The amount of stuff locked up is more a function of where you are. I used to go to Target when I lived in LA and it was the first place I ever saw magic markers in a locked case. I moved to a town of about 150K and the Target here basically has nothing locked up.
Diane, the reason you were seeing so many patriotic items is because you were shopping around a patriotic holiday. Think about it this way. You will see a lot of red poppies available for sale and shops leading up to remembrance Day. That doesn't mean that red poppies are always available, just during that time. You can find red, white and blue stuffed galore in stores in America during the summertime between Memorial Day (the US equivalent of Remembrance Day which has been in existence since shortly after the American Civil War, although it used to be on different days in the areas that were Confederate and in the areas that were Union) and Labor Day, and right around days like Veteran's Day and Flag Day. If you were to go into the stores today, you would see a whole bunch of merchandise with red and pink hearts on it because we're about a month away from Valentine's Day. So no, this had nothing to do with why Target failed in Canada. I'm sure they made a point of having Canadian themed items for their holidays. There are actually videos on TH-cam about why it failed, if you're interested in watching.
I find it interesting that you refer to Target as a department store. I've always thought of Target and Walmart as box stores. Now Macy's I think of as a department store. As usual another gem. Cheers!
And see, I was just saying they were more of a department store after she used the word "supermarket". The only difference between the format of target or traditional department stores like Macy's or sears is ceiling height.
Concerning the patriotic merchandise at Target, I'm guessing that you went there around the 4th of July or around Memorial Day. None of the Targets near me have anything locked up.
I work at Target in the Minneapolis area, and a lot of what you saw is totally Target. We do have more things locked up now than a few years before, though how much will vary by location. Things like the detergent you saw is 100% due to organized retail theft. Sad but that's where we are now. As to Target being a good place to work, also true. It's still retail, and anyone who's worked retail knows that it comes with issues. However, along with decent benefits that also strive rather hard to make sure it's a fun workplace. Free snacks in the break room & thank you cards for good work from your managers are common. As to the impulse buying part of the Target experience, it's totally intentional. We've joked for a while that Target's motto should actually be "Everything you need, and a whole bunch you didn't yet know you want". Heck, our store was renovated a few years back and people kept asking why the pets section was moved to the opposite side of the store from the groceries. It totally makes sense though if you consider that now you must go past electronics & toys if both you and your pets need food.
US etymology: Supermarket was used almost exclusively for stores selling primarily food plus related objects. Department Stores tends to be reserved for stores, divided into departments that do not handle food, drugs, etc. Marshall Fields, Macy’s, The Boston Store, Carson’s, Sears, Montgomery Wards, were all considered Department Stores even though most stores have departments. Target was seen as a step between Department Stores and Big Box stores. Your comments about relaxed shopping are spot on. You could get food, razor blades, shampoo etc at Target. Tar-jay has always been seen as a bit upscale. No photos of customers shopping in their underwear came from Tar-jay… Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club, are big box stores. Where you may have big forklift racks of boxes right on the floor in places and rarely was there any product storage off the floor. BBS’s also tended to specialize in fast moving items. Costco’s business model is different in that their profit comes up front in the membership fee and then they have great deals throughout the year. Deceased relative? You can save hundreds if not thousands getting a very good quality coffin from Costco instead of a funeral home. Seriously. Walmart is seen as the cuttest rate store of them all except in rare cases dollar stores where the product freshness may sometimes be suspicious (in $ stores). So, Target wouldn’t be usually seen as a supermarket, but as a hybrid is usually just called by name. I’ve never had freshness quality issues at Walmart or Sam’s Club (aka Sam Walton). Enjoyed this as I haven’t been in a Target or many of these in awhile.
When they brought Target to Canada, the variety of items they sold here was no where near the same as things they offer at the Targets in the U.S., which is what a lot of Canadians were hoping for. That's one of the reasons for its downfall 😣
Regarding all of the American merchandise in the store...as soon as you started showing the merchandise, I knew you had visited in late spring or early summer because that was all merchandise sold for the 4th of July holiday season. They don't have all of that merchandise year round.
If you visited Target in June or July, that would explain the larger number of patriotic items. June 14 is our flag day, and July 4 is our independence day. Any other time of the year, I've never seen that much USA themed stuff. Also, maybe it's a regional difference.
I live in the home state of Target in Minneapolis and I literally have 3 Targets withing 5 miles of me in Bloomington, Edina and Richfield. It is kind of cleaner than Walmart, but the prices are higher. I treat both as department stores. I go to a true grocery store (Cub Foods 3 blocks from home) to get variety and price vs. a have it all place.
I asked before about how you got all the stuff from your trip in your suitcase “ minus one jumper everything fit” I am more convinced with every new video that you have the same travel trunk Tom Hanks had in Joe Versus th Volcano!
I always found Target and Walmart to be similar stores with different clientele. Some things were cheaper at one store, different things were cheaper at the other. Prices can change from city to city, let alone from state to state.
Where I used to live there was a Target and a Walmart right across the street from each other. I went to both. You would think even though they were in the same neighborhood, LITERALLY across the same street, that the clientele would be similar, and besides myself I'm sure there was some overlap, but for the most part the people that go to Target are night and day different from the ones that go to Walmart. For example you could easily hear 5 or more different languages spoken at any given moment at the Walmart, but rarely more than two (and usually just one) at the Target. The folks going to Walmart also had no care whatsoever about the clothes they were wearing and whether they were suitable to be worn in public unlike Target where customers were dressed more like they intended to go outside and at least look like they hadn't just rolled out of bed. This whole locking things up is becoming more and more common and you'll definitely see that at Walmart as well as Target and many other stores. You'll see it far more in the larger cities than you will in Midwestern or Southern suburbs but even there unfortunately it's a growing trend.
It’s interesting how that occurs. Target has more thought towards the overall design of their products and you feel like you are getting more for less. I used to live where was a Walmart across from a Target and on similar products Target would be a couple of cents higher. What difference does it make? To the mainly Walmart shoppers it’s everything. 😄 Now I live near a Target without a Walmart anywhere for miles and it seems the usual Walmart shoppers go there. It’s just not as nice as other Target stores.
Hello Diane, happy Monday. There used to be another chain of department stores here in the U.S.A. called Kmart. Kmart would have what they called a blue light special with, that was a flashing blue light, it looked like a police car light, and random items would be on sale. However, practically all of the Kmart stores have now gone out of business.
