City Target is now open for business, and it’s kind of a big deal in the Rex household. As a matter of fact, we dropped more cash in this store today than I am comfortable counting.
Located only a few blocks from my home, it very well may be the first “big box” store I frequent.
Ever.
People sometimes look at me with disbelief when I tell them that I have been inside of a Walmart less than 5 times in my entire life, but the fact of the matter is … there are no such stores in the central city. Therefore, as you can imagine, the easy availability of such a store is a unique development that may be a bit of a game-changer for yours truly.
Only time will tell.
So far, I don’t hate the place.
The new Seattle City Target will be open 7am to 9pm Monday through Saturday and 8am to 9pm on Sunday.
Enjoy the new shopping venue.
(These photos were taken shortly after 10am this morning.)
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They should have the White Stripes playing there.
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The Target Web site states that the Pike Plaza store closes at 10pm Monday through Saturday, not 9pm. (It will be closing at 8pm from now until Sunday’s grand opening):
http://www.target.com/store-locator/store-details?storeNumber=2786&mapWidth=520&mapHeight=430&x=19&y=5
Well, according to a floor employee, the flyer they handed out at the store today, and the person who answers the phone at the store … their hours are:
7am-9pm Monday-Saturday
8am-9pm Sunday
So, someone’s wrong, either the employees (and the flyer) or the website, but I assume they’ll all get on the same page eventually.
I find it strange that they are doing a soft opening of a retail big box store.
I guess they got it done and decided to start the revenue train, or they assume people will flood the store and wanted to test the systems before the grand opening.
Looks significantly nicer than the City Wal-Mart near me in Chicago.
Super Target makes this store walk the street.
August 8th and that City Target is busy…but looking through that supermarket, grocery section I can see some changes that will need to be made if they are going to turn over product, especially in that cold meats and poultry section…ditto for perishable items like bananas which seem to really ripen–quickly. The other departments at City Target—those are really welcomed for residents like myself who live in the immediate neighborhood.
Nice job Target.
A quick, spur of the moment shopping trip into the grocery section of City Target—busy, lots of customers, busy check out lines; more than adequate floor personnel to give direction and channel customers to a register.
I am dubious, having been a supermarket shopper, in many locations around the U.S.—arriving in a city or suburban location; finding where the better supermarkets are (and we’ve got a wide variety in the U.S.) and adjusting schedules as to when is the best time to shop. I wonder, in a city which just banned the use of plastic bags when the first discordant note will be raised over some of Target’s
packaging practices—that cold meat case, those elegant, kind of art show mounted, packaged meats…this is Seattle and I’ll bet that issue isn’t far from being raised in a blog or in one of the local newspapers.
That supermarket section; back in the day when I arrived in Seattle and wearing a Coast Guard uniform that Target food section was the basement location (barely remembered by me)of the old J.C. Penney store, the largest unit in the J.C. Penney chain; that building pulled down, replaced by the Newmark Building whose first three floors became the Bermuda Triangle of downtown retail (I hope that Target has the clout to turn that around) where stores and a movie theater came and went in a few short years.
Too bad that the J.C. Penney building and the Newmarket Building (as it is now called) were built over that Great Northern Railway Tunnel.
I was in a position to know, from involvement with the Seattle Art Museum, that serious thought was given to a re-design of the Penney’s building into the new downtown Seattle Art Museum. As it was built over the tunnel the Feds (who insure all traveling art shows) deemed that it wasn’t safe enough to use for a museum; sadly that Art Deco structure was pulled down. I’m not sure if the art museum at that corner in 1991 would have had the cultural clout to change the streetlife at Second and Pike. Even San Francisco had second thoughts about the location of their then new Modern Art Museum south of Market near the slightly dodgy Mission Street area; long before there was a Zygna and Jack Dorsey had launched his first serious Tweets on Twitter.
Best of luck to Target—I live in the “hood”, hopefully they can help to continue bringing that little piece of Seattle retail back to life.
I think I know the packaging you are talking about. They do that because it makes the meat last longer (lack of a local cutter). I remember reading Wal-Mart and I am sure many of these companies are trying to use more environmentally friendly plastics.
The general trend has been in using degradable plant based plastics (not really that new since latex rubber comes from trees) which have come a long way in the past ten years. Plus more people are recycling now too so that’s good.
Also Mission Street may appear less dodgy, but Zynga seems like it has it’s closets full of skeletons.