Target Stores

So, still a fairly average Target, and one update is worth mentioning. While the grocery selection is fairly expansive — even somewhat impressive (and I say that more for the nonperishable goods) — the produce is kind of awful. I came in today to buy a few things for an event and thought I’d pick up some salad greens and fruit for myself, to no avail. The packaged arugula, romaine, and mixed greens were all (and I looked through every package) brown around the edges, which was SUPER unappealing. The fruits were underwhelming enough to pass on, so I left without either. Still, Target is pretty amazing for so many other things, so it’s still a great option in the area. Just not for fresh food.

Not one of the best targets I’ve been to, but also not the worst. The store is bright, spacious, and chock full of bargain merchandise. However, the aisles are generally in disarray, and the available amount of cashiers at any given time is sparse at best.

Let me start by saying I LOVE TARGET! I’m your typical Target Mom. I’ll spend half a day in Target and spend too much money because frankly what don’t you need from target?! However this store just seems to be a huge disappointment every time I shop here. I’ve never noticed an issue in any section other than the baby/​toddler section. It’s actually shockingly disorganized and looks like toddlers are working the entire section. Now I know what you’re thinking… well it is a toddler and infant section so clearly it was just a wild kid running around and throwing everything on the floor… yea I thought the same thing. Until I saw an employee walk by and look at one of the messes and just walk away. Finally I couldn’t take the clearance section any longer. It ranges from preemie to 5T on 3 racks and one large table all completely blended together like a tornado hit it. I just left… it was too much to try to sort through. As I was cashing out I noticed the manager so I said something kindly figuring that they must not know how bad it really is.
I went back two days later and it look pretty much exactly the same. A few things were picked up off the floor but the clearance section looked worse. The clothes that were once folded were in piles. I just grabbed the wipes I needed and left.
Fast forward to two weeks later and can you imagine it’s the same disaster that it always has been? It’s like they really just don’t care. I purposely went to another target and had your typical amazing target experience. After going to Walmart, a kids clothes clearance section caught my eye. When Walmart is cleaning and more organized than Target… there is a serious problem. This Target is doing something wrong! At least in their baby and toddler section! Oh and I always shop in the morning. If I’m not there when they open, Im there within an hour or two of the doors opening. I can’t imagine what the store looks like after it’s been shopped in all day. Huge disappointment

Truth be told, I’m a bit of a Target-​snob. I hail from Minneapolis: the birthplace of Target.
With that being said, this Target is not bad, nor is it the best Target I’ve ever been to. Selection is pretty good, and has a small (mediocre) grocery section, but I’ll take it. I get whatever I can get here in terms of groceries, as I find that it’s usually cheaper than Stop and Shop. The cashiers are a toss-​up: sometimes you’ll get a super friendly one, and others you’ll get one that won’t even acknowledge you. The store is bigger in size in comparison to others in the area, so that’s awesome. This is also my primary pharmacy, and I’ve always been very impressed with the staff. Solid. I’m not mad at it, though sometimes annoyed because the wait at the checkout can get rather long.

I love Target, especially this store. I use target as one of my pharmacies and the staff is discreet, professional and nice.
Clothing — the racks can get a bit messy but I love their clothing selection and they always have cute things for every season!
I buy a lot of paper towels and other home necessities here. The use of the cartwheel app helps bring cost down.

Pretty good Target. I think sometime back it used to be a Super Target because of how huge it is, as compared to other Target stores in central CT (Southington, Newington, Meriden, Manchester).
The two things I like about this Target as compared to the other ones is that the end aisles full of clearance items is more prevalent here, and the checkout lanes are single file, not two lanes per row as the other Targets.
As with a huge Target, most of the time I come here I have to ask where items are located. I always have to mentally remember that trash bags and plastics are near health and beauty items, not near cleaning items. Not sure about anyone else, but I find that odd.
Sure you pay a bit more at a Target than at a Walmart, but that’s where weekly ads come in. If you search my other review for Southington Target, I included tips there on how to «coupon» at Target. Happy shopping!

There isn’t a time I walk out of there with spending less than $ 50. The end caps are always filled with clearance goodies which are a steal. Something about that red clearance sticker makes my heart melt. Store is always clean and staff are always friendly. Go Target

This target is disgusting. I frequent Targets because they consistently carry anything and everything but this Target is filthy! There were clothes/​items all over the floor, the employees look unproductive. I’ll take the half hour drive next time for a quality Target.

