{"id":32385,"date":"2012-04-16T23:29:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T03:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32385"},"modified":"2020-06-29T23:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:29:29","slug":"the-target-in-the-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32385","title":{"rendered":"The Target in the ghetto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Jen wanted to get a case for her new iPhone, the closest place to try to look for one was this one particular Target that was probably the only thing open on a Sunday evening.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a Target we go to at all, really, but at the time of the decision, it was the closest thing available, and I kind of figured, it\u2019s a Target; you kind of know what you\u2019re getting when you go to one.\u00a0 However, this particular Target is kind of located in an area I\u2019d like to classify as \u201curban,\u201d or fuck it, ghetto, so it was going to be a conflict of which factor wins out \u2013 the ghettoness, or the clean and tidy branding of Target.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, the parking lot pretty much answered it from the get-go, because there was trash all over the place.\u00a0 Discarded fast food bags, Sprite bottles, cups from a variety of fast food dives; pretty much the norm found in any ghetto area.\u00a0 But that was just the outside, surely the inside of a Target would bring some normalcy back to the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Upon entering, it\u2019s a lot like any other Target at first glance.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not until you slow down and actually look around does the reality begin to unfold.\u00a0 The carts are in disarray, from lackadaisical employees not doing their job of gathering and resetting the carts for customers.\u00a0 The baskets of chintzy dollar crap upon entering were in disarray and disheveled, even for that section.<\/span><\/p>\n

The walls were eerily bare, devoid of all the posters of smiling families of all races and skin tones, doing very white things like having picnics, frolicking on the beach, or running through parks.\u00a0 In fact, the fluorescent lights closest to the walls were either burnt out or deliberately turned off, leading to a spooky dimness within the typical bright sterility of Target stores.<\/span><\/p>\n

If what is presented at the endcaps of shelves and racks is what is fairly indicative of what the local clientele, this Target must serve a lot of wild animals, Tarzan and his family, or a lot of black women, because walking past the womens\u2019 section revealed a generous amount of leopard-spotted or tiger-striped apparel, from shirts, pants, to tights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Often times I like to peruse through the men\u2019s section\u2019s clearance racks, because occasionally there are some gems in the rough that I like to pick up for cheap.\u00a0 But it would\u2019ve been nice if this particular Target had a men\u2019s section; relatively.\u00a0 Seriously, it was about one-quarter the size of a men\u2019s section found at any other Target store, and this particular one literally had no dress clothing or business casual apparel; just athletic gear, jeans and t-shirts.\u00a0 And it segued so nicely into the pets and animals section.<\/span><\/p>\n

It turned out that the electronics section was in the west-most part of the store, like they sometimes are, but I\u2019m typically used to the electronics section being towards the back of most Target stores, and if I had to guess, I\u2019d assume back first.\u00a0 Pictured above is what the back part of this particular Target looked like.\u00a0 Based on the location and what I\u2019d already seen, if you were to tell me that every single electronic item were stolen, I\u2019d probably believe you.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it turns out that this particular Target\u2019s electronic section was indeed on the west wall of the store, thus killing what I\u2019d have hoped would have been a brilliant dark joke.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although both Jen and I got some things we wanted to get, it kind of goes without saying that this is probably the worst Target store in the Metro Atlanta area, and there\u2019s little merit to going there again, if it can be helped.\u00a0 The store had subtle hints of disorganization, messes, and carts all over the place.\u00a0 It\u2019s really filthy on the outside, and compared to other Target stores, a pigsty on the inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I guess you can\u2019t really expect much out of the Target in the ghetto.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Jen wanted to get a case for her new iPhone, the closest place to try to look for one was this one particular Target that was probably the only thing open on a Sunday evening.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a Target we go to at all, really, but at the time of the decision, it was … Continue reading The Target in the ghetto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,15,46],"class_list":["post-32385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-zombieland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32387,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32385\/revisions\/32387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}