When I was teaching an accounting course in the 1990’s, I showed the students how we could see the difference between Target, K-Mart, WalMart from analyzing their financial reports. Walmart then had the best ratios, K-Mart was the worst.
As many commenters have stated, Canadians don't hate Target. We just hated the version of Target that Canadians got. Most of us were so excited to have Target come to Canada based on what we knew from USA Target. The problems you stated all contributed to its downfall but the one thing I distinctly noticed was that their business plan was completely based on the American prototype. Target US prides itself on selling a huge amount of USA made products. So, they thought that 🍁 Target could follow suit. Unfortunately Canada doesnt have a huge variety of in country proucts that fit with Target merchandise expectations. I remember shopping there and seeing Roots brand witer coats priced around $200 (this was 10 years ago) and thinking it was awfully high for a value store.
Also, Target took locations away from Canadian discount store Zellers, which had a huge following here. It's only fitting that many of those locations are now Canadian Tire stores.
US retailers and US Mfg have a hard time making goods for Canada because they have strict labeling requirements. For the size of the market it becomes impractical.
Different time. Inflation. Minimum wage where I live is $12 an hour. The thing people don't seem to understand is that making more money doesn't mean you can buy more stuff if everyone is making more money. It means the stuff that you're going to buy is going to cost more.
I worked at a Target in the early 2000's and it was okay to work at; not horrible, but not amazing either. When a Wal-Mart opened up less than a mile down the road, several of our co-workers went there and ended up making $1 an hour more, plus bonuses. The only negative feelings they had were about the employee discount and no real organization in the back room. Also, most of Target's items are coming from the same sweat shops that Wal-Mart gets their stuff from. Target knows their customers will pay more for it because they would rather do that than be associated with the stereotype of the people of Wal-Mart.
Yeah, there's lots of clothes etc that are made in USA, but the easiest way to buy them is online 🙂 For example all my clothes are made here, and I went online to find it. 🙂
I worked at a regular Target and then a Super Target at about the same time. I wasn't on the floor/cashiering I was flow and then planogram. I didn't mind flow/planogram since we were just picking/restocking items and setting shelves. Planogram would have been okay if not for our team leader. When I was on planogram we would always see the boxes with "Fragile" written on them. We always just assumed that that was French for "drop kick" 😉
What is actually interesting now about Target is that with the reduction of local shopping malls, more teenagers are just hanging out at Target. I will hear my kids talking about wanting to just go to Target to hang out with their friends.
There's a Target very close to my home - close enough that I just about have to drive past it in order to get to any other store. If their prices were more competitive, I might not drive _past_ them so often.
Got a Walmart across the street from subdivision and now they are building a Target practically in my subdivision. We will share the same way in and out. They started building another entrance/exit to eliminate the traffic for us. We already had a barbecue restaurant in front of where the Target is being built and had people running us over to get to it. The traffic was already bad with the barbecue place, Walmart and a traffic light. The people never stop at the stop signs at Walmart and it can be 15 minutes before you can get out here.
Today is Strawberry Ice Cream Day. Strawberry ice cream is very good. An All time favorite is Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream with the graham cracker crust.
Today is Wear a Hat Day. Hats look really cool in pictures. The Hats You wear look good on You. I think Chewie would look really cool in a picture with a hat too.
Canada actually loves Target. Had Target opened stores in Canada like the ones they have in the US, they would have done well. Instead, their implementation was a complete joke. The stores had almost no inventory to the point of having empty aisles, barren of any products to peruse. Except for laundry detergent. They did have an exceptional amount of laundry detergent at the store I visited. It was so bad there is just no way to imagine how a company like Target could be so incompetent.
I was excited when Target came to Canada because I had been to Target in the States and I expected the same things here but I was bitterly disappointed. Within a few weeks the shelves were empty in most departments, I did manage to buy 3 pair of pants (trousers) before they closed the store but that's about it.
Around 30 some years ago, I used to work at the Target Distribution Center in Woodland, California, and it was the best job I ever had great pay and benefits
Thank you Diane for sharing your shopping experience with your audience. I always come away with learning something new every single time. Have a great rest of your week Diane! 😎👍🎉
Said it right the second time (Mini-apolis). Target treats their team members (employees) great as fas as benefits go / pay goes. They are well planned out stores. Your humor is on point. Keep it up!
I shop at Wal-Mart and target, whoever has the best price gets my business, now i can walk to Aldi in 2 minutes from my house if i want something to eat really fast , there is also a burger king , Wendy's, KFC, and Dominos within walking distance, im a home cook so i avoid those fast food joints, two other big box stores in the US are costco and sams club and they have great deals , i just saw online where a guy ate the costco hot dog special 3 times a day for a week , $ 1.50 for a hot dog and soda , he said he liked it and even lost weight, thats dedication to your channel dude , new york
Target in Canada was a weird combination of more expensive than Target in USA by about 40 % and empty shelves. The stuff people wanted and were willing to buy was out of stock 50% of the time. The stuff they had wasn't what I wanted to buy in most cases. Most people had been to Target USA and assumed Target Canada was going to be similar deals but no. YOU ARE CANADIAN, you must pay more because. The management were surprised that limited stock and high prices didn't make us Canadians flock to their stores. I did like their socks and bought them, when they had them, which was only about 50% of the time. Ohh two premiers in one week. You're going to spoil us.
That’s so funny I just got home from Target. I’m guessing they do have all the laundry detergents locked up because of theft. They are very expensive. I’m glad you enjoyed your trip around the store. Their target market is mid to upper middle class. Walmart wants everyone and have better prices but Target has always given me the impression they want a different class of shoppers.
I was talking to one of the cashers back when they only paid $12/hr and she mentioned she had another job at a local fast food chain not because she needed the money but purely because she liked keeping busy. The fast food place closed down right about the time Target upped her pay to $20/hr. So she makes more working one job than she did before working 2 jobs. Hopefully she isn't bored, but maybe she got another job at one of the dozens of fast food places around the one that closed.
Today is also natural squeezed juice day. Lemonade is the most made. Theres alot of other flavors like apple juice. Blender works real good to make some homemade juice with fresh fruit.
