Comments on: 10 Reasons Target is Better than Wal-Mart

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:13:18 +0000

Super Walmart is the greatest place ever. Show me a Super target. Didn’t think so!

By: Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:03:08 +0000

Target is the worst place to be employed. Reasons? read bellow

Raises: You could be the worst employee but if the team lead(yes we are a team???sure) likes you you get the highest raise above everyone else. The raises are suppose to be determined on your performance but it really isnt. Ex: I worked there longer and I worked in different sections(sales floor, cart attendant, food ave, and cashier) and guess what, the people who got higher raises than me that I know of worked only in sales floor and nothing else. They got more than double of what my raise was??? BULLSHIT and more bullshit the Target store manager is the one who actually determines the amount of money available for raises so his pay doesn’t go down. BULLSHIT

Red Cards: Almost every customer(nope they tell you to call them guests but they are customers dumbshits) you check out you get a prompt to ask them if they would like to save 10% by signing up for a target credit card. So much for customer service. The team leads love the foreign Hispanic people who cant speak too much English because they say yes and sign up for the cards but guess what happens to them a few weeks later in the mail??

Team leads(mini managers spread throughout the store): Joke around with each other, hang out at the front lanes eat and chill with everyone, watch the check lanes pill up and just call for someone under them to get on. That is a days work for a team lead at target. Never Mind I mean the sales floor team leads, the front lane team leads are the only ones that do there work. The stores ratings rate the team leads score at around 73% every time it is rated. hahaha but if it is the people below them getting a bad rating guess what they do?

Hours: They try to cut down on the hours(the manager to save money) so you go in at 5:30 6:00 every day and its not even worth it. It wastes your day and your paycheck sucks. Always have weekends. Ive had maybe one Sunday off. Here is the biggie I was getting 5 hours a week yes 5 hours for a few weeks. Guess what while I was getting those 5 hours they where hiring for sales floor positions???

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:24:54 +0000

Funny, if you swap out the names “Wal-Mart” and “Target” in this piece only then it would be an accurate representation of my experience. Maybe you should shop at my Wal-Mart and Target for the opposite view.

By: Wal-Mart Willies

Wal-Mart Willies — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:39:49 +0000

I have tried to shop at our local Wal-Mart three times, twice I turned around and walked out. I feel like I am in a foreign country when I go in there. It is dark and just gives me the willies! And our store is brand new!!!! I think Wal-Mart is just gross.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:53:36 +0000

I’m not sure about everyone else, but while in school, I worked for both corporations, and my time at Target was terrible. Sure, Target looks better, but it comes at the cost of the employees. I can’t tell you how many times I was forced to work 3 or 4 hours after my scheduled time to stay and straighten everything, or else be fired.

Luckily for me, I live in a fire at will state, so there wasn’t much I could do about it.

Sure, the Wal-Mart in my town sucks as much as all of the other ones, but at least there I got paid MORE and was much happier, which in turn made me nicer to customers.

By: No Longer Employed

No Longer Employed — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:28:01 +0000

Customers wonder why Walmart employees are rude, ill, and not helpful… the environment makes you that way. I worked at Walmart for about four years while I was in college. When I first started working there WalMart was great. I always smiled and went out of my way to help customers. But after a year or two, WalMart changed. Management changed. They started making threats to employees. They would tell us that if X amount of work didn’t get done that we would be coached, or if we missed over three days of work we would be coached and possibly fired. They installed salary caps so that people who had worked there for several years could no longer receive the price of living yearly raise. They required that we open our work availability to almost 24 hours a day so that we would have to work any time they wanted us to. If we didn’t open it enough we were threatened that we would not get any hours and if we had no hours for more than x amount of days we would be fired. They began hiring people who had no work ethic and little experience so that they could pay them less and make more money. They reduced the amount of employees required to operate the store. Which forced us to strain ourselves to get work done. (Hence the reason there are never enough registers open). It became ridiculous.
I began working as a cashier but eventually became a customer service manager (CSM) on the front end. I got cussed out on a regular basis by customers because there were never enough registers open. (Something I had no control over because the Walmart gods never scheduled enough cashiers for me put on registers). It became ridiculous. I ended up hating going to work. At my college graduation, I was so excited…. not because I finished my four year journey and was about to start a new career… but because I got to leave Walmart!
So if you ever are in Walmart and you are angered by an employee, know that they are just as miserable as you are because they are there. They are being treated like slaves and criminals. I sometimes wish Walmart would be forced to close because they are so evil, but then again… you can never find prices cheaper than Walmart. And if I have to suffer through some long lines and white trash to find what I want for a decent price– so be it.

By: Beanstheclown

Beanstheclown — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:32:49 +0000

I really think that these statements are based on the specific stores since in my hometown the exact opposite is true. Target is this dingy little place that looks just one step up from “this is my first time trying to do the store thing” while wal-mart is a gleaming well organized store that screams planning. Also It took me a full hour to get a customer service rep in my local target but I can always find someone within minutes at my wal-mart. As for the being greeted at the front door, frankly I wish wal-mart didn’t have that. I’m sick of havng to stop for a good 20 seconds to respond to a “how are you doning today” everytime I walk in. At this point I’d prolly be happier if they actually said “Welcome to wal-mart. et your s*** and get out.” (actually I’d prolly laugh like crazy) Anyways getting back on track here. Really my point is that it’s the employees that make a store and no two stores will have the same employees. Even among a chain of stores each one will differ. Therefore saying all wal-marts are better than all targets, or visa versa, is a bit of an over generalization…

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Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:01:33 +0000

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By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:49:14 +0000

Love it!!!! You are so right… I say the same things over and over everyday….

By: audi

audi — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:28:40 +0000

Holy Moly! You hit it Steve. I actually bought some pink fuzzy slippers to wear on the rare occasion I have to enter a wal-mart. I don’t feel like I stand out as much. And what is up with all you people getting all defensive over wal-mart. My goodness, oh, you must work there. Hey, someone has got to do it.
I live in a small town. Wal-mart came in, K-mart went out. So did our little sportsman shop. Everything IS always moved from the last time I was there or it is just not there. The store is disgusting and the employees are rude. (I have told management this several times)
I have to say that I did find your comments funny and entertaining. Stereotypical yes, but hey if the pink fuzzy slipper fits……..