I was a teenager in the 80s. Great times!
Do you think its was the best decade? I wasn't alive back then but it seemed so fun with the bright colors and neon lights.
@@I_come_out_after_dark It was. Truly the best time to be alive.
@@-108- im jealous lol. i wish i could have experienced the 80s.
The 80s was the best times of my life. Got married to my love and had my 2 kids. I wish I could go back.
I know me too I miss those days I was a teenager back in the 80s and I agree everyone has a cell phone up to their face now I am guilty of it sometimes myself but when I walk up to the register to pay for my items or whatever it is if I'm not going through self-checkout I acknowledge the cashier just the other day I was in WinCo and this lady behind me was on her cell phone the whole entire time when we were in line nothing wrong with it but she had her phone on speaker so I can hear everything the whole conversation that she was having with her friend about her marriage problems I have no issues with someone on the phone that's fine but keep it to yourself the whole damn market doesn't need to hear your conversation anyway she was still talking on the phone you when she got it to the cashier continue talking no respect not even Hi how are you doing or put your phone down and wait till your done paying then get back on but we don't have that kind of respect anymore these days and she wasn't that young she looked to be in her forties.
I really miss the good ole days. These videos make me happy and sad at the same time.... i wish we could go backwards...
The people smiling while they were being filmed had no idea the future was staring back at them.
That's the case with nearly every single photo and video ever
I Love the way you worded that! But there were some people in the video not happy being filmed.
@@Philitron128 Not anymore. Now days if you take a video camera into a Target or Walmart the loss prevention people escort you out and call the police.
@@marissaveloz9724@6:19😂😂😂
im high as ballsrn u blew my mind wow ma,n...
Target was aesthetically way ahead of the times. Very modern for 1985. The white minimalistic color palettes, the ambient lighting and the cleanliness is if this video was taken 10 years ago. Compare that to the dark earth tones, crome and fake wood that was common at the time most other stores had a very cavernous layout but Target was the outlier.
Um not really
Yeah once I saw a video from 1984, still had a 70s vibe, much like how 2004 had a 90s vibe
I like the older styling. Target stores look overlook hotel men's room
In 1985 I wonder if they had the pick your own gender childrens clothes
More of these vintage videos please!!!
Living in the past huh?
wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.
@Trophy Tapes everyone dies brother, this was half a lifetime ago
@@jakethesnake4971 so should we pop champaine bottle everynight and watch family guy?
There's channels with plenty 😊
The sound of the register brought back so many memories. Never would have thought that I would have missed hearing it.
I thought the same thing! 😂
I still see old grannies writing checks at the grocery store.
Even at Staples 2017-20 I still saw people paying with checks
they're missing out on those credit card rewards
@@spectre3492 they could still be getting store rewards programs and pay with any method in addition to their coupons
They were born in the 1910s and were in their 70s in the 1980s
wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.
I find it remarkable how little has changed. This was 37 years ago. 37 years before that was 1949. HUGE differences between stores in 1949 and 1986, but only small style differences between then and now. A lack of laser UPC checkout and paper bags and no cell phones are the only major changes I see. The rest is just styles.
And even the styles really aren’t that radically different. Think about 1949 styles compared to this. It’s like we as a society figured out what we like and stuck to it.
All because of the Roswell recovery.
@@bigpicturethinking5620 the what now
@@cdevidal Do you think that everything changed in 37 years spontaneously? That humans suddenly had great ideas that they were just waiting to put to purpose? The breakthroughs that changed the modern world from the late 50s forward have non human origins, of course.
People just seem more polite back then, more classy and more respectfull. I was 13 when this was filmed. It's bittersweet. I feel immense sadness , I miss those days deeply 😢
It feels like Aesthetically, Target hasn't really changed much at all. It's a lot of the same stuff, same styles of signs, and such.
The main thing that's changed at the Targets I go to over the years is that the food courts are gone and photo departments. That's kind of what jumps out at me first.
The food courts just got upscaled into Starbucks.
Now they’ve hired a Satanic 👿 monster to design children’s clothing….
In my hometown's Target, they replaced its small food court with inventory storage during the COVID lockdown. However, at a nearby college town, its Super Target's larger food court remains.