Hey Diane, Another awesome vid. Love you! and Chewie!!! You must have recorded this trip to Target in June or July because the Stars n' Stripes food stuff is long gone now 😢 I also love that you referred to the store as Targe-ay which is how many of my friends and relatives call it. Keep up the amazing work and as always stay safe! Excelsior! Heff
laundry detergent is locked up because shoplifters target (pun intended) it because it's easy to sell on black-market (on the street). especially, Tide
I rarely shop at Target because of the difference in price from Walmart. I look around and think nope, cheaper at Walmart. Plus Target feels like someplace that can’t decide what it wants to be. It wants to be inexpensive like Walmart but also wants to be JCPenney or other department store. As a result, it doesn’t do either well. At least that’s how it feels to me. I’ve never in my life seen laundry detergent locked up! Must be unique to that area.
It's funny when you call the cart a trolley because there definitely isn't nearly enough room down those aisles for what we Americans think of when you say trolley, which is a large street car that can carry many people at once. Go back and watch Mr. Rogers again and when you see the trolley you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Before automobiles took over, they were in cities all across the country. Now they are mainly associated with San Francisco.
I work in a grocery store as a File Maintenance Manager. I work overnights with no customers, headphones in changing prices. I get $32 an hour - upgraded $1 more per hour between 12am to 6am, unioned, FT with full medical and 3 weeks of vacation time a year. Dont knock grocery store jobs. If you could get one that is unioned its an awesome job. 😂
The reason for locked up items is shot lifting in waves. Go on the internet and watch 10-15 people. Barge in and grab everything they can get their hands-on. It's amazing what people will do
If you ever come to the Midwest of the U.S. you need to find a Meijer store they are a perfect balance of Target boujeeness and quality and Wal-Mart affordableness and selection.
I was 19 year old college student when working there. Had moved into my first apartment that year. It was great for a part time second job. Unfortunately did not get benefits because it was part time work. It was the graveyard shift which was hard to get used to. I stocked product on the floor, mainly around camping/outdoor. I really liked to put on headphones and listen to music while zoning, the night team would go down all the isles after we stock them, bring the product forward and line them up really neat on the shelves so when the customers came in the morning it was stocked and tidy. Making the cereal isle look immaculate was my favorite. Something about the boxes line up neat on the shelves was like a visual asmr. income does sound about right. Worked there around as a 19-20 yr but didn’t shop there much due to budget, but love to shop there now in my 30’s. Have to go in with a list or order online because the store is so easy to wander around and leave with many extra items you didn’t come in for.
Thanks Diane! When Walmart moved to Canada they upped the quality compared to the US. So when Target moved to Canada they were competing directly with Walmart. Inventory levels were abysmal, empty shelves everywhere.
Hi Diane! One of my best friends worked at a Target back in the day. And yes, he called it Tarzhay Ole'! I normally don't shop at Target, not because i dont like it, but because the Wal-Marts are easier to get to. Boop!
Regarding the Target expansion, the supply chain (this is pre-pandemic) was the large issue. You can't just sell the exact same products as is in Canada as the US. There's different labelling requirements (the most obvious that everything needs to be in both official languages: French and english). This means that everything had different part numbers and had to me manufactured for Canada ND they couldn't just pull from their US's inventory. And they only bothered to do this special run for their most popular products, not the full range found in the US Add in that they set up a completely different inventory system in Canada. Not just seperate, but different software. So there were issues with communication, and anybody that they sent up from the US to train new employees didn't know how to work anything. And because of these seperate products and systems, everything came into Canada thru warehouses near Toronto. That means that stores elsewhere, especially out west, had to wait for product to funnel in across the country. Add in the other problems above, and product had problems reaching the shelves.
Hi Diane, Your channel is a lot of fun to watch. First time posting a reply. I’m sure someone already posted this but I’ll go ahead and say that not all Target’s have products locked up. The Target in my town of Wheeling West Virginia doesn’t have anything locked up except maybe a few things in the electronics department. Thanks for the videos!!😊
Love Target. First time I shopped atTarget is when I lived in Orlando Florida.I think since they closed K marts Target is good competition against Walmart'.Don't get me wrong I like Walmart too but I'm a believer in competition keeps prices down.
Today is Bagel Day. Lots of ways to make a meal with a bagel. Egg, Cheese, Ham Bagel, Sandwich lunch meat bagel with Cheese, Lettuce, and Tomato, Cinamon Butter Sugar Bagel, Chocolate Bagels
I used to shop in a family owned clothing store in New Jersey, and I could get in an out in 5 or 10 minutes. In men's clothes, at least when I was younger, sizes were much more standardized than with women's clothes, especially when clothes were made in the US. Today things are different. Shoe sizes are far more variable than in the past.
Target didn't exactly work out in Canada. They pretty much pushed Canadian chain Zellers out of business so they could come here. I think it only lasted about a year here.
@DianeJennings I worked in retail for 20 years and one day I was in Target shopping for some jeans and I noticed this woman staring at me. She was a clerk in the men's department and was gobsmacked that I was folding the jeans that I had looked at and slipped them back into the pile so the sizes were in correct order. I told her that I worked retail and couldn't leave a mess. As to shopping at mom and pop stores, WalMart killed them in small town America. The only place you can find mom and pop's is in big cities like New York because there isn't room to build a WalMart. I think there's only one WalMart in NYC and it's in a former industrial area and it's not in Manhattan. I grew up when mom and pop's were king in the US, I'll be 69 in April. Joe McKian's store was just 4 houses away from mine and I would walk there by myself when I was 3 years old to buy penny candy in big glass jars or glass cases. Joe was in his 80's and was a kind old Irishman from County Cork. If my mom sent me to Joe's store to buy a can of tomatoes Joe would use his cane to knock the can off one of the tall shelves and catch it in his other hand before it crashed into the glass jars or glass cases.
1) The amount of locked up products depends on location (so the problems with the area). Many have few things locked up. 2) You were probably there during the 4th or July or something which sees a jump in stars & stripes on everything.
Target was created in the 1960's by the Dayton-Hudson Corp as a low cost alternative to their Daytons Dept Store in Minneapolis. Hudson's Dept Store was based in Detroit Michigan. Daytons and Hudsons were the high end of retail in their markets and Target was aimed at the growing wealth in the suburbs. Target was a 'cut above' the low cost 'everything you need' stores of the day. Since Target advertised as being something better the snarky comment was "Oh, I got that at Tar-jhay' with a snooty expression. It was all done in jest but the nickname stuck.
