Target

01/31/09

No merchandise and messy store

by HMunster at Citysearch

Why is everything always sold out in this store? My friends and I went to this store on the second day it opened and took photos of each other laying on the empty shelves. I've gotten more help from the customers than the staff and the place is always dirty. However if you've ever been to the Astor Place KMart this place isn't so bad. They curse you out for looking at them in that store. I would imagine the reason why this store is a mess is because the regional managers ignore this store. They might think it's in an unsafe area of Brooklyn and they don't want to bother with it.

01/14/09

Terrible Target

by justme68 at Citysearch

I live in Manhattan and it would be a quick subway ride to this Target, where I would likely shop regularly, except for one thing: It s-cks! Dear Target: I love your stores and used to spend a lot of money there when I had a car. But now I have no car, so I don't get to the suburban stores very often. My only option if I want to shop with you is the Flatbush Ave store, but I don't because of the following:

1. Store is chronically understocked. I go with a list of pretty basic, ordinary household items, and I can find maybe half of them.

2. The staff: So unbelievably nasty and unhelpful, it's almost funny. Where do you find these kids? You're presumably drawing from the same labor pool as Bed, Bath and Beyond, yet their staff is always courteous and helpful. This is a lazy management problem: Train and supervise your staff! Your security staff is also incredibly rude. (I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm not expecting handholding and a big Southern love-in, just be polite and do your job.)

3. Store is often dirty: floors aren't clean, carts/baskets are filthy and broken, what merchandise there is on the shelves is messy.

4. Unlike almost every other Target I've been to, the shopping experience at the Flatbush store is more like going to K-Mart. Seriously.

In conclusion: We are in a recession; if I am willing to spend my hard-earned money at your store, don't treat me with contempt.

• Cons: rude staff, poorly stocked, messy/dirty

11/05/08

This Target should be shut down

by GiaNYU at Citysearch

DO NOT SHOP AT THIS TARGET I have always loved Target but I was astonished by the treatment I received at Flatbush Target. I tried to return an OBVIOUSLY defective, and for lack of better words, piece of sh** purse I bought at another Target. The purse literally began to fall apart, change colors, and practically disintegrate the day I bought it. I can't express more that this purse is seriously a cheap, defective piece of garbage that should have been recalled. Its new and it looks like I put it in a trash compactor then a pool of pirahnas then stomped on it then poured ugly paint on it. (!!!) Basically they completely ignored the obvious fact that it was simply a defective item and tried to tell me it was my fault the purse looked how it did. Even though they said themselves many other people had returned that same purse for the same reasons. They still refused me. I was furious and pretty much sensed they would not help me just to spite me even though helping me was no sweat off their backs, or money out of their wallets. I was very polite because I hate doing these sorts of things and honestly never do--I hate confronting salespersons, or waitresses, or anyone for that matter who is selling me something, unless it's REALLY BAD, like this purse. I have a BAD taste in my mouth now for Target and it's disapointing because I have always liked Target. Please--do not support Flatbush Target. They do not deserve business.