Target Stores

Do you know how I get in this place?! I use The Force on the glass doors leading in! Works every time. I then try to choke out my husband, or at least convince him with a mind trick to let me purchase a dozen bottles of Essie. I love this location. Look for sales on back end-​caps, especially past the pharmacy (away from the direction of the registers; beauty stuff, ya know?). Prices are now competitive with Walmart or even lower with certain items. Have never had a bad experience here. Employees are super nice and helpful. The parking lot is not cramped and is green. Park and park! Get it? You can hear the train pass if you loiter outside for a period of time. Returns are easy. Go to the first aisle in the row of registers for that. Check out online what guest designer will hit Target in the upcoming year for even more beauty. Look for Target exclusives in all areas. I feel French when I come out of Target. What more could you ask for?
This review is dedicated to the woman I met five years ago who told me she has never been to a Target.

Shout out to Sam at this Target store! He gave superior customer service. He called the other Target to see if something was in stock. Made him go look at the physical inventory! Impressed!

I like Target fine. Sometimes you just wanna get your nail polish and your tire iron in the same store, and for those occasions, Target is a clear winner. Also they have a classy-​ish homegoods section, and their visiting designer program is always amusing. Compared to other big box retailers, Target USA is the proverbial shizzz.
The same is true for this Asheville target, but it has some other issues that are costing it points. They carry all of the usual Target merchandise (cheap, fashion forward, disposable), but the execution is a little off:
Some genius with an AutoCAD account has obviously been tasked with maximizing the merchandise square footage in this smallish location. Put the shelves and racks closer together, essentially. As close as they can physically go. Whatever he/​she did might have looked fine on a schematic, but in execution it Sucked with a capital suck.
«Why,» you ask?
Because many sections of the store were entirely impassable by the standard shopping carts this store provided. Supporting pillars frequently appear directly in the middle of narrow aisles, making passage difficult or impossible. In one part of the women’s clothing department, I actually had to physically PICK UP my loaded shopping cart and CARRY IT to get where I needed to go. Luckily, I’m a strong mountain girl. For older mountain ladies and gentlemen, or the less physically abled, this would be a terrible situation.
Best case scenario, it’s an annoyance for able bodied customers. Worse, this is a serious accessibility issue for customers with mobility problems. Worse yet, some parts of this store might constitute a fire hazard, preventing timely egress from a burning building.
It’s not easy to appreciate the cheap-​ass luxury of a made-​in-​China canvas fuschia chevron throw pillow, when you are being buffeted from all sides by other shopping carts who are treating your aisle like the Suez Canal, and you’re blocking their shipping lane.
Also annoying (although arguably a less awful annoyance than the epically cramped store layout): The cashier.
I don’t like to rag on people in Asheville for customer service, because honestly the customer service in this town is way better than you’re likely to find elsewhere in America. Not this cashier, though. The only word to describe her would be «surly.»
Let’s be clear, though. you really can’t blame the cashiers in big box retailers for their attitude. You can take it to the bank that this woman was not getting paid a living wage, was working too hard for the money, and thus had earned every scowl, sneer, and eye roll she lobbed at the customers. At a certain level, I only have myself to blame for this. I chose to buy this stuff at the cheapest place possible – a level of cheap that can only be purchased on the sweat and toil of America’s working class.
Her recalcitrance was the natural product of a system that does not value human capital, and I, regrettably, am part of that system.
That being said, I’m just not sure I ever want to be in her line again.

Leaving a quick review for box store Target geared towards their pharmacy.
If you haven’t been to a Target before you must have been under a rock for a LONG time. This store layout is the same as all of the other targets I have been DRAGGED to… LOL
Customer service was top notch at the pharmacy. No hassle no fuss just straight to business. Get in, get out, and let me move on with life. The young woman that assisted me was AWESOME. 5 stars for this customer service. I was literally in the store, from walk in to walk out, in 4 min!!!
Store was very clean on this trip only giving 4 stars as this is a box store and I prefer not to shop at box stores but again just a prescription pick up.

I love Target and believe Target can do no wrong, and this particular Target totally backs that up. All the staff is so helpful and friendly, and I appreciate that in such a large store where it’d be easy enough for average management to lose track of some employees’ performance.

This is a very nice Target store. I love that they have a Starbucks so I can caffeinate while I shop.
I have just moved here from the West Coast and found many basic essentials I needed while awaiting the moving van: new cordless phone, stainless steel sauce pan, a throw rug for the cats in front of the fireplace, even food. Was able to get everything I needed in one place ahead of a winter storm. Whew!

So… Target is like the «middle of the road girlfriend.» She isn’t to plain jane and boring like Walmart, but then again, she isn’t high maintenance like a specialty store either. But rather Target is the place were you can find some nice sexy stuff for your place/head/stomach/feet/ears…etc. for a good price.
This place is always an easy in and easy out, though if you are out of town you may have to ask for directions as it is REALLY hidden away in a secondary shopping mall.

Always my fave store to go and pass the time. As what i tell my friends and they laugh it’s «A poor man’s retail therapy». lol

I cant give a worldwide chain a 4. Especially with its politics. Its a good target where we get our Boy’s Clothes. Cheap. Nice store.