Hi Diane, in Maryland, the Targets do not put laundry detergent behind glass. It’s on an open shelf. Where was that Target in downtown LA? Haha I go there for a few items like seasonal chocolate, printer ink, laundry detergent & softener. Nice video 👍🏻
I’m in suburban Washington state. Toothpaste, deodorant, Lego sets, and men’s underwear are also locked up. I’m sure they do the math and decide what to lock up but it seems weird.
Glad used to have commercials where your cheap trash bags would fall apart and then the tag line was, "Don't get mad get Glad." I used to not like Target because it felt like they had less variety, there was only one name brand option for a lot of stuff and then the target brand. That might've been more years ago though.
Diane, I've been meaning to send you a " shout out" for quite a while! I was first attracted to your videos because I'm an Irish Jennings, too.! (So many here in the States don't recognize that Jennings is an Irish name. The other side are Joyces.) While my name doesn't reveal it, my mother was a Jennings and my cousins live in villages outside of Claremorris, (Hollymount, Gortnara , etc.) as well as some being transplants to Galway and Westport. I'm of a generation much before you, but so enjoy your take on things. While I'm still in touch with my Ireland relations, watching you keeps me connected with " the younger set." Who knows that we aren't related way back. God bless, sweet girl.
I used to live in the US when I was little like 1980-86. We had a Target and that is where I got my Commodore 64. They came to Canada, and it didn't sell well, and they TOTALLY pulled all of it out.
I work in the Optical. We used to have a snack bar net to us. They removed it and replaced it with beer and wine. Someone was asking me one day if Target sold cigarettes. I laughed and said no Target does not endore ingesting dangerous chemical while point at the booze.
In that category (they are not "supermarkets"), Target generally has the highest customer satisfaction ratings, and WalMart the lowest. The prices may be a little higher at Target, but the one I use has a price-match policy. I have never tried to use it, but once recently a clerk took the initiative in looking up what I was buying with some app she had for that purpose and gave me a significant discount. I don't shop there expecting lower prices, but it was nice to save a little without any effort. The secure shelves will vary from store to store depending on location, and certain categories of product are more likely to be locked up. If it is smaller and more expensive, it is more likely to be locked up.
Target is an upscale Walmart..While Walmart in general has everything a house might require for upkeep…they also have the side area for changing oil or installing new tires or wiper blades…and Target does not..but Target does have Starbucks..while Walmart may have. a Burger King Or Subway shop..
I worked at Target in high school in the late 1980s: 1. Most of the employees were high schoolers and were cool. Had a lot of fun hanging out with them outside of work. 2. Management mostly sucks - a bunch of power-trip adults. 3. Yes even back then Target was called "Tar-jay" for slang. Also that Target you went to must be in the ghetto. The Target near me has nothing locked up but it is in a nice area of town. Unlike the Wal-Mart a couple of miles away in a seedier area - everything is locked up there.
Minneanapolis?? Mineapolis? Be here Wednesday for a LIVE stream and announcement 😊
Minneapolis.
Wished I'd known this was gonna be a premiere, would've stopped shoveling snow sooner.
Americans eat hamburgers there is nothing blue on a hamburger.
Minneapolis, Minnesota and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Minneapolis- where Target originated.
The amount of stuff locked up is more a function of where you are. I used to go to Target when I lived in LA and it was the first place I ever saw magic markers in a locked case. I moved to a town of about 150K and the Target here basically has nothing locked up.
Magic markers 😮😮😮
If there are any Targets left in San Francisco, they probably have everything locked up, and if the shelves aren't locked up, they're empty.
Can vary with crime rate of city.
Camping supplies and underwear are a hit with the homeless as well
@@DianeJennings felt tip markers
In Kansas Target doesn't have those locks. It's probably a region-specific theft problem.
Oh that’s interesting
that's true. It's happening where DA's are not filing charges if the person steals under $1000 @@DianeJennings
Democrat party governed cities.
@@jackpearson1110 That's why San Francisco is going downhill fast.
Yep. We don’t have the cases in my area of Florida either.
Diane, the reason you were seeing so many patriotic items is because you were shopping around a patriotic holiday. Think about it this way. You will see a lot of red poppies available for sale and shops leading up to remembrance Day. That doesn't mean that red poppies are always available, just during that time. You can find red, white and blue stuffed galore in stores in America during the summertime between Memorial Day (the US equivalent of Remembrance Day which has been in existence since shortly after the American Civil War, although it used to be on different days in the areas that were Confederate and in the areas that were Union) and Labor Day, and right around days like Veteran's Day and Flag Day. If you were to go into the stores today, you would see a whole bunch of merchandise with red and pink hearts on it because we're about a month away from Valentine's Day.
So no, this had nothing to do with why Target failed in Canada. I'm sure they made a point of having Canadian themed items for their holidays. There are actually videos on TH-cam about why it failed, if you're interested in watching.
Yeah, once I saw all that stuff and the cookies, I was like, "Was she there on the 4th of July weekend?"
I find it interesting that you refer to Target as a department store. I've always thought of Target and Walmart as box stores. Now Macy's I think of as a department store. As usual another gem. Cheers!
And see, I was just saying they were more of a department store after she used the word "supermarket". The only difference between the format of target or traditional department stores like Macy's or sears is ceiling height.
Department stores is a term used by the industry. Big Box Stores is a term coined by the media.
Concerning the patriotic merchandise at Target, I'm guessing that you went there around the 4th of July or around Memorial Day.
None of the Targets near me have anything locked up.
I work at Target in the Minneapolis area, and a lot of what you saw is totally Target.
We do have more things locked up now than a few years before, though how much will vary by location. Things like the detergent you saw is 100% due to organized retail theft. Sad but that's where we are now.
As to Target being a good place to work, also true. It's still retail, and anyone who's worked retail knows that it comes with issues. However, along with decent benefits that also strive rather hard to make sure it's a fun workplace. Free snacks in the break room & thank you cards for good work from your managers are common.