Love the sound of the receipt printer machine.
Manually typing in SKUs, old credit card imprinters, writing checks, noisy dot matrix printers, so much different back then. When I started at Sears in 1992 we had similar equipment but we already had new PoS (Point of Sale) terminals ready to replace the old NCR cash registers, which we did a couple months later and those had barcode scanners and full keyboards. A few years later the dot matrix printers were replaced with thermal printers that were quiet and printed receipts much faster. No more having to replace print ribbons on a regular basis!! How times have changed!!!
Yeah sorry I'm a big huge fan of dot matrix printers ,,,sorry
@@je862 High school? Not relevant. Stayed there 10 years until 2002.
I liked the sound of the dot matrix printer cash registers. I found them soothing.
wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.
@@bayoutapes Lucky bastards.
What a time capsule. Thanks for sharing!
The young toddlers in these videos are all grown up in their late 30's.
I was born in January 1986, I just turned 37 a few weeks ago. It is certainly something to think about. Although, we had caldors and bradlees where I lived
And the senior citizens in this video are all dead
I'm 38 and can remember my local Target and K-Mart looking similar to this. Another thing I remember is the smell of cigarettes! Way more people smoked per capita back then, and you were allowed to smoke virtually anywhere except church. Although there are some conveniences about living in 2023, for the most part, the 80's and 90's were a wonderful time to be a kid.
I know, it's shocking that time passes and people age. Thanks for reminding me.
I was definitely a toddler when this video came out
It says this was in Edina, Minnesota, it boarders Minneapolis. One thing I noticed was the low amount of stress there. People were focused on each other as well as the time they spent there. No cell phones or technology to distract you. You can feel it in the atmosphere even in the video. I remember it too!
Such a different world back then.
@@karenroy9045 Yes it was 😄😘
Trust me, lots of stress at the downtown Minneapolis store, and a few others. Lots of theft now, and other bull crap.
@@49LivingtheDream I bet! So sad to see that!
Wow, i enjoy watching these vintage videos. I used to work for Target in the 1980s and it was a fun place to work. My favorite part of the store where we had the clearance end caps in the electronic department. I would work in automotive and the hardware section. I would straighten out the isles making sure it was presentable to our guests. One thing I learned it to never refer the shopper as a customer but refer to them as guests. My other jobs were answering phone calls on the floor when a gust called in about a product. I would also do what we call “go backs” I would get a shopping cart loaded with merchandise from customer service to where I had to put back each item back in its proper department.
Go backs are still a thing today I worked at a target in electronics from march to December
So peaceful and everyone is so patient.
It's new years eve and all I can think about is how these people are just out here existing. Not connected to any sort of mobile device. I wish life were still this way
Intro to the ALWAYS connected web changed the world. Carzy how fast aswell.
You type that on a smart phone or PC, so you are part of the problem.
@@ThorStoneGamingso true!!😂
wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.
I’ve started to leave my cell phone home more often and I’m limiting my time on it. I’m trying to read books again.
No self check out, no rude and impatient customers, we need to go back to this!
People seem so polite back then. So much more respectful and decently dressed in public. Paper bags instead of plastic. People writing checks...nobody on their cell phones and SO MANY people shopping. When retail outlets still existed. People we have to stop so much online shopping, and we can keep our local people in a job.
“Polite” but more racist, sexist, more likely to abuse children, etc.
It’s hurts that times have changed for pretty much the worst 😢and the 80s, 90s and early 2000s are gone and not returning ☹️
Right
😢
I can't believe Target still has the same shelving today as they did in the '80s
DITTO 🎯🎯🎯
It’s so bizarre! No one is in a hurry. The body language is so different!
Since this is news footage, I'm assuming that this may have been a new store, so I assume that more people are going there to browse, rather than trying to get in, get what they need, and get out. And the store looks far less full than most of them today (although I'm more accustomed to Wal-Mart, and don't make it out to Target often, despite finding the place a pleasant shopping experience).
But, I will concede that even with all of the technology that makes mundane tasks so much faster, more convenient, and easier, it constantly feels like we are somehow forced to rush more and more. Even compared to 20 years ago when I was just entering adulthood, the pace of life feels far more frantic.
