Target

Store is organized, there are always lots of employees on duty, staff are friendly and courteous. Great location.

Don’t go to Target on 119^th and I 57 if you want to buy a stroller. They have them tied to the upper display, and no one is allowed to take them down so that a prospective customer can try out the features. #Targetfail. Only when I told them I was posting a bad review, did they allow me to try out the strollers. Why do these big corporate businesses make you threaten them before they will actually help you? On the bright side, the person who finally helped me was really nice and friendly. Which is why I’m giving three stars instead of two. Shout out to Melvin from the food department at Target.

My favorite target ever! Staff is BEYOND helpful, kind and friendly! Thank you target team!

Why do I come here? Been in line for about twenty minutes. Worst customer service if any Target!

I’ve been in a lot of big-​box stores and they don’t get any cleaner or friendlier than this one. When they opened up at the height of the recession I was afraid they wouldn’t make it. It’s great to have this place so close by, and I especially like having a Starbucks in the neighborhood! I’ve been ambivalent about the role of the big-​box stores on the local economy, but this place has really been a boon to this area and I think we’re all glad to see them here and doing so well. I expect the great location at I-​57 and 119^th St assures that they will continue to do well as more people discover this convenient place to stop.

Clean, well stocked store with the friendliest, most helpful staff I have ever encountered at a Target! This is consistently true, even after having been open for a few years.

So I was pretty sure i’d never review a target or any other big box but i’m again compelled to, for the mere scope, size and cleanliness of this particular Target locale. Work had me down South of I80, coming back to the City by way of I57 and notice (again) a pretty massive Target w. in sight of a major expressway/​interstate. The strategy seems obvious enough… lay out a medium to huge size strip mall, put up the brick and morters, *start* with the opening of the most significant retailer (Target) and «they will come». It’s still a solid business model, even in these tough economic times. Target is the only store open at this time, but Marshall’s, Staples, Jewels and several other stores, will be soon.
It was pointed out that it’s not a Super Target but not a regular size one either… apparently there’s a sort of purgatory Target, who knew. It’s defo closer to ST in size and it was, again, sparkle swirl clean.
Clean, convenient (if you happen to live in the area), huge, congenial staff, it’s a place that you want to be at and it will pain me the next time I go to my smallish Tarjet off Elston… which doesn’t happen to be as clean and is usually a zoo in the store and parking lot.

Target is one of those stores that bite donkey butt.
A necessary evil combo of clothes/​department store mentality, with a little bit of hardware store, and some laid-​back grocery cool.
It’s the Bell/​Biv/​DeVoe of shopping.
Still, despite the red shirts & constant walkie-​talkie chatter, I know it can’t be that glamorous of a job to work at Target. But you don’t have to take it out on me. I’m just trying to find the cheese crackers & toilet paper. (Another fine combo.) If you can help without reminding me that you’re closing in 40 minutes or you were fixing to go to lunch, that would be swell.
At the latest Chicago Target that’s mere minutes away from home base, the people who work here are nice. They don’t scowl at you.
When they can’t help you, t hey find someone who can. Then, remarkably, they follow up and try to learn where the cheese crackers are located so they can help the next clueless Joe who comes in with only minutes to spare before Bears kickoff.
Nice.
Welcome to the neighborhood.

Oh Target, my Target!
You see, sometimes a Target is more than just a Target…
A combination of politicians, business people and just people people have worked for years to get this shopping center built on what was, for at least 20 years, a barren leftover piece of blighted land next to the expressway — the expanse also pretty much defines part of the «invisible» race line of these parts, too. The store just opened yesterday to much fan fair — people were all just walking around amazed to only be mere blocks away from a nice shopping option, instead of driving 30 blocks or 50 blocks or more, just way more, to get to something. And, because of its location on that «invisible» race line I was talking about, it’s integrated. That might sound all old-​fashionedy and whatnot, but believe me when I tell you that that is as relevant in 2000s Chicago as it was in 1960s Chicago — no doubt. As much as I could spout off a bunch of opposition to big box stores and chains, this one is a very, very good thing and I’m as pleased as a pig in shit to have it here. Which, of course, reminds me that…
You see, sometimes a Target is just a Target…
They’ve got organic milk and sweaters and some toys and a wrench and some baby lotion and diapers and that new Maxwell CD and plastic orange pumpkin candy holder and a giant pack of toilet paper and some magazines and condoms and a padlock and some napkin ring holders and some perm in a box and some flip flops and a frozen pizza and and AND — a goddamned STARBUCKS up in this bitch! Love it! LOVE IT.
I thank the sweet little baby Christmas Jesus for the city of Minneapolis for bringing me my new MY new Target and for, you know, Prince.