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Default Who is Target's grocery market?

On Friday, May 23, 2014 11:24:39 AM UTC-7, Malcom Mal Reynolds wrote:
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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> > Seems that they keep changing the foods they are selling. They'll get

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> > something that I want and they never have it again. Lots of things on

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> > clearance today. Lots of dried herbs and spices, but the two things I

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> > needed were not on clearance. I did however get several packages of walnuts

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> > that are still good for just over a year.

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> > They have a lot more gluten free items than they used to. And weird stuff.

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> > Some odd brand of cake mix. It was blue! Who buys these things?!

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> > They also seem to have a lot more prepared food than they used to. Now they

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> > sell prepared sandwiches. I scored big on sliced cheese. Last time I was

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> > in, lunch meat was marked down. Apparently their customers want to buy

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> > sandwiches. Not stuff to make them with.

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> > And their produce section? It has shrunk. No more fresh parsley. In fact

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> > the only fresh herb they had was cilantro. It looked good and fresh but it

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> > was being sold in about twice the amount you'd get at a regular grocery

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> > store. Even that is usually too much for me. When I use it, I only use a

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> > few sprigs at a time and it doesn't keep super well. Yes, I do have it

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> > dried. It's better than no cilantro.

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> > I was sooo pleased when they first put in the grocery section. The prices

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> > overall were low and I figured I could do a lot of my grocery shopping

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> > there. But they seem to have less and less of the types of things I want to

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> > buy.

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> what did the store manager say when you asked him/her about this?


He probably said, "No food for you? Now get out"!