Probably shot in a small town
No smartphones, longer attention spans, people actually aware and present. We'll never live in times like those again. It's sad that some targets and other stores are closing due to theft.
Target was hands down my favorite store back in the 90's! They had great prices and inventory and you could get everything there! Clothes, food, toys for the kids, pet food, and fresh popped popcorn!! Miss those days 😢
I'm 56, I miss the 80's! lol Only FOX 9 posts the cool, stuff. 💪🏻
Am 63 and i miss the 80s good old days mate
@@stephenstead7270 Yup, you're my oldest brothers, age! Best to you, buddy!
@@MNWILD43 do you ever wish then days was back even tho there was no money about i do mate
@@stephenstead7270 All the time, my friend.
wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.
Wow!!! The lady in line in under a minute is writing a check almost nobody does that anymore. When I see the older customers it’s sad to think they probably have passed on.
Some people are so stupid and easily irritated/impatient now that they barely understand easily used debit cards and tap to pay on a phone. Lines take way longer than back then.
6:03 been there. “I don’t need a buggy, I’m just grabbing a couple things” **proceeds to purchase half the store but stoically sticks to the decision to remain sans buggy
Wild seeing boxes of cigarettes amongst the merchandise the employees were stocking on the shelves. Different times indeed!
I worked at Targer from 88 to 90. We had to get cigarettes from the cigarette case for the customers, even though they could have grabbed them themselves. Stocking the cigarettes and candy was our job as cashiers. We wore our own clothes and a name tag, while people in the departments wore smocks over their clothes.
I remember cigarette machines in the lobby at restaurants. Yes different times.
I ♥ the 80's! It's funny that the shopping carts are still the same! They haven't gotten any bigger.
Those diet drugs were basically speed in nicer packaging. 😂
It's true.
Target stores back in the 1980's looked a lot different than today. Before Target introduced colorful department signage and funky neon lights, all Target stores in the 80's had red stripes on white walls along with plain department signage. This scene reminds me of the 1991 movie Career Opportunities. Even the bullseye on the Target logo signage outside looked different, as the entire bullseye (outer red ring, middle white ring, and center red dot) would glow at night and stand out perfectly. By the 1990's, most of the Target stores that opened in the 80's or earlier were given the funky neon interior with colorful department signage. Today, Target stores are now heavily remodeled with newer red or gray walls with new red department signage.
No Starbucks and pizza hut inside either.
wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.
Fedmart was the store before target was around..
Back in 1980
@@jackietaylor5035 Absolutely. In Los Angeles and San Diego CA, and Tucson and Phoenix AZ. Target's debut in AZ and CA was in 1983 a year after FedMart closed. Target also opened in some former Woolco and Zody's locations in AZ.
Look at some of the old people. Even if they were 80 and not 90. That means they were born before cars. Their grandfather could've served in the civil war.
Sad to think most of these people have passed away.
It is sad. I was thinking the same. When I saw that most of the elderly in this video would have been around the same age as my grandparents at the time, I almost shed a tear.
Well most of the elderly people have passed
Yeah target is mostly a store for old folks like grandparents my grandma loved this store she’s still living tho
The sound of the register and check scanning keying things in even the loose change sounds good
It is kind of crazy how much quieter it is without music playing.
I don't see any people holding phones. How people survived back then😮
Writing checks and that cash register. Good times.
People still write checks although credit cards been around for 60 years. Never the less writing checks slows the line down
@@jogmas12 What's the hurry? 1 extra minute at most. Slow down a little, you'll live longer. 🌻
@@GeemailMailboxx hope you have the concept when standing in a long line at Disney world waiting for a ride or better yet in a traffic jam, will you still have “a stop and smell the roses 🌹 “ mentality
@@jogmas12 I always do. I never sweat the small things. I've learned to enjoy my life, not rush through it. I even make time to be thankful and meditate every day. It's like living in a different world. Especially when I see everyone so stressed out over nothing these days. I find it strange you stress out at Disneyland "Happiest place on earth " of all places 💖.
not "strange" at all, sensitive one.