As to the impulse buying part of the Target experience, it's totally intentional. We've joked for a while that Target's motto should actually be "Everything you need, and a whole bunch you didn't yet know you want". Heck, our store was renovated a few years back and people kept asking why the pets section was moved to the opposite side of the store from the groceries. It totally makes sense though if you consider that now you must go past electronics & toys if both you and your pets need food.
Editor Diane needs her own channel. I always look forward to her appearances.
US etymology:
Supermarket was used almost exclusively for stores selling primarily food plus related objects.
Department Stores tends to be reserved for stores, divided into departments that do not handle food, drugs, etc.
Marshall Fields, Macy’s, The Boston Store, Carson’s, Sears, Montgomery Wards, were all considered Department Stores even though most stores have departments.
Target was seen as a step between Department Stores and Big Box stores. Your comments about relaxed shopping are spot on. You could get food, razor blades, shampoo etc at Target.
Tar-jay has always been seen as a bit upscale. No photos of customers shopping in their underwear came from Tar-jay…
Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club, are big box stores. Where you may have big forklift racks of boxes right on the floor in places and rarely was there any product storage off the floor.
BBS’s also tended to specialize in fast moving items.
Costco’s business model is different in that their profit comes up front in the membership fee and then they have great deals throughout the year.
Deceased relative? You can save hundreds if not thousands getting a very good quality coffin from Costco instead of a funeral home. Seriously.
Walmart is seen as the cuttest rate store of them all except in rare cases dollar stores where the product freshness may sometimes be suspicious (in $ stores).
So, Target wouldn’t be usually seen as a supermarket, but as a hybrid is usually just called by name.
I’ve never had freshness quality issues at Walmart or Sam’s Club (aka Sam Walton).
Enjoyed this as I haven’t been in a Target or many of these in awhile.
And Target and Walmart didn’t sell groceries til about thirty years ago.
When they brought Target to Canada, the variety of items they sold here was no where near the same as things they offer at the Targets in the U.S., which is what a lot of Canadians were hoping for. That's one of the reasons for its downfall 😣
I understand there were additional, serious logistical failures there too.
The prices were not worth it either, and they put Zellers out of business!
Regarding all of the American merchandise in the store...as soon as you started showing the merchandise, I knew you had visited in late spring or early summer because that was all merchandise sold for the 4th of July holiday season. They don't have all of that merchandise year round.
If you visited Target in June or July, that would explain the larger number of patriotic items. June 14 is our flag day, and July 4 is our independence day. Any other time of the year, I've never seen that much USA themed stuff. Also, maybe it's a regional difference.
I managed a Target for a few years. It was awesome! The Company also helped pay for university tuition. Employee discounts too. Loved my time there.
I live in the home state of Target in Minneapolis and I literally have 3 Targets withing 5 miles of me in Bloomington, Edina and Richfield. It is kind of cleaner than Walmart, but the prices are higher. I treat both as department stores. I go to a true grocery store (Cub Foods 3 blocks from home) to get variety and price vs. a have it all place.
When I moved to Minneapolis in 1982 I heard "Tar-jay" all the tome. Soooo, you're right.
I asked before about how you got all the stuff from your trip in your suitcase “ minus one jumper everything fit” I am more convinced with every new video that you have the same travel trunk Tom Hanks had in Joe Versus th Volcano!
Haha I really don’t know!! I do think I’m a VERY good packer
We love our Tar-Jay! Clean and spacious makes. Difference
I tried walking into a target 🎯 . But I missed.😅
I always found Target and Walmart to be similar stores with different clientele. Some things were cheaper at one store, different things were cheaper at the other. Prices can change from city to city, let alone from state to state.
I think that’s probably true!
Where I used to live there was a Target and a Walmart right across the street from each other. I went to both. You would think even though they were in the same neighborhood, LITERALLY across the same street, that the clientele would be similar, and besides myself I'm sure there was some overlap, but for the most part the people that go to Target are night and day different from the ones that go to Walmart. For example you could easily hear 5 or more different languages spoken at any given moment at the Walmart, but rarely more than two (and usually just one) at the Target. The folks going to Walmart also had no care whatsoever about the clothes they were wearing and whether they were suitable to be worn in public unlike Target where customers were dressed more like they intended to go outside and at least look like they hadn't just rolled out of bed. This whole locking things up is becoming more and more common and you'll definitely see that at Walmart as well as Target and many other stores. You'll see it far more in the larger cities than you will in Midwestern or Southern suburbs but even there unfortunately it's a growing trend.
@@bradparnell614 Most Target shoppers wouldn't be caught dead in a Walmart. And Target is too bougie for the average Walmart shopper.
@@dougbrowning82 in my area, Walmarters think Targets are more boujee than bougie.
It’s interesting how that occurs. Target has more thought towards the overall design of their products and you feel like you are getting more for less. I used to live where was a Walmart across from a Target and on similar products Target would be a couple of cents higher. What difference does it make? To the mainly Walmart shoppers it’s everything. 😄 Now I live near a Target without a Walmart anywhere for miles and it seems the usual Walmart shoppers go there. It’s just not as nice as other Target stores.
Hello Diane, happy Monday. There used to be another chain of department stores here in the U.S.A. called Kmart. Kmart would have what they called a blue light special with, that was a flashing blue light, it looked like a police car light, and random items would be on sale. However, practically all of the Kmart stores have now gone out of business.
"You tell him Raymond."
"Kmart sucks, yeah, Kmart sucks."
Kmart killed themselves by not upgrading their stores and buying out Sears. They obviously didn't learn from when Sears Canada bought out Eaton's.
Kmart is now in Australia
When I was teaching an accounting course in the 1990’s, I showed the students how we could see the difference between Target, K-Mart, WalMart from analyzing their financial reports. Walmart then had the best ratios, K-Mart was the worst.
My favorite color is blue, and you can pry my flavored coffee creamers out of my cold, dead hands. Love your videos, Diane! 😁
As many commenters have stated, Canadians don't hate Target. We just hated the version of Target that Canadians got. Most of us were so excited to have Target come to Canada based on what we knew from USA Target. The problems you stated all contributed to its downfall but the one thing I distinctly noticed was that their business plan was completely based on the American prototype. Target US prides itself on selling a huge amount of USA made products. So, they thought that 🍁 Target could follow suit. Unfortunately Canada doesnt have a huge variety of in country proucts that fit with Target merchandise expectations. I remember shopping there and seeing Roots brand witer coats priced around $200 (this was 10 years ago) and thinking it was awfully high for a value store.
