Question for Americans: Is Target a good store?

I worked at a Target for about 8 months in college. It's alright, fairly standard superstore prices and selection. It's different than walmart in that they bother to clean their store. There is a greater emphasis in the clothing department as well, I guess. It was an ok job, too, though the odd corporate morale policies were always a bit odd and cultish to me, but that is true of every corporate job I've had.

I never worked there or anything, but based on what I have seen of the store by my house Target is a fairly nice place, at least as far as superstores go. The clothing is nice and the floors and everything arent dirty. Also, most of the products arent damaged like you might find in other stores.

Target is pretty good! Decent prices, MUCH cleaner environment than walmart. I tend to like the Target house brands more than the walmart house brands.

 Having been to both Zellers and Target multiple times, this is a big upgrade. Zellers was garbage.

Yeah, I really like Target. Its a lot cleaner and nicer than the Walmart that's directly across the street from it. I usually buy all my boxed games there. I actually went to a Zeller's a couple years ago when I was in Calgary, and it was not so nice...

yes. much cleaner and more organized than walmart.

Target doesn't make me get games out of a glass case like the Wal-Mart here, so that makes me happy.

Target is pretty good

I love Target. They often get awesome t shirts and get awesome stuff on clearance.

I bought Saving Private Ryan and the Back to the Future dvd set for $14 each today. Got Constantine, Book of Eli, and Gangs of New York for $6 each too.

Think cleaner Walmart like what has been mentioned. One of the Targets near me usually over buys their games, and they show up kind of fast in the clearance bin. I get a lot of games I may not have bought otherwise, while they are still $60 at gamestop. Hurray for over ordering!

It's pretty good. I've never had any issues with them.

Target is OKAY. 

It's just a more expensive Wal-Mart.

It's like one peg up from the shitabyss than Wal-Mart. They tend to have good deals and manage to keep their appearance better than that of a third world country's bazaar, unlike, you know, Wal-Mart.

I like Target, too. Our store just got remodeled and its actually really nice now--which is weird for a department store. Its standard prices tend to be a tad bit higher, but they have ridiculously awesome sales. There's a best buy right next to ours, so I always check out the sale DVDs and video games in both when I'm in town and, more often than not, I'll pick up a couple of things on sale at Target that are actually cheaper than the sales at BB. 
 
All in all, I like Target.
 
Edit: Some recent deals I've had--Witcher 2 on release day for $40, Resident Evil 5 on clearance for $5, Darksiders on clearance for ~$7

They're alright. Last I checked, they are very lacking when it comes to video games though.

As a store, it's pretty good at being competitive in price. But from having worked there for 3 and a half years they are no different from walmart. Service expectations from higher ups have really gone down but they still tout that it's their number 1 priority. At one point they had 4(1 team lead, 1 cashier, 1 person in electronics and one person doing soft lines/clothing) people closing my store on a regular basis when the normal was like 8-10. Then they're surprised that they got complaints that night that no one could be found or that are scores were red. My point being while you can expect them to have competitive prices don't expect to get helped in the meantime at least not with the current structure over there.

Is used to be cool. Much cleaner then Wal Mart and other sort of those kinds of stores. Even had some nice ads that appealed to our generation without overly saying look at the price!!! That is because they aren't teh cheapest.  But then they started to change by putting groceries in their stores, and had some bad PR when it was announced that some church they gave money to was behind banning gay marriage, which their only response was: well I'll donate the same amount of money for gay marriage, so that should equal out, right? 

It's a decent store chain. Good place to go for clothes.

Target has some pretty great clearance deals on video games, and like most have said, its a cleaner Wal-Mart with less food. Working there was ok, but its a pretty fine store on the whole.

It's a decent store chain. Good place to go for clothes.

Target is much better, sadly in rural eastern buttfuck Kentucky, you get one choice. WalMart. Closest Target is 2-3 hours away. But I always preferred Target, better quality and prices and more variety of things. Working there was pretty awesome too :)

Also: There's always at least one hot lady shopping at Target. Always.

As a store, it's pretty good at being competitive in price. But from having worked there for 3 and a half years they are no different from walmart. Service expectations from higher ups have really gone down but they still tout that it's their number 1 priority. At one point they had 4(1 team lead, 1 cashier, 1 person in electronics and one person doing soft lines/clothing) people closing my store on a regular basis when the normal was like 8-10. Then they're surprised that they got complaints that night that no one could be found or that are scores were red. My point being while you can expect them to have competitive prices don't expect to get helped in the meantime at least not with the current structure over there.

I bought a brand new copy of Fable 2 for $8 in Target. Target is awesome.

I've never had a problem with the Zellers here. I've been to Target back when I lived in the States for a bit, and it was really nice, but it was a brand new building, so I can't make judgments off of that.

Yeah, it's basically a Wal-Mart with fewer rednecks and shorter lines. And like others have said, it's typically cleaner.

Is used to be cool. Much cleaner then Wal Mart and other sort of those kinds of stores. Even had some nice ads that appealed to our generation without overly saying look at the price!!! That is because they aren't teh cheapest.  But then they started to change by putting groceries in their stores, and had some bad PR when it was announced that some church they gave money to was behind banning gay marriage, which their only response was: well I'll donate the same amount of money for gay marriage, so that should equal out, right? 

It's like Wal-Mart, but with better clothes and you'll run into fewer white trash shoppers.

@crusader8463: Well if that's the case i don't see a reason not to go shopping there if you go in not expecting any service then your set cause they can have some great deals. I still go in a look at their clearance section every once in a while.

They have Pizza Hut inside Target. Walmart has McDonald's. Kmart has Little Cesar's. choose your poison.

@crusader8463: Well if that's the case i don't see a reason not to go shopping there if you go in not expecting any service then your set cause they can have some great deals. I still go in a look at their clearance section every once in a while.

beats walmart

Target's usually a pretty decent store, nice and clean compared to other big box chains but I haven't shopped in one for nearly/maybe over a year because of this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/27/target-homophobia-ceo-gre_n_660990.html

Yes. They sell nice shirts. Its not low rent, the prices aren't low enough for it to be low rent.

The one in my town is ok. I prefer (Super)Wal-Mart due to just there being more choices and usually cheaper, but Target's got some pretty decent clothes though.

They have some good game sales, and it is pretty damn clean. I love it personally.

Well someone called into the storecast and said that Zellers was basically the Canadian equivalent of Target anyway. Seemed like a decent store, Good dealz.

I've had fairly good experiences with the target in Vegas. It's clean, organized, and the people that work there actually help you. They helped me find a pretty nice blender :) BTW it was the very last one that they were nice enough to go digging around in the back.

Target is a Wal-Mart for people who aren't scum of the Earth. It also has great popcorn and icees at dirt cheap prices.

It's more upscale than walmart, but less stuff.

@BestUsernameEver said:

Target is OKAY.

I've been there a few times when I shopped in the states, and they have great deals on really good underwear. Seriously, get your ass in some Calvin's for cheap, you'll be surprised at how comfortable they are.

In general, they're basically like a more upscale Wal-Mart.

Zellers sounds like a UK store called Woolworths that collapsed under the weight of its own arrogance a couple of years ago.

Target is not just a good store. 
 
IT's a fucking great store. Now we have cheap ass produce at Target. It's like Wal-Mart, but cleaner and without all those kinda sketchy folk you'll find at Wal-Mart. 
Also their clearance sections are usually awesome. I bought Bioshock 2 special edition for PS3 for $25 about a year ago. $25!

It's pretty good. Pleasant place to shop, and they have some appealing knick-knacky crap sometimes. Good video game section.

Not the best prices in comparison to Wal-Mart, but you get good deals on certain things. And the relative lack of meth fiends is their free gift to you!

there's no website called People of Target, so they have that going for them.