It’s crazy how much the inside of a target has not changed that much. Just updated models on posters but layout of the store and shelves all still look the same
It's kind of weird how much it still looks like a target today. Sure it's different, but somehow immediately identifiable.
I remember hand punching numbers. Before that in the hardware store we hand wrote all the numbers that had to be reordered and then hand punched the numbers into a machine and then we called the supplier on Sunday night and one fit over the receiver and we electronically sent the order. If you didn’t have it sent by 8:00 pm no order that week.
No one there had a phone in their pockets. No one will stop and just check the cellphone, even for a moment.
It's awesome that everyday life in the past was recorded for future generations to see!
No cell phone no distractions
Paper bags in a Target? I never knew Targets used paper over plastic (then again Target didn't come to my area until 1995). kinda quiet, NO Karens and the employees seemed happier, darn I miss the 80's.....
I worked at a Target 88 to 90. We never had paper bags. Only plastic.
The checkbooks lol
Now they have paper but charge customers 5 cents so customers just bring their own bags
No Karens because everything was civil and normal, unlike today. I don't blame some of the Karens and Kens I see with today's issues.
@@oooh19 good
Looks like I had that exact squeaking shopping cart last week😂
The zooming in to the $1.99 bath towels at 4:26 made my 2023 wallet feel personally attacked.
This is January 1986 and i just heard " Take Me Home Tonight by Eddy Money and that song was released in August 86 lol
I use to be a cashier at Target and there's always that 80ish yr old WW, who still pulls out a checkbook to pay for her purchase, "if it was good enough in 1972, it's good enough now" 🤣😆😂
@Derrick Langford...Here in recent years I was with a friend in Old Navy and was wondering what was taking her so long looked in her direction and she was writing a check. I said to her don't you have a debit card use that it's a lot faster through check out.
@rachelc.5463 Actually, while everyone behind them has this facial expression 🙄, it brought back memories of me growing up in the 80's and my aunt paying for groceries like that 😊
@@rachelc.5463 - My mom would love it if she could write checks at the store. She doesn't trust digital tech. She generally pays cash when she has enough. Otherwise, she depends on me, with my cash/debit card, since she sometimes shops with me. :)
The last time she had a credit card was in the 1970s. She used to have a gas card she'd use at Exxon stations (essentially a store credit card).
@@derricklangford4725 in the 80s everyone did it to me since I grew up poor it made people look rich and sophisticated and a credit card was rich rich to me lol
I still write checks, at 55.
this is incredible!!!!I love everything 80's!!
The frilly geese, teddy bear, and heart aprons scream 80's kitchen decor! lol
I used to have to ask how they were going to pay prior to ringing them up. If they were paying by credit card, I’d have to insert one of those green slips in the register prior to ringing up the first item.
It seems like life was a lot better back in the 80s. People seem to dress more modest in these department stores. Women seem to be in modest clothes, no tattoos in faces or no one sagging there pants.
It was great compared to 2023
Rose colored glasses
Looks like December people gonna dress up to stay warm
I'm pretty sure you're right ! Things were even better before the 2010s..and these aren't rose colored glasses.
Rose colored glasses, indeed. but i would still rather live in an past decade (like the 2000s for example) rather than 2023!
January 1987 per the magazines at the checkout
Wow. I remember the look and sound of that cash register at my Target (Boulder, CO), after all these years.
This video is a gem. Thanks FOX9.
40 years later and they still have the 30% off sale.
The bane of my existence when I was working at Target was having to refold all the towels that people unfolded and tossed wherever they pleased… people sure love to trash a store. some things never change 🙄
Thanks for the upload. Was hoping to see some b-roll of the electronics department.
I was born in 1989 and loved growing up in the 90s. Wish I could've experienced a bit more of the 80s. So interesting to see all of this that existed before I did. Even the babies are now older than me!
I was 10-19 during the 80’s, it was incredibly awesome, especially later teen years like 15-19.. Buddies, girls, beer and a little herb and we had a blast! Haha
It’s interesting because of the books on the display in the music and maybe some of the fashion, I could tell it was around 1986, but no later than that. I’m surprised they didn’t have automatic scanners to scan all of that. But I checked on the bull’s-eye view of the target timeline history. The UPC scanning stuff didn’t come into existence until 1988. This is wild. Thank you ever so much for sharing this with us.