Not a bad store. Obviously, everyone loves Target and it is convenient that you can shop for odds and ends and also get a few groceries at the same time. The people who work there are relatively friendly although I think that they can use a little training on the store layout. Also, there were so many shopping carts in the corals, that they were sticking out into the aisles. I am extra sensitive to this, since I don’t want any carts gone rogue hitting my car!!!

This Target is much larger than others I’ve been to. The Manchester location is closer to me, but I will stop by this one when I’m commuting to Central. It’s more expensive than other stores that you can compare Target to, but it’s cleaner and the organization of the store makes more sense. There’s nothing special about it, it’s good but it’s expensive. It doesn’t have certain products I’m looking for like Goya, I have to go to other places to find them.

I really hate this target. Everything seems overpriced compared to other targets I’ve shopped at. And the people that shop here don’t have the decency to say excuse me or consider other people around them. And im not basing this on one trip. I’ve been 3 times and each time I have left swearing to never return. Also, I get no service in this store. I have four bars before I walk in. And four bars when I walk out. But nothing while I’m in this place. No calls. No texts. So make sure you’re not waiting on a call/​text.

This Target is out of the way for me (I live closer to the Southington one) but I had to run to Michael’s so I decided to kill two birds with one stone and stop at Target on my way back home. This Target is pretty nice! It has WAY more clothing options than the Southington one but no dollar bins. (Unless I missed them). Those are handy for gifts/​toys for little ones.
Anyway, I made my way to the fitting room and the person who «helped» me was snippy and rude. Even if I had liked any of the clothes I tried on, I wouldn’t have bought any just because of this person.
My checkout was flawless (I use coupons and can sometimes get flack from cashiers). But overall, I gave it 4 stars because it was big, clean and had plenty of clothes!

Always love target, this one is surrounded by many restaurants and places to shop, very clean and staff was friendly.

This is the most horrible Target ever. There are never more than 2 checkout lanes operating no matter how many people are waiting, and the cashiers often have a bad attitude. I don’t think I have ever seen the same cashier twice. On top of that, the food department is always discontinuing everything and every time I go there they have less and less of what I want (I have to go to the Target on the Berlin Turnpike to find them). The sunglasses are a joke — Right now about a quarter of the displays are filled, and it’s summer! Same is true for the jewelry. The shoe department is constantly a mess… The whole place looks so sad especially compared to other Targets.
I wouldn’t have given it only 2 stars but the Optical department has got to be THE worst I have ever been to in my 55 years. I have been going to eye doctors all my life at places like Sam’s Club, Sears, BJ’s, Opticare, etc., and never have I been anywhere near as unhappy with the service at any of them as at this Target Optical. My first clue was when on my first visit there a female customer was arguing with one of the staff and left in a huff. I gave the store the benefit of the doubt since I didn’t know the situation. In retrospect, I think I was being too generous. The doctor is pleasant enough but her exam room does not feel or smell clean plus she is just a bit on the creepy side. Then, they screwed up my contact lens order. They gave me four boxes of right lenses instead of two of the right and two of the left. At first the man behind the counter tried to tell me that’s what I ordered until he read the file and had to consent to the error. I was very forgiving about this but I had to wait yet another week and a half. It’s a good thing I had some left!
When I came in to get the corrected lenses there was only one woman waiting on customers (I have usually seen two men there). She was fitting a woman for her new eyeglasses when I walked in. I told her I was just there to pick up some contacts. She told me she would be with me «in a few minutes». Well, in a few minutes she was finished with the woman but then went on to tend on two other women who were sitting there waiting. I had thought they might have been waiting for the doctor, but they were waiting for the saleswoman. When I asked them if they minded if she gave me my lenses since it wouldn’t take more than a few seconds for her to go behind the counter to hand them to me, they said in a very nasty and hostile tone, «No, we’ve been waiting here a long time». WHAT? The saleswoman told them politely that it would only be a few seconds to give them to me. They still insisted that she not give them to me. Sorry, but in the polite society I grew up in that is just unheard of behavior, and I told them right to their faces that they were not nice and that if they had asked me for that favor, I would have said «no problem» no matter how long I had waited. The saleswoman went to get my lenses and in no more than 15 seconds handed them to me. How ridiculous for them to make such a fuss over 15 lousy seconds and ruining my day (and the saleswoman’s day too) in the process for something that’s not even our fault!
Despite the saleswoman having gotten me the lenses, I told her they had just lost a customer. I am sure I am probably far from the first customer they have lost nor the last. I realize their customers’ lack of manners nor the lack of adequate staffing are not their employees’ fault but who wants to go somewhere where there are nothing but problems and nasty people like those two women shop? I left New York to get away from people with sour attitudes like that. If they weren’t kept waiting so long they probably wouldn’t have taken it out on me, so it’s the store’s fault. I only went there because it’s convenient to my office and it accepts my insurance, but there are plenty of other places nearby where I could go for that. This Target is just the most sick and miserable store I have been to in a long time. Seriously, I think it needs an exorcism or something!
By the way, as if all of the above isn’t enough, when I got home I noticed that the «corrected» order was STILL wrong! This time they got the prescription right, but the type wrong! They gave me a slightly different variety of Bausch and Lomb lens than I usually wear, again, by mistake. I wouldn’t have fussed over it, but I had tried that variety in the past and my eyes didn’t like them. I called the manager the next morning to say «What’s up?» and he glossed over it but told me that he would be happy to order them again for me. He also told me how «rare» it was for anyone to have such a negative experience in his store. Now, why do I find it very hard to believe that?
Stay away from this place at all costs!