Also, Target took locations away from Canadian discount store Zellers, which had a huge following here. It's only fitting that many of those locations are now Canadian Tire stores.
US retailers and US Mfg have a hard time making goods for Canada because they have strict labeling requirements. For the size of the market it becomes impractical.
Canada cheated in NAFTA and put huge tariffs on American made products that’s why. It was a rotten trade deal and never enforced.
My first official job was pushing carts at Target. I liked it. I started at $4.25 an hour and got a 10% discount.
Different time. Inflation. Minimum wage where I live is $12 an hour. The thing people don't seem to understand is that making more money doesn't mean you can buy more stuff if everyone is making more money. It means the stuff that you're going to buy is going to cost more.
I worked at a Target in the early 2000's and it was okay to work at; not horrible, but not amazing either. When a Wal-Mart opened up less than a mile down the road, several of our co-workers went there and ended up making $1 an hour more, plus bonuses. The only negative feelings they had were about the employee discount and no real organization in the back room.
Also, most of Target's items are coming from the same sweat shops that Wal-Mart gets their stuff from. Target knows their customers will pay more for it because they would rather do that than be associated with the stereotype of the people of Wal-Mart.
Yeah, there's lots of clothes etc that are made in USA, but the easiest way to buy them is online 🙂 For example all my clothes are made here, and I went online to find it. 🙂
That's one reason why Walmart failed in Germany...🤓
I worked at a regular Target and then a Super Target at about the same time. I wasn't on the floor/cashiering I was flow and then planogram. I didn't mind flow/planogram since we were just picking/restocking items and setting shelves. Planogram would have been okay if not for our team leader. When I was on planogram we would always see the boxes with "Fragile" written on them. We always just assumed that that was French for "drop kick" 😉
@@Andres64B I was flow as well, but spent a lot of my time in the back sorting transition for planogram.
The murder and overall crime rates are lower at Target. Around here, Walmarts are known for their dangerous parking lots!
What is actually interesting now about Target is that with the reduction of local shopping malls, more teenagers are just hanging out at Target. I will hear my kids talking about wanting to just go to Target to hang out with their friends.
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@@DianeJennings Yes lots of M's together spell good food
There's a Target very close to my home - close enough that I just about have to drive past it in order to get to any other store. If their prices were more competitive, I might not drive _past_ them so often.
I also have a Target close by. I was broken-hearted when they closed their garden shop. Now Walmart has closed theirs too. WTAF
Got a Walmart across the street from subdivision and now they are building a Target practically in my subdivision. We will share the same way in and out. They started building another entrance/exit to eliminate the traffic for us. We already had a barbecue restaurant in front of where the Target is being built and had people running us over to get to it. The traffic was already bad with the barbecue place, Walmart and a traffic light. The people never stop at the stop signs at Walmart and it can be 15 minutes before you can get out here.
Today is Strawberry Ice Cream Day. Strawberry ice cream is very good. An All time favorite is Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream with the graham cracker crust.
Today is Wear a Hat Day. Hats look really cool in pictures. The Hats You wear look good on You. I think Chewie would look really cool in a picture with a hat too.
Canada actually loves Target. Had Target opened stores in Canada like the ones they have in the US, they would have done well. Instead, their implementation was a complete joke. The stores had almost no inventory to the point of having empty aisles, barren of any products to peruse. Except for laundry detergent. They did have an exceptional amount of laundry detergent at the store I visited. It was so bad there is just no way to imagine how a company like Target could be so incompetent.
That’s such a shame
It was! I'm still baffled by it. But now I have Tesco and Dunnes and Target is a fading memory. 🙂
I was excited when Target came to Canada because I had been to Target in the States and I expected the same things here but I was bitterly disappointed. Within a few weeks the shelves were empty in most departments, I did manage to buy 3 pair of pants (trousers) before they closed the store but that's about it.
Around 30 some years ago, I used to work at the Target Distribution Center in Woodland, California, and it was the best job I ever had great pay and benefits
Thank you Diane for sharing your shopping experience with your audience. I always come away with learning something new every single time. Have a great rest of your week Diane! 😎👍🎉
You are so welcome! 🥰
Said it right the second time (Mini-apolis). Target treats their team members (employees) great as fas as benefits go / pay goes. They are well planned out stores. Your humor is on point. Keep it up!
No they don’t when every place in my area was $15 per hour Target was $8.50 per hour.
@@GotoHere I'm talking about now, not in the past.
2:00 when you were comparing prices between Walmart and target, was it in the same market? Because location may have an effect on some of that.
The people of Walmart videos are way better then the people of Taraji (Target) videos lol
😂 you think??
In another supermarket in all my country Mexico 🇲🇽👌
I shop at Wal-Mart and target, whoever has the best price gets my business, now i can walk to Aldi in 2 minutes from my house if i want something to eat really fast , there is also a burger king , Wendy's, KFC, and Dominos within walking distance, im a home cook so i avoid those fast food joints, two other big box stores in the US are costco and sams club and they have great deals , i just saw online where a guy ate the costco hot dog special 3 times a day for a week , $ 1.50 for a hot dog and soda , he said he liked it and even lost weight, thats dedication to your channel dude , new york
Target in Canada was a weird combination of more expensive than Target in USA by about 40 % and empty shelves. The stuff people wanted and were willing to buy was out of stock 50% of the time. The stuff they had wasn't what I wanted to buy in most cases. Most people had been to Target USA and assumed Target Canada was going to be similar deals but no. YOU ARE CANADIAN, you must pay more because. The management were surprised that limited stock and high prices didn't make us Canadians flock to their stores. I did like their socks and bought them, when they had them, which was only about 50% of the time.
Ohh two premiers in one week. You're going to spoil us.
The other will be a LIVE!!! it sounds like they rolled it out really poorly in Canada
@@DianeJennings A LIVE even better. Colour me impressed and overjoyed.
I love the new lights! When you showed them on Patreon I wasn't quite getting the full effect. Very nice!
Glad you like them! I feel they add a lil something extra to the visual consumption
That’s so funny I just got home from Target. I’m guessing they do have all the laundry detergents locked up because of theft. They are very expensive. I’m glad you enjoyed your trip around the store. Their target market is mid to upper middle class. Walmart wants everyone and have better prices but Target has always given me the impression they want a different class of shoppers.