I worked at Target in 1989 when I was 15. We all had to learn how to use the new scanners.
@@taoist32 that must’ve been wild’ wow! Thanks for sharing
UPC barcodes were invented in the 70s it took until 88 for them to be adopted
bought my first cassette in target 1985,Dire Straights brothers in arms.I was 5
4:35 Man, Those towels would be at least $15-$20 now...
No beep beep every 2 minutes for a Drive Up online order or Target Circle ads playing on the TVs when browsing the electronics section.
Wow! My first thought was I know all the old timers are dead by now. No one seems to be rushing. Thanks for posting I love vintage videos. They actually have music playing. Target now days are so dreadfully quiet. Except for the squeaky wheels.
that old granny looking at pencils has turned to dust by now
I noticed in the background "Take Me Home Tonight" by Eddie Money was playing lol. Ahhhhh, my childhood years.
Sad how the people in this video are probably dead by now , whoever is dead may you rest in peace, at least we have a memory of you from this video!
I feel they're blessed to not see people fall so far from grace. But may they rest in peace if they have crossed over.
Don’t you love how everyone isn’t staring at their hand holding a phone? People are doomed.
I miss that so much. How many ideas have not been invented, because of the god in their hands? I miss talking to others as we did back in the day.
People dressed so nicely back in my time I miss that the smell of walking in to those store was magical as heck man
People were kind and fun back then
I worked at Target 1999-2000, and plenty of people were still writing checks. The only things that really aged this video were the fashion and the registers. Otherwise, this could have been any Target through probably the early 2000’s.
What if the check bounced? What would y’all do?
This pretty much looks like my Target NOW except for the registers, book displays, fashion and diet pills.
You’re forgetting the scanners at the cash registers. There are none in this video. They had to type in a six digit sku and the price for every item.
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I was pregnant with my daughter and about 23 years old. Wonderful days.
I literally squealed out loud when I saw the kitchen section with the aprons, oven mitts, etc! Do you know how much I have to pay for this vintage stuff on Etsy or eBay now?!? Oh to have a time machine and some really big duffle bags! Wait, who am I kidding? If I had a time machine, I'd go and not come back! It was one of the happiest decades of my life.
Same here. Take me to the 80's and leave me.
If this is 1985, people who are 85 now we're only 47. My oldest grandparent in 1985 was 87.
Can't believe it looks simliar to today's targets! Love Target!! Love the red!
Brings back memories as a kid shopping there.
No matter how old this video is, there will always be a crunkity, loud cart being pushed around in the store 😂
The cigarette behind the ear while stocking the merch on the clock and no one batting an eye, wow that dates it a lot!
Everyone seemed so much more purposeful and efficient, even with all the manual work. And friendly!
You don’t think it’s because there’s a cameraman filming them?
1980s- I never even heard of a Target store till sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s. We have one around here, but I don't think it's terribly old. Anyway, I enjoyed seeing this window into the not-so-distant past.
That lady with the boxes of tissue was like “I had a premonition of a bat and a crown and a huge pandemic, better stock up.” 😆
I love the employees uniforms and the people look normal.
Wow, this is the only video from the 80's I've seen that almost looks like it was filmed yesterday, neat.
its the type of camera they used, obviously
Prior to Target we always went to Kmart. I think the first time I was in Target was 1991.
One thing I’ve noticed right away is the age of the customers. More elderly people. Nowadays it’s a bunch of moms like me with their Starbucks in hand 😂
Nice ,quiet and respectful ambience
I worked at target during this time for 15 yrs.
This has to be at least 1986 you could hear Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight playing.
I never heard of a Target in 1980.
This cashier knew how to do her job and did it very well! Look at her pound those keys!
We didn't get a Target in our area (Vancouver, WA) until the 90's. It felt so modern. This video from the 80's feels just as modern, it must have been like living in the future going to a Target in the 80's. Especially compared to going to K-Mart.
I miss the old days. :(
I just realized at the end how skinny, young, and able-bodied they all were. Hope they're doing well.