This Target doesn’t disappoint. It is clean, stocked and the cashiers get you on your way as fast as possible.
I have been at a loss with the produce offered at this store, my little one loves cuties and I have to go to the Target Newington to get them as this location seems to not carry them.

Say what? Target while on vacation? Actually, yes. In fact, this is not the first time — it turns out that we have this pattern of visiting Target to pick up items that for whatever reason are missing from our bags when we are out of town.
In this case, the weather was a mite colder than expected, and we needed to stock up a bit, so Target fit the bill. They weren’t that close, but the hotel was kind enough to run us by to pick up what we needed, and though we were freezing our buns off, they were actually on a clearance of all things warm and fuzzy.
It worked out well. I don’t know the area all that well, so I can’t say if it’s convenient, and staff wasn’t overly helpful, but if you know Target, there isn’t anything particularly outstanding here.

I love this target. It’s right near the highways, and down the street from the mall. It has what I want and I can’t complain about it.

Im a Target fan. I like the big parking lot and is a much cleaner store than their competitor-​who shall remain nameless (W**-M***).
Prices are decent and their café is good too
~BB~

Ridiculous… Simply ridiculous…
Two years in a row, the state of Connecticut has been faced with a tropical weather emergency, and two years in a row, Target has fallen EMBARASSINGLY short.
As if they hadn’t learned a single thing from last year’s emergency… As if they didn’t know for the past WEEK that Hurricane Sandy was coming. Target is one of the biggest retailers in the world, I think a week is more than sufficient time to get your supply chain in freakin’ order…
Instead, utter ignorance. There was absolutely NOTHING here today. NO water, NO bread. Canned goods significantly depleted, battery section COMPLETELY EMPTY…
Think I’m complaining about something that’s my own fault? Think I didn’t shop early enough? Think again. A full two hours later, I showed up at Stop&Shop on Fenn Road in Newington. They had tons of bread, plenty of canned goods, and still a decent amount of water and batteries! Rite Aid had plenty of water too, for that matter.
It is now abundantly clear that Target has absolutely no idea what they’re doing. Not only is their staff incredibly inept, their management has now proven that they can’t even serve the community in the time of greatest need.
For shame, Target, for shame.

Is it just me, but it seems like there’s only like two checkout lines available at any given time?
I blame management. They probably don’t want to count another cash drawer at the end of the business day.
As far as prices, you can get great deals if you plan your shopping trip. Grocery prices are not good enough to stop shopping at the regular supermarkets. One good thing about Target is that you can print their store coupons from their website, which you can stack those coupons with a manufactory’s coupon on the same item. Some memorable deals I’ve gotten include free Glade spray, $ 4 bag of Starbucks Coffee, and a $ 3 Merona brand tee shirt.
Most of the time, you can better prices on health and beauty at CVS. As far home décor, go to Home Goods and/​or any of the TJX owned stores.
Nonetheless, I’ll still be shopping at Target because it is convenient or when I am lazy, which is too often.