Customer #3: Excuse me, is this register open?
Customer #2: Yeah, I guess, but the lady just took off.
Customer #3: Is it a white lady with a haircut that looks like she’s got bangs that go all the way around her head and never stop?
Customer #2: Yeah.
Customer #3: Does she sound like her voice box is covered in egg?
Customer #2: That’s her.
Customer #3: Yep, I thought so. I’m waiting in the other line.
Dad and I drove to Norfolk last Saturday (to see if the cracks in my MacBook could get fixed, they didn’t have the part), and then we had to find a Target so I could get my prescription filled so we kept on getting lost and wound up in Chesapeake, to the Chesapeake Square Mall. Boy has that place changed from the last time I went there when I was like 15-ish. It still has anchor stores, but the actual stores in the mall are getting kinda junky, there’s nothing special about it really.
Except for $500 Popeye at the tacky gift shop (lol it has these “plaques” of celebrities, that is just a stock photo of them, and some random facts everybody and their cousin knows
) that was going out of business.
The mall now has a Target which wasn’t there the last time I visited. It’s the first time I’ve ever been inside a mall location Target. When I came back to get my prescription, I saw this skank walking around with the pink polkadot body pillow that I wanted to get because it matches my green polka dot comforter I bought a few weeks ago.
The service in the Pharmacy was terrible. C&P’d from my Yelp review on it:
I only went here because my dad and I were on the road and I needed my prescription filled before we got back home to the boonies.
Since this is a mall location, it is quite small compared to other Target stores, and there are less check out lanes. Also, the store has an odd layout (just an example, all the dorm stuff is scattered around the store instead of just in one section), and there are a few dark spots in the store.
The pharmacy staff is extremely rude, all they cared about when I got there to drop off my prescription was going on their break and when I came back to get it the cashier was extremely rude, at first not even acknowledging that we could in fact pay for our other purchases at the pharmacy as well. She also refused to take our stuff out of the handbasket, and didn’t even put my merchandise in the reuseable bag I gave her, she just like, put the stuff on top of the bag.
I took the Target survey that is on most of Target’s receipts on my iPhone as my dad drove us home. I gave this store a scathing review, hopefully someone at HQ reads it.
//edit, August 11, 2009//
Saw this article today:
Published on HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com (http://hamptonroads.com)
Dillard’s will close Chesapeake Square store by October
CHESAPEAKE
Dillard’s plans to close its Chesapeake Square department store – one of five locations in Hampton Roads – by early October, a Dillard’s spokeswoman said Monday.
Struggling with falling sales, Dillard’s Inc. has been closing underperforming stores for the past year. The Chesapeake Square store, which occupies two sites inside the mall, is among five that Dillard’s slated to shut this year.
Dillard’s filed notice with the state that it will lay off the store’s 45 employees by Sept. 23. The retailer is trying to find jobs for those workers at other locations, said Julie Bull, the spokeswoman for the retailer based in Little Rock, Ark.
Dillard’s has no plans to close any of its other four stores in Hampton Roads, Bull said. Those stores are at Greenbrier Mall in Chesapeake, MacArthur Center in Norfolk, Lynnhaven Mall in Virginia Beach and Patrick Henry Mall in Newport News.
“Our commitment to the Hampton Roads area remains tremendously strong,” she said.
At Chesapeake Square, Dillard’s used one store for men’s and children’s merchandise and the other for women’s clothing, accessories and cosmetics. The two sites totaled about 100,000 square feet, smaller than most of the chain’s stores, Bull said.
Simon Property Group Inc., which owns Chesapeake Square, has no immediate plan for the Dillard’s space, said Les Morris, spokesman for the Indianapolis company, the nation’s largest shopping mall operator.
“We will look for a replacement tenant,” he said, adding that Simon could replace the single stores with multiple retailers. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be a one-for-one exchange.”
Dillard’s came to Hampton Roads in 1997 after purchasing local department stores from Proffitt’s Inc.
That put Dillard’s in Chesapeake Square, Greenbrier Mall, Pembroke Mall in Virginia Beach, Patrick Henry Mall and Coliseum Mall in Hampton.
The Southeastern retailer set out to dominate the local market.
In 1998, Dillard’s and Belk swapped several department stores in Virginia and other states, giving Dillard’s a location at Lynnhaven Mall and second locations at Chesapeake Square and two other local malls. The following year, Dillard’s opened a 250,000-square-foot anchor store at MacArthur Center in downtown Norfolk.
“We were really wanting to expand in Virginia,” Bull said.
Dillard’s closed its Pembroke Mall store in July 2002, the same year it expanded at Lynnhaven Mall. Coliseum Mall was razed in early 2007 to make way for the new Peninsula Town Center.
The five local Dillard’s are among a total of nine in Virginia and 314 nationwide.
Last year, Dillard’s closed 21 stores as part of a “strategic” plan that began before the current economic challenges, Bull said.