I was talking to one of the cashers back when they only paid $12/hr and she mentioned she had another job at a local fast food chain not because she needed the money but purely because she liked keeping busy. The fast food place closed down right about the time Target upped her pay to $20/hr. So she makes more working one job than she did before working 2 jobs. Hopefully she isn't bored, but maybe she got another job at one of the dozens of fast food places around the one that closed.
Oh wow! Glad that worked out for her
Minimum wage is different amounts in different states.
Today is also natural squeezed juice day. Lemonade is the most made. Theres alot of other flavors like apple juice. Blender works real good to make some homemade juice with fresh fruit.
My son worked a summer at Target. He always said behind the the glitter, it is just like Walmart.
You are exactly right, Target is more bougie, which is why people pronounce it with the faux-French "Tar-zhey".
Hey Diane, Another awesome vid. Love you! and Chewie!!! You must have recorded this trip to Target in June or July because the Stars n' Stripes food stuff is long gone now 😢 I also love that you referred to the store as Targe-ay which is how many of my friends and relatives call it.
Keep up the amazing work and as always stay safe!
Excelsior!
Heff
Chewie is back with the shout outs.🙂 I don't shop at target because there isn't one close to me.
Everyone have a wonderful day.
laundry detergent is locked up because shoplifters target (pun intended) it because it's easy to sell on black-market (on the street). especially, Tide
Yup. Either online or in pop up parking lot “shops.” I’ve seen it a handful of times.
I visited Ireland in 2022 and before going over I bought several boxes of "Count Chocula" for your old friend Harker Ryan at Target.
Is Satan still her homeboy? The last time I saw her they did each other's makeup.
I rarely shop at Target because of the difference in price from Walmart. I look around and think nope, cheaper at Walmart. Plus Target feels like someplace that can’t decide what it wants to be. It wants to be inexpensive like Walmart but also wants to be JCPenney or other department store. As a result, it doesn’t do either well. At least that’s how it feels to me.
I’ve never in my life seen laundry detergent locked up! Must be unique to that area.
@javierponders There’s definitely at least one in my area I won’t go to. And I rarely shop anywhere at night.
Thanks for sharing these things Diane!
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0:26 check out that snoozy pup in the corner😍
It's funny when you call the cart a trolley because there definitely isn't nearly enough room down those aisles for what we Americans think of when you say trolley, which is a large street car that can carry many people at once. Go back and watch Mr. Rogers again and when you see the trolley you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Before automobiles took over, they were in cities all across the country. Now they are mainly associated with San Francisco.
I work in a grocery store as a File Maintenance Manager. I work overnights with no customers, headphones in changing prices. I get $32 an hour - upgraded $1 more per hour between 12am to 6am, unioned, FT with full medical and 3 weeks of vacation time a year.
Dont knock grocery store jobs. If you could get one that is unioned its an awesome job. 😂
The reason for locked up items is shot lifting in waves. Go on the internet and watch 10-15 people. Barge in and grab everything they can get their hands-on. It's amazing what people will do
If you ever come to the Midwest of the U.S. you need to find a Meijer store they are a perfect balance of Target boujeeness and quality and Wal-Mart affordableness and selection.
I was 19 year old college student when working there. Had moved into my first apartment that year. It was great for a part time second job. Unfortunately did not get benefits because it was part time work.
It was the graveyard shift which was hard to get used to. I stocked product on the floor,
mainly around camping/outdoor. I really liked to put on headphones and listen to music while zoning, the night team would go down all the isles after we stock them, bring the product forward and line them up really neat on the shelves so when the customers came in the morning it was stocked and tidy.
Making the cereal isle look immaculate was my favorite. Something about the boxes line up neat on the shelves was like a visual asmr. income does sound about right. Worked there around as a 19-20 yr but didn’t shop there much due to budget, but love to shop there now in my 30’s. Have to go in with a list or order online because the store is so easy to wander around and leave with many extra items you didn’t come in for.
Thanks Diane! When Walmart moved to Canada they upped the quality compared to the US. So when Target moved to Canada they were competing directly with Walmart. Inventory levels were abysmal, empty shelves everywhere.
Be careful comparing median income to average income. Outliers have a very strong effect of the average in the US
Hi Diane! One of my best friends worked at a Target back in the day. And yes, he called it Tarzhay Ole'! I normally don't shop at Target, not because i dont like it, but because the Wal-Marts are easier to get to. Boop!
Regarding the Target expansion, the supply chain (this is pre-pandemic) was the large issue.
You can't just sell the exact same products as is in Canada as the US. There's different labelling requirements (the most obvious that everything needs to be in both official languages: French and english). This means that everything had different part numbers and had to me manufactured for Canada ND they couldn't just pull from their US's inventory. And they only bothered to do this special run for their most popular products, not the full range found in the US
Add in that they set up a completely different inventory system in Canada. Not just seperate, but different software. So there were issues with communication, and anybody that they sent up from the US to train new employees didn't know how to work anything.
And because of these seperate products and systems, everything came into Canada thru warehouses near Toronto. That means that stores elsewhere, especially out west, had to wait for product to funnel in across the country. Add in the other problems above, and product had problems reaching the shelves.
I think that I have only been in a target store a few times in the past 25 years, and that was only because my son worked there briefly.
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Hi Diane, Your channel is a lot of fun to watch. First time posting a reply. I’m sure someone already posted this but I’ll go ahead and say that not all Target’s have products locked up. The Target in my town of Wheeling West Virginia doesn’t have anything locked up except maybe a few things in the electronics department. Thanks for the videos!!😊
Excellent show today, You made it interesting, and Editor Diane made an appearance! Bravo
10:13 😂”er-mi-gird”🤣 I loved that meme
Love Target. First time I shopped atTarget is when I lived in Orlando Florida.I think since they closed K marts Target is good competition against Walmart'.Don't get me wrong I like Walmart too but I'm a believer in competition keeps prices down.
Today is Bagel Day. Lots of ways to make a meal with a bagel. Egg, Cheese, Ham Bagel, Sandwich lunch meat bagel with Cheese, Lettuce, and Tomato, Cinamon Butter Sugar Bagel, Chocolate Bagels
I used to shop in a family owned clothing store in New Jersey, and I could get in an out in 5 or 10 minutes. In men's clothes, at least when I was younger, sizes were much more standardized than with women's clothes, especially when clothes were made in the US. Today things are different. Shoe sizes are far more variable than in the past.
Target didn't exactly work out in Canada. They pretty much pushed Canadian chain Zellers out of business so they could come here. I think it only lasted about a year here.
My favorite color is Harvard Blue! My 2005 Honda Civic has it!
9:45 WOW greenies are so much cheaper than Oz too. My puppers love them
@DianeJennings I worked in retail for 20 years and one day I was in Target shopping for some jeans and I noticed this woman staring at me. She was a clerk in the men's department and was gobsmacked that I was folding the jeans that I had looked at and slipped them back into the pile so the sizes were in correct order. I told her that I worked retail and couldn't leave a mess. As to shopping at mom and pop stores, WalMart killed them in small town America. The only place you can find mom and pop's is in big cities like New York because there isn't room to build a WalMart. I think there's only one WalMart in NYC and it's in a former industrial area and it's not in Manhattan. I grew up when mom and pop's were king in the US, I'll be 69 in April. Joe McKian's store was just 4 houses away from mine and I would walk there by myself when I was 3 years old to buy penny candy in big glass jars or glass cases. Joe was in his 80's and was a kind old Irishman from County Cork. If my mom sent me to Joe's store to buy a can of tomatoes Joe would use his cane to knock the can off one of the tall shelves and catch it in his other hand before it crashed into the glass jars or glass cases.
1) The amount of locked up products depends on location (so the problems with the area). Many have few things locked up. 2) You were probably there during the 4th or July or something which sees a jump in stars & stripes on everything.
Target was created in the 1960's by the Dayton-Hudson Corp as a low cost alternative to their Daytons Dept Store in Minneapolis. Hudson's Dept Store was based in Detroit Michigan. Daytons and Hudsons were the high end of retail in their markets and Target was aimed at the growing wealth in the suburbs. Target was a 'cut above' the low cost 'everything you need' stores of the day. Since Target advertised as being something better the snarky comment was "Oh, I got that at Tar-jhay' with a snooty expression. It was all done in jest but the nickname stuck.
Editor Diane earned this thumbs up.
The patrons seem more upscale in Target. Cleaner stores friendlier staff. Happy Monday everyone❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
That’s so interesting
Hi Diane, in Maryland, the Targets do not put laundry detergent behind glass. It’s on an open shelf. Where was that Target in downtown LA? Haha I go there for a few items like seasonal chocolate, printer ink, laundry detergent & softener. Nice video 👍🏻
I’m in suburban Washington state. Toothpaste, deodorant, Lego sets, and men’s underwear are also locked up. I’m sure they do the math and decide what to lock up but it seems weird.
5:38 minim wage is right in between those 2 numbers near me. My wife worked at target for quite a while. She did not enjoy it.
Nailed it! Shopped Target all the time when my mom as around. Weirdest purchase? Maybe an Eiffel Tower table lamp!
I made up the previous Target tag line "Right On the Money"
Green, no Blue. Arrrrrgghhhh.
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Glad used to have commercials where your cheap trash bags would fall apart and then the tag line was, "Don't get mad get Glad."
I used to not like Target because it felt like they had less variety, there was only one name brand option for a lot of stuff and then the target brand. That might've been more years ago though.
Diane, I've been meaning to send you a " shout out" for quite a while! I was first attracted to your videos because I'm an Irish Jennings, too.! (So many here in the States don't recognize that Jennings is an Irish name. The other side are Joyces.) While my name doesn't reveal it, my mother was a Jennings and my cousins live in villages outside of Claremorris, (Hollymount, Gortnara , etc.) as well as some being transplants to Galway and Westport. I'm of a generation much before you, but so enjoy your take on things. While I'm still in touch with my Ireland relations, watching you keeps me connected with " the younger set." Who knows that we aren't related way back. God bless, sweet girl.
I used to live in the US when I was little like 1980-86. We had a Target and that is where I got my Commodore 64. They came to Canada, and it didn't sell well, and they TOTALLY pulled all of it out.
I work in the Optical. We used to have a snack bar net to us. They removed it and replaced it with beer and wine. Someone was asking me one day if Target sold cigarettes. I laughed and said no Target does not endore ingesting dangerous chemical while point at the booze.
1:36 “beeeuuuugeerr”😂 that term gets me every time
In that category (they are not "supermarkets"), Target generally has the highest customer satisfaction ratings, and WalMart the lowest. The prices may be a little higher at Target, but the one I use has a price-match policy. I have never tried to use it, but once recently a clerk took the initiative in looking up what I was buying with some app she had for that purpose and gave me a significant discount. I don't shop there expecting lower prices, but it was nice to save a little without any effort.
The secure shelves will vary from store to store depending on location, and certain categories of product are more likely to be locked up. If it is smaller and more expensive, it is more likely to be locked up.
Target is an upscale Walmart..While Walmart in general has everything a house might require for upkeep…they also have the side area for changing oil or installing new tires or wiper blades…and Target does not..but Target does have Starbucks..while Walmart may have. a Burger King Or Subway shop..
Glad you put so much thought into your puns....
I shop at Target when I can. As a gamer, I've been referred to a Target product...(Silver and Gold, specifically)...
I live 3 minutes from a Target and I go there 2 - 3 times a week. Every thing you mentioned is true.
I worked at Target in high school in the late 1980s:
1. Most of the employees were high schoolers and were cool. Had a lot of fun hanging out with them outside of work.
2. Management mostly sucks - a bunch of power-trip adults.
3. Yes even back then Target was called "Tar-jay" for slang.
Also that Target you went to must be in the ghetto. The Target near me has nothing locked up but it is in a nice area of town. Unlike the Wal-Mart a couple of miles away in a seedier area - everything is locked up there.
Mellow Yellow-quite right slick! 🤣
That's ok, ED really loves us all!
The Editor Giane bits get me every time. lol
Thanks for the video. Personally I haven't shopped at Target in I don't even know how long I can't even remember
8:38 😱NOOOOO say it ain’t so😭my feelings are heaps hurt
4:53 I’ve also heard crazy stories about the cleanliness of lady’s public restrooms😬
I love it when an Irish woman tries a Southern accent or it sounded like one to me.