In May, the company reported that first-quarter net sales dropped 12 percent to $1.47 billion from the same time last year, and sales in comparable stores – those open 12 months or more, providing the best measure of year-over-year performance – fell 13 percent.
Carolyn Shapiro, (757) 446-2270, carolyn.shapiro@pilotonline.com
(Just uploaded, if video does not show up try again later)
Target takes shape at Town Center
The store will feature an expanded grocery section in an attempt to remain competitive with Wal-Mart.
By PETER FROST | 247-4744
November 20, 2008
HAMPTON – A new Target store that will feature fresh produce, meats and baked goods is beginning to take shape at the new Peninsula Town Center, a mixed-use development that will take the place of the old Coliseum Mall on Mercury Boulevard.
The nation’s second-largest discount retailer completed the purchase of the land about a month ago for $4.3 million and is on track to finish the 143,000 square foot store in time for a July 2009 opening, company and development officials said Wednesday.
The store will serve as one of the shopping and dining district’s anchors and will replace the nearby Hampton Target that opened on Saville Row in 1996, said Anna Anderson, a Target Corp. spokeswoman. That store is 118,300 square feet, according to city property records.
Hampton’s new Target will be molded in a new company prototype, a hybrid discount store with an expanded grocery format that will help it remain competitive with Wal-Mart, which began rolling out a similar store strategy within the last year.
“It’s a mix between a general merchandise Target and a Super Target,” Anderson said. “We find that what our guest is looking for is to have the most things under one roof.”
Employees of the existing Hampton Target location will be relocated to the new store. None are expected to lose their jobs.
The company recently finished a re-model and expansion project at its Newport News store, expanding the grocery section and improving its pharmacy, among other things. Target also has two stores in the Williamsburg area.
Despite a haggard economy and slowing retail sales that are expected to be weak through 2009, much of the development at Peninsula Town Center is moving forward as planned.
In March, bookseller Barnes & Noble is slated to open its third Peninsula location, and in April, the developer hopes to have 159 executive-style apartments ready for tenants, said Raymond Tripp, general manager of the development.
When the first phase of Town Center is complete, it could have as many as 100 retail storefronts, a dozen restaurants and a separate entertainment hub that might hold a movie theater. The center also will have several thousand square feet available for offices.
The developer is not releasing prospective tenants until they’re signed and close to opening in the center, Tripp said.
“We’ve had a few bumps in the road, yes, but fortunately not many,” Tripp said. “We haven’t had anyone pull out, but we’ve had a few that have drawn the process out.”
Tarnation, look at the logo on that bag o’ grain on the porch in the final panel! It looks like Target, having saturated the suburbs with its big box stores, has decided to expand into America’s rural hollers and rustic shack-based communities.
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Stuff White People Like FINALLY brought up Target — the most suburban, whitest, hates fat people, the NAACP even hates them — store. Even if it is an April fool:
Starting April 1st, 2008 the nation’s second largest retailer will use the site as a promotional tool.
I actually woke up at 4 a.m. Christmas morning, and remembered I wanted to make this post for quite a while now.
This year was not a good year for the holiday commercials it seems. Every retail one seemed half-rear-ended or had very annoying music. Like, for example J.C. Penney and Old Navy holiday spots, both using a very whiney and breathless singer. Don’t get me started on the Old Navy one with the chick who is just walking around in bootlike slippers, a tanktop and underwear. God, I hate Old Navy so much….especially since I heard they only stock plus size clothes online now. Why don’t they just put a sign up at the door that said, “No Fatties”. Target needs to put the same sign up, because their plus size section is not even the size of my bedroom….
ok. I veered off topic.
But, speaking of Target, boy was their ad disappointing this year. It started out promising with the after Thanksgiving day sale commercials (although that game on the website related to that ad was a pain to navigate), but went downhill with this jarbled up advent commercial spots. At first I thought I was watching a credit card commercial the um….first 50 times I saw it. TruFax.
(these commercials are not mine, I found them off of YouTube)
2007 Target Christmas Spot {1}, {2}, {3}
At the moment I can’t find a video of the J.C. Penney spots with the whiney warbely singer. I did however, find one that aired around the last minute of the holidays. The “Kelly is a Boy’s Name Too” spot. J.C. Penney saved themselves with that one.
A commercial that riled up a lot of people over at the Television Without Pity Commercial boards was the Burlington Coat Factory spot where a girl tells an adult party guest, “I believe in cashmere.” Unfortunately I can’t find that one at the moment.
The WORST WORST WORST!! ones were for Kohls (another store I don’t like due to their crappy plus size selection, and the whole Keeping Up with the Jonses suburbanite feel of the store), and their take on the most annoying song in the universe, DeLovely. Commercial. This is from the same guy who uploaded the Target commercials, AnthonyL001.
I wish I had been able to upload some more of my commercials * this holiday season, but due to moving, I couldn’t.
Ok, back to feigning sleep for a